Then the men put down their bars and the shovel, and got the little poles, and went where the long log lay.
And they rolled it over with bars which were something like tongs, except that they had only one handle; and they rolled it until the big end of the log was just over the hole.
Then they took the shortest small poles with spikes in the ends, and they put them where they could reach them quickly.
And they all took hold of the end of the log and lifted it as high as they could reach; and one of the men reached out quickly for his spike pole, while the other two men held the log, and he jabbed the spike hard into the log and held it while another man got his spike pole and jabbed the spike hard into the log.
Then the third man jabbed the spike of his pole in, and they all lifted together, and the butt end of the log slipped a little way into the hole.
It couldn't go all the way to the bottom, because the big pole wasn't up far enough yet, and the butt end struck the side of the hole.
Then they got longer spike poles, one man at a time, and they lifted again, and the big pole slipped a little farther down into the hole.
And one of the men jabbed his spike pole in at another place, and then the other men did, and they lifted again, and the big pole went thump! on the bottom of the hole.
And the men left their spike poles sticking in, all around, and jammed the other ends into the ground to hold the big pole up straight while they filled in the dirt around it.
David had been watching the men all the time, but he was careful not to get near, because he had seen how the big pole bounced around when it was unloaded.