Clean the cukes and place in a crock. Make a brine of 2 C salt to 1 gallon water. Boil the brine and pour it over the cukes while boiling hot. Let stand for 7days. In hot weather, skim daily. Drain and cut into chunks. For the next 3 mornings make a boiling hot solution of 1 gallon water and 1 T powdered Alum. Pour over cukes. Make this fresh hot bath for 3 mornings. On the 4th morning, drain and discard alum water. Heat 6 C vinegar, 5 C sugar, 1/2 C pickling spice and to boiling point and pour over pickles. On the 5th morning drain this liquid off. Save the liquid and add 2 C sugar to it. Heat it to the boiling point and pour over pickles. On the 6th morning drain this liquid and add 1 C sugar, heat to boiling. Pack the pickle chunks in sterilized jars and pour boiling liquid over them to within a 1/2 to 1 inch of the top and seal with the lids. If my counting is right, that makes 13 days, not 14 but hope this will help.