LeTourneau College NOW, Volume 15, Number 13, July 1, 1961 Page: 3
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R. G. Talks Cont.
wheels to bring the others around,
and not being powered wheels, you
lose that much traction. And besides,
it's difficult to steer backwards. My
3-wheel or 5-wheel machines steer
just about as easily one way as the
other, which saves a lot of time on
short hauls. In fact, several hundred
feet at each end of the route are
saved by shuttling back and forth.
Then with my single front wheel
steering, you save the oscillating
mechanism which is required on 2-
wheel steer, and on the 2-wheel
steer, you are just about as tippy
even though you put on stops to keep
it from going too far, because by the
time one back wheel comes off the
ground, you're likely to go on over
anyway.
So to sum it up, the empty weight
per wheel is much less on my 5-wheel
machine than it is on a 6-wheel ma-
chine. In fact, if you let me use a
side dump, I can put another 4-wheel
bogie on behind and carry pretty
close to another hundred tons in-
cluding the body; and it will still
steer backwards as easily as the other
fellow's conventional 6-wheel or 3-
axle machine.
Well, -I started to tell you about
my Bobcat, and I got off on that
single wheel steering. Guess I had to
get it, off my chest. The Bobcat is
smooth riding with the big tires and
the four back bogie or tandem
wheels, which carry most of the load,
are all oscillating fore and aft. One
wheel can go over a bump 12" high
and it will only lift the load an aver-
age of 3 inches. Then it's very stable
or non-tipping because there is no
side oscillation and it has low center
of gravity and is 7 ft. wide overall.
It can be built into a regular rear
dump truck or a side dump and why
not make these bodies of aluminum.
Or we have a 50-ton Revolving
Crane, that's not too heavy to be
mounted, on the back end to handle
a couple of 50-ton buckets which
could sit on the frame with sand or
gravel or mixed concrete, or it is con-
ceivable that these buckets could
each one fill a railroad car with iron
ore on one trip and waste overburden
on the next trip. Or with the Re-
volving Crane this machine could
go out into the woods and load itself
with a hundred tons of logs, and, of
course, don't overlook the possibility
of having a bulldozer on it too. In
regular dozing one man can do aboutfive times as much as with any other
dozer. And if you wanted to push
around some of those 6 ft. diameter
ironwood logs over in Africa, it
would be the cat's whiskers. I hope
that before too long I'll be able to get
a Bobcat over there to our project in
Liberia on the West Coast of Africa
where we are demonstrating whatour powerful machinery can do. We
are also demonstrating to the natives
what the power of God can do in
our lives.
"For I am not ashamed of the gos-
pel of Christ: for it is the power of
God unto salvation, to every one that
believeth; to the Jew first, and also
to the Greek." Romans 1:16.p
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Rear Dump version of R. G.'s Bobcat, officially known as Pacemaker Rear Dump, Series TR-105.Flat log deck version of R. G.'s Bobcat, officially known as Pacemaker, Series K-205.
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