The Successful Accomplishment .of a Difficult Task by a Fordson Tractor.
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into the breach, and presented evidence of its adaptability for the work in hand.
It was decided that if only such a machine, fitted with a winding drum, could be got to the top of the mountain it would be possible to haul the material required up the slope by laying a set ei rails. The rails were duly put down as shown in one of our pictures, and the tractor lashed to a railway-type bogie, before which the free end 0? the steel cable vras made fait at the top of the incline. The power of the tractor was then used for winding in the cable, and the machine thus hauled to the summit. Once there it was a comparatively simple. matter to build a stable foundation for the tractor arid to erect a hutment for housing it. By the aid of the tractor many hundreds of tons of concrete, lumber, steel, and other materials and impedimenta needed for building the reservoir were successfully hauled up the slope, 'mostly in lots of about 2 tons weight: The process of pulling up the bogie and its load and of paying-out ,the cable to which the, empty bogie was attached was, of course, performed solely by the engine of the Poulson Tractor, which accomplished the work in ranch less time-. and at a tremendous saving in cost as compared with any other known method by which the same amount of work could have been effected. Moreover, as the project was a municipal one, the taxpayer benefited as the result of the employment of a tractor for such an odd task.