Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Bobcat.

On my own farm I have a Bobcat skid steer loader. This is basically a small machine that you sit into and it has a loader on the front of it. The wheels are driven hydraulically. You don't have a steering wheel, you have two levers instead and each lever operates the wheels on either side of the bobcat. This means that it's able to do an about turn on the spot (in its own shadow in other words). This means it's very maneuverable and can get into tight corners and sheds that you couldn't take a tractor into. It also means that, if your brave enough, you can perform lots of amazing stunts with it. If you look up the word "bobcat" at Youtube.com you can see loads of videos of people performing these stunts like the video I have here below. I can assure you I won't be preforming any of these stunts with my own bobcat and I wouldn't encourage anyone else to either but this is amazing to watch.

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