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A LOADING ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A VEHICLE HAVING A GROUND ENGAGING PORTION; A SUPPORT MOUNTED ON SAID VEHICLE AND HAVING A FORWARD END PORTION; A MATERIAL RECEIVING MEANS ON SAID SUPPORT LOCATED REARWARDLY FROM SAID FORWARD END PORTION; LEVER MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SUPPORT FOR TURNING MOVEMENT ABOUT A FIRST HORIZONTAL AXIS LOCATED IN THE REGION OF SAID FORWARD END PORTION OF SAID SUPPORT; SHOVEL MEANS HAVING A SCOOP EDGE AT ONE END AND A DISCHARGING PORTION AT THE OTHER END; PIVOT MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID SHOVEL MEANS ON SAID LEVER MEANS FOR TURNING MOVEMENT ABOUT A SECOND AXIS PARALLEL TO SAID FIRST AXIS, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID SECOND AXIS AND SAID SCOOP EDGE BEING AT LEAST AS GREAT AS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID FIRST AXIS AND SAID GROUND ENGAGING PORTION OF SAID VEHICLE; FIRST OPERATING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SUPPORT AND CONNECTED TO SAID LEVER FOR TURNING THE SAME ABOUT SAID FIRST AXIS SO THAT SAID SHOVEL MEANS CAN BE MOVED BETWEEN A LOWER WORKING POSITION AND A HIGHER DISCHARGE POSITION IN BOTH OF WHICH POSITIONS SAID SECOND AXIS IS LOCATED AT LEAST AS HIGH AS SAID FIRST AXIS; AND SECOND OPERATING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID LEVER MEANS AND TO SAID SHOVEL MEANS FOR TURNING THE LATTER ABOUT SAID SECOND AXIS, SO THAT SAID SHOVEL MEANS CAN BE TURNED ABOUT SAID PIVOT MEANS IN SAID LOWER POSITION THEREOF WHILE SAID FIRST OPERATING MEANS LOWERS SAID LEVER MEANS IN SUCH A MANNER THAT SAID SCOOP EDGE MOVES ALONG A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL PATH IN A DIRECTION AWAY FROM SAID VEHICLE FOR DIGGING INTO A MATERIAL WITHOUT A MOVEMENT OF SAID VEHICLE, AND FOR TURNING SAID SHOVEL MEANS IN SAID HIGHER POSITION TO DISCHARGE MATERIAL FROM SAID DISCHARGING PORTION OF SAID SHOVEL MEANS ONTO SAID MATERIAL RECEIVING MEANS.