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IN COMBINATION IN A TRANSLOADING ARRANGEMENT: A LOWER FRAME STRUCTURE, AN UPPER FRAME STRUCTURE SUPPORTED BY SAID LOWER FRAME STRUCTURE AND ROTATABLE ABOUT A VERTICAL AXIS, A BOOM SUPPORTED BY SAID UPPER STRUCTURE AND TILTABLE IN A VERTICAL PLANE, FIRST CONVEYOR MEANS SUPPORTED BY SAID BOOM AND INCLUDING FIRST ENDLESS CONVEYOR BELT MEANS AND ALSO INCLUDING A FEEDING HEAD COMPRISING A FIRST REVERSING DRUM PASSED OVER BY SAID FIRST BELT MEANS AND ALSO COMPRISING A LOOP DRUM LIKEWISE PASSED OVER BY SAID FIRST BELT MEANS, SECOND CONVEYOR MEANS INCLUDING A SECOND REVERSING DRUM LOCATED AT A LEVEL HIGHER THAN THE LEVEL OF SAID FIRST REVERSING DRUM, SAID SECOND CONVEYOR MEANS ALSO INCLUDING SECOND ENDLESS CONVEYOR BELT MEANS HAVING A PORTION OF ITS UPPER SECTION EXTENDING BELOW SAID LOWER FRAME STRUCTURE AND HAVING ANOTHER PORTION PASSING OVER SAID SECOND REVERSING DRUM FOR DUMPING MATERIAL THEREOVER, SAID FEEDING HEAD BEING DISPLACEABLE RELATIVE TO SAID BOOM FROM A REARWARD POSITION IN THE DUMPING PATH OF SAID SECOND REVERSING DRUM TO A FORWARD POSITION SUBSTANTIALLY OUT OF SAID DUMPING PATH AND VICE VERSA, AND CHUTE MEANS SUPPORTED BY SAID UPPER FRAME STRUCTURE AND MOVABLE RELATIVE THERETO SELECTIVELY INTO A FIRST POSITION AND INTO A SECOND POSITION, SAID CHUTE MEANS INCLUDING A FIRST CONVEYING SECTION ADAPTED IN SAID FIRST POSITION OF SAID CHUTE MEANS TO RECEIVE MATERIAL FROM THAT RESPECTIVE PORTION OF SAID SECOND BELT MEANS WHICH IS PASSING OVER SAID SECOND REVERSING DRUM WHEREBY SAID FIRST CONVEYING SECTION IN SAID FIRST POSITION OF SAID CHUTE MEANS IS ADAPTED TO CONVEY MATERIAL RECEIVED FROM SAID SECOND BELT MEANS OVER SAID SECOND REVERSING DRUM ONTO THE RESPECTIVE PORTION OF SAID FIRST BELT MEANS WHICH PASSES OVER SAID FEEDING HEAD WHILE THE LATTER IS IN ITS REARWARD POSITION, SAID CHUTE MEANS ALSO INCLUDING A SECOND CONVEYING SECTION MOVABLE INTO THE DROP PATH OF SAID SECOND REVERSING DRUM IN RESPONSE TO SAID CHUTE MEANS MOVING INTO ITS SECOND POSITION WHEREBY WHILE SAID FEEDING HEAD IS IN ITS FORWARD POSITION MATERIAL DROPPED FROM THE RESPECTIVE PORTION OF SAID SECOND CONVEYOR BELT MEANS PASSING OVER SAID SECOND REVERSING DRUM IS CONVEYED ONTO THAT PORTION OF SAID SECOND CONVEYOR BELT MEANS WHICH IS BELOW SAID LOWER FRAME STRUCTURE.