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A LOAD LEVELER FOR DISTRIBUTING WOOD FRAGMENTS BEING LOADED INTO AN OPEN TOP VAN HAVING A BED AND VERTICAL WALLS DEFINING ITS LENGTH AND WIDTH DIMENSION COMPRISING; FIRST AND SECOND SUPPORTING MEMBERS MOUNTED IN HORIZONTAL PLANAR ALIGNMENT WITHIN SAID VAN EACH INDIVUALLY PROXIMATE ONE OF FIRST AND SECOND OPPOSITE WALLS THEREOF DEFINING ITS LENGTH DIMENSION AND EXTENDING FOR SUBSTANTIALLY THE FULL LENGTH OF SAID VAN; A DRIVE SHAFT JOURNALLY MOUNTED AT A FIRST END THEREOF TO SAID FIRST SUPPORTING MEMBER PROXIMATE ONE END OF SAID VAN AND AT A SECOND END THEREOF TO SAID SECOND SUPPORTING MEMBERS; FIRST PERPENDICULARLY BETWEEN SAID SUPPOTING MEMBER TO EXTEND AND SECOND DRIVEN SPROCKETS AFFIXED TO SAID DRIVE SHAFT PROXIMATE RESPECTIVELY SAID FIRST AND SECOND JOURNALED END THEREOF; FIRST AND SECOND IDLER SPROCKETS ROTATABLY SUPPORTED AT THE SECOND END OF SAID VAN BY SAID FIRST AND SECOND SUPPORTING MEMBERS AND AN IDLER SHAFT MOUNTED THEREBETWEEN, SAID IDLER SPROCKETS MOUNTED SPACED APART THE SAME DISTANCE AS SAID DRIVEN SPROCKETS; FIRST AND SECOND CONTINUOUS LINK CHAINS EACH INDIVIDUALLY MOUNTED TO ENGAGE ABOUT ONE OF THE FIRST AND SECOND SPROCKET COMBINATIONS FORMED RESPECTIVELY BY FIRST DRIVEN AND FIRST IDLER SPROCKETS AND SECOND DRIVEN AND SECOND IDLER SPROCKETS; A PLURALITY OF BARS MOUNTED TO EXTEND PERPENDICULARLY BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND CHAINS AT SPACED INTERVALS TO PROVIDE WITH SAID CHAINS AN APERTURED STRUCTURE WHICH IS MOVEABLE ON SAID SPROCKETS, SAID FIRST AND SECOND SUPPORTING MEMBERS INCLUDING SUPPORTS EXTENDING LENGTHWISE OF SAID VAN BETWEEN SAID DRIVEN SPROCKETS AND SAID IDLER SPROCKETS UPON WHICH THE LENGTHWISE EDGES OF SAID APERTURED STRUCTURE SLIDABLY REST TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR SAID STRUCTURE FOR ITS FULL LENGTH; AND MEANS FOR COUPLING A MOTOR DRIVE TO ROTATE SAID DRIVE SHAFT.