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TREE CRUSHER 1-1-1
Land for what will eventually become the largest dam and reservoir within the borders of Texas is
being cleared forty-eight miles southeast of Lufkin. The 114-thousand, five hundred acres of mostly timberland is being converted into the McGee Bend Dam and Resevoir on the Angelina River. A monster of a machine, an electric tree u crusher, is being used on the project as part of an experiment being conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers' Fort Worth District. Object of the experiment is to find out what is the most economical way to clear vast areas of timberland. HEG MACHINE IN MOTION The electric tree crusher, a 50-ton giant nearly forty feet long,'is a product of the 1 LeTourneau equipment company of Longview, machiner specialists in producing to do big things The firm low n ade one three times this size. in a big way. It powers its way t rough thick
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about land being clearing for the construction of a dam and reservoir southeast of Lufkin.
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