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News Release from: Bobcat | Subject: Bobcat T250 compact tracked loader
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Team on 04 April 2006
Bobcat Loader helps RNLI to save lives
New Bobcat T250 compact tracked loader is helping the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to save lives at sea off the coast of North East England.
A new Bobcat T250 compact tracked loader is helping the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to save lives at sea off the coast of North East England The build up of rocks and kelp on the beach in front of the RNLI lifeboat station at Flamborough in East Yorkshire had caused problems for the launch and recovery of the station's inshore Atlantic 75 lifeboat
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 10 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The problem has been overcome by the RNLI staff at Flamborough using the new T250 equipped with a 4-in-1 combination bucket to reconstruct the beach surface, picking up and moving rocks to smooth the way for a specially designed tractor and carriage to launch and recover the lifeboat at sea.
Unlike wheeled vehicles that might be used for this application, which would sink and get trapped on the beach, the low ground pressure exerted by the dedicated tracked undercarriage on the T250 is ideally suited for this application, allowing it to glide with ease over the surface of the beach.
Equipped with 457 mm rubber tracks, the ground pressure exerted by the T250 is just 281 g/cm2.
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The new T250 at Flamborough was supplied by AMS Bobcat, the Scunthorpe-based Bobcat distributor for Lincolnshire and East and South Yorkshire.
The T250 features a number of options including a flashing beacon, Bobcat Advanced Hand Controls (AHC), a remote attachment control kit, rear and forward working lights and a cab door.
This is the third Bobcat compact tracked loader to go into service at the RNLI.
The first was a T190 model at the RNLI lifeboat station at Hastings in East Sussex that combines reclamation and levelling work on the pebbly beach with launching and recovering the station's D class Inshore Lifeboat.
The second compact tracked loader is a T250 model doing similar applications for the RNLI lifeboat station at nearby Eastbourne.
As a registered charity, the RNLI relies on voluntary contributions and legacies for income.
It provides, on call, the 24-hour service necessary to cover search and rescue requirements to 50 miles out from the coast of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and a beach rescue service on 43 beaches in the south west of England.
On average, lifeboats are launched over 6700 times every year and rescue over 6700 people from the sea.
Flamborough is one of 233 lifeboat stations strategically placed for this purpose around the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
For 122 years, Flamborough launched lifeboats from two separate sites - the North and South Landing, providing two different routes to the sea.
Today, after 135 years as a lifeboat station, Flamborough operates from the South Landing only. Request a free brochure from Bobcat ...
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