Damon."
A little later, after a successful test up and down a
small gully, Tank A arrived at the edge of Tinkle Creek, a
small stream about twenty feet wide, not far from Tom's
home. At the point selected for the test the banks were high
and steep.
"If she bridges that gap she'll do anything," murmured
Ned, as the tank came to a stop on the edge.
Chapter XIII
Into a Trench
Tom cast a hasty glance over the mechanism of the machine
before he started to cross the stream by the additional aid
of the grippers, or spanners, as he sometimes called this
latest device.
Along each side, in a row of sockets, were two long
girders of steel, latticed like the main supports of a
bridge. They were of peculiar triangular construction,
designed to support heavy weights, and each end was broadly
flanged to prevent its sinking too deeply into the earth on
either side of a gully or a stream.
The grippers also had a sort of clawlike arrangement on
either end, working on the principle of an "orange-peel"
shovel, and these claws were designed to grip the earth to
prevent slipping.
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