Motorized vehicles for transporting material, and methods relating thereto

A motorized vehicle for transporting material, the motorized vehicle comprising:

• a frame having a longitudinal axis;
• first and second forward wheel assemblies coupled to the frame, the first forward wheel assembly disposed toward a first side of the frame and the second forward wheel assembly disposed toward a second side of the frame;
• a rearward wheel assembly coupled to the frame;
• an engine supported by the frame and configured to rotate the first and second forward wheel assemblies to thereby move the motorized vehicle;
• and
• a bucket supported by the frame adjacent the first and second forward wheel assemblies, the bucket configured to hold material on the motorized vehicle and selectively dump the material from the motorized vehicle, the bucket configured to rotate about a vertical axis at least between a first radial positon in which a longitudinal axis of the bucket is generally parallel with the longitudinal axis of the frame and a second radial positon in which the longitude axis of the bucket is oriented generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the frame.

A method of using a motorized vehicle to transport material between locations and to dump the material at one or more of the locations, the method comprising:

• actuating, by an engine of the motorized vehicle, first and second forward wheel assemblies to move the motorized vehicle, via tires of the first and second forward wheel assemblies, from a first location to a second location;
• and
• at the second location:
• rotating, by a first actuator powered by the engine, a bucket of the motorized vehicle in a radial direction of a frame of the motorized vehicle from a first radial positon, in which a longitudinal axis of the bucket is generally parallel with a longitudinal axis of the frame of the motorized vehicle, to a second radial positon, in which the longitude axis of the bucket is oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the frame;
• and
• pivoting, by a second actuator powered by the engine, the bucket about a mount extending along a wall of the bucket to dump the material from the motorized vehicle toward a side of the motorized vehicle.