For those of us who have not grown up with the (what sounds like)
delightful vagaries of US road management - what is a backhoe ?
regards,
Peter Galbavy wrote:
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> "1997, the Year of the Backhoe"For those of us who have not grown up with the (what sounds like)
delightful vagaries of US road management - what is a backhoe ?regards,
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Peter Galbavy
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For a picture, see:
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The various countries that speak English seem frequently divided by a
common language 
Meet your enemy:
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Charles
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For those of us who have not grown up with the (what sounds like)
delightful vagaries of US road management - what is a backhoe ?
Simple answer: a mechanical shovel.
More precisely: a relatively small-size outdoor excavation machine,
petrol-energized and driven, that is used for digging trenches of the order
of a meter wide and up to several meters deep. The digging apparatus is a
toothed box with a trapdoor in the bottom which is placed at the end of an
articulated boom.
From my on-line dictionary: An excavator whose bucket is rigidly attached
to a hinged pole on the boom and is drawn backward to the machine when in
operation.
Backhoes have [inadvertently, one would hope] been a major factor in
network disruptions throughout the United States (weed-whackers and
sharp-shooting good ole boys hunting in the southern-state bayous,
notwithstanding).
--Steve
As much as I hate to contribute to this thread, I have to post this as well:
http://www.23.com/backhoe/
(Besides, shouldn't you just be procmailing this thread already? 