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Email ^ | 4/30/05 | Dallas59

Posted on 04/30/2005 4:05:33 AM PDT by Dallas59















TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dig
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1 posted on 04/30/2005 4:05:35 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: backhoe

I don't know why, but your screen name came to mind.


2 posted on 04/30/2005 4:08:06 AM PDT by Cagey
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To: Cagey

Hey! That's just what I need. I have got to dig up the garden this weekend.


3 posted on 04/30/2005 4:12:47 AM PDT by Cowman (I wish they all could be double barreled girls)
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To: Dallas59

Just D@mn Dallas! What do they use these for? Huge!! (God loves Texas!)


4 posted on 04/30/2005 4:16:43 AM PDT by poobear
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To: Dallas59

Did you notice the pitch of the blades are different in the next to last photo?


5 posted on 04/30/2005 4:16:48 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: eastforker

Lookink closer I see it is not the same machine.


6 posted on 04/30/2005 4:19:16 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: eastforker

lookink=looking


7 posted on 04/30/2005 4:19:48 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: eastforker

There are TWO of those damn things??


8 posted on 04/30/2005 4:19:51 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

They are used for strip mining.


9 posted on 04/30/2005 4:20:50 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: eastforker
Yes, are also aren't the pointies further apart in the next to the last photo? Perhaps it has snap-on interchangeable blades!

So, what is it and what is it for? Is this in the U.S.?
10 posted on 04/30/2005 4:21:31 AM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: eastforker

I guess it would be overkill to rent one to put in my lawn sprinklers, then.


11 posted on 04/30/2005 4:23:00 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: eastforker

One of the machines has "Krupp" in the sign - this must be from Europe, Germany maybe. What do they use something this big for? It looks like it's about the size of that tractor they use to move the shuttle from the VAB to the launch pad.


12 posted on 04/30/2005 4:23:14 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: Cagey
Good lord, that is the largest, strangest-looking excavator I've ever seen. I can't imagine what it's used for- stripmining, perhaps... obviously, from the treads it is driven somewhere.

When I was a young fellow, it was rare to have even a tractor on a building site as a labor-saving device, but now I see all sorts of ( smaller ) exotic heavy equipment- line borers, ditchers, tracked backhoes. It makes you wonder where the money comes from to buy such stuff.

13 posted on 04/30/2005 4:26:39 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: Ken522

Growing up in Southern Illinois I got to see some of the biggest earth movers ever in the world at some of the biggest stip mines ever. One shovel had the capacity of ten RR box cars. I imagine they are even bigger today, that was 40 years ago.


14 posted on 04/30/2005 4:27:04 AM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: Ken522

1. I thought Krupp made coffee pots.

2. I guess the pill box warning "do not operate heavy machinery" would apply to this.


15 posted on 04/30/2005 4:27:09 AM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: Dallas59

We need this in Iraq...


16 posted on 04/30/2005 4:30:18 AM PDT by Dallas59 (" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
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To: Dallas59

This is what happens when you don't have your septic tank pumped out every few years..


17 posted on 04/30/2005 4:36:44 AM PDT by ken5050 (The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
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To: eastforker

Notice in the 2nd pic that they covered the road with 10 feet of dirt so this excavator could cross it. Prbably to minimize damage. I wonder if they were successful.


18 posted on 04/30/2005 4:46:05 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Report every illegal alien that you meet. Call 866-347-2423)
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I would love to see this in action!


19 posted on 04/30/2005 6:15:36 AM PDT by VastRWCon
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To: Dallas59

Neat! What kind of mileage does it get?


20 posted on 04/30/2005 6:20:18 AM PDT by verity (A mindset is an antidote to logic.)
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