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Geez don't take the keg off or anything...

WOW!

Nice job. I think you need more gadgets on your bars & mirrors though.

Stay tuned for part II - The Resurrection

Nice job . I ran a backhoe for a short time years ago, always have been impressed with folks that can skillfully run equipment. Just be thankfull it wasn't me at the controls . "Where there's equipment, there's always a way".

JH

You can count me out on the skillful part - I'm more the dangerous advanced beginner / rusty intermediate level backhoe operator. I occasionally vie for "The World's Most Dangerous Backhoe Operator"
I gave Uncle Charlie a couple of coronary flow checks, when the bike dropped a few inches (then bounced on the strap) at a speed faster than, uh, you get the idea.

Then there was the time I drew back the bucket, and lo & behold - There's about 4 feet of my curtain drain schedule 40 pipe wrapped around a bucket tooth. That one required a quite a lengthy cuss incantation, and a ditch 20 feet long by 6 feet deep to fix. Doh!

I sorta suspected that my American cousins were strange. You speak English with an accent eat strange food. But with those pictures I now have proof positive. Yer all bloody mad !!! But ****** that was funny reading.

I was on a 2-man crew installing underground cable. Other guy was running the backhoe as we prepared to bore under a road and kept hitting a "rock". I jumped into the hole with a shovel to see what & how big it was. The "rock" turned out to be a 6" natural gas main, with serious chips knocked out of it .

If I remember corectly, we called the gas company and took a much needed break. So much for engineering blueprints!!!!!

JH

Cant wait for the removal pictures.

Call me when the exhumation (is that a word?) happens. I've always wanted to try running a back hoe

Backhoe tales, part 37:

There is an armor clad (Cold War era) underground AT&T trans continental telephone cable that traverses the land our house is built on. It is reported to be now abandoned, as I'm told most of those signals are now on the satellites. When we dug our sewer and water lines, we wanted to avoid this cable, but couldn't get the Call Before You Dig folks to show any interest. I finally called up and said in jest: "There's a funny looking 10" armor clad cable wrapped around my backhoe bucket, what should I do now?" That got a stir out of 'em, and an old timer called me a few minutes later. We talked it over, and he did confirm the old rumors we locals had heard that the Department of Defense was one of the primary subscribers to that AT&T bundle of cable. To extrapolate that a bit, these cables that are marked with the 4 or 5 foot tall posts with the orange signs on top are very likely part of the original Department of Defense 'internet," that linked various physicists and DOD folk together if "The Big Ones" ever got dropped on us, so as to maintain communications after the blast's RF flash wiped out all the above ground electronic devices.

For you whippersnappers out there - here in the US, we used to have nuclear bomb response drills in grade school. They told us to get under the desks when the bombs started falling.

(Yeah - that would do a lot of good considering I live in the state that's home to Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Sikorsky Helicopter, Electric Boatyard, and a US Navy Doomsday Nuclear Sub base and active nuclear power plant. We just might be on the nuke target list. When they dug us out a thousand years later, they would believe the youngins were kept in little wooden pens. )

Lets all sing...."DUCK and cover...DUCK and cover"

Its not uncommon around here to find houses built in the 50's and 60's with bomb shelters.