On Friday, April 11, 2014 3:14:32 PM UTC-4, Clare wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 06:30:13 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



On Friday, April 11, 2014 1:35:34 AM UTC-4, Larry Jaques wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:12:26 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 11:20:43 PM UTC-4, Carla Fong wrote:

On 4/9/2014 8:53 AM, wrote:



On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:02:41 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

snip backhoe stories

find 'em upstream

My backhoe's a tired old man... leaking fluids from here and there.

It needs more TLC than I have time to spare. But I do enjoy keeping it running.



(Well most of the time, a neighbor borrowed it and somehow broke the rear axle.. but that's a whole 'nother story.) I figure in ~20 years it will be someone else's problem :^)



I hope he paid for the repairs.



Pay? He didn't even help me fix it. My brother helped me drag it back to my barn. (with my TO-20 Ferguson) I found a used axle in PA and drove down to pick it up. Then another neighbor helped me put it back together. Grumble....

The only good news is that the "useless" neighbor moved. Good riddance.



George H.

Did he move or just dissappear?? A backhoe has a way of making things
like that happen!!!

Chuckle... No They (neighbor and wife) were getting a divorce and moving.
(which was why he needed to borrow backhoe.. to fix the septic system.)

George H.



I once heard the suggestion that there should be a "excavation" theme park for guys. (well gals too.) There would be a big field with piles of dirt, big rocks, old cars etc.. and several bulldozers, backhoes, excavators etc. that you would pay to drive around and "do things". The owner of the park might even pull a "tom sawyer" and have the guys pay to do some real work.







I'll bet it would go over much, much larger than Dizzyland ever did.



Count me in!







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No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy



of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows;



in no way can the success of evil be made quicker or surer.



--Theodore Roosevelt