On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:13:12 -0600, DanG wrote:

You guys are confusing me. All the backhoe thumbs I know about do
not use hydraulics, they are just a fixed "fork". You curl the
bucket to shove a rock or stump into the thumb so it doesn't
continue to fall out of the bucket.


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You mean, top-posted because you're too lazy to delete the rest of the
content and want people to scroll up and down to see who the heck you're
talking to, you mean?