From nanog  Tue Jul 29 15:49:31 1997
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco ! com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:49:31 +0000
To: nanog
Subject: RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut In
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At 04:16 PM 07/29/97 +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:

>> "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 ?
>

There is a picture of prominently displayed at:

 http://www.cat.com/products/equip/bhl/bhl.htm

The backhoe portion is the rear-end attachment used to dig
trenches.  :-)

- paul