RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut In Sterling VA.
On 25 July 1997 20:11, Steve Goldstein [SMTP:sgoldste@nsf.gov] wrote:
At 10:18 AM -0400 7/25/97, Henry Clark wrote: ...
backhoe season :-)
"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 ? regards, -- Peter Galbavy Demon Internet Ltd
Peter Galbavy wrote:
On 25 July 1997 20:11, Steve Goldstein [SMTP:sgoldste@nsf.gov] wrote:
At 10:18 AM -0400 7/25/97, Henry Clark wrote: ...
backhoe season :-)
"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 ?
regards, -- Peter Galbavy Demon Internet Ltd
For a picture, see: http://www.cat.com/products/equip/bhl/bhl.htm The various countries that speak English seem frequently divided by a common language :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie dts@openroute.com OpenROUTE Networks, Inc. http://www.openroute.com/ 508-898-2800
Meet your enemy: http://www.cat.com/products/equip/bhl/bhl.htm Charles ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles Sprickman Internet Channel INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 spork@inch.com access@inch.com On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Peter Galbavy wrote:
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:16:45 +0100 From: Peter Galbavy <peter@demon.net> To: 'Steve Goldstein' <sgoldste@nsf.gov>, Henry Clark <henryc@bbnplanet.com>, nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut In Sterling VA.
On 25 July 1997 20:11, Steve Goldstein [SMTP:sgoldste@nsf.gov] wrote:
At 10:18 AM -0400 7/25/97, Henry Clark wrote: ...
backhoe season :-)
"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 ?
regards, -- Peter Galbavy Demon Internet Ltd
You can see in wonderful colour, pictures of a typical back-hoe digging up T1s and voice lines to put in our Fiber. See the mystified back-hoe operators saying "Oooops..." as they cut through almost all of our copper... All this excitement can be found at: http://www.archive.org:80/networking/ Charles Sprickman wrote:
Meet your enemy:
http://www.cat.com/products/equip/bhl/bhl.htm
Charles
~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles Sprickman Internet Channel INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 spork@inch.com access@inch.com
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Peter Galbavy wrote:
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:16:45 +0100 From: Peter Galbavy <peter@demon.net> To: 'Steve Goldstein' <sgoldste@nsf.gov>, Henry Clark <henryc@bbnplanet.com>, nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut In Sterling VA.
On 25 July 1997 20:11, Steve Goldstein [SMTP:sgoldste@nsf.gov] wrote:
At 10:18 AM -0400 7/25/97, Henry Clark wrote: ...
backhoe season :-)
"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 ?
Tim -- Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -- Andrew Jackson
At 11:16 AM -0400 7/29/97, Peter Galbavy wrote: ...
For those of us who have not grown up with the (what sounds like) delightful vagaries of US road management - what is a backhoe ?
Simple answer: a mechanical shovel. More precisely: a relatively small-size outdoor excavation machine, petrol-energized and driven, that is used for digging trenches of the order of a meter wide and up to several meters deep. The digging apparatus is a toothed box with a trapdoor in the bottom which is placed at the end of an articulated boom.
From my on-line dictionary: An excavator whose bucket is rigidly attached to a hinged pole on the boom and is drawn backward to the machine when in operation.
Backhoes have [inadvertently, one would hope] been a major factor in network disruptions throughout the United States (weed-whackers and sharp-shooting good ole boys hunting in the southern-state bayous, notwithstanding). --Steve
As much as I hate to contribute to this thread, I have to post this as well: http://www.23.com/backhoe/ (Besides, shouldn't you just be procmailing this thread already? ;) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Muller, Network Administrator nc0773@noc.netcom.net NETCOM Network Operations Center NETCOM On-Line Communication Services On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Steve Goldstein wrote:
Backhoes have [inadvertently, one would hope] been a major factor in network disruptions throughout the United States (weed-whackers and sharp-shooting good ole boys hunting in the southern-state bayous, notwithstanding).
--Steve
Peter Galbavy writes:
"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 ?
A type of "steam" shovel -- i.e. a particular kind of the class of mechanical devices with a large articulated arm with a big scoop at the end used for digging trenches and such. The details of what distinguishes a backhoe from other members of the class aren't important for your purposes... .pm
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:54:05 -0400 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
A type of "steam" shovel -- i.e. a particular kind of the class of mechanical devices with a large articulated arm with a big scoop at the end used for digging trenches and such.
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In message <E1814778D2F6D01192F000E02906AF29018D0C@exchange.server.demon.net>, you write:
On 25 July 1997 20:11, Steve Goldstein [SMTP:sgoldste@nsf.gov] wrote:
At 10:18 AM -0400 7/25/97, Henry Clark wrote: ...
backhoe season :-)
"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 ?
http://206.242.201.50/rim/profile.gif Though, they can get much larger... -- Michael Parson SMART Technologies
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