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  • Last week, a back-hoe, bull-dozer, something that looks like a steam-roller with cleats, and a dozen men with hard hats moved in and turned the swamp into a landscape that wouldn't look out of place on the moon.

    They're Paving Paradise... Ulysses 2010

  • Instead of using pneumatic drills, the lamebrains thought it would be smart to whack away at the pavement with a back-hoe for half a day.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Last week, a back-hoe, bull-dozer, something that looks like a steam-roller with cleats, and a dozen men with hard hats moved in and turned the swamp into a landscape that wouldn't look out of place on the moon.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Ulysses 2010

  • Looking out the front door, I see a utilities truck and a back-hoe not far away.

    January 29th, 2008 archmage 2008

  • Deep in the barren Sonoran Desert in the summer of 2008, Drew Reeves drove a back-hoe fourteen feet into the earth.

    Wired Top Stories 2010

  • Deep in the barren Sonoran Desert in the summer of 2008, Drew Reeves drove a back-hoe fourteen feet into the earth.

    Wired Top Stories 2010

  • He happened to be in the area when a rancher unearthed what appeared to be human bones with his back-hoe.

    Secrets hidden in the Mexican sierra 2007

  • I do have access to a back-hoe, and 100+ acres of land.

    Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • A group of them had taken a few minutes to invent a back-hoe, and they wanted him to step aside so they could dig the holes more efficiently.

    REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

  • The back-hoe roared behind the chief, tearing a scream from his throat before he remembered that he had seen it before … just a few minutes ago, in fact.

    REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

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