"1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut InSterling VA.

Tue Jul 29 16:37:31 UTC 1997

And of course, anything that happens to lie in the path of
said trench experiences an abrupt separation.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Paul Ferguson [SMTP:pferguso at cisco.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, July 29, 1997 10:50 AM
To:	Peter Galbavy
Cc:	nanog at merit.edu
Subject:	RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut InSterling VA.

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