The boy's father had been working on the pit with a backhoe that afternoon, Carpenter said.

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Backhoe: an excavator in which the bucket faces the operator and is pulled towards him.

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More than 1, 000 backhoe loaders are being manufactured at the factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Blake was a goateed young backhoe operator whom Carol had met across the counter at the license bureau.

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More than 1, 000 backhoe loaders, the digger which made the company famous, have been ordered by the Brazilian government.

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In a trial run this year, Leroy says, 95% of Deere's backhoe loaders were delivered in 30 to 60 days.

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The company says that current production rates see one backhoe machine roll off one of its manufacturing lines every three minutes.

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With officials concerned that more ground near the house in Seffner could give way Sunday, the massive backhoe demolishing the house kept its distance, staying on the street.

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Kind of like a backhoe driver digging a hole.

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SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) A backhoe chipped away Monday at the remains of a house where a sinkhole opened up and swallowed a man, but there was little certainty as to what would come next for the site of the freak geological incident.

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Soon Blake began spending nights at her house, shuffling around in a Vikings jersey with his work boots unlaced and a beer can in his fist, and before long he was chainsawing every tree in her back yard and running wild with a rented backhoe.

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