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Model This!
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:06:19 -0700, I said, "Pick a card, any card" and "P. Roehling" instead replied:
That sequence is utterly amazing! That smacking sound you just heard was my jaw hitting the desktop.
-- Ray
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"Ray Haddad" wrote
Well, I'll tell you; I've run more than a couple of backhoes in my time, and I frankly thought the pics must be fakes until I looked at them closely a second and third time.
I wouldn't try that trick myself on a bet!
-Pete
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It's not your run-of-the-mill backhoe, it's been modified to suit the task. If you look at the first couple stills, you'll see the brackets (for lack of a better term) on the front bucket and right behind the front wheels. Here's a link to the "Cartopper" web site:
Stevert
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"Stevert" wrote
I know. That was what I noticed when I watched the sequence the second and third times.
-Pete
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Thanks for that link - it's better to know it's a regularly available mod, not the inspired shade tree mod I initially thought it was.
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Imagine if the lawyers for whoever that backhoe operator works for saw that stunt. Or an OSHA inspector for that matter.
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Hmm, checking the model railroading magazine index, I see that Trains did a story on this in the July 2004 issue ("How does a backhoe climb atop a gondola"), but I could have sworn that Model Railroader itself did a photo-article much earlier - perhaps it was in one of the various back-of-issue columns.
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Yes they did. Sometime in the 1980s or 1990s