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• n  an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth

• Amid the debris is an overturned, heavily damaged backhoe as well as other broken bits of construction equipment.
• When backhoe operators from a Chengdu-based company stopped work clearing a collapsed apartment building as night fell Tuesday, the family of missing residents gathered around .
• The backhoe's work could be seen along a six-mile (10 km) stretch of the road from Tskhinvali to the Russian border.

News & Articles

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• First-Third realignment completion expected by month’s end
  A backhoe lifts a slab of sidewalk in early June as construction on improvement to the Front Street sidewalks continues.
  June 14, 2013 - New Bern Sun Journal
• Backhoe operator in building collapse surrenders to police
  PHILADELPHIA, June 9 (UPI) -- A backhoe operator accused of having marijuana and pain killers in his system during Wednesday's building collapse in Philadelphia surrendered to police.
  June 9, 2013 - UPI
• Backhoe Operator in Deadly Building Collapse Surrenders
  The man who operated a backhoe at the site of Wednesday's deadly building collapse in downtown Philadelphia has surrendered to police.
  June 8, 2013 - NBC New York

Quotes

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• Michael Douglas in FOXNews
  I learned how to use the shovel, and I wanted to go out like Charlie and just dig around,Douglas says in an interview on Parade.com. "What a feeling of power that is. It's just amazing the damage you could do with a backhoe."
• Humpy Wheeler in USA Today
  Dale Earnhardt was the last working-man driver that we had - you know, the guy running the backhoe, the shrimp boat captain and the carpenter - people who are out there working with their hands for a living,says Humpy Wheeler, president of...
• Charles Schumer in The Associated Press
  Of course he (Delayunid) will be considered as suspect because he has direct participation on the release of the backhoe. Although we are not making conclusion that he was the one who dug the graves (and) he was just the assigned operator of the... Diego Velázquez http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHZHVRANaubCAVFQPNvTdW1zqT8sw Philippine Star http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx%3FarticleId%3D527508%26publicationSubCategoryId%3D63&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGbu6xHWrnrrlm1Jz1NPuXdA618wA Nov 27, 2009 7393 10672 backing Just a day after there was much hoopla about the Chinese finally changing their policy, they are already backing off," US Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Sunday, adding he plans to move forward with a bill that would punish...