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Come back tomorrow. Neglected to queue any posts last night and today I’m learning to operate earth moving equipment. Not sure how that works exactly, since the equipment is smaller than the Earth.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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July 5th, 2012 at 7:58 am
You’ll just need a longer lever.
July 5th, 2012 at 8:13 am
Must involve a Higgs boson, somehow. Because…Science!
July 5th, 2012 at 8:39 am
Alan, you forgot the other part.
He needs a longer lever and a place to stand.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:12 am
You move the Earth the same way you eat the elephant…
July 5th, 2012 at 9:20 am
…with a backhoe and Dixson’s sauce.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:51 am
Luke Skywalker: “I can’t… It’s too big!”
Yoda: “Judge me by my size, do you?”
July 5th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Learning to use a shovel, are you? 😉
July 5th, 2012 at 10:12 am
I thought it was our wives that were supposed to make the earth move for us.
At least that’s what she says.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:53 am
“I was a pilot in the army.”
“I didn’t think they had pilots in the army.”
“They issued me my own shovel, said ‘See that pile of dirt? Pile it over there.'”
July 5th, 2012 at 11:39 am
Big Boy toys don’t just go “bang”. Some of them have tracks and lots of hydraulics so you can do ten things at once. I love watching a decent trackhoe operator who can eyeball his digging, then climb down and check the transit and find he got it exactly right the first time from way up there in the cab.
Sure, it takes skill to put a bullet on a 4″ target at 400 yards, but I bet it takes eight times that skill to operate a trackhoe with precision.
July 5th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Remember Newton? When you drive that trackhoe forward, the earth spins just a little bit the other way. Of course, the same is true of your walk to said trackhoe, so I suppose shoes count as earth moving equipment too.
July 5th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Did the brochure say “Earth moving” or “earth moving”? Capitalization matters.
July 5th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
“Earth moving”? driving heavy machinery was never this much fun, as i remember.
July 5th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
New career opportunity in Atlas-like position?
July 5th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Had to rent the big stuff when my backhoe wouldn’t move enough, fast enough for me. Always fun. Did it for a living in college; now my wife knows every time she leaves me for a few days she’s going to get, “a few more holes dug somewhere on the property.”
But they all have purpose…
July 5th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
This might help get you started.
http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/11/45/2/1164/11643432/d7798a48dfb2f6d7_gardening-tools.jpg