0 a large machine for digging and moving earth that consists of a large bucket on the end of an arm attached to a vehicle
Caterpillar's line of machines range from tracked tractors to hydraulic excavators, backhoe loaders, motor graders, off-highway trucks, wheel loaders, agricultural tractors and locomotives.
Tracked excavators are sometimes called trackhoes by analogy to the backhoe.
A backhoe operator noticed several skulls in the bucket of his machine.
To allow drainage, backhoes mounted on marsh buggies and draglines mounted on barges cut breaches in some other levees.
Examples of oversize/overweight loads include construction machines (cranes, front loaders, backhoes, etc.), pre-built homes, containers, construction elements (bridge beams, generators, windmill propellers, industrial equipment).
Many digs become large group projects, involving backhoes, timber shoring, and even the use of large diameter well drilling methods.
As a result, the archeologist chose to use a backhoe to reach the deep undisturbed cultural levels at the site.
A smooth backhoe was used to create the trenches, and they were all 3 m wide and ranged in length from 9 m - 22.5 m.
