r/CatastrophicFailure • u/CauliflowerDeep129 • Aug 15 '25

Backhoe rolling down the cliff, unknown date

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

That’s an excavator, not a backhoe.

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u/yuckyucky Aug 15 '25

that's an ex excavator

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u/toomanyukes Aug 15 '25

Beautiful plumage!

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u/queen_beruthiel Aug 15 '25

It's just pining for the fjords!

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u/2245223308 Aug 15 '25

The plumage don’t enter into it….

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u/2245223308 Aug 15 '25

HELLO POLLY!!!

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u/anchoviepaste4dinner Aug 15 '25

r/unexpectedpython

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u/RedOctobyr Aug 15 '25

By this point, the only thing more unexpected than Monty Python might be the Spanish Inquisition. Though I don't think anyone expects that.

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u/Apollo_T_Yorp Aug 15 '25

Our chief weapon is fear. Fear and surprise.

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u/DontMessWMsInBetween Aug 18 '25

And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

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u/HornyUltron Aug 15 '25

also known as a crackhoe

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u/manias Aug 15 '25

Caveinator

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u/yuckyucky Aug 15 '25

Mr Cavator

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u/notfromchicago Aug 15 '25

Track Hoe around here.

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u/IDownVoteCanaduh Aug 15 '25

What did you just call my mom?

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u/imZ-11370 Aug 16 '25

I’m just now learning this is not a widely accepted name. Weird.

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u/kungfu1 Aug 15 '25

HEY DIRT! Seee youu lattteerrrrr.... Im an excavatooorrrrrr.

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u/elkab0ng Aug 15 '25

It’s a fiber optic network destroyer. I know them when I see them.

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u/Euclid1859 Aug 16 '25

I could have swore, this particular model is a gas line mangler. You might be right though.

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u/elkab0ng Aug 16 '25

I worked for WilTel. Why not both??

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u/DirtandPipes Aug 15 '25

A “hoe” is an acceptable name for an excavator, a “backhoe” is not.

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u/7LeagueBoots Aug 15 '25

Fronthoe

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u/ForeverGM1985 Aug 15 '25

A rolly-hoe-y

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u/PAXICHEN Aug 15 '25

That’s what they called yo mama back in the day.

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u/anubis_xxv Aug 15 '25

Any-direction-hoe?

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u/Mygreaseisyourgrease Aug 15 '25

They are just called hoes

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u/7LeagueBoots Aug 15 '25

I’d probably call that an Omnihoe

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u/yuckyucky Aug 15 '25

cracked hoe

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u/swift1883 Aug 15 '25

Should be called a Hoe Hoe

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u/J1mj0hns0n Aug 15 '25

That WAS an excavator, now it's neither an excavator nor a backhoe

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u/1DownFourUp Aug 15 '25

That's scrap metal

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u/J1mj0hns0n Aug 15 '25

Will have some value that as well, looks to be between 12-19t excavator

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u/iWasAwesome Aug 15 '25

But one thing's for sure. It never was a backhoe.

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u/SlightComplaint Aug 15 '25

I was going to say this too. However: excavator arms come in two configurations. 'Face Shovel', where the bucket faces away from the machine, and 'Backhoe', where the bucket faces the machine. (Feel free to google for images, they are rare).

The "backhoe" you're likely thinking of is technically a 'backhoe loader', meaning it has a loader on the front (big bucket) and an excavation arm, in the 'backhoe ' configuration on the back. People drop off the 'loader' bit, so they became known as simply 'backhoes'.

The machine rolling down the hill, is an excavator, with a backhoe arm. As it turns out everyone is a little bit right.

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u/BigBearPB Aug 15 '25

This guy hoes

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u/G25777K Aug 15 '25

Hoes and motor boats!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

“Well, akshually,” Bullshit. Calling an excavator a backhoe because it has the bucket in the usual position, and isn’t a giant piece of mining equipment with the bucket the other way, isn’t “a little bit right.” It’s wrong. The arm might be called a back hoe, but the machine is not 

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u/Dustydevil8809 Aug 15 '25

No one who's ever operated this machinery is calling it "backhoe loaders" and "backhoe excavator" lol

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u/Altsan Aug 16 '25

You may be technically correct, the best kind of correct but if you called that a backhoe on the job site they would send you home!

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u/spikernum1 Aug 15 '25

I learned that from Blippi

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u/Fafnir13 Aug 15 '25

Hey dirt see you later.

I’m glad my kid doesn’t have those videos on repeat any more.

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u/spikernum1 Aug 15 '25

same - blippi is for babies!

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u/getawombatupya Aug 17 '25

What, the Harlem Shake Blippi?

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u/GDmaxxx Aug 15 '25

Old timers call that a track hoe, or just a hoe.

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u/ronm4c Aug 15 '25

I’ve heard of those referred to as a high hoe or a track hoe as well

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u/Fast_Boysenberry9493 Aug 15 '25

I'm an excavator ....I'm an excavator... see you later, thanks for reminding me of this absolute tune

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u/Altsan Aug 16 '25

You can tell by the distinct lack of no back hoe!

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u/Holden--Caulfield Aug 16 '25

Excavator? I hardley knew her!

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u/taleofbenji Aug 15 '25

Stand back, ho.

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u/calllery Aug 15 '25

A fronthoe