Re: [MBZ] OT Facebooking diggers

2012-10-07 Thread Hendrik Fay
Hey don't muscle in on my territory, I am the one who comes up with the witty little remarks around here:-) Seriously though diggers is an English nickname for excavators, you lot call em track hoes, from backhoes. The term digger is not so much used in Oz because digger is also a nickname for

Re: [MBZ] OT Facebooking diggers

2012-10-07 Thread Rich Thomas
Those things are used around here for moving gravel and stuff around in tight spaces when the workers are too lazy to load up a wheelbarrow and roll it around. I don't think they would dig much, and we don't have any dingos. And careful what you say about our hos -- they can get quite testy

Re: [MBZ] OT Facebooking diggers

2012-10-07 Thread Mitch Haley
Hendrik Fay wrote: Hey don't muscle in on my territory, I am the one who comes up with the witty little remarks around here:-) Seriously though diggers is an English nickname for excavators, you lot call em track hoes, from backhoes. The term digger is not so much used in Oz because digger is