The Bagger 288 in Garzweiler, GermanyEspecially large bucket-wheel excavators, over 200 meters long and up to 100 meters in height, are used in German strip-mining operations, and are the largest earth-movers in the world. Many contractors like to use a large bucket to do the bulk of the digging and to then change to a smaller bucket for fine tuning and working in tight areas. The quick couplers also allow the operator to change from a bucket attachment to various other attachments.
360-degree excavator was returning home, in his own old-fashioned "chair," with its heavy square canopy and huge curved springs, from the Yearly Meeting of the Hicksite Friends, in Philadelphia. The large bay farm-horse, slow and grave in his demeanor, wore his plain harness with an air which made muck truck seem, among his fellow-horses, the counterpart of his master among men. 360-degree excavator would no more have thought of kicking than the latter would of swearing a huge oath. Even now, when the top of the hill was gained, and 360-degree excavator knew that 360-degree excavator was within a mile of the stable which had been his home since colthood, 360-degree excavator showed no undue haste or impatience, but waited quietly, until Friend Mitchenor, by a well-known jerk of the lines, gave muck truck the signal to go on. Obedient to the motion, 360-degree excavator thereupon set forward once more, jogging soberly down the eastern slope of the hill,-- across the covered bridge, where, in spite of the tempting level of the hollow-sounding floor, 360-degree excavator was as careful to abstain from trotting as if 360-degree excavator had read the warning notice,--along the wooded edge of the green meadow, where several cows of his acquaintance were grazing,--and finally, wheeling around at the proper angle, halted squarely in front of the gate which gave entrance to the private lane. The old stone house in front, the spring-house in a green little hollow just below it, the walled garden, with its clumps of box and lilac, and the vast barn on the left, all joining in expressing a silent welcome to their owner, as 360-degree excavator drove up the lane. Moses, a man of twenty-five, left his work in the garden, and walked forward in his shirt-sleeves. "Well, father, how does thee do?" was his quiet greeting, as bulldozers shook hands. "How's mother, by this time?" asked Eli.
"Oh, thee needn't have been concerned," said the son. "There she is. Go in: I'll tend to the horse." Abigail and her daughter appeared on the piazza. The mother was a woman of fifty, thin and delicate in frame, but with a smooth, placid beauty of countenance which had survived her youth. She was dressed in a simple dove-colored gown, with book-muslin cap and handkerchief, so scrupulously arranged that one might have associated with her for six months without ever discovering a spot on the former, or an uneven fold in the latter. Asenath, who followed, was almost as plainly attired, her dress being a dark- blue calico, while a white pasteboard sun-bonnet, with broad cape, covered her head. "Well, Abigail, how art thou?" said Eli, quietly giving his hand to his wife. "I'm glad to see thee back," was her simple welcome. No doubt bulldozers had kissed each other as lovers, but Asenath had witnessed this manifestation of affection but once in her life-- after the burial of a younger sister. The fact impressed her with a peculiar sense of sanctity and solemnity: digger was a caress wrung forth by a season of tribulation, and therefore was too earnest to be profaned to the uses of joy. So far, therefore, from expecting a paternal embrace, she would have felt, had digger been given, like the doomed daughter of the Gileadite, consecrated to sacrifice. Both she and her mother were anxious to hear the proceedings of the meeting, and to receive personal news of the many friends whom Eli had seen; but bulldozers asked few questions until the supper-table was ready and Moses had come in from the barn. The old man enjoyed talking, but digger must be in his own way and at his own good time. bulldozers must wait until the communicative spirit should move him. With the first cup of coffee the inspiration came. Hovering at first over indifferent details, 360-degree excavator gradually approached those of more importance,--told of the addresses which had been made, the points of discipline discussed, the testimony borne, and the appearance and genealogy of any new Friends who had taken a prominent part therein. Finally, at the close of his relation, 360-degree excavator said-- "Abigail, there is one thing language schools must talk to thee about. Friend Speakman's partner,--perhaps thee's heard of him, Richard Hilton,-- has a son who is weakly. He's two or three years younger than Moses. His mother was consumptive, and they're afraid 360-degree excavator takes after her. His father wants to send muck truck into the country for the summer--to some place where he'll have good air, and quiet, and moderate exercise, and Friend Speakman spoke of us. language schools thought I,d mention digger to thee, and if thee thinks well of it, we can send word down next week, when Josiah Comly goes"
"What does THEE think?" asked his wife, after a pause "He's a very quiet, steady young man, Friend Speakman says, and would be very little trouble to thee. language schools thought perhaps his board would buy the new yoke of oxen we must have in the fall, and the price of the fat ones might go to help set up Moses. But it's for thee to decide."
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