[mctw]

WHOAA, that my kinda car!!!
bet that sounded sweet, what kinda spec was on that sound system, looks immense!
ive seen smaller kits being used by DJ's!

MCTW

[serverguy]

I've been working on a new workshop this week, will mainly be used for cars / tractors / farm stuff but there is space for everything :)

About 22' by 33'

Been on the digger doing the floors all of this week, which is why I haven't been around much. Will get some photos if anyones interested.

[Bubba]

LOL I STILL love the linguistic differences we have. YOU call it a digger and WE call it a backhoe............ Well from the pic in your album I assume a digger is a backhoe, but if you were grading for floors you would be using the blade not the scoop.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Backhoe?! Really wow.. that's one I've never heard.

But the the only ones you tend to hear are cause they've been in films. How many decent films talk about a digger..

I think I could just about understand someone if they told me they had jelly on their pants, but jelly on their pants after lunch in the backhoe would just confuse me

[Bubba]

Well think about it Fordy, the "digger" is on the back of the tractor and it operates like a hoe of sorts. The front end has a bucket and is used for pushing dirt into piles (grading) and or scooping it up. LOL the tractors without the backhoe attachment (IE front bucket only) are called either front end loaders, or bucket loaders, whether they have wheels or tracks,(would they still be called a digger there?), and of course there is the bulldozer, which has a flat blade and pushes dirt around but isn't able to pick it up. What do you call bull dozers?

I ain't touching the jelly on your pants after lunch in a backhoe lol.

Sorry for the threadus interuptus.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

bulldozers are bulldozers, not sure if we've changed to be the same as you or vice versa or whether it was always the same..

Diggers are just diggers really they can have whatever attachment you like be big or small and still be known as a digger. Although I guess if you're in the buisness you might know them by different names.

What about a fork lift truck is that the same for you?
(Two spikes on the front that can pick up things like a pallet with bricks on or a cement bath)

Incidently a "loader" here would be more likely used for a truck with a large container on the back, but they're more regularly known as a tip-up truck.

Wierd stuff. But we have really taken over this thread now..

[Bubba]

LOL Hijack alert...........

We call a forklift truck, a forklift (san truck) but that's close enough. ALTHOUGH there is an attachment so you can at a set of forks to the bucket of your backhoe............

EDIT: LOL would that be forking around with your backhoe?

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Yeah I only added in truck as an after thought, most would just say forklift, but that's it's full name.

And yes I think it probably would.. you'd have to watch where you spread you're jelly though!

Anywho, nice unfinished projects everyones got here

Hoping to buy a cheapish car to do up myself in a couple of years, I'm hoping I'll be able to get a nice Golf at a reasonable price when I get round to it...

[serverguy]

Haha this thread has gone slightly off topic!

But hey I like talking about diggers.

Most people call these diggers:



But in the US they would normally be called a trackhoe. But they can also be commonly called an excavator in the UK, especially in the trade, traxcavator (uncommon), but normally just digger.

And then you get one of these things:



Now, in the US these are called backhoes, but here they are called either a JCB, because JCB orignally popularised the design with the original 'gravedigger' design.
But they also get called backhoe loaders, and just diggers.

And then you get these things:



Beastly things... most commonly called a wheeled loader I think. Anything that has a well loader on the front is called a loader, and this one has wheels as well so it is a wheeled loader. Makes sense.

But then you get these as well



Now, I think these things are called wheeled excavators...


Now, if you are just a normally towny, all of these machines would be considered tractors :)

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

You know I was gonna do a post with pictures on, but I resisted the temptation.

You, however have surcummed to the ultimate of thread hijacking evilnessisity.
Or threadus interpretus to Bubba