Wednesday 1 December 2010

An Observation on Earthmovers

Earthmovers, bulldozers, diggers, they're often referred to in a somewhat negative way, earth-rippers, despoilers of the planet.
But on my way home from work today, a different side of the heavy plant story occurred to me, when I saw this...


 And this...


Yes, when the men in hard-hats and steel-toed boots leave the site, the  laughter and swearing's fading, engines are hushed, it's then, and only then, that you'll see the protective, nurturing instincts of a mother excavator.

2 comments:

  1. Awwww...Very sweet picture.
    Heavy equipment machines make me think of Dinosaurs.

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  2. P.S.
    I'm not the first to make this analogy Dinotrux

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