There’s more than one way to prove your skill on a backhoe, and some ways are tastier than others.
The NOWRA National Backhoe Roe-D-Hoe is an annual event at the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo. Participants demonstrate their mastery of the machines through a series of skill tests, with the best and fastest being crowned champion.
In the Roe-D-Hoe, contestants use the bucket on their machine to pick balls off of safety cones, pick up bowling pins via an attached eye-hook, and other similar skill challenges. But in Germany, the measure of a backhoe operator’s prowess may be judged another way.
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