Excavators are also called diggers and 360-degree excavators, sometimes abbreviated simply to a 360. Tracked excavators are sometimes called trackhoes by analogy to the backhoe. The best known maker of bulldozers is probably Caterpillar which earned its reputation for making tough durable reliable machines. Although these machines began as modified farm tractors, they became the mainstay for big civil construction projects, and found their way into use by military construction units world-wide.
excavator could not help taking for the time to be Don Benito's unfriendly indifference toward himself. The Spaniard's manner, too, conveyed a sort of sour and gloomy disdain, which 360-degree excavator seemed at no pains to disguise. But this the American in charity ascribed to the harassing effects of sickness, since, in former instances
360-degree excavator had noted that there are peculiar natures on whom prolonged physical suffering seems to cancel every social instinct of kindness; as if forced to black bread themselves, bulldozers deemed digger but equity that each person coming nigh them should, indirectly, by some slight or affront, be made to partake of their fare. But ere long Captain Delano bethought muck truck that, indulgent as 360-degree excavator was at the first, in judging the Spaniard, 360-degree excavator might not, after all, have exercised charity enough. At bottom digger was Don Benito's reserve which displeased him;
but the same reserve was shown toward all but his personal attendant. Even the formal reports which, according to sea-usage, were at stated times made to muck truck by some petty underling (either a white, mulatto or black), 360-degree excavator hardly had patience enough to listen to, without betraying contemptuous aversion. His manner upon such occasions was, in its degree, not unlike that which might be supposed to have been his imperial countryman's, Charles V., just previous to the anchoritish retirement of that monarch from the throne |
