One of her coalition's leaders has called for the government to use its legislative majority as a "steamroller"; another wants to deploy it as a "retroexcavadora" (backhoe loader) to demolish Chile's "neoliberal model".
In certain cases placer material is most economically excavated with a shore-mounted dragline or backhoe and a floating (barge-mounted) concentrating plant.
Through a newly installed communication system, the miners told authorities on Monday afternoon that they had used a backhoe to dig for trapped water and ate sparingly from their few supplies.
They watched with fear and anticipation as a single backhoe dug into the rubble.
After parcelling out tiny bits of food and drinking water carved from the mine floor with a backhoe for 19 days, the miners were getting glucose and rehydration tablets to restore their digestive systems.
The backhoe technique has the advantages of powerful digging and good control.
The dailiness, even hourliness, of social media makes it a perfect vehicle for documenting each thump of the wrecking ball, each crunch of the backhoe.
Within a few minutes, you could remove a section of that fence big enough to drive a van, a backhoe, or a tractor-trailer onto the complex.
In October of 2006, an Amish community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, hired a contractor to demolish their schoolhouse with a backhoe and remove the debris to an undisclosed location.
But only the ironworker (a metal-cutting tool) and part of the backhoe were built by the deadline.
Spring seedlings worked their way from the dirt, but before they could begin to grow a man in a backhoe churned through the mud and dug a long trench from the lake to the swamp, draining it.
