In addition, stolen plant equipment, such as a mini road-roller and a mini excavator, were recovered, along with a stolen quad bike.

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Mr MacGillivray, a seasoned excavator who now digs at Palaikastro, site of a Minoan city in eastern Crete, used to teach Aegean archaeology at Columbia University in New York.

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Eyewitnesses quoted by Chinese state media describe a large excavator, used for heavy mining work, having been sliced in two.

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The silt will be removed from the river using an excavator on a barge.

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said it was investigating the incident which it said involved an excavator at a building near a farm.

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Xinhua reported that an excavator fell off a 300-meter cliff on the way to Baoxing on Sunday morning, but the number of casualties from that accident were still unknown.

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In construction machinery, for example, sales of wheel loaders in April were down 28 percent, and excavator sales were down 40 percent, from the sales levels achieved in March, reflecting a slowdown in fixed asset investment.

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