Just like firefighters or police officers, public works employees sometimes risk their lives on the job. That became obvious about four years ago, when Blake Walton was fixing a water main in a trench ...

Like well-behaved bulls in a china shop, the grace and delicate touches of heavy-duty machinery operators will be tested at ...

Three Public Works competitors placed to represent Charleston County in the May 23 American Public Works Association Regional Backhoe Rodeo Charleston County’s Public Works Department held their ...

The top three winners in the 22nd annual Backhoe Rodeo challenge held in Georgetown May 19 were from the three different counties competing. The event, sponsored by the South Carolina Chapter of the ...

The rodeo is in town today, and it’s a great time to be alive. Well, the rodeo is actually undeservedly in Shakopee. Those posers don’t know rodeo like I know rodeo, so I prefer to not give them ...

SYLVESTER, GA (WALB) - Public works employees operate heavy machinery everyday, but one Southwest Georgia man earned backhoe bragging rights, winning back to back state championships in the American ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - The regional backhoe rodeo took over the City of Columbia's public works facility on Colonial Drive. Contestants came out to show off their best skills as they tried to slip a ...

Construction around some Knoxville roads may make drivers feel as though they are in a rodeo. On Wednesday, Chilhowee Park actually turned into one. It was where the Knoxville Public Service ...

Students show potential employers their skills at a different kind of rodeo. The teenager at the controls grimaced, eyes locked on the swinging chain dangling from the bucket of his backhoe. As the ...

It takes skill and a steady hand to pluck a baseball off a slim pedestal using that lumbering mass of machinery known as a backhoe. Backhoes are powerful pieces of equipment, but power wasn't the goal ...

TRACY — They’ll be riding Bobcats, wrangling rebar and driving backhoes. For the first time, the Associated Builders and Contractors Golden Gate Chapter is hosting a round-robin style heavy-equipment ...