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Re: Bulldozer, Where did that name start?
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Posted by Sid on May 29, 2005 at 06:40:34 from (12.156.150.229):
In Reply to: Bulldozer, Where did that name start? posted by Nebraska Cowman on May 28, 2005 at 17:03:16:
If I may add to what has been said this is what I have read. "Bull dose" was to give a large amount of medicine. I understand this led to the meaning of giving someone a thorough whipping or thrashing and eventually came around to what has already been mentioned here. I also have read that the early bull dozers where a frame contraption on wich a pushing blade was mounted and was pushed by mules. Man that has come a long way hasn't it?
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