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"Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" NT hi on in a Case Loader/Backhoe Rodeo recently. The rodeo events required the 152 competing backhoe operators to perform several delicate manoeuvers quickly and precisely. Duplicate Bridge Local man wins backhoe rodeo, will attend international meet Greenbank resident Rod Couch was declared the champl- October 2 - Afternoon Evening 41/2 Table Howell Avg. 36 41/2 Table Howell Avg. 36 Ist Doris Phinney and Judy At- 1st Joan West and Gord Day 46, kinson, 44. 2nd Marie Carnegie 2nd Anne Scott and Don Atkin- and Gwen Rennie tied with Grace Love and Minnie Fisher 43, 3rd Joyce Heard and Helen Mathieson 42 1/2. son 43, 3rd Doris Phinney and Georgia Brock 42, 4th Miriam and Charles Labanovich 40. By Gillian Barfoot Rod Couch won first place at a rodeo recently, but he wasn't riding a bucking bronco. He was operating a backhoe. When Mr. Couch and his family, who live in Greenbank, attended the Case-sponsored family day in Rexdale on Sept. 7, they weren't planning on en- tering the Loader/Backhoe ro- deo. But Mr Couch's wife, Car- ol, a hair-stylist, decided to enter the ladies' event, so Mr. Couch decided to compete in the rodeo as well. There were 162 people from Ontario competing in the men's rodeo event, says Mr. Couch. Each competitor had to com- plete three timed activities, each of which were designed to test an operator's skill on the backhoe controls. The first exercise was to pick up three pails, using a hook loosely hanging from the end of the bucket, and move them to different places. The second exercise was to drop a ball fastened to a rope into a narrow pipe. A thin opening along the side "of the pipe allowed the operator to pull the rope along the pipe, so when the ball caught at the other end it lifted the pipe up- side down, enabling it to be car- ried to another location and placed on a pylon. The final exercise was to car- ry two balls, which were fas- tened to each end of a rope at different lengths, and set them in opposite corners of a box with a tic tac toe pattern. Then the exercise was to be repeated for another box. The activities were compli- cated by the fact that the hook which was used to pick up and carry the different items was attached to a circle of wire which was hanging loosely on one of the bucket's toothless time by one second. shanks. "When I saw that she was The shank is only a couple of winning for a while, I knew I inches long, explains Mr. really had to do well," says Mr. Couch, and it is also slippery Couch. because the equipment is brand new. All it would take for the wire to fly off would be one sudden jerk of the bucket. Adding to that was the fact that the competitors could be asked to use a machine with ei- ther Case controls or John Deere controls, which are quite had never operated a backhoe before, she had the best time until the very end, when an- other competitor bested her The win awarded him the chance to compete in the finals, which will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 13-16. Five other operators from Ontario qualified for this all-expense aid trip to the finals, where Be will competing against 60 others from across North SRD TORRE IF wre Tol COD ir ss wr ay win. - different, he says. America. C | But in spite of these factors, The first prize is $10,000, | and perhaps because he has 20 but he doesn't expect to win it. | ears experience operating ackhoes and other heavy equipment, he won the rodeo with an overall time of 220 sec- onds for the three exercises. "Winning this was a mira- cle," he says. 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