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My Father Runs an Excavator
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My Father Runs an Excavator: And so do I!

By Brandi Chase. Photos by Stephen Schutz.
A big orange excavator drops rocks and dirt into the back of a dump truck.
This is an excavator. It is the best machine for digging a big hole. A yellow excavator sits near a pit at a construction site. It has a huge shovel in front.
This is a bulldozer. It pushes dirt and rocks. The bulldozer has a big, flat blade in front to help it push.
The machines work as a team. The bulldozer pushes the dirt and rocks to the yellow excavator. A group of machines dig together.
The orange excavator puts the dirt and rocks into a dumptruck. My dad runs the big orange excavator. Big rocks fall from the shovel on the excavator into the back of the dump truck.
And so do I! A little girl lays in a pile of sand. She has a toy excavator and dump truck.
The dumptruck dumps the dirt and rocks into a big pile. The bed of the dump truck tips up high. The dirt and rocks roll out!
The dumptruck works with another team of machines. A bulldozer pushes and the loader lifts. The loader has a wide shovel in front to lift the dirt.
My machines work as a team, just like my dad's do. The little girl also has a toy loader and bulldozer.
At last, the loader lifts the dirt and rocks into a big truck. The truck is ready to carry the dirt and rocks away!
And so do I!

THE END
The girl uses her toy loader to pour sand into a truck!