The Hopto" 500 hydraulic backhoe working on a sewer project in a midwestern town. HELP WANTED (but no takers) A COMPANY which buys hundreds of thousands of hickory billets (split much like stove wood) sent buyers into a mountain state. There was plenty of hickory available, but no one would take the trouble to split it. It takes little or no skill, it isn't hard work, it pays well. But no one wanted the job; relief is too easy. As the buyers said, after spending weeks...
