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    > Also, nice to see good old
    > "dude with shovel" in there,
    > a tool that would have looked
    > the same back in the 19th 
    > century.

The guy using a flat broom at around 1:12 in the video has him beat.

While the I was surprised at how recently the flat broom was invented (the very tail end of the 18th century), the job he's doing with a broom goes back to antiquity.