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Encyclopedia > Construction equipment
An excavator. The bucket is raked toward the machine to create a trench or pit while the lower jaw enables logs to be moved and loaded and buildings to be dismantled
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An excavator. The bucket is raked toward the machine to create a trench or pit while the lower jaw enables logs to be moved and loaded and buildings to be dismantled
A Combat engineering vehicle, based on a tank chassis and equiped with a dozer blade and a demolition gun.
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A Combat engineering vehicle, based on a tank chassis and equiped with a dozer blade and a demolition gun.
A wheeled front loader at work. This wheeled tractor is equipped with a large bucket, which can be raised or lowered by hydraulic arms.
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A wheeled front loader at work. This wheeled tractor is equipped with a large bucket, which can be raised or lowered by hydraulic arms.
Armored Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. Heavy bulldozers are powerful tools, equipped with a solid steel blade, making them highly suitable for military applications and large earthmoving projects.
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Armored Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. Heavy bulldozers are powerful tools, equipped with a solid steel blade, making them highly suitable for military applications and large earthmoving projects.

Engineering vehicles, or construction equipment, are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing engineering and construction tasks. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x1024, 304 KB)excavator from created from larger version at http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x1024, 304 KB)excavator from created from larger version at http://www. ... A tracked excavator by Daewoo. ... Download high resolution version (2236x1128, 489 KB)This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... Download high resolution version (2236x1128, 489 KB)This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... The EBG combat engineering vehicle, based on the AMX 30 tank, is used by the engineers of the French Army for a variety of missions. ... Dozer is the name of a fictional character (played by Anthony Ray Parker) in the science fiction film, The Matrix. ... Landslides triggered by Pacific Northwest Storms, November and December 1998 http://landslides. ... Landslides triggered by Pacific Northwest Storms, November and December 1998 http://landslides. ... A front loader can be a Loader (equipment) - a form of tractor Washing machine - front loading type This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... USMC D9R bulldozer PhotoID: 20053711914 Submitted by: 1st Marine Division Operation/Exercise/Event: Operation Iraqi Freedom Caption: Marines from Company C, 2nd Combat Engineers Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 7, improved the international border between Iraq and Syria near the town of Husaybah by building a massive dirt barricade. ... USMC D9R bulldozer PhotoID: 20053711914 Submitted by: 1st Marine Division Operation/Exercise/Event: Operation Iraqi Freedom Caption: Marines from Company C, 2nd Combat Engineers Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 7, improved the international border between Iraq and Syria near the town of Husaybah by building a massive dirt barricade. ... The Caterpillar D9 is a large track-type tractor (commonly referred to as a bulldozer) with caterpillar tracks designed and manufactured by Caterpillar Tractor Company. ... A bulldozer is a powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. ... In civil engineering, earthworks are engineering works created through the moving of massive quantities of soil or unformed stone. ... Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ... This page discusses common devices known as tools, for other meanings see Tool (disambiguation) Modern hammer A tool is, among other things, a device that provides a mechanical or mental advantage in accomplishing a task. ... ...

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Types

Backhoe loader, also called a Loader backhoe, is an engineering vehicle, consists of a tractor, front shovelbucket and small backhoe in the rear. ... A bulldozer is a powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. ... The EBG combat engineering vehicle, based on the AMX 30 tank, is used by the engineers of the French Army for a variety of missions. ... A Roller-Compactor is used to compact dirt, gravel, concrete, & asphalt in construction for roads & foundations. ... A tower crane with a pivoted main boom Cranes on the Shenska River, Cherepovets, Russia A crane is a tower or derrick equipped with cables and pulleys that is used to lift and lower materials. ... Huge Manitowok 4600 Heavy lift Dragline at the SNS Project, 2005. ... A dump truck is a truck used for transporting loose material (such as sand, gravel, or dirt) for construction. ... A tracked excavator by Daewoo. ... Feller-buncher is a type of vehicle used in whole tree logging for cutting down trees and (optionally) accumulating them in piles suitable for skidders. ... A forklift that is extended halfway. ... Forwarders are a type of vehicles used in cut-to-length logging operations for transporting logs to a roadside landing. ... The Fresno Scraper was invented in 1883 by the Scottish immigrant and entrepreneur James Porteous who, having worked with farmers in Fresno, California, had recognised the dependence of the Fresno Valley on irrigation and the requirement for a more efficient means of constructing canals and ditches in the sandy soil. ... A loader clearing a landslide. ... Modern grader in use by the US military. ... Harvester in the Black Forest Harvester, type of heavy vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging operations for felling, delimbing and bucking trees. ... In civil engineering, a wheel tractor-scraper is a piece of heavy equipment used for earthmoving. ... A skid loader, also called a skid steer, is a compact, low capacity machine used for pushing or lifting material and for digging. ... A Skidder is a type of vehicle used in forestry for pulling cut down trees (timber) out of a forest (logging). ...

Tools

For other uses of the word blade, see Blade (disambiguation) A blade is the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge typically made of a metal, such as steel used to cut, thrust or strike like knife dagger sword sabre axe bayonet machete cleaver... A black and white photograph of a bucket of unknown color. ... Skid loader with bucket replaced by backhoe attachment A backhoe, also called a rear actor or back actor, is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket on the end of an articulated arm (also called a stick or dipper). ... Hydraulics is a branch of science and engineering concerned with the mechanical properties of liquids. ... A tractor PTO A power take-off (PTO) is a spinning shaft, usually on a tractor or truck that can be used to provide power to an attachment or separate machine. ... Caterpillar tracks are large (modular) tracks used on tanks, construction equipment and certain other off-road vehicles. ... A driving wheel on a steam locomotive. ...

Applications

In modern usage, civil engineering is a broad field of engineering that deals with the planning, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures, or public works, as they related to earth, water, or civilization and their processes. ... Combat engineers place satchel charges and detonating cord, preparatory to blowing up a railway bridge during the Korean War, 30 Jul 1950. ... Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ... In civil engineering, earthworks are engineering works created through the moving of massive quantities of soil or unformed stone. ... For excavation in civil engineering see earthworks (engineering). ... A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... Waste inside a rubbish bin Waste is unwanted or undesired material left over after the completion of a process. ...

Manufacturers

The leading global manufactureres of construction equipment (in order):

  1. Caterpillar Inc.
  2. Komatsu
  3. CNH Global (CASE)
  4. Volvo Construction Equipment
  5. Deere & Company
  6. Ingersoll-Rand
  7. Hitachi Construction Machinery (a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.; inc: Euclid)
  8. JCB


Other manufacturers: Caterpillar Inc. ... Komatsu Limited (formally 株式会社小松製作所, commonly コマツ) (TYO: 6301) is a Japanese company on the Nikkei 225 index that manufactures construction and mining equipment, silicon wafers, lasers, and thermoelectric modules. ... CNH Global N.V. (short for Case-New Holland; NYSE: CNH-ADRs) is the second largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment and the third largest maker of construction equipment in the world. ... These motor graders were produced at a Volvo Motor Graders plant in Goderich, Ontario. ... A John Deere 7800 tractor attached to a corn planter A JD 9410 combine A John Deere 9520T A John Deere 9860 STS combine Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) an American corporation based in Moline, Illinois is the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery including tractors, combine harvesters, balers, and forestry equipment... Ingersoll-Rand NYSE: IR is a diversified industrial firm founded in 1871. ... Hitachi Ltd. ... JCB is a family business named after its founder J.C.Bamford, producing distinctive yellow-and-black engineering vehicles, diggers (Backhoes) and excavators. ...

For more manufactureres of construction equipment, see: List of construction equipment manufacturers

Daewoo (meaning Great Universe) is a major South Korean chaebol (conglomerate). ... Fiat-Allis is a firm which makes engineering vehicles. ... International Harvester was an American corporation based in Chicago that produced a multitude of agricultural machinery and vehicles. ... Toshi Kubota - Japanese singer Kubota Corporation Kubota (Sake) is a Japanese sake. ... The Liebherr Group is a German manufacturer established in 1949 by Hans Liebherr. ... Orenstein & Koppel (normally abbreviated to O&K), is a major German engineering company, and was founded on April 1, 1876 in Berlin by Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel. ... The Terex Titan was a massive Canadian earth-hauling lorry prototype built by the Terex Corporation of General Motors. ... Thunderbird refers to several things: // Computers and software Mozilla Thunderbird is an e-mail and news client software package based on Mozilla. ... Harvester Timberjack 1070 Timberjack, a subsidary of John Deere since 2000, is a manufacturer of forestry machinery for both cut-to-length and whole tree logging. ...

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