A tracked excavator by Daewoo.

An excavator, also called a 360-degree excavator or digger, sometimes abbreviated simply to a 360, is an engineering vehicle consisting of a backhoe and cab mounted on a pivot (a rotating platform, like a Lazy Susan) atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. Image File history File links A parked excavator in Montreal. ... Image File history File links A parked excavator in Montreal. ... This article is about the chaebol Daewoo Group. ... An excavator. ... Picture 1:Backhoe used for work on the street Picture 2: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... Cab Short for cabriolet, a light, horse-drawn carriage which replaced the heavier hackney carriage in the 19th century as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London, and were the forerunners of modern taxicabs. ... A pivot is that on which something turns. ... Lazy Susan on a Chinese style table. ... U.S. M60 Patton tank. ... A driving wheel on a steam locomotive. ...

Note: the term excavator is sometimes used as a general term for any piece of digging equipment. Tracked excavators are sometimes called trackhoes.

Excavators are used in many roles:

• Digging of trenches, holes, foundations
• Demolition
• General grading/landscaping
• Heavy lift, e.g. lifting and placing of pipes
• River dredging
• Mining, especially, but not only open-pit mining
• Brush cutting with hydraulic attachments

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Excavators come in a wide variety of sizes. The smaller ones are called a mini-excavator or compact excavator. One manufacturer's largest model weighs 84,980 kg (187,360 lb) and has a maximum bucket size of 4.5 m³ (5.9 yd³). The same manufacturer's smallest mini-excavator weighs 1470 kg (3240 lb), has a maximum bucket size of 0.036 m³ (0.048 yd³) and the width of its tracks can be adjusted to 89 cm (35 inches). Another company makes a mini excavator that will fit through a doorway with tracks that can be adjusted to only 70 cm (28 inches) wide. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3008x2000, 3032 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Excavator Talk:Excavator Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... We dont have an article called Compact excavator Start this article Search for Compact excavator in. ... The international prototype, made of platinum-iridium, which is kept at the BIPM under conditions specified by the 1st CGPM in 1889. ... The pound is the name of a number of units of mass, all in the range of 300 to 600 grams. ... The cubic meter (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume. ... The cubic yard (symbols yd³, cu. ... A centimetre (US: centimeter) is a factor of the SI unit of length: there are one hundred centimeters in the base unit of measure, the metre. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial and U.S. customary unit of length. ...

Often the bucket can be replaced with other tools like a breaker, a grapple or an auger. Excavators are usually employed together with loaders and bulldozers. Most smaller excavators have a small backfill (or dozer-) blade. It's a horizontal bulldozer like blade attached to the undercarriage and is used for pushing removed material back into a hole. Breaker A powerful percussion hammer fitted to an excavator for demolishing concrete structures or rocks. ... A grapple is a hook or claw used to catch or hold something. ... An auger is a device for moving material or liquid by means of a rotating helical flighting. ... A Volvo L120E front loader. ... A bulldozer is a powerful crawler (tractor) equipped with a blade. ...

See also

• Bulldozer
• Caterpillar D9
• Caterpillar D11
• Caterpillar Inc.
• Civil Engineering
• Drag line excavator
• steam shovel
• Bucket-wheel excavator
• Engineering Vehicles
• Skid steer

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External links

Major manufacturers

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• Link-Belt Excavators: website
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• Bobcat Company: website
• Caterpillar Inc: website
• Komatsu: website
• Volvo Construction Equipment: website
• Liebherr: website
• Doosan Infracore (formerly Daewoo Heavy Industries & Machinery): website
• Hydrema: website
• JCB: website
• Kobelco: website
• Hyundai Heavy Industries: website
• Mustang: website
• Manitowoc Company: website
• Case CE: website
• A list of manufacturers of full-sized excavators (>6 metric tonnes)linked to each manufacturer's contact information, other products manufactured, and North American dealers
• A list of manufacturers of mini excavators (<=6 metric tonnes)linked to each manufacturer's contact information, other products manufactured, and North American dealers

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General information

• See new full-sized excavators (>6 metric tonnes), specifications, and a complete list of manufacturers
• See new mini excavators (<=6 metric tonnes), specifications, and a complete list of manufacturers
• Results of independent production testing of John Deere's new 350D crawler excavator
• VRML Simulation of an Excavator, Tower Crane, and Dumptruck
• Today's technology wrings huge work out of compact (10- to 20-ton) crawler excavators
• Configure a Hydraulic Excavator - from the official Caterpillar website