A tracked excavator by Daewoo.

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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

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Mini digger by Kubota.

Excavators come in a wide variety of sizes. The smaller ones are called mini-excavators or compact excavators. One manufacturer's largest model weighs 84980 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. Toshi Kubota - Japanese singer Kubota Corporation Kubota (Sake) is a Japanese sake. ... KG, Kg or kg may indicate: A Kampfgeschwader, a bomber squadron of the former German Luftwaffe An abbreviation for kilogram (always kg) Kongo language (ISO 639 alpha-2) Knight of the Garter, a British decoration An abbreviation for konig or king Kyrgyzstan (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) KG... Officially the pound is the name for at least three different units of mass: The pound (avoirdupois). ... The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume. ... The cubic yard (symbols yd. ... A centimetre (American spelling: centimeter, symbol: cm) is an SI unit of length. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial 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. An auger is a device for moving material or liquid by means of a rotating helical flighting. ... A loader clearing a landslide. ... A bulldozer is a powerful crawler (tractor) equipped with a blade. ...

Most smaller excavators have a small backfill blade. It's a horizontal bulldozer like blade attached to the undercarriage and is used for pushing removed material back into a hole.

A Caterpillar excavator at work.

See also

• Bulldozer
• Caterpillar D9
• Caterpillar D11
• Caterpillar Inc.
• Civil Engineering
• Drag line excavator
• Engineering Vehicles

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External links

Major manufacturers

• Case website (http://www.casece.com)
• Caterpillar Inc: website (http://www.cat.com/cda/layout?m=37840&x=7)
• Daewoo
• Hydrema: website (http://www.hydrema.com/)
• JCB: website (http://www.jcb.com/)
• Komatsu: website (http://www.komatsu.com/)
• Volvo Construction Equipment

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General information

• A drawing of a wheeled excavator (http://www.butler-machinery.com/jpegs/color7up2.jpg)
• A drawing of a tracked 311 CAT excavator (http://www.butler-machinery.com/jpegs/color7up4.jpg)
• Excavators of the Canadian Engineering forces (http://www.sfu.ca/casr/101-vehdaewoo.htm)