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  2. Bucyrus-Erie - Wikipedia

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    Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1880. Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie.

  3. Crawler excavator - Wikipedia

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    A crawler excavator, also known as a track-type excavator or tracked excavator, is a type of heavy construction equipment primarily used for excavation and earthmoving tasks. It is characterized by its tracked undercarriage, which provides superior mobility and traction compared to wheeled excavators, especially in soft, uneven, or unstable ...

  4. Hydraulic machinery - Wikipedia

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    A simple open center hydraulic circuit. An excavator; main hydraulics: Boom cylinders, swing drive, cooler fan, and trackdrive Fundamental features of using hydraulics compared to mechanics for force and torque increase/decrease in a transmission. Hydraulic machines use liquid fluid power to perform work. Heavy construction vehicles are a ...

  5. Hydraulic cylinder - Wikipedia

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    The hydraulic cylinders on this excavator operate the machine's linkages. Hydraulic cylinders in a hot press of a particle board machine. A hydraulic cylinder (also called a linear hydraulic motor) is a mechanical actuator that is used to give a unidirectional force through a unidirectional stroke.

  6. Bucket chain excavator - Wikipedia

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    Bucket chain excavator, human for size comparison. A bucket chain excavator (BCE) is a piece of heavy equipment used in surface mining and dredging. BCEs use buckets on a revolving chain to remove large quantities of material. They are similar to bucket-wheel excavators and trenchers. Bucket chain excavators remove material from below their ...

  7. Bucket-wheel excavator - Wikipedia

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    Bucket wheel excavators and bucket chain excavators take jobs that were previously accomplished by rope shovels and draglines. They have been replaced in most applications by hydraulic excavators , but still remain in use for very large-scale operations, where they can be used for the transfer of loose materials or the excavation of soft to ...

  8. Backhoe - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] In April 1948 Wain-Roy Corporation sold the first hydraulic backhoe, mounted to a Ford Model 8N tractor, to the Connecticut Light and Power Company for $705. [ 5 ] The first tractor-loader backhoe was a Wain-Roy backhoe mounted to a Frank G. Hough model "HE" in 1952 in Holden, Massachusetts, US, for the Holden Water Department.

  9. Excavator controls - Wikipedia

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    ISO excavator controls illustration, color of the control matches the moving part. Additionally there is a switch on the right hand joystick to operate attached tools. The most commonly used control pattern throughout the world is the ISO controls.