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The Euclid Company of Ohio was a manufacturer which specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving, particularly dump trucks, loaders and wheel tractor-scrapers. It operated in the US from the 1920s to the 1950s, when it was purchased by General Motors. The firm was later bought by Hitachi Construction Machinery. [1]
Tata Motors. Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Pvt Ltd[1] or THCMC is an India-based joint venture company between Tata Motors of India and Hitachi Construction Machinery of Japan. It was previously known as Telco Construction Equipment Co. Ltd. or Telcon for short. TATA Hitachi excavator at work in Hyderabad.
Retrieved December 27, 2017. Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (日立建機株式会社) is a Japanese construction equipment company which is into the manufacturing, sales and service of construction machinery, transportation machinery, and other machines and devices. [ 1] It is no longer a subsidiary of the Hitachi Group .
Dragline excavator. Built by Bucyrus-Erie in 1969, Big Muskie was the world's largest ever dragline, being 487 ft (148 m) in length, weighing some 13,500 short tons (12,247 t), and hoisting a 220 cu yd (168.2 m 3) bucket that could move 325 short tons (295 t) of material at a pass. A dragline excavator is a heavy-duty excavator used in civil ...
Excavators are heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house" [1] - although the largest form ever, the dragline excavator, eliminated the dipper in favor of a line and winch. The modern excavator's house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels ...
A bucket-wheel excavator (BWE) is a large heavy equipment machine used in surface mining. Their primary function is that of a continuous digging machine in large-scale open-pit mining operations, removing thousands of tons of overburden a day. What sets them apart from other large-scale mining equipment, such as bucket chain excavators, is ...
Crawler excavator. 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 ...
A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, [2] is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity and used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. [3] Power shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator ...