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  2. Heavy equipment - Wikipedia

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    Heavy equipment vehicles of various types parked near a highway construction site. Heavy equipment, heavy machinery, earthmovers, construction vehicles, or construction equipment, refers to heavy-duty vehicles specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks.

  3. Excavator - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Crawler excavator - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Loader (equipment) - Wikipedia

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    A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move or load materials such as soil, rock, sand, demolition debris, etc. into or onto another type of machinery (such as a dump truck, conveyor belt, feed-hopper, or railroad car). There are many types of loader, which, depending on design and application, are variously called a ...

  6. Backhoe - Wikipedia

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    Backhoe. A backhoe —also called rear actor or back actor —is a type of excavating equipment, or excavator, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. It is typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader, the latter forming a "backhoe loader" (a US term, but known as a "JCB" in Ireland and the UK). [1]

  7. Skid-steer loader - Wikipedia

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    Skid-steer attachments. A skid loader, skid-steer loader (SSL), or skidsteer is any of a class of compact heavy equipment with lift arms that can attach to a wide variety of buckets and other labor-saving tools or attachments. The wheels typically have no separate steering mechanism and hold a fixed straight alignment on the body of the machine.

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