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A heavy equipment operator operates heavy equipment used in engineering and construction projects. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Typically only skilled workers may operate heavy equipment, and there is specialized training for learning to use heavy equipment.
Volvo CE's products include a range of wheel loaders, hydraulic excavators, articulated haulers, motor graders, soil and asphalt compactors, pavers, backhoe loaders, skid steers, and milling machines.
The child support grant provides R420 per month, per child (as of July 2019) [181] for every child in the household younger than 18, [181] and benefited 9.1 million children by April 2009. [ 178 ] The war veterans grant is provided to former soldiers who fought in the Second World War or the Korean War, and pays a maximum amount of R1,800 per ...
Backhoe Loader Cat 420E A JCB 3CX backhoe loader A JCB backhoe loader performing work in India. A backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, loader excavator, tractor excavator, [1] digger or colloquially shortened to backhoe within the industry, is a heavy equipment vehicle that consists of a tractor-like unit fitted with a loader-style shovel/bucket on the front and a backhoe on the back.
A compact or mini excavator is a tracked or wheeled vehicle with an approximate operating weight from 0.7 to 8.5 tonnes. [1] It generally includes a standard backfill blade and features independent boom swing.
In 1994, Caterpillar offered a contract to the UAW members that would have raised the salary of top workers from $35,000 to $39,000 per year. However, the UAW was seeking the same top wage of $40,000 that was paid to workers at John Deere & Company in 1994. [159]
Compact BWEs designed by ThyssenKrupp may have boom lengths as small as six metres (20 ft), weigh 50 tons, and move 100 m 3 (3,500 cu ft) of earth per hour. Their larger models reach boom lengths of 80 m (260 ft), weigh 13,000 tons, and move 12,500 m 3 (440,000 cu ft) per hour. [ 6 ]
A bucket chain excavator works similarly to a bucket wheel excavator, using a series of buckets to dig into the material before dumping it in the bucket chute and depositing it through a discharge boom. The primary difference is that the buckets are mounted on a flexible chain similarly to a chainsaw blade rather than on a rigid wheel. BCEs are ...