Engineering vehicles Engineering vehicles A backhoe, also called a rear actor or back actor, is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket on the end of an articulated arm (also called a stick or dipper). Modern backhoes are powered by hydraulics. They are typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader. (Similar attachments for skid loaders are still called backhoes even though they are mounted on the front of the vehicle.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Backhoe"
Backhoe loader, also called a Loader backhoe, is an engineering vehicle, which consists of a tractor, front shovel\ bucket and small backhoe in the rear. Due to its (relatively) small size and versatility, backhoe loaders are very common in urban engineering and small construction projects (such as building a small house, fixing city roads etc). ...more on Wikipedia about "Backhoe loader"
The Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator. More specifically, it is a mobile strip mining machine. When completed, Bagger 288 replaced the Space Shuttle Crawler-Transporter as largest tracked vehicle in the world. It was built for the job of mining coal in Hambach, Germany. It can excavate 240,000 tons daily – the equivalent of a football field dug to 30 meters deep. Once it completely exposed the coal source at Hambach, it made the 22-kilometer trip to Garzweiler across Autobahn 61, the Erft, a railroad line, and several roads. Weighing in at 13,000 tons, the Bagger 288 required nearly 15 million Deutschmarks, three weeks and a team of seventy men in February of 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bagger 288"
The Bi-Rotor was invented by Mark Underwood and Ralph Lagergren. It is a revolutionary harvesting combine that was first developed in 1994 with the help of a small team: Glen Jackson, Ken Jackson, Jeff Hawkins, Joe Lutgen, Alan Van Nahmen, Joe Story, and Jason Healy. The history of combining and the story of this technology can be found in the book Dream Reaper by Craig Canine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bi-Rotor"
Bucket-wheel excavators are heavy equipment used in surface mining and civil engineering. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bucket-wheel excavator"
A bulldozer is a very powerful crawler ( caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean any heavy engineering vehicle, but precisely, the term refers only to a tractor (usually tracked) fitted with a dozer blade. That is the meaning used herein. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bulldozer"
Case CE, also Case Construction Equipment or simply Case, is a brand of construction equipment from CNH Global. Under this brand name, CNH Global is the third biggest manufacturer of construction equipment behind CAT (#1) and Komatsu (#2). ...more on Wikipedia about "Case CE"
The Caterpillar D10 is a track-type tractor manufactured by Caterpillar (then called the Caterpillar Tractor Company) between 1978 and 1986. It was the first tractor in the world to use the elevated drive sprocket to improve durability, operator comfort, and ease of maintenance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caterpillar D10"
The Caterpillar D6 track-type tractor is a medium bulldozer manufactured by Caterpillar Inc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caterpillar D6"
Caterpillar tracks are large (modular) tracks used on tanks, construction equipment and certain other off-road vehicles. Unlike the Kegresse tracks which use a flexible belt, caterpillar tracks are made of a number of rigid units that are joined to each other. The tracks help the vehicle to distribute its weight more evenly over a larger surface area than wheels can, keeping it from sinking in areas where wheeled vehicles of the same weight would sink. For instance, the ground pressure of a car is equal to the pressure of the air in the tires, perhaps 30 psi (207 k Pa), whereas the seventy-tonne M1 Abrams tank has a ground pressure of just over 15 psi (103 kPa). ...more on Wikipedia about "Caterpillar track"
CNH Global N.V. (short for Case-New Holland; -ADR's) is the second largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment and the third largest maker of construction equipment in the world. Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the most recent year it produced $11,545 million in revenues, and is 91% owned by Fiat. ...more on Wikipedia about "CNH Global"
Combat engineering vehicles (CEVs) are armoured vehicles built for engineering work on the battlefield or for the transportation of sappers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Combat engineering vehicle"
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The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that harvests, threshes, and cleans grain plants. The desired result is the seed (such as canola or flax) or grain (such as oats, wheat, or rye); a byproduct is loose straw, the remaining husk of the plant with all nutrients removed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Combine harvester"
A concrete mixer (sometimes erroneously called a cement mixer) is a device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete. A typical concrete mixer uses a revolving drum to mix the components. For smaller volume works portable concrete mixers are often used so that the concrete can be made at the construction site, giving the workers ample time to use the concrete before it hardens. ...more on Wikipedia about "Concrete mixer"
A crane is a tower or derrick equipped with cables and pulleys that is used to lift and lower materials. Cranes are commonly used in the construction industry and in manufacturing heavy equipment. Construction cranes are usually temporary structures, either fixed to the ground or mounted on a purpose-built vehicle. Cranes may either be controlled from an operator in a cab that travels with the crane, by a pushbutton pendant control station, or by infrared or radio control. Where a cab operator is employed, workers on the ground will communicate with the operator through a system of standardised hand-signals; an experienced crew can position loads with great precision using only these signals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crane (machine)"
Deere & Company ( NYSE: DE ) an American corporation based in Moline, Illinois is the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery including tractors, combine harvesters, balers, and forestry equipment; and a leading supplier of equipment used in lawn, grounds and turf care such as ride-on lawn mowers, all of which are known for their distinctive green and yellow color scheme. John Deere is also a major manufacturer of construction equipment . ...more on Wikipedia about "Deere & Company"
Dragline excavation systems are heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining. In civil engineering the smaller types are used for road and port construction. The larger types are used in strip-mining operations to extract coal and these are amongst the largest mobile equipment (not water-borne), and weigh in the vinicity of 2000 metric tonnes, though specimens weighing up to 13,000 metric tonnes have also been constructed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dragline excavator"
(Dredge) Dredging is miscellaneous excavator-type work underwater, usually in shallow sea or fresh water. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dredge"
In British usage, a dumper is a small one-man diesel-powered vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites. It has a towing eye on its back end, to tow such things as a air compressor to run pneumatic drills. Its skip can tip to dump its load out: this is where the name "dumper" came from. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dumper"
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The term Earth mover refers to any of a family of usually large machines used for moving any amount of earth. These machines are often engineering vehicles and are used for a number of applications, including but not limited to excavation, mining, and quarrying. ...more on Wikipedia about "Earth mover"
Engineering vehicles, or construction equipment, are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing engineering and construction tasks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Engineering vehicle"
An excavator, also called a 360-degree excavator or digger, sometimes abbreviated simply to a 360, is an engineering vehicle consisting of a backhoe and cab mounted on a pivot ( turntable is a more apt description) atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. ...more on Wikipedia about "Excavator"
A feller buncher is a large logging machine with an attachment that cuts trees in place of a shovel. It consists of a standard heavy equipment base with a tree grabbing device equipped with a saw or shear, a pinching device designed to cut small trees off at the base. The machine then places it on the stack of cut trees suitable for a skidder. ...more on Wikipedia about "Feller buncher" Good to know http://www.shortopedia.com. Engineering_vehicles
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