| There is a rapid advancement in the field of heavy | | | | The three distinct assemblies of compact hydraulic |
| equipment technology. Unlike the earlier days now, | | | | excavators are workgroup, undercarriage and house. |
| using global positioning satellite technology, heavy | | | | The boom, arm or dipper and attachments such as |
| equipment placed anywhere in the world can be | | | | bucket and breaker are parts of the workgroup of a |
| checked or diagnosed. Finding the right new | | | | compact hydraulic excavator. They are connected to |
| equipment suitable is also getting to be a big | | | | the front of the house structure of the excavator |
| challenge. With lot of options and features to | | | | via a swing frame that allows the workgroup to be |
| consider, it will be an overwhelming chore. | | | | hydraulically pivoted right or left to achieve offset |
| Among the heavy equipment, backhoe-loaders are | | | | digging for trenching. |
| used in small demolitions, breaking asphalt, | | | | Harvesters today do practically all of the commercial |
| construction, digging holes/excavating, light | | | | felling in Sweden and Finland and they were |
| transportation of building materials, powering building | | | | developed in these countries. Harvesters work best |
| equipment, and paving roads. To smash concrete and | | | | in less difficult terrain while clear cutting areas of |
| rock, tools such as breakers can be used instead of | | | | forest. Small and very agile harvesters are used in |
| the backhoe bucket. To empty its load more quickly | | | | the Nordic countries for thinning operations. |
| and efficiently, some loader buckets have a | | | | An iron or a cylinder placed between two metal rods |
| retractable bottom. Grading and scratching off sand is | | | | so that it is able to freely slide down and up are |
| executed with retractable-bottom loader buckets. | | | | included in the pile drivers. A pulley system is used to |
| The front assembly may be permanently mounted or | | | | raise the cylinder which may involve the use of |
| have a removable attachment. Often other devices | | | | manual labor, steam or hydraulics. Small explosions in |
| and tools replace the bucket. In order to mount | | | | the chamber are used in modern pile drivers to raise |
| different attachments to the loader, the backhoe | | | | the cylinder. |
| loader must be equipped with a tool coupler. Find | | | | A piece of heavy equipment used for earthmoving in |
| more info at | | | | civil engineering, is a wheel tractor-scraper. A |
| Bulldozers are heavy equipment but they are also | | | | vertically moveable hopper in the rear part with a |
| large and tracked engineering vehicles. With the | | | | sharp horizontal front edge does the scraping. Raising |
| mobility and ground hold given by the tracks they | | | | and lowering of the hopper is done hydraulically. The |
| can move through very rough terrain. Swamp tracks | | | | front edge cuts into the soil like a cheese-cutter |
| in bulldozers are merely extra wide tracks. | | | | when the hopper is lowered. |