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