Engineering vehicle
An excavator. The bucket is raked toward the machine to create a trench or pit while the lower jaw enables logs to be moved and loaded and buildings to be dismantled. The lower jaw on this excavator makes it a particularly specialised machine. Most excavators have only the bucket fitted
A Combat engineering vehicle, based on a tank chassis and equipped with a bulldozer blade and a demolition gun.
A wheeled front loader at work. This wheeled tractor is equipped with a large bucket, which can be raised or lowered by hydraulic arms.
Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozer. Heavy bulldozers are powerful tools, equipped with a hollow steel blade, making them highly suitable for military applications and large earthmoving projects.
Engineering vehicles, or construction equipment (sometimes referred to as earth movers), are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing engineering and construction tasks.
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Applications
- agriculture
- civil engineering
- combat engineering
- construction
- earthworks (engineering)
- excavations
- forestry
- mining
- waste handling
Models
Die-cast metal promotional scale models of heavy equipment are often produced for each vehicle to give to prospective customers. These are typically in 1:50 scale. The popular manufacturers of these models are Conrad and NZG in Germany, even for US vehicles.
Manufacturers
The leading global manufacturers of construction equipment (in order):
- Caterpillar Inc.
- Komatsu
- CNH Global (CASE)
- Volvo Construction Equipment
- Deere & Company
- Ingersoll Rand
- Bobcat Company
- Hitachi Construction Machinery (a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.; inc: Euclid)
- JCB
- Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe)
Other manufacturers:
- Atlas
- Demag
- Doosan Group (Doosan Daewoo)
- Fiat-Allis
- International Harvester
- Koering
- Kubota
- The Liebherr Group
- Madill
- Orenstein and Koppel GmbH (O&K)
- Pierce Pacific
- Poclain
- Skaggit
- Terex
- Timberjack
See also
- Hydraulic machinery
- Benjamin Holt (Inventor of the Caterpillar Track)
- Mechanical advantage
- Simple machine
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