Heavy equipment

Heavy equipment are heavy-duty vehicles. They are specially designed for completing construction tasks, which include digging. Other known names for heavy equipment are "heavy machines", "heavy vehicles", "heavy hydraulics", "construction equipment", "construction machines", "construction vehicles", "construction hydraulics", "engineering equipment", "engineering machines", "engineering vehicles" and "engineering hydraulics". They are typically operated by skilled workers that have gone through specialized training. While many categories of equipment utilizes continuous tracks for rough conditions, others favor tires when possible for their greater mobility. The tires selected play a significant role on the production of the project and the cost of the heavy equipment. These three types of tires include, transport for earthmoving machines, work for slow moving earthmoving machines, and load and carry for transporting as well as digging. Heavy equipment applies leverage, like other simple machines (levers, pulleys, etc.), to multiply the effectiveness of the energy put in. The majority of these machines use diesel power to complete tasks.

Heavy Equipment Media

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  Heavy equipment vehicles of various types parked near a highway construction site

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  Wheel Loaders and other industrial trucks parked

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  horse-drawn Fresno scraper digging water-supply ditch

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  A portable engine; a precursor to modern engineering vehicles

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  An early gasoline-powered tractor

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  Heavy equipment circa 1922

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  Continuous track (circa 1909)

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  Caterpillar track (circa 2009)

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  The Caterpillar D10N bulldozer evolved from tracked-type tractors and is characterized by a steel blade attached to the front that is used to push other equipment and construction materials, such as earth.

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  The bucket excavator Komatsu PC210-LC.