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Sources of power:
1. Hydraulic or pneumatic systems
2. gasoline
3. diesel fuel
4. natural gas
5. Battery-powered building and construction equipment such as loaders and spreaders
are also available.
Road roller:
A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller) is a compactor type
engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the
construction of roads and foundations, similar rollers are used also at landfills or in
agriculture.
Uses:
used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or
asphalt in the construction of roads
and foundations
also used in landfill compaction
Bulldozers:
A bulldozer is a crawler (continuous tracked tractor) equipped with a substantial metal
plate (known as a blade) used to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, or other
such material during construction or conversion work and typically equipped at the rear
with a claw-like device (known as a ripper) to loosen densely compacted materialThe
term "bulldozer" refers only to a tractor (usually trac ked) fitted with a dozer blade.
Uses:
to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, etc, during construction work
used to clear areas of obstacles, shrubbery,
Excavator:
Excavators (Hydraulic Excavators) are heavy construction equipment
consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating
platform known as the "house". The house sits atop an
undercarriage with tracks or wheels. They are a natural
progression from the steam shovels and often mistakenly
called power shovels.
Uses:
used in erection of buildings and wooden land,
municipal engineering, construction of water supply,
gas, heating and telecommunications, construction
on farmland etc.
Concrete Vibrator :
Asphalt Paver:
A paver (paver finisher, asphalt finisher, paving
machine) is a piece of construction equipment
used to lay asphalt on roads, bridges, parking lots
and other such places. It lays the asphalt flat and
provides minor compaction before it is compacted
by a roller.
Uses: used to lay asphalt on roadways
Wheel Loader :
A loader (bucket loader, front loader, front-end loader,
payloader, scoop, shovel, skip loader, or wheel loader)
is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to
move aside or load materials such as asphalt, demolition
debris, dirt, snow, feed, gravel, logs, raw minerals,
recycled material, rock, sand, woodchips
Truck Crane:
For heavy lifting and transport needs, truck
cranes will serve as powerful work tools. At
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Uses:- used both to lift and lower materials
and to move them horizontally .
Soil Stabilizer:
Uses:
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Dump Track:
A dump truck (or, UK, dumper/tipper truck) is a
truck used for transporting loose material (such
as sand, gravel, or dirt) for construction. A typical
dump truck is equipped with an open-box bed,
which is hinged at the rear and equipped with
hydraulic pistons to lift the front, allowing the material
in the bed to be deposited ("dumped") on the ground
behind the truck at the site of delivery.
Generator:
In electricity generation, a generator is a device
Barge:
A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river
and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges
are not self-propelled and need to be towed or pushed
by towboats.
Uses:- for river and canal transport of heavy goods
Chipping spreaders:
Backhoe Loader:
Uses:
-
small demolitions
digging holes/excavating
landscaping
paving roads.
Construction Elevators:
Concrete Mixer:
Concrete Skip:
Stone crusher:
Motor Grader:
A grader, also commonly referred to as a road grader,
a blade, a maintainer, or a motor grader, is a
construction machine with a long blade used to create
Pile driver:
Wheel tractor-scraper:
Pavement milling: