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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
A wheeled front loader at work. This wheeld tractor is equiped with a large bucket, which can be raised or lowered by hydraulic arms.
Engineering vehicles are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing engineering tasks.
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Types
- Backhoe loader
- Bulldozer
- Combat engineering vehicle (CEV)
- Compactors
- Crane
- Drag line excavator
- Excavator ("Bagger" or "Digger")
- Feller buncher
- Forklift
- Forwarder
- Fresno Scraper
- Front loader
- Grader
- Harvester
- Paver
- Rock-Truck
- Scraper
- Skid loader
- Skidder
- Tractor
Tools
Manufacturers
- Atlas
- Case
- Caterpillar Inc.
- Fiat-Allis
- International
- J. C. Bamford (JCB)
- John Deere
- Koering
- Komatsu
- Kubota
- Liebherr
- Madill
- Orenstein and Koppel GmbH (O&K)
- Pierce Pacific
- Poclain
- Skaggit
- Thunderbird
- Timberjack
- Volvo
Applications
- agriculture
- civil engineering
- combat engineering
- construction
- earthworks (engineering)
- excavations
- forestry
- mining
- waste handling
See also
- Hydraulic machinery
- Benjamin Holt (Inventor of the Caterpillar Track)
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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