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Heavy equipment are heavy-duty vehicles. They are specially designed for completing construction tasks involving digging. Other known names for heavy equipment are heavy machines, heavy trucks, construction equipment, engineering equipment, heavy vehicles, or heavy 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.

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  • Tzama02

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

  • TZAMA Panorama1m

    Caterpillar D9L bulldozer, excavators and other heavy equipment vehicles parked near a quarry in Israel

  • Garzweiler Tagebau-1230

    Bucket wheel excavators in Garzweiler surface mine, Germany

  • Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569641579)

    Heavy equipment circa 1922

  • Hornsby

    Continuous track (circa 1909)

  • JCB 3CX backhoe loader

    JCB 3CX backhoe loader

  • Zettelmeyer ZD 3001

    A wheeled bulldozer in an open pit coal mine

  • Steam lokomobile 2 (aka)

    A portable engine; a precursor to modern engineering vehicles

  • 1903 Tractor

    An early gasoline-powered tractor

  • Komatsu excavator PC210LC

    Normally the bucket is pulled toward the excavator to excavate material. The uncommon "thumb" attachment on this Komatsu PC210-LC enables 'grabbing' objects, for example, during demolition.

  • SMC 200 R

    The wheel trencher MARAIS SMC 200 R.

  • DrillingMachine with ConcreteMixer and Pump02

    Iron bar reinforced foundation piles are driven with a drilling machine, concrete pump, mixer-truck, and a specialized auger that allows pumping concrete through its axis while withdrawn.

  • Komatsu Wheel Loader WA600-6,Hitachinaka city,Japan

    Wheel loader

  • Komatsu GD655 grader (11815425133)

    Grader cleaning and leveling

  • Visible progress continues to show at the new Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway Sept. 23 as work on the approach channel and downstream chute take center stage. (21087516643)

    Heavy duty excavator with large bucket equipped.

  • Landfill compactor

    Landfill compactor (tamping tip)

  • Frontloaderorange

    A wheeled front loader tractor equipped with a large bucket elevated by hydraulic rams.

  • Aa Truckconveyor brooklane Epart DSCF0461

    Folded conveyor on a tracked grinder

  • IDF-D9-ZE001

    The militarized Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer allows for earthmoving projects in a combat environment. In the picture: IDF Caterpillar D9R.

  • HSW 9.50 PICT0141

    The militarized Huta Stalowa Wola backhoe loader in Poland which is subsidiary of LiuGong China

  • Img 613c

    Military scraper

  • Pionierpanzer Dachs (2008)

    PiPz Dachs armoured engineering vehicle of the German Army (2008)

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