ENGINEERING VEHICLE

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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.

A drilling machine at a construction site with a concrete pump and a barely visible concrete mixer-truck. The tops of foundation piles with re-inforcing iron rods sticking out, are visible at the bottom of the photo. This is an image of a very specialized auger which has a pipe all the way down its axis, permitting concrete to be pumped down while the auger is withdrawn.

'Engineering vehicles', or construction equipment (sometimes referred to as 'earth movers'), are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing civil engineering and construction tasks.

Contents
Types
Tools
Applications
Models
Manufacturers
Operator training
US
See also

Types



Aerial work platform / Lift table
Agricultural Tractors
Articulated Trucks
Asphalt Paver
Backhoe Loader
Boomtruck
Bulldozer
Cherry picker
Cold Planer
Combat engineering vehicle (CEV)
Compact Excavator
Construction & Mining Tractor
Construction & Mining Trucks
Crane
Cure Rig
Dragline Excavator
Drilling Machine
Excavator (Wheel)
Excavator ("Bagger" Or "Digger")
Feller Buncher
Forklift truck
Forklift
Fresno Scraper
Front Shovel
Harvester
Hydromechanical Work Tools
Knuckleboom Loader (Trailer Mount)

Motor Grader
Paver
Pile Driver
Pipelayer
Reclaimer & Soil Stabilizer
Road Roller (Aka Roller-Compactor)
Rotary Tiller, Rototiller Or Rotovator
Skid Steer Loader
Skidder
Slipform Paver
Steam shovel
Stomper
Telescopic Handlers
Track Harvester
Track Loader
Track Skidder
Track-Type Tractors (Bulldozer)
Tractor
Trencher (machine)
Underground Mining Equipment
Venturi-Mixer
Wheel Dozers – Soil Compactors
Wheel Forwarder
Wheel Loader – Integrated Toolcarriers (Front Loader)
Wheel Skidder
Wheel Tractor-Scraper

Tools



auger

backhoe

bulldozer blade

caterpillar tracks

excavator bucket

grapple

hydraulics

jackhammer

tiltrotator

Applications



agriculture

civil engineering

combat engineering

construction

earthworks (engineering)

excavations

forestry

mining

waste handling

Models


Main articles: Model construction vehicle

Die-cast metal promotional scale models of 'heavy equipment' are often produced for each vehicle to give to prospective customers. These are typically in . 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
#Terex
#CNH Global (CASE, New Holland, Kobelco)
#Volvo Construction Equipment
#Deere & Company
#Ingersoll Rand (Bobcat Company)
#Hitachi Construction Machinery
   (a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.; inc: Euclid Trucks)
#Bell Equipment
#Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe)
Other manufacturers:

Atlas Copco

Demag

Doosan Group (''Doosan Infracore'')

Fiat-Allis

Hyundai Heavy Industries

Navistar International Corporation

Koering

Kubota

The Liebherr Group

Madill

Orenstein and Koppel GmbH (O&K)

Pierce Pacific

Poclain

Rototilt

Skaggit

Operator training


US

The National Association of Heavy Equipment Training Schools provides American national certification for heavy equipment operator apprentice.
The International Union of Operating Engineers has equipment schools where apprentice operators are trained.
Currently there is not an international association of heavy equipment schools.

See also



International Union of Operating Engineers

Civil engineering

Hydraulic machinery

Mechanical advantage

Simple machine

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