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Engineering vehicles, or construction equipment, are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing engineering and construction tasks.
Types
- Backhoe loader
- Bulldozer
- Combat engineering vehicle (CEV)
- Compact excavator
- Road roller (AKA Roller-compactor)
- Rotary tiller, rototiller or rotovator
- Crane
- Drag line excavator
- Drilling machine
- Dump truck
- Excavator ("Bagger" or "Digger")
- Feller buncher
- Forklift
- Forwarder
- Fresno Scraper
- Front loader
- Grader
- Harvester
- Paver
- Rock-Truck
- Scraper
- Skid loader
- Skidder
- Tractor
- Pile driver
Tools
Applications
- agriculture
- civil engineering
- combat engineering
- construction
- earthworks (engineering)
- excavations
- forestry
- mining
- waste handling
Models
Die-cast metal promotional scale models of heavy equipment are often produced for each vehicle to give to prospective customers. These are typically in 50 scale. The popular manufacturers of these models are Conrad and NZG in Germany, even for US vehicles.
Manufacturers
The leading global manufactureres of construction equipment (in order):
- Caterpillar Inc.
- Komatsu
- CNH Global (CASE)
- Volvo Construction Equipment
- Deere & Company
- Ingersoll Rand
- Bobcat Company
- Hitachi Construction Machinery (a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.; inc: Euclid)
- JCB
Other manufacturers:
- Atlas
- Daewoo
- Fiat-Allis
- International
- Koering
- Kubota
- Liebherr
- Madill
- Orenstein and Koppel GmbH (O&K)
- Pierce Pacific
- Poclain
- Skaggit
- Terex
- Timberjack
- For more manufactureres of construction equipment, see: List of construction equipment manufacturers
External links
- Used construction equipment marketplace
- Configure Caterpillar construction equipment - from the official website
See also
- Hydraulic machinery
- Benjamin Holt (Inventor of the Caterpillar Track)
- Nixon-Egli Equipment Co.
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