06 September 2010- There is a range of construction machineries or equipments, ranging from the very heavy machines to the light, portable and mobile equipment. We present below some of the most popularly used
construction equipment used for construction purpose.
Backhoe loader: This is an equipment with a front bucket / shovel. There is a small backhoe in the rear, which is fixed with a tractor. This is known as backhoe loader. It is mostly used in small construction sites. It is also used fixing urban or city roads.
Backhoe loader: This is an equipment with a front bucket / shovel. There is a small backhoe in the rear, which is fixed with a tractor. This is known as backhoe loader. It is mostly used in small construction sites. It is also used fixing urban or city roads.
Bulldozer: This is actually a powerful crawler, attached with a blade. It is a heavy engineering vehicle. However, in common parlance, it is actually a tractor with a dozer blade.
Construction Equipment
These vehicles are used for engineering work and are mostly armored vehicles.
Mini or Compact Excavator: This is a wheeled tractor, having a swing boom and a backfill blade and operated using hydraulic fluids. They are compact and portable and used in small construction jobs.
Road Roller: Road roller is used to compact dirt, asphalt, gravel, and concrete in roads and construction sites.
Rotary Tiller: This equipment is a motorized cultivator with a rotating blade. It is mainly used to work in the soil.
Crane: A crane is used for lowering and lifting materials. They are mostly temporary tower structures equipped with pulleys and cables and used in construction sites.
Drag line excavation systems: A popular heavy construction machine used in surface mining and civil engineering. The smaller size is used for port and road construction. The larger ones are used in strip-mining operations for extraction of coal.
Drilling Machine: This is used for making foundations, in the building industry. It is also used in oil wells and water wells.
Forklift: Also known as lift truck or forklift truck, this is used to pick up and transport heavy material. They have steel forks which are used to lift material under.
Loader: They are tractors which use buckets to tilt, lift or move materials.
Paver: This is used to spread asphalt on roadways.
