Walking
excavators are an important machineries that plays significant role in
clearings, demolitions and excavations. With their modern equipments
they are used in various other building projects also. Due to their
efficiency, cost effectiveness and utility they are demanded highly in
the market.
Mechanical Operations
The walking excavator has numerous attachments which provide it a wider
range of applicability. The modern walking excavator consists of
rotational grapple bucket, rotary mulcher, rotary percussion and air
rotary drill, foot extendable drill, arm, joysticks etc. The attached
bucket can be rotated to 360 degrees and tilted from side to side. This
enables the operator to do offset digging or shoveling.
Different attachments in walking excavator performs specific functions.
For example the flail mower is ideal for clearing steep slopes. The
rotary mulcher is excellent for heavier brush and small trees. The
profile buckets are perfect for drainage ditches, and many drilling
attachments.
Applications
The ability of the walking excavator to reach out to inaccessible
regions, its high power and good bucket capacity has made it useful in
the following area :
- The walking excavator is an ideal machine for accessing and
renewing creek beds back to natural.
- Repairing damaged stream beds to improve fish habitat.
- Piling slash on steep slopes making room for re-growth and
planting.
- Developing building sites with minimal access disturbance.
- Removal of top soil.
