Heavy equipment Facts for Kids

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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Heavy equipment vehicles of various types parked near a highway construction site
horse-drawn Fresno scraper digging water-supply ditch
A portable engine; a precursor to modern engineering vehicles
An early gasoline-powered tractor
Heavy equipment circa 1922
Continuous track (circa 1909)
Caterpillar track (circa 2009)
The Caterpillar D10N bulldozer evolved from tracked-type tractors and is characterized by a steel blade attached to the front that is used to push other equipment and construction materials, such as, earth.
The bucket excavator Komatsu PC210-LC.
The wheel trencher MARAIS SMC 200 R.
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machine, concrete pump, mixer-truck, and a specialized auger that allows pumping concrete through its axis while withdrawn.
Fixed crane in a coal mine in Germany
Caterpillar D9L bulldozer, excavators and other heavy equipment vehicles parked near a quarry in Israel
Bucket wheel excavators in Garzweiler surface mine, Germany
Wheel loader
Grader cleaning and leveling
Heavy duty excavator with large bucket equipped.
Landfill compactor (tamping tip)
Komatsu Dozer pushing coal on the job site
A wheeled front loader tractor equipped with a large bucket elevated by hydraulic rams.
Folded conveyor on a tracked grinder
The militarized Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer allows for earthmoving projects in a combat environment. In the picture: IDF Caterpillar D9R.
The militarized Huta Stalowa Wola backhoe loader in Poland which is subsidiary of LiuGong China
Military scraper
PiPz Dachs armoured engineering vehicle of the German Army (2008)
Temporary roads deployment complex during the "Armiya 2021" exhibition

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