drag line
Mining bucket crane
A drag line is a rope or cable used to pull something toward you, especially in excavation where a bucket is dragged back to the machine after being dropped.
In fishing, it's a line dragged through water.
Dragline also names the massive cranes used in strip mining, which swing buckets on cables to move earth: The dragline could remove fifty tons in a single pass.
- heavy equipmentIndustrial construction machinery
- bucketOpen-top carrying vessel
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- wire ropeStranded metal cordage
- miningExtracting earth's resources
strip mining · open pit · dredge · fishing · lure · bait · wire · rope · pulley · dig · scoop · earth · quarry · construction · boom · swing · trench · haul
drag linebackhoe
Hinged-arm excavating machine
hand tools · pickaxe · spade · power shovel · bulldozer
drag linecompactor
Machine that compresses materials
earth mover · grader · pile driver · crane
drag linespade
Flat-bladed digging implement
trowel · post hole digger · pickaxe · mini excavator · trencher