excavators
Heavy digging machines
Excavators are heavy construction machines used for digging, moving earth, and demolition.
The term covers both the tracked vehicles with hydraulic arms and buckets that dominate modern construction sites and the workers who operate them or dig by other means.
Archaeologists conducting digs are also excavators: The excavators uncovered pottery shards dating to the Bronze Age.
Hinged-arm excavating machine
- diggerOne who unearths
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- hydraulicRelating to pressurized liquids
- bucketOpen-top carrying vessel
crawler · tracks · cab · boom · arm · Caterpillar · Hitachi · trencher
Unearth by shoveling
- siteDesignated location
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
trowel · grid · fieldwork · sifting · burial · ruins · pottery · bones
Removing earth below
- trenchingExcavating long narrow cuts
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- gradingAssigning marks to work
earthworks · roadwork · pipeline · utility · basement · pool · dredging · quarry
backhoe
Hinged-arm excavating machine
bucket · crawler · tracks · cab · boom · arm · Caterpillar · Hitachi · trencher · loader
dig
Unearth by shoveling
- siteDesignated location
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
artifacts · trowel · grid · fieldwork · sifting · burial · ruins · pottery · bones · sediment
digging
Removing earth below
- trenchingExcavating long narrow cuts
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- foundationUnderlying support structure
grading · earthworks · roadwork · pipeline · utility · basement · pool · dredging · quarry · mining
- equipmentconstruction equipment, medical equipment, industrial equipment, office equipment, farm equipment
- constructionconstruction site, building site, hammer, building, beam
- construction sitehard hat, hard hats, foreman, cones, cranes
- capital equipmentmachinery, heavy equipment, factories, generators, turbines
- heavy equipmentbulldozers, loader, backhoe, loaders, bulldozer
- loader typesskid steers
excavatorscompactors
Waste-crushing machines
fillers · rollers · pavers · dump trucks · concrete mixers
- mini excavatorSmall hydraulic digging machine