front-end loaders

Construction site shovels

Front-end loaders are heavy machinery with a large bucket mounted on the front, used for scooping, lifting, and moving loose materials like soil, gravel, or debris.

The bucket typically pivots to dump its load.

Front-end loaders may be standalone vehicles or attachments for tractors: The front-end loader cleared the construction site in a few hours.

Related

construction site · dump · skid steer · heavy equipment · scoop · mechanization · John Deere · payload capacity · shovel · diesel engines · equipment maintenance · wheel · utility vehicles · surface mining · power shovels · earth · haul trucks · counterweight

Opposites
loading direction/attachment position

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Rear-mounted excavating machines

primary function

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Machines for digging earth

bulldozers · trenchers · graders · dump trucks · compactors

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G