heavy machinery
Cranes and excavators
Heavy machinery refers to large, powerful equipment used in construction, mining, agriculture, and industrial operations—bulldozers, cranes, excavators, tractors, and the like.
The phrase often appears in safety contexts: Heavy machinery should only be operated by trained personnel.
Warning labels advise against operating heavy machinery while taking certain medications.
Machine that digs earth
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- craneLifter or wader
- backhoeHinged-arm excavating machine
- forkliftPowered pallet-hoisting vehicle
loader · dump truck · grader · compactor · skid steer · paver · roller · trencher
Process of building something
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- excavationAct of unearthing
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- earthmovingRelocating soil mechanically
quarrying · roadwork · forestry · agriculture · dredging · tunneling · land clearing · foundation work
excavator
Machine that digs earth
forklift · loader · dump truck · grader · compactor · skid steer · paver · roller · trencher · scraper
construction
Process of building something
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- excavationAct of unearthing
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
earthmoving · quarrying · roadwork · forestry · agriculture · dredging · tunneling · land clearing · foundation work · pipelaying
- constructionconstruction site, building site, hammer, building, beam
- construction soundsdrilling, hammering, sawing, jackhammer, pile driver
- worksite hazardselectrocution, cave-in, falling objects, chemical exposure, asbestos
- East German Industrychemical industry, lignite mining, steel mills, machine tools, uranium mining
- construction sitehard hat, hard hats, foreman, cones, cranes
- demolitiondemolish, raze, bulldoze, controlled demolition, wreck
heavy, heavily, machinery, heaviness, heaving, heavyset, heavier, heaved, heavy-handed