power shovel
Heavy earth mover
A power shovel is a large excavating machine with a bucket mounted on a boom, used for digging and moving earth, rock, or other heavy materials.
Unlike manual shovels, power shovels are mechanically or hydraulically operated, typically mounted on tracks or wheels for mobility at construction sites, mines, and quarries.
The term often refers specifically to machines where the bucket faces away from the operator and digs by thrusting forward and upward.
The power shovel loaded trucks with gravel all morning.
Machine that digs earth
- backhoeHinged-arm excavating machine
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- loaderOne who fills containers
- draglineHeavy digging machine
crane · bucket · boom · dipper · crawler · hydraulics · cab · tracks
Unearth by shoveling
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- scoopFirst-reported story
- pitFruit's hard seed
- foundationUnderlying support structure
quarry · hole · ditch · tunnel · cut · grade · channel · embankment
Metal-bearing rock
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- strip miningRemoving overburden for minerals
- open-pitExcavated from exposed ground
- quarryingOpen-pit stone mining
haulage · minerals · extraction · blasting · surface mining · dragline · stripping · coal seam
Deliberate structural destruction
- land clearingRemoving growth from terrain
- roadworkStreet repair activities
- foundation workBuilding's base construction
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
building site · grading · leveling · loading · hauling · infrastructure · civil works
excavator
Machine that digs earth
- backhoeHinged-arm excavating machine
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- loaderOne who fills containers
dragline · crane · bucket · boom · dipper · crawler · hydraulics · cab · tracks · trackhoe
dig
Unearth by shoveling
foundation · quarry · hole · ditch · tunnel · cut · grade · channel · embankment · bench
ore
Metal-bearing rock
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- strip miningRemoving overburden for minerals
- open-pitExcavated from exposed ground
quarrying · haulage · minerals · extraction · blasting · surface mining · dragline · stripping · coal seam · reclamation
demolition
Deliberate structural destruction
- land clearingRemoving growth from terrain
- roadworkStreet repair activities
- foundation workBuilding's base construction
pipeline · building site · grading · leveling · loading · hauling · infrastructure · civil works
- digging toolsspade, pickaxe, mattock, hoe, trowel
- shovelsgarden spade, spade, snow scoop
- diggersexcavator, backhoe, spade, pickaxe, bulldozer
- excavatorsexcavator, mini excavator, backhoe
- heavy equipmentexcavator, excavators, bulldozers, loader, backhoe
- excavationdig, excavation, excavating, excavator, digging
power shovelspade
Flat-bladed digging implement
hand tool · garden spade · trowel · hand trowel · mattock
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