power shovels
Motorized earth movers
Power shovels are large excavating machines with a hinged bucket at the end of a boom, used for digging and moving earth, rock, or other heavy materials.
They dominated construction and mining through most of the 20th century before hydraulic excavators largely replaced them.
The term now often applies broadly to any heavy digging equipment: Power shovels carved out the foundation in two days.
- scoopFirst-reported story
- digUnearth by shoveling
- bucketOpen-top carrying vessel
- earthmoverHeavy digging machinery
- earth movingRelocating soil mechanically
loading · excavation · construction equipment · civil engineering · backhoe · overburden · coal seam · strip mining · undercarriage · boom · dirt · diesel engine · quarrying · dump · open-pit mining · heavy machinery · heavy equipment · arm
power shovelshand tools
Unpowered grip-operated devices
spades · manual labor · pickaxes · mattocks · hoes
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