Engineering vehicle

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Categories: Engineering vehicles

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An excavator. The bucket is raked toward the machine to create a trench or pit while the lower jaw enables logs to be moved and loaded and buildings to be dismantled
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A Combat engineering vehicle, based on a tank chassis and equiped with a dozer blade and a demolition gun.
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A wheeled front loader at work. This wheeled tractor is equipped with a large bucket, which can be raised or lowered by hydraulic arms.
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Armored Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. Heavy bulldozers are powerful tools, equipped with a solid steel blade, making them highly suitable for military applications and large earthmoving projects.

Engineering vehicles, or construction equipment, are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing engineering and construction tasks.

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Manufacturers

The leading global manufactureres of construction equipment (in order):

  1. Caterpillar Inc.
  2. Komatsu
  3. CNH Global (CASE)
  4. Volvo Construction Equipment
  5. Deere & Company
  6. Ingersoll-Rand
  7. Hitachi Construction Machinery (a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.; inc: Euclid)
  8. JCB


Other manufacturers:

For more manufactureres of construction equipment, see: List of construction equipment manufacturers
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See also

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