History: Heavy equipment
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Under the term construction equipment we understand the whole range of heavy-duty vehicles that are used in the execution of construction tasks. Most frequently these tasks involve earthwork operations. There are several other terms used for these kind of machines: construction vehicles, heavy equipment, heavy machines, engineering equipment, heavy vehicles or even heavy hydraulics.
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Design
History of construction equipment
Types of construction vehicles
The below categorization, in this order, is a standard equipment categorization used across the world. Some contractors also place numbers on the side of their equipment corresponding to the category - Grader '02' - followed by a sequential number that usually corresponds to the number it was purchased, for example, 02-52, is the 52nd grader a company has purchased. This allows for easy recognition of the equipment type and the relevant age.Track-type
- Agricultural tractors
- Bulldozer
- Snowcat
- Track skidder
- Track-type tractors
- Tractor
- Military engineering vehicles
Grader
SkidSteer
Excavator
- Compact excavator
- Dragline excavator
- Dredging
- ((Excavator (wheel)
- Excavator (bagger, digger)
- Front shovel
- Reclaimer
- Steam shovel
- Suction excavator
- Trencher (machine)
- Yarder
Backhoe
Timber
Manufacturers
The largest manufacturers based on 2011 revenue data as published by the KHL Group
- Caterpillar Inc
- Komatsu
- Volvo Construction Equipment
- Hitachi
- Liebherr Group
- SANY Group Company Ltd
- Zoomlion
- Terex
- Doosan Infracore
- Deere & Company
- XCMG
Other construction equipment manufacturers:
Atlas Copco
Bharat Earth Movers Limited
Bobcat Company
CASE
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant
CNH Global
Demag
Doosan Group
Fiat-Allis
Hyundai Heavy Industries
Ingersoll Rand
JCB
Kubota
Kobelco
LiuGong
Madill
MARAIS
Navistar International Corporation
NCK
New Holland
Track Marshall
Orenstein and Koppel Gmbh
Paccar
Poclain
Rototilt
Shantui
ST Kinetics
Takeuchi Manufacturing
Wacker Neuson
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