EARTH

MOVING
EQUIPMENTS
SUBMITTED BY:
SUSHMITA BISHT
ALANKRITI JAIN
AISHWARYA RAWAT
ZUNAID KHAN

INTRODUCTION
Construction equipmentare one of the very important
resources of modern-day construction. Some projects
utilize equipment for most of the works including
earthmoving operations, aggregate production, concrete
production and its placement, and so on.
There are different types of construction equipment
suitable for different activities in a construction project.
The choice of construction equipment defines the
construction method, which in a way leads to the
determination of time and cost for the project.

EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENTS

EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENTS IS USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRY :
TO SHIFT AMOUNTS OF EARTH
TO DIG FOUNDATIONS AND LANDSCAPE AREAS
TYPES OF EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENTS INCLUDE :POWER SHOVELS
SCRAPERS

BACKHOE
BULLDOZERS

DUMPERS

GRADERS

TRENCHERS

LOADERS

 Power Shovels are used primarily to

excavate earth and load it into trucks or
tractor pulled wagons or onto or onto
conveyor belts.

POWER SHOVEL

They are capable of excavating all classes

of earth, except solid rock, without prior
loosening, like in quarries, mines in any
road projects etc.
Power shovels are considered as basic tool
for excavating the materials and loading.
They may be mounted on crawler tracks, in
which case they are referred to as crawler
mounted shovels. Such shovels have very
low travel speeds.
However, they may be mounted an rubbertired wheels. Single-engine self-propelled
units are powered and operated from
excavator cab. The non-self-propelled units
mounted on the rear of tracks, which are
referred to as truck-mounted, have
separate engines for operating them.

PARTS OF A POWER SHOVEL

The basic parts of a power
shovel include the housing,
boom, dipper stick and
bucket or dipper and
crawlers.
Power unit
Hoist and loading assembly: It
is used for hoisting the dipper
and loading the material into
predetermined place.
It essentially consists of rigid
boom and dipper stick which
is strongly built to withstand
impact loading while
excavation. To operate shovel
in favorable condition i.e.
economically, it will be
necessary to reduce the

APPLICATIONS
Suitable for close range of
work
Capable of digging very
hard materials,
can remove
boulders.

big

sized

It is used in various types

of jobs such as digging in
gravel banks, clay pits,
digging cuts in road
works, road-side berms,

BACKHOE

A backhoe , also called a rear actor or

back actor , is a piece of excavating
equipment or digger consisting of a
digging bucket on the end of a two
part articulated arm .they are
typically mounted on the back of a
tractor or front loader
The section of the arm closest to the
vehicle is known as the boom, and
the section which carries the bucket is
known as the dipper or dipper stick
The boom is attached to the vehicle
through a pivot known as kingpost,
which allows the arm to slew left and
right ,usually through a total of
around 200 degrees . Modern

PARTS OF A BACKHOE

APPLICATIONS
It is the most suitable machine
for digging below the machine
level, such as, trenches,
footings, basements etc.
It can be efficiently used to
dress or trim the surface
avoiding the use of manual
effort
for
dressing
the
excavated the surface.

A bulldozer is a large powerful tractor,

equipped with a substantial (large) metal plate
(known as a blade) in front used to push large
quantities of soil, sand, rubble, or other such
material (flattens areas of ground) during
construction or conversion work.

BULLDOZER

Tracked

Wheeled

PARTS OF A BULLDOZER

APPLICATIONS
1.For spreading the earth fill
2.For opening up pilot roads
through mountainous and rocky
terrains.
3.Clearing construction sites.
4.Maintaining haul roads
5.Clearing land from the trees and
stumps
6.back-filling
trenches
at
construction sites by dragging

SCRAPERS

A tool or device used for

scraping, especially for
removing dirt, paint, or other
unwanted matter from a
surface.
or
The scraper is a large piece of
equipment used in mining,
construction, agriculture and
other earthmoving
applications. The rear part has
a vertically moveablehopper
(also known as the bowl) with
a sharp horizontal front edge

PARTS OF A SCRAPER
It essentially consists of a large
scoop provided with cutting edge.
The scoop is in the form of bucket
on hollow container, which is
known as bowl or body.

The cutting edge of scoop

does the excavate work and
the excavated material
goes on collecting in howl
from the front gate.
The material is transported
to the site of dumping and
is taken out from the
tailgate of the bowl. Then
facilitate the succeeding
spreading operations to
required and uniform thick
layer.
The scoop can excavate,
transport and dump the
material wherever required.

DUMPER
Adumperis a vehicle designed for
carrying bulk material, often on building
sites.
Dumper is also known as Dump truck. The
motor vehicle which is specially designed
& constructed for carrying the heavy loads
under various operations conditions can be
called as Dumpers.
These are meant for carrying rocks, coal,
minerals, aggregate and other materials in
construction works.
Dumper may be ON road Vehicle or OFF
road vehicle.
ON road Dumpers generally used in normal

PARTS OF A DUMPER

GRADERS

A grader, also commonly

referred to as a road grader,
a blade , a maintainer, or a
construction machine with a
long blade used to create a
flat surface.

Typical models have three

axles, with the engine and
cab situated above the rear
axles at one end of the
vehicle and third axle at the
front end of vehicle, with
the blade in-between.

PARTS OF A GRADER

USES
Used to prepare the base
course to create a wide
flat
surface for the asphalt to
be placed on.
Used to set native soil
foundation pads to finish
grade prior to the
construction of large
buildings.

TRENCHERS
Trenchers are similar to
excavators in the earth,
breaking soil and rock,
and remove it from the
ground.
Trenchers differ from the
excavators , in that the
soil is removed in one
continuous movement.
Used for digging trenches
for pipes.

HAND TOOLS

SHOVEL
A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and
moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal,
gravel, snow, sand, or ore. Shovels are
used extensively in agriculture,
construction, and gardening.

Most shovels are hand tools consisting of

a broad blade fixed to a medium-length
handle. Shovel blades are usually made of
sheet steel or hard plastics and are very
strong. Shovel handles are usually made
of wood (especially specific varieties such
as ash or maple) or glass-reinforced
plastic (fibreglass).

SOIL TROLLEY
The soil trolley is a small
manually carried trolley
basically used to carry
small amount of soil in
quick progression.
These trolleys are very
useful in construction and
gardening as well.

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