Engineering vehicles

thumb|The Ford N-series tractor helped revolutionize modern mechanized agriculture with its Ferguson [[three point hitch]] A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage, and now many more. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted on the t

thumb|300px|A large bulldozer with multi-shank ripper, the Caterpillar D9

A forklift (also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th century by various companies, including Clark, which made transmissions, and Yale & Towne Manufacturing, which made hoists.

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compactor type engineering vehicle used in the construction of roads and foundations

a truck, which by using hydraulic pistons has the ability to tip its hinged open boxed bed, effectively dumping the content of the bed to the ground

vehicles designed for executing construction tasks

thumb|A grab dredge Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing dams, dikes, and other controls for streams and shorelines; and recovering valuable mineral deposits or marine life having commercial value. In all but a few situations the excavation is undertaken by a specialist floating plant, known as a dredger.

machinery and tools that use liquid fluid power to do simple work

heavy equipment machine

system of vehicle propulsion

movable or stationary machine that combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete

thumb|Mining dump truck BelAZ-7547 thumb|1971 USSR postage stamp depicting BelAZ 540 BelAZ (, ) is a Belarusian automobile plant and one of the world's largest manufacturers of large and especially large dump trucks, as well as other heavy transport equipment for the mining and construction industries.

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heavy equipment

construction equipment used to lay asphalt

construction machine for mass excavation, self-loading - transport up to several kilometers, unloading, with rough spreading of mostly coherent and clay materials

heavy equipment vehicle

continuous digging machine used especially in large-scale open-pit mining

thumb|Forestry Forwarder Ösa 250. thumb|A medium-sized forwarder piling logs. thumb|Valmet 840.2 Forwarder

forestry vehicle that fells trees, delimbs and cuts logs to length

large vehicle used for lifting, especially in the process of mining: basically an excavator which drags its bucket to fill it

thumb|A Thwaites dumper in action thumb|A Neuson dumper thumb|A German-made Picco 1 dumper with one rear wheel in the midline. See :de:Picco 1 (in German) A dumper or dumper truck is a vehicle designed for carrying bulk material, often on building sites. A dumper has a body which tilts or opens at the back for unloading and is usually an open 4-wheeled vehicle with the load skip in front of the driver. The skip can tip to dump the load; this is where the name "dumper" comes from. They are normally diesel powered. A towing eye is fitted for secondary use as a site tractor. Dumpers with rubber t

mobile lifting machine

A steamroller (or steam roller) is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for leveling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine. The leveling/flattening action is achieved through a combination of the size and weight of the vehicle and the rolls: the smooth wheels and the large cylinder or drum fitted in place of treaded road wheels.

thumb|right|A slip tongue log skidder used in the 19th and early 20th centuries thumb|Elements of a skidding harness A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing. There they are loaded onto trucks (or railroad cars or a flume), and sent to the mill. One exception is that in the early days of logging, when distances from the timberline to the mill were shorter, the landing stage was omitted altogether, and the "skidder" would have been

practice of drilling non-vertical bores

thumb|Soil compactor A compactor is a machine or mechanism used to reduce the size of material such as waste material or biomass through compaction. A trash compactor is used in business and public places like hospitals (and in the United States also in homes) to reduce the volume of trash they produce. A baler-wrapper compactor is used for making compact and wrapped bales in order to improve logistics.

compact heavy equipment with differential steering

thumb|250px|A typical roadheader A roadheader, also called a boom-type roadheader, road header machine, road header or just header machine, is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a boom-mounted cutting head, a loading device usually involving a conveyor, and a crawler travelling track to move the entire machine forward into the rock face.

thumb|right|A Cat 420F In Arlington Massachusetts USA A backhoe is a type of excavating equipment, or excavator, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. It is typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader, the latter forming a "backhoe loader" (a US term, but known as a "JCB" in Ireland and the UK). The section of the arm closest to the vehicle is known as the boom, while the section that carries the bucket is known as the dipper (or dipper-stick), both terms derived from steam shovels. The boom, which is the long piece of the backhoe arm attached

a bucket excavator belongs to a group of excavators with several working elements that are structurally predestined for excavating rock mass by means of a large number of buckets that are evenly distributed on an endless chain

vehicle designed or adapted to clear thoroughfares of ice and snow

piece of light construction equipment

bucket-equipped machine used for digging and loading earth

platform vehicle with a large array of wheels, used for transporting massive and/or large objects

former dragline excavator

thumb|Ponsse Buffalo forwarder Ponsse Plc () is a company domiciled in Finland that manufactures and markets a range of forestry vehicles and machinery such as forwarders and harvesters. The Ponsse company was established by the forest machine entrepreneur in 1970. , Ponsse's machines are used at logging sites in approximately 40 countries, and 74 per cent of the company's net sales come from exports. All machines are manufactured in the company's birthplace in Vieremä. Ponsse Group employs more than 2,000 people in 12 countries, and the company's shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Lis

Belt-Track designed to be retrofitted onto the drive wheels of a standard automobile, to convert it for use in rough or snowy/icy terrain.

steam-powered excavation machine

thumb|ThyssenKrupp|Krupp coal stacker featuring tripper conveyor and non-slewing, luffing boom at RTCA Kestrel Mine|300px 300px|thumb|Stacker at Garzweiler surface mine

type of a construction machine

German manufacturer of agricultural machinery and commercial vehicles

type of a construction vehicle used to lay pipes

soft excavation technique applied in loosen soils or sediments

type of all-terrain excavator

type of overburden conveyor bridges

small construction excavator

300px|thumb|Trebelev subterrene (Soviet Union) A subterrene (, ) is a vehicle that travels underground (through solid rock or soil) much as a submarine travels underwater, either by mechanical drilling, or by melting its way forward. Subterrenes existed first in fiction as mechanical drillers, with real-world thermal designs and examples following in the second half of the 20th century.