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heavy equipment
Sign in to saveAlso known as heavy machines, heavy machinery, engineering vehicle, construction vehicle, construction machine, construction machinery, construction equipment
vehicles designed for executing construction tasks
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Vinony's link graph records 924 inbound references to heavy equipment, and connects out to tire, continuous track and crane.
It is catalogued under topics including Construction equipment, Engineering vehicles and Heavy equipment.
Vinony links it to 39 Wikipedia language editions.
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- vehicle
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- Has use
- material handling
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- Commons category
- Construction vehicles
- topic's main category
- Category:Engineering vehicles
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Encyclopedic overview
Heavy equipment vehicles of various types parked near a highway construction site
Heavy equipment, heavy machinery, earthmovers, construction vehicles, or construction equipment, refers to heavy-duty vehicles specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks. Heavy equipment usually comprises five equipment systems: the implement, traction, structure, power train, and control/information.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heavy equipment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.