Engineering vehicle
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Engineering vehicles, or construction equipment, are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing engineering and construction tasks.
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Types
- Backhoe loader
- Bulldozer
- Combat engineering vehicle (CEV)
- Compactor
- Crane
- Drag line excavator
- Dump truck
- Excavator ("Bagger" or "Digger")
- Feller buncher
- Forklift
- Forwarder
- Fresno Scraper
- Front loader
- Grader
- Harvester
- Paver
- Rock-Truck
- Scraper
- Skid loader
- Skidder
- Tractor
Tools
Applications
- agriculture
- civil engineering
- combat engineering
- construction
- earthworks (engineering)
- excavations
- forestry
- mining
- waste handling
Manufacturers
The leading global manufactureres of construction equipment (in order):
- Caterpillar Inc.
- Komatsu
- CNH Global (CASE)
- Volvo Construction Equipment
- Deere & Company
- Ingersoll-Rand
- Hitachi Construction Machinery (a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.; inc: Euclid)
- JCB
Other manufacturers:
- Atlas
- Daewoo
- Fiat-Allis
- International
- Koering
- Kubota
- Liebherr
- Madill
- Orenstein and Koppel GmbH (O&K)
- Pierce Pacific
- Poclain
- Skaggit
- Terex
- Thunderbird
- Timberjack
- For more manufactureres of construction equipment, see: List of construction equipment manufacturers
See also
- Hydraulic machinery
- Benjamin Holt (Inventor of the Caterpillar Track)
