Heavy Equipment Overview

Industries using heavy equipment are diverse and encompass many aspects of everyday life, from road construction to forestry, farming, and manufacturing to oil and mineral mining to public works and military applications.



Starting from the main applicability criteria, a wide range of heavy equipment categories can generally be classified [2]:



Mining equipment – Horizontal drills, mining tractor, mining trucks, mining wagons

Track-type – Tractors, bulldozers, snowcats, track skidders, agricultural tractors, and military engineering vehicles, graders, skid steer loaders

Excavator – Dragline excavator, wheel excavator, front shovel, trencher machine, yarders, pipe layer

Articulated – Articulated hauler, articulated truck

Backhoe – Backhoe loader, backhoe

Compactor – Wheel dozers soil compactors, soil stabilizer

Highway, Railroad –Ddump truck, highway dumps, transfer train, transit-mixer, street sweeper

Hydromatic Tools – Ballast tamper, attachments, drilling machine, pile driver, rotary tiller

Loader – Loader, skip loader, wheel loader, track loader

Material Handler – Aerial work and transportation platform, cherry picker, crane, forklift, trailer mount, reach stacker, telescopic handles

Paving – Asphalt paver, cold planer, cure rig, paver, pneumatic tire compactor, road roller, slip form paver, vibratory compactor

Scraper – Fresno scraper, scraper, wheel tractor-scraper

Timber – Feller buncher, harvester, skidder, track harvester, wheel forwarder, wheel skidder

Underground – Road header, tunnel boring machine, underground mining equipment