Heavy Equipment (construction) - Types

Types

These subdivisions, in this order, are the standard heavy equipment categorization. See List of Heavy Equipment Equivalents to compare products between manufacturer. Some contractors place numbers on the side of their equipment corresponding to the category - Grader '02' - followed by a sequential number that usually corresponds to the number purchased.

Track-type

  • Agricultural tractors
  • Air-track
  • Bulldozer
  • Track skidder
  • Track-type tractors (Bulldozer)
  • Tractor
  • Military engineering vehicles

Grader

  • Grader

SkidSteer

  • Skid steer loader

Excavator

  • Compact excavator
  • Dragline excavator
  • Dredging
  • Excavator (wheel)
  • Excavator (bagger, digger)
  • Front shovel
  • Reclaimer
  • Steam shovel
  • Suction excavator
  • Trencher (machine)
  • Yarder

Backhoe

  • Backhoe loader, Backhoe

Timber

  • Feller buncher
  • Harvester
  • Skidder
  • Track harvester
  • Wheel forwarder
  • Wheel skidder

PipeLayer

  • Pipelayer

Scraper

  • Fresno scraper
  • Scraper
  • Wheel tractor-scraper

Mining

  • Construction & mining tractor
  • Construction & mining trucks

Articulated

  • Articulated hauler
  • Articulated truck
  • Water wagon

Compactor

  • Wheel dozers – soil compactors
  • Soil stabilizer

Loader

  • Loader
  • Skip loader (skippy)
  • Wheel loader (front loader, integrated tool carrier)

Track Loader

  • Track loader

Material Handler

  • Aerial work platform / Lift table
  • Boomtruck
  • Cherry picker
  • Crane
  • Forklift
  • Knuckleboom loader (trailer mount) & Knuckleboom loader (trailer mount)
  • Reach stacker
  • Telescopic handlers

Paving

  • Asphalt paver
  • Asphalt plant
  • Cold planer
  • Concrete batch plant
  • Cure rig
  • Pneumatic tire compactor
  • Roller (road roller or roller compactor)
  • Slipform paver
  • Vibratory compactor, Compactor
  • Stomper:concrete drop hammer

Underground

  • Roadheader
  • Tunnel boring machine
  • Underground mining equipment

Hydromatic Tool

  • Ballast tamper
  • Attachments
  • Drilling machine
  • Pile driver
  • Rotary tiller (rototiller, rotovator)
  • Venturi-mixer

Highway

  • Dump truck
  • Highway 10 yard rear dump
  • Highway bottom dump (stiff), pup (belly train), triple
  • Highway end dump and side dump
  • Highway transfer, Transfer train
  • Highway transit-mixer
  • Lowboy (trailer)
  • Street sweeper

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