Excavator
Excavators are heavy construction
machineries. It also called diggers. They are made up by multiple parts such as
stick, bucket and cab on rotating platform. Many people believe excavators are
only be used for digging of trench, holes and foundation. Actually, excavator can
also be used as mining, scraping and moving large objects and river dredging.
river
dredging work
Many modern excavators are used
for building and clearing building debris. Excavator also can be useful
machineries that can do the work that we did not even think such as driving
piles and brush cutter. Each type of construction excavator works a bit
differently because they are designed for a specific purpose.
driven
piling work
The main part of an excavator consist of
·
Motor or driving system
Excavators can have a variation of different motors. The motor can be run by
petrol, diesel and electric. Electric excavators are really rare but exist in
construction work.
·
The arm
“attachment” is another word of the arm. The most regular termination is clawed
bucket. The arm is occasionally controlled by an advanced system of hydraulics
with levers that are inside of the cab of the excavator
·
Excavator locomotion
most excavators have a design that grants a 360-degree movement of the arm and
the cab. Track design allow the cab and arm to swivel without lose flexibility
Excavator
components
