Excavating Equipment

The crane-shovel consists of three major assemblies: a carrier or mounting, a revolving superstructure containing the power and control units (also called the revolving deck or turntable), and a front-end attachment.

Excavating equipment:

~ crane-shovel family:

• crane

• clamshell

• dragline

• back hoe

• shovel

• piledriver (similar to excavating)

~ trenching machines

~ wheel mounted belt loaders

Bucket capacity:

~ heaped - max. bucket volume w/o spillage at material’s angle of repose

~ struck - material struck off flush with bucket’s sides

~ water line - material level with lowest edge of the bucket

~ plate line - material level with highest edge of the bucket

Bucket capacity ratings:

Equipment

Bucket capacity

back hoe

struck

clamshell

water line or plate line or heaped

dragline

struck × 0.90

shovel

struck

Previous Page Page Top TOC Next Page

This document was produced using an evaluation version of HTML Transit 2