Heavy types of equipment are most commonly used for different large projects such as buildings, skyscrapers, and bridge. Choosing the types of heavy equipment are usually depends upon the size of the work and budget. The purpose of using heavy equipment is to make the construction process easier, faster, and safely.
Types of Heavy Equipment
Below are the best types of heavy equipment which commonly used in construction.
- Excavators
Excavator is one of the most important heavy equipments used in construction. The purpose of excavator is to lift heavy materials, do the demolition, river dredging, and cutting of trees. It has a long arm and a cabinet, the arm is for digging, and the cabinet is for the machine operator.
- Dragline Excavator
A dragline excavator is used for larger depth excavations. It has a long length boom and digging bucket. The bucket is suspended from the top using a cable.
This heavy equipment is commonly used for building ports and sediment removal of water bodies such as river, sea, and oceans.
- Bulldozer
Bulldozer is a type of soil excavating equipment. It is used to remove the top layer of the soil up to a certain depth. The digging is done by the sharp-edged of wide metal plate, it can be lowered and raised by using hydraulic pistons.
- Trenchers
This heavy equipment is used to excavate trenches in the soil such as pipeline laying, cable laying, and drainage. This equipment has two types: chain trenchers and wheeled trenchers.
Chain trenchers have a long arm around in which digging chain is present. While wheeled trenchers have metal wheels as the digger. For hard soil layers, wheeled trenchers are more suitable to use.
- Tower Cranes
It is used for lifting purposes, especially in tall buildings. Tower cranes lift heavy materials like concrete blocks and steel trusses. It has a vertical supporting tower called Jib, and it is the operating arm of the crane. Counter Jib is the other arm that carries counterweight of the crane, it is also the place where the cabinet for a machine operator is operating.
- Telehandlers
This heavy equipment is the smallest version of the tower crane. It is also used to lift heavy materials up to a certain height only. It has a long telescopic boom which can be moved upward, lowered or forwarded.
Leasing companies like Strongbox are offering their services to provide heavy types of equipment for building purposes. Not only that, but some of these companies also provide total construction packages from building materials up to the manpower.
