Construction – Understanding the Excavator
February 17, 2022
Excavators are essential towards most construction projects that depend on excavating elements and material mobilization to be completed. Often these machines known as diggers or excavators are applied to various kinds of tasks or projects such as landscaping, demolition, mining projects, building construction and even river dredging. The standard excavator or the general components of an excavator consists of a boom, a dipper or arm and a bucket that are connected to a control centre often referred to as the cab which is attached to a rotating platform.
These rotating platforms are usually capable of rotating a full 360 degrees. In general, these machines are mobile either on tracks or on rubber wheels depending on the requirement of the project and naturally the manufacturer’s target customer. Excavators come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes with some weighing up to 200,000 lbs. on the high end and about 15 tons for the mini excavator hire industry.
These days, excavators come with a series of external interchangeable attachments that enable these machines a wide range of tasks that were traditionally done by other tools. These hydraulic attachments usually replace the digging bucket (swapping) with augers, drills, rippers or rakes that …
