What is an excavator? Classification of commonly used excavators

What is an excavator? What do people use excavators for? How are excavators classified? All the information, definitions and uses of each type of excavator will be revealed by Comacpro in the article below.

What is the concept of an excavator?

What is an excavator? Obviously, an excavator is a type of industrial machinery, right? According to wiki, an excavator is also called a digger. The reason people call it is because the excavator can also dig rocks, materials, etc.

Therefore, it can be used for many purposes, so we see excavators appearing in many places, in construction works or in mining areas, in people’s lives, such as digging ditches, digging sewers, digging ditches, digging ponds, etc.

Classification of excavators

Excavators are classified in 3 ways: by moving mechanism, by bucket type and by working principle.

Classification of excavators by moving mechanism

If classified by moving mechanism, we have crawler excavators and wheel excavators.

In which, crawler excavators are used a lot in complex terrain but move slowly, while wheel excavators have the advantage of moving much faster than crawlers.

Classification of excavators by bucket type

• The upside-down bucket excavator (reverse bucket) is often called an excavator, suitable for digging rocks and soil, tending to dig deeper than the position of the standing machine. Used to dig ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, ditches, etc.
• The upside-down bucket excavator or often called a wheel excavator with the bucket facing up (forward bucket) is suitable for digging rocks and soil, scooping materials level with the machine body.

In addition, there are excavators, which are often called excavators, such as: grab bucket excavators, rope bucket excavators (throw bucket excavators), planer bucket excavators, and multi-bucket excavators.

Classification of excavators according to working principle

• Hydraulic excavator: operates with a digging bucket using a hydraulic system
• Cable drive excavator: operates with a cable winch system (rarely used)

Commonly used excavators

In fact, the most commonly used excavators are two types of excavators (reverse bucket excavators) and wheel loaders (forward buckets). Both types of excavators operate using a hydraulic cylinder mechanism, so they operate with very high work pressure, suitable for many types of terrain.

With what Comacpro mentioned above, it is not enough to have a deep understanding of excavators. Please follow the next articles to better understand this popular construction machine.

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