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Benjamin Holt
Was an American inventor who developed one of the first practical caterpillar track for use in tractors. The caterpillar type track is used to spread the weight of heavy agricultural and engineering vehicles out over a large area to prevent the vehicle from sinking into the mud. In the industry, the proper vernacular is "Low Ground Pressure" or LGP for short. Sinking into the mud was a common problem in peat soil surrounding Stockton, California where Holt made his residence. Caterpillar tracks allowed practical cultivation on an industrial scale on the rich peat land. Holt formed the Holt Manufacturing company in the early 20th century. Caterpillar tracked tractors were used in the invention of the tank. Holt Manufacturing later merged with C.M. Best to form the Caterpillar Tractor Company. Komatsu Limited
A Japanese company on the Nikkei 225 index that manufactures construction and mining equipment, silicon wafers, lasers, and thermoelectric modules. Its headquarters is at 3-3-6, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Its name was taken after the current city of Komatsu, Ishikawa at foundation in 1917 there. Its main plants are located in the city. Komatsu makes the largest bulldozer in the world, D575. Case New Holland Global N.V.
The second largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment and the third largest maker of construction equipment in the world. Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the most recent year it produced $11,545 million in revenues, and is 91% owned by Fiat. CNH Global's main competitor in the agriculture market is Deere & Company, while it is behind CAT (#1) and Komatsu (#2) in the construction arena. Farm implements include: attachments and loaders for tractors, commercial and residential mowers, harvesters, hay balers, planting and seeding equipment, sprayers, tillage equipment, and tractors, and account for around 70% of sales. The company makes a wide range of construction machinery including: articulated trucks, backhoe loaders, crawler loaders, directional drills, dozers, excavators - wheeled and crawler, forklifts, graders, skid steer loaders (miniloader), telescopic handlers, and wheel loaders. CNH sells its products through 12,000 dealers and distributors in 160 countries. It also receives a portion of its revenue from its CNH Capital division, which provides capital lending to equipment buyers in Canada and the United States. Volvo Construction Equipment
Originally Volvo BM is a subsidiary and business area of AB Volvo. Volvo Construction Equipment develops, manufactures and markets equipment for the construction and related industries. The products, leaders in many world markets, include a comprehensive range of wheel loaders, wheeled and crawler hydraulic excavators, articulated haulers, motor graders, backhoe loaders, skid steer loaders, as well as compact excavators, skid steers, and wheel loaders. Volvo Construction Equipment has production facilities in Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. The company offers worldwide service and spare-part distribution. Volvo Construction Equipment mainly distributes its machines through independent dealers and, in parallel with their rental program, to customers in more than 200 countries. Principal Volvo products for the rental centers include the company’s comprehensive line of compact excavators, skid steers, and backhoe loaders. Ingersoll Rand
Is a diversified industrial firm founded in 1871. The Ingersoll Rand name came into use in 1905 through the combination of Ingersoll-Sargeant Drill Company and Rand Drill Company. Ingersoll Rand is listed on the Forbes 500 and S&P 500. Ingersoll Rand is a global provider of products, services, and integrated solutions to industries as diverse as transportation, manufacturing, construction, and agriculture. Examples include refrigeration, biometric security systems, medium to large-scale air compressors, and compact vehicles for construction and movement of people and goods. Mining and construction support equipment (such as mobile diesel generators and compressors) is the primary field identified with the Ingersoll Rand brand, but they also manufacture many products under other brand names, including Bobcat farm and construction equipment, Club Car golf carts, Hussmann refrigeration units, Kryptonite locks, Schlage locks, Falcon locks, LCN door closers
Von Duprin exit devices, Thermo-King mobile refrigeration units.
Daewoo
A street vendor selling newspapers, gum and sweets as a youngster in Daegu, Kim Woo Choong founded the Daewoo Group in March 1967. It became one of the Big Four chaebol in South Korea. An industrial and multi-faceted service conglomerate, Daewoo was prominent in expanding its global market through joint ventures all over the world. John Deere
(February 7, 1804 - May 17, 1886) was the blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company - one of the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont, the son of William Deere. After his father disappeared en route to England, Deere was raised by his mother. He received an education in a Vermont primary school. He served a four-year blacksmith apprenticeship, and entered the trade in 1825. In 1827 he married Demarius Lamb. By 1836 the couple had four children, with a fifth child on the way. Facing bankruptcy, Deere sold the shop to his father-in-law, and departed for Illinois.
SWAT Van Truck
A vehicle used to transport heavily-armed Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team members. These vehicles are often armored and can also be used to transport heavy-duty equipment (for example, rubber bullet guns, machine guns, and battering rams). Sometimes, SWAT vans are used as paddywagons. Formerly used school buses and ambulances can also be converted into SWAT vans or trucks. Off-Road
Refers to a driving surface which is not conventionally paved. This is a rough surface, often created naturally, such as sand, gravel, a river, mud, snow and others. These terrains can sometimes only be travelled on by vehicles designed for off-road driving (such as heavy-duty trucks and equipment, SUVs, ATVs, snowmobiles or mountain bicycles) or vehicles that have off-road equipment. Tar Paper
A heavy-duty paper used in construction. Also known as roofing felt, it is made by impregnating paper with tar, producing a waterproof material useful for roof construction. It is sold in rolls of various widths and lengths, marked with chalk at certain intervals to aid in measurement. This bitumen based material is applied in several layers with the help of a torch to provide optimal waterproofness. More modern roof insulation materials include PVC and TPO (thermoplastic polyolefine) membranes which provide increased heat insulation and life span. Railroad Crane
A piece of rail transport maintenance of way equipment. It generally resembles a conventional fixed-location crane except that the platform the crane sits on is a heavy duty reinforced flat car. Directly underneath the center of gravity for the crane is a pivot point that allows the crane to swivel around 360°; in this way the crane can locate its boom over the worksite no matter its location along the track. The trucks on the car under the crane will often include traction motors so that the crane is able to move itself along the railroad. Normally a separate boom car, basically another heavy duty flat car, is coupled to the crane's car as an idler car where the boom can be strapped down for transportation. Backhoe Loader
Backhoe loader, also called a Loader backhoe, is an engineering vehicle, which consists of a tractor, front shovel or bucket and small backhoe in the rear. Due to its small size and versitility, backhoe loaders are very common in urban engineering and small construction projects. Such as building a small house, fixing city roads etc. Bulldozer
A bulldozer is a powerful crawler like caterpillar tracked tractor equipped with a blade. The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean any heavy engineering vehicle, but precisely, the term refers only to a tractor which is usually tracked and fitted with a dozer blade. Combat Engineering Vehicle
Combat engineering vehicles are armoured vehicles built for engineering work on the battlefield or for the transportation of sappers. Most CEVs are armoured fighting vehicles that may be based on a tank chassis and have special attachments in order to breach obstacles. Such attachments may include dozer blades, mine rollers, cranes etc. An example of an engineering vehicle of this kind is a bridgelaying tank, which replaces the turret with a segmented hydraulic bridge. Another good example is the American M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle, which is equipped with a dozer blade and a 165mm demolition gun.
Compactor
A compactor is a machine or mechanism used to reduce the size of waste material. Normally powered by hydraulics, compactors take many shapes and sizes. In landfill sites for example, a large bulldozer with spiked wheels is used to drive over waste deposited by garbage trucks. Garbage trucks themselves incorporate a compacting mechanism which is used to increase the payload of the vehicle and reduce the number of times it has to empty. This usually takes the form of hydraulically powered sliding plates which sweep out the collection hopper and compress the material into what has already been loaded.
Hydraulic Machinery
Machines and tools which use fluid power to do work. Heavy equipment is a common example. Crane
A crane is a tower or derrick equipped with cables and pulleys that is used to lift and lower materials. Cranes are commonly used in the construction industry and in manufacturing heavy equipment. Construction cranes are usually temporary structures, either fixed to the ground or mounted on a purpose-built vehicle. Cranes may either be controlled from an operator in a cab that travels with the crane, by a pushbutton pendant control station, or by infrared or radio control. Where a cab operator is employed, workers on the ground will communicate with the operator through a system of standardised hand-signals; an experienced crew can position loads with great precision using only these signals. Drilling Machine
A Drilling Machine is used for foundation construction in the building industry, or for drilling water or oil wells. Dump Truck
A dump truck or dumper truck is a truck used for transporting loose material (such as sand, gravel, or dirt) for construction. A typical dump truck is equipped with a hydraulically operated open-box bed hinged at the rear, the front of which can be lifted up to allow the contents to be deposited on the ground behind the truck at the site of delivery. Excavator
An excavator, also called a 360-degree excavator or digger, sometimes abbreviated simply to a 360, is an engineering vehicle consisting of a backhoe and cab mounted on a pivot or Turntable is a more apt description, atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. Note: the term excavator is sometimes used as a general term for any piece of digging equipment. Tracked excavators are sometimes called trackhoes.
Excavators are used in many roles:Digging of trenches, holes, foundations, Demolition, General grading and landscaping, Heavy lift, e.g. lifting and placing of pipes River dredging, Mining, especially, but not only open-pit mining. Feller Buncher
A feller buncher is a large logging machine with an attachment that cuts trees in place of a shovel. It consists of a standard heavy equipment base with a tree grabbing device equipped with a saw or other device at the bottom that cuts the tree off at the base and places it on the stack of cut trees suitable for a skidder. There are also wheeled feller bunchers with no articulated arm. Instead this type of vehicle drives close and grabs the tree. Forklift
A forklift is a powered industrial truck used to hoist and transport materials by means of steel forks inserted under the load. The forklift was invented in 1917 by a transmission manufacturing company in order to facilitate the movement of heavy automotive subassemblies. It has since become an indispensable piece of equipment in many manufacturing and warehousing operations.
Forwarder
Forwarders are a type of vehicle used in cut-to-length logging operations for transporting logs to a roadside landing. Forwarders are typically employed together with harvesters. In North American style full tree operations are the equivalent tasks done by skidders. Fresno Scraper
The Fresno Scraper was invented in 1883 by the Scottish immigrant and entrepreneur James Porteous who, having worked with farmers in Fresno, California, had recognised the dependence of the Fresno Valley on irrigation and the requirement for a more efficient means of constructing canals and ditches in the sandy soil. In perfecting the design of his machine, Porteous made several revisions on his own and also traded ideas with William Deidrick, Frank Dusy, and Abijah McCall, who invented and held patents on similar scapers. Porteous bought the patents held by Deidrick, Dusy, and McCall, gaining sole rights to the Fresno Scraper. The design of the Fresno Scraper forms the basis of most modern earthmoving scrapers, having the ability to not only scrape and move a quantity of soil, but also to discharge it at a controlled depth, thus quadrupling the volume which could be handled manually. The blade scooped up the soil, instead of merely pushing it along, and ran along a C-sha |