Usage
Excavators are used in many ways:
- Digging of trenches, holes, foundations
- Material handling
- Brush cutting with hydraulic attachments
- Forestry work
- Demolition
- General grading/landscaping
- Heavy lift, e.g. lifting and placing of pipes
- Mining, especially, but not only open-pit mining
- River dredging
- Driving piles, in conjunction with a pile driver
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An old excavator under the Northwest (now Terex) name at the Pageant of Steam grounds
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Excavator demolishing a house. Note the hydraulic thumb
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Link-Belt excavator trenching
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CAT 5230 in coal mining operation
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