page_title: Power shovel
hierarchical_section_title: Power shovel
caption_attribution_description: English: P&amp;H 4100XPB shovel (electric) loading overburden (base obscured by grassy foreground) awaiting truck to reverse (lower left - partly obscured)
context_page_description: A power shovel is a bucket-equipped machine, usually electrically powered, used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. Power Shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics like in the more common hydraulic excavators.
  Basics parts of power shovel including the track system, cabin, cables, rack, stick, boom foot-pin, saddle block, boom, boom point sheaves and bucket.
  The size of bucket varies from 0.375 to 5 cubic metres.
context_section_description: A power shovel (also stripping shovel or front shovel or electric mining shovel or Electric Rope Shovel ) is a bucket-equipped machine, usually electrically powered, used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. Power Shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics like in the more common hydraulic excavators.
  Basics parts of power shovel including the track system, cabin, cables, rack, stick, boom foot-pin, saddle block, boom, boom point sheaves and bucket.
  The size of bucket varies from 0.375 to 5 cubic metres (13 to 177 cu ft).
caption: P&H 4100 XPB cable loading shovel.
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