Talk:Excavator

message: Does this include the draglines used in strip-mining coal?  If so, the largest buckets are much bigger than 4.5 m³; some of those are over 70 m³ (95 yd³).  Gene Nygaard 18:22, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Scope

message: I work in as a supervisor with a construction company, we use a cat 375, and we have 2 12yd³ buckets and a 9yd³ one.  This being different than what’s indicated on Caterpillars webpage, and is not in my Spec book.  It’s a 3rd party bucket, but I know we are not the only contractor using larger buckets.   Zath42 22:07, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. 149.101.1.117 (talk) 15:43, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Bucket

message: On Caterpillars webpage for there 385C L
http://www.cat.com/cda/layout?m=37840&x=7
they have the Operating Weight of 187360 lb / 84980 kg this being larger than what was indicated I updated it.  Zath42 22:07, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Size

message: http://www.valtio.org/tex/kuvia/kone.jpg
http://www.poltegor-eng.com.pl/eng/zdj_kolo.htm
http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/rhineland/rhineland4.html
http://www.pesc04.org/bilder/images/25_06_2004_Friday_Technical_Tours/Technical_Tour5_Opencast_Mining/Opencast_Hambach/
http://www.wcsscience.com/extreme/excavator03.html
"Bucket wheel excavator", apparently - Omegatron July 5, 2005 00:00 (UTC)
:That would be machines that dig out relatively soft materials (often coal) from open mines. In one end it has a large wheel with buckets that do the digging, and as the wheel rotates, the buckets will empty themselves to a conveyor belt as they are turned upside down. The materials are then sorted and the unuseable (is that a correct word?) items are put on another belt to form a pile in the other end of the machine, while the useable parts are transported to a production/handling facility by trucks, trains or conveyor belts. G®iffen 16:29, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What are these things?

message: At the end of the machine a unit is mounted in order to hammer concrete to small pieces, but what is the english/american word for it? In Denmark it would probably be "betonhammer", which translates to "concrete hammer", but I assume that especially americans could nickname it a bit more exotic than that? G®iffen 16:19, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What is this tool called?

message: I've heard excavators described colloquially on construction sites in Ireland as "rubber ducks", but have no knowledge of why or how widespread this usage is. I'd add a link from Rubber duck (disambiguation), but I have no reference. Has anyone else any more information? jlang 14:38, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rubber Duck

message: I have removed some vandalisation but I would guess there is some text missing in the gallery at the bottom of the page. Anyone care to rescue?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gregpalmerx (talk • contribs) 13:49, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: vandals

message: Was looking to find out what a 'frost bucket' was. Found it was a type of bucket for excavators - wonder if the attachments section could be massively expanded/made into its own article? 82.41.200.77 (talk) 14:52, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bucket and attachment expansion?

message: Joemac90 keeps adding "HY-MAC" as a synonym for "Excavator".  I've done some Google work and can't find anything to justify that.  I see they exist as a company, but that's about it.  Please cite a reliable source indicating the currency of "HY-MAC" as colloquial slang.  Thank you.  —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 19:49, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  HY-MAC 

message: There are so many different types of excavators, yet this article focuses almost exclusively on hydraulic excavators. 
I would suggest creating Hydraulic excavator and moving/associating Compact excavator and Long reach excavator there / with it as they are purely hydraulic excavators of slightly different proportions. 
Excavator should be a more general article about excavators and maybe give a brief introduction to the other types of excavators currently linked from this article. 
Opinions? 
Jenser (talk) 01:40, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope needs to be discussed 

message: I have a project that I am in charge of and we are using federal money to pay for this which means this is a davis bacon job.  When I look at the pay scale we have it calls out various groups for equip operators including trackhoes-hydraulic type. Then later down the sheet it calls out a excavator operator with a different scale.  When I google trackhoe and excavator I get the same pictures (which is the same kind of equipment we are using).  So it appears that the federal goverment doesn't know which is which.
Can anyone explain this and prove which pay item the goverment intends to use for this equipment know as a trackhoe/excavator?
Ankagem (talk) 21:32, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excavator or Trackhoe? 

message: I notice that this article need a major overhaul I will begin the process in a day if no one objects. you can see my progrees and plans in my sandbox here. thanks! --Jeffrd10 (talk) 15:33, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  overhall 

message: While the article describes the control of the house, boom, stick, and bucket, it does not describe the control of the tracks. Would someone who could cite a reliable source please add that information?
John Link (talk) 11:01, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Control of tracks 

message: This article almost exclusively talks about hydraulic excavators. This is most likely due to the fact that in the civil and construction industry almost exclusively use hydraulic excavators (in fact I have never seen any other kind of excavator used other than on mine sites) and so they are colloquially (common name) referred to and marketed as simply "excavators". However, there are many kinds of excavators current and no longer used. An excavator is any large equipment made for the purpose of excavating rock and material, a hydraulic excavator is a type of excavator that uses hydraulic power as the force/mechanic for excavating and consists of a house, boom, ect. The easiest thing to do to correct this issue of nomenclature and colloquial usage is to change the title of this article to "Hydraulic Excavator", notate its common name, and remove the references to Power Shovels.
: Opposed In my opinion the term Excavator relates almost entirely to the hydraulic variety; so does not require any changes. It could also create confusion then it comes to likes of mini excavators and long reach excavators which are at the end of the day Hydraulic Excavators also. FNQ (talk) 12:25, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Good Point I Agree and Disagree. There appears to be no consistent naming convention and convention may in fact change by industry (i.e. mining and construction) and company (i.e. CAT and Komatsu). I have removed the title change statement above until the below statements are addressed. Edwiki2005 (talk) 15:25, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Rename 

message: -Lumber Jack- (talk) 10:56, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal with Backhoe 

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message: Support the 2020 proposal to merge Crawler excavator to here; most of the excavators described on the current page are crawler excavators, so the merge removes duplication. This large subset is readily discussed on the main page. Klbrain (talk) 16:25, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , images only given that there is no referenced text (and given the objections above). Klbrain (talk) 11:13, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: Dozer blade is used, too, to make a small fill to make a better stand or a better way to move the machine. Dozer blade is used as a leg for a stand.
Hoetrack for pipelines.
High reaching arm to destroy high buildings.
Teleskopic arm to reach down a pit to erect the cellar of a building.
Helium4 (talk) 06:08, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tools 

message: How is Gradall not on here? They pioneered hydraulic excavators.Cancun (talk) 04:43, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, then add it, with a source. 149.101.1.117 (talk) 15:47, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gradall? 

message: Excavator 's third sentence says they are a natural progression from the steam shovels and often mistakenly called power shovels, which contradicts Excavator#See also listing Power shovel and Steam shovel under Types of excavator.
Power shovel 's second sentence says Power shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator (without linking to Excavator until later in the sentence, contrasting power shovels with hydraulic excavators).
Steam shovel 's second sentence says It is the earliest type of power shovel or excavator.
Literally, steam shovels and power shovels excavate, so in that sense the term excavator fits, but in that sense a kid digging in the dirt with a spoon is an excavator, so...
Maybe Power shovel needs a hatnote quoting this article--Excavators are often mistakenly called power shovels.
Or maybe this article just needs to be renamed hydraulic excavator and start with the words Hydraulic excavators, generally just called excavators, are heavy construction equipment...
96.244.220.178 (talk) 07:14, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: edit request: are steam shovels and power shovels types of excavators or not?

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