What Exactly is Construction Hauling Equipment?
Construction majorly involves hauling or moving things around, like rock, debris, materials, pieces of machinery, soil, aggregate, ore, petroleum, etc on site. This movement is accomplished using hauling units such as road vehicles, rail locomotives, or some other pieces of equipment. Let’s see different types of construction hauling equipment.
Excavators
Their primary function of excavators in construction is to excavate, but they are also used for various other tasks such as lifting heavy objects, demolition, river dredging, tree cutting, etc.
01. Spider Excavator
It moves on “legs” rather than tracks and is designed to work on all kinds of terrain, including mountain roads and narrow ditches.
02. Swamp Excavator
It has a unique track that makes it appropriate for dredging projects and was designed specifically for jobs near water.
03. Zero Swing Excavators
This equipment has an arm that can only swing within its width, which makes it suitable for excavation in confined spaces.
Backhoe
A hoe setup is located on the back side of the vehicle, while the loading scoop is in the front.
Bulldozers
Bulldozers are another type of soil-digging equipment used to excavate the topsoil layer to a specific depth. The wide metal plate with a sharp edge on the front removes soil. The operator lowers and lifts the plate using hydraulic pistons.
Wheel Tractor Scraper
The front section is a tractor vehicle with wheels, and the back section is a scrapping arrangement with a horizontal frontal blade, a conveyor belt, and then a dirt-collecting hopper.
Trenchers
Trenchers, also known as trenching machines, dig trenches in the ground for laying pipelines, cable, drainage, and other purposes. Trenching machines are classified as either chain trenchers or wheeled trenchers.
Loaders
Loaders are used on construction sites to load materials (excavated soil, demolition debris, raw materials, and other materials) onto dumpers, trucks, and other vehicles. A loader has a large bucket at the front and a shorter moving arm.
Cranes
Construction Cranes lift and move supplies and materials during construction. They have cords, sheaves, and a hoist on them.
01. Mobile Cranes
Trusses are mounted on mobile platforms such as trucks or flatcars.
02. Fixed Cranes
Tower cranes used as hoists in constructing skyscrapers are known as fixed cranes. This equipment can readily lift heavy items such as pre-stressed concrete blocks, steel trusses, frames, and so on up to the desired height.
03. Compactors
Rollers, or compactors, compact the substance or the earth’s surface. Compactors of various sorts are offered for multiple compacting purposes.
Telehandlers
Construction telehandlers are hoisting machines used to lift heavy materials to a required height or to provide a construction platform for labourers at greater heights, among other things. It has a long telescopic boom that can be raised, lowered, and advanced.
Feller Bunchers
A feller buncher is a piece of heavy machinery used in the construction industry to remove large trees. They cut down the tree and grab it all without felling it, and they also gather all of the downed trees in one location, making the job simple and easy for loaders and dump trucks.
Trucks
When travelling on established roads, their high transport speeds allow for more rapid transportation of materials. Their low hauling costs also provide flexibility when determining overall hauling ability or in the event of a location change.
01. Dump Trucks
On building sites, dump trucks are frequently utilised to move heavy materials from one location to another or into the dump yard. Large-scale building projects often make use of off-road dump trucks.
02. Hauling Trucks
It is used to transport a fleet of equipment from one location to another (for public, military, or service construction).
Pile Boring Machine
A pile boring machine drills a hole in the building sites to install precast piles.
Pile Driving Machine
Pile-driving equipment is another type of heavy equipment used on the job site for constructing pile foundations. This equipment raises the pile, holds it in place, and then drives it to the required depth.
Shovels
Shovels are used to dig and load rocks and soil in preparation for mineral extraction. Their greatest strengths are their ability to dig into exceptionally tough substances and lift large objects such as boulders.
Tractors
Though tractors are most often used for pulling and pushing other construction equipment, the critical advantage of tractors is the variety of available parts that can be used to complete various tasks. Fast hitches, backhoes, buckets, and blades are all available components.
Trailer
A trailer is a motorless vehicle dragged by a controlled vehicle. It is commonly used to transport products and materials such as concrete, steel, TMT bars, rods, etc.
Tippers
A dump truck, also called an unloader truck and sometimes a tipper truck, transports debris from construction sites. A tipper is a big vehicle with an open-top body that transports loads of concrete, crushed stone, soil, and other materials from construction sites.
Forklift
It was created in the twentieth century and is essentially an industrial truck that transfers and lifts items over short distances.
Concrete Mixer
A cement mixer is a machine that combines concrete, such as sand or rock, and water regularly to shape concrete. To blend the components, a standard mixer uses a spinning drum.
Conveyer System
Conveyor systems provide an efficient, dependable, profitable, and low-risk method for removing garbage and debris from digging removal sites.
Conclusion
The importance of construction equipment, including hauling equipment, cannot be overstated in the construction sector. Accounting for approximately 30% of total building costs, these tools are indispensable for various construction tasks such as earthmoving and transporting materials like cement from the plant to the job site. Among the critical factors determining the effectiveness of construction hauling equipment is its operation time, commonly referred to as the cycle time. Reducing operational time can result in substantial cost savings and enhanced efficiency. However, analyzing cycle time concerns can be challenging due to the intricacies involved in assessing and optimizing equipment performance.
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Mira Zala – Mira Zala is a civil engineer by profession and an avid content writer. She graduated from S.S. Gandhi Degree Engineering College, Gujarat. She loves to write blogs on building materials, gardening and technology. Apart from writing, she loves singing and painting.
