bulldozer

bull dozer

Compactors \ levellers \ breakers

A compactor is a machine or mechanism used to reduce the size of waste material or soil through compaction.

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 waste collection vehicles.

Most often, bulldozers are large and powerful tracked engineering vehicles. Tracks give them ground hold and mobility through very rough terrain. Wide tracks help distribute the bulldozer's weight over large area, thus preventing it from sinking in sandy or muddy ground. Extra wide tracks are known as 'swamp tracks'.

The ripper

A long claw like device on the back of the bulldozer. Rippers can come singly, or in groups or two or more (multi shank rippers). Usually, a single shank is preferred for heavy ripping. The ripper shank is fitted with a replaceable tungsten steel alloy tip.

Blade

The bulldozer blade is a piece of heavy metal plate, installed on the front of the tractor, with the aim of pushing things, handling rough obstacles and shoving sand, soil and debris. The dozer blade on front of the tractor usually comes in 3 varieties:

A Straight Blade (S-Blade) which is short and has no lateral curve, no side wings, and can be used for fine grading.
A Universal Blade (U-Blade) which is tall and very curved, and has large side wings to carry more material.
A S-U combination blade which is shorter, has less curvature, and smaller side wings. This blade is typically used for pushing piles of large rocks, such as at a quarry.

Bulldozers can be found on large and small scale construction sites, mines, roadsides, military bases, heavy industry factories, and governmental projects.

A bulldozer is a very powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor), equipped with a substantial metal plate (known as a blade), used to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, etc, during construction work. The term bulldozer is often used to mean any heavy engineering vehicle, but precisely, the term refers only to a tractor (usually tracked) fitted with a dozer blade.

WCVs 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.

Armored bulldozer is a bulldozer which features armour; they are a standard tool for combat engineering. These combat engineering vehicles combine the earth moving capabilities of the bulldozer with armor which gives the vehicle and its operator protection when operating in or around a combat situation.

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