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 Definition:  Equipment, which may be mobile, semipermanent, or permanent, intended for heavy work such as earthmoving, lifting containers or materials, drilling holes in earth or rock, or concrete or paving application [d] [e]
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I don't want to take the time to make these edits readable, so I'm offering them here for me or anyone else to incorporate into the article:

  • Mobile construction equipment needs extremely good traction, so it either has full continuous tracks, or large wheels with a very large tread. - Many pieces of equipment also have deployable outriggers to stabilize themselves.
  • Drilling: pile drivers, mining and oil drills, post diggers, tunnel boring machines, pneumatic hammer - Pile driving isn't drilling. Pneumatic hammers are used for many things which aren't drilling, as well as for drilling.
  • Construction equipment are medium to extremely large machines ... What is "medium"? Is this "construction equipment" or a tool?
  • Hoisting: mobile cranes and tow trucks, overhead conveyors and elevators - "hoisting" seems the wrong word for this category - perhaps "material handling"?
  • Compactors are earthmoving equipment as well as paving equipment; it may be better to combine the two categories. There are many "grading and paving" contractors, as the two types of work are very similar.

Anthony Argyriou 22:33, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

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