Excavators are intended for excavating rocks and soils. Excavator may have a mechanical or hydraulic drive. Hydraulic excavators are the most important group of excavators. It consists of four link members: the bucket, the stick, the boom and the revolving superstructure (upper carriage). There is an almost limitless range of sizes of backhoe, from hoes mounted on small agricultural tractors used in residential construction all the way to huge crawler-mounted hoes capable of handling some of the heaviest work in industrial jobs. These excavators are also operated with other attachments such as clamshell, dragline, drilling equipments, scarifies for breaking pavements and frozen soils. On the other hand, the work functions of the backhoe often overlap those of other machines such as front-end loaders, tractor shovel, scrapers, clamshells and draglines. For light duty construction work, generally mini hydraulic backhoe excavators are used and mostly there are soil surfaces for excavation. So, design of backhoe excavator
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Unique Paper ID: 145031
Publication Volume & Issue: Volume 4, Issue 7
Page(s): 35 - 38
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