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Road construction machines

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For the development of the economy of any country, good well maintained roads play quite a vital role. If you have good roads it becomes easy to transport goods from one place to another. Right from agricultural sector to manufacturing industry, all of them highly depend on good constructed roads. One can easily understand how important it is to ferry agricultural products to the main market from where it gets further distributed to the wholesaler and then finally to the retailer. Similarly, raw materials are transported day in and day out so that the manufacturing and other industries can function without any hindrance. It becomes very important to ensure that the roads are well maintained and whatever heavy equipment are required to keep the quality of the roads in place are done without any compromise. Unlike in a construction sector, only few sets of heavy equipment are needed to construct roads and also to maintain them.

As far as the road construction work goes, usage of heavy equipment depends on the kind of work that is needed to be done. It ideally varies from constructing a new road or just working on few repairs on the existing one.

Motor grader:-

Before placing asphalt on the road, it is important to flatten the surface. This can be done with the help of a motor grader. The ones that are used to flatten the surface have 3 axles with the cab on the top of the rear axle and the third axle is located at the very front of the machine. It also has a very long blade in the center of the axles.

Road roller machine:-

A road roller is a common type of heavy equipment that one will find in a road construction area. It is used to press the layer of asphalt that has been laid on the ground. Ideally, 2 to 3 layers of asphalt are laid and thereafter the roller machine is rolled on the road and presses the asphalt to make the road smooth. There are several types of rollers that one can find on road construction projects. The type of rollers is often selected keeping into consideration the kind of road being constructed. There are rubber tire rollers or double drum asphalt rollers or rollers that are combination of both of the rollers. As stated, the kind of construction of roads actually suggests the type of rollers to be used for the project.

Excavator:-

Excavators are machines that are used to dig earth and rocks. They are used in road construction projects where there is a need to excavate a portion of land that will help to bring the road to a level. They are also used to break an uneven structure with the help of the boom or the bucket and collect all the dirt and load it on the dump truck.

Wheel Loader:-

A wheel loader is considered to be vital heavy equipment when it comes to construction of roads. It is used to gather all the dirt from the earth and dump it on a dump truck. Due to the big size of the bucket, it can pile up loads of dirt and dump it at a given point of time.

Wheel Loaders – Facts You Must Know Before Moving Into the Construction Segment

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There are some heavy equipment without which it is unimaginable to run the construction business smoothly and out of those machines, perhaps the most important one which no construction company would like to do away are the Wheel Loaders. Construction and mining experts believe that these industries can’t move an inch without the utility of these machines and hence they form an important part as far as both the segments are concerned. The utility part is most likely a debatable one. However, leaving this aside, we can definitely see a lot of importance of this equipment in the present scenario.
Let us first understand what exactly a wheel loader is and its importance in the construction industry. Wheel Loaders are ideally heavy equipments which have a loader or a bucket in the front and are driven by a tractor. It is used for many reasons like clear up the pavements, or to carry materials like asphalt, mud, demolition debris, snow etc. It is found to be highly significant while clearing the snow from the roads. Especially when there are huge blocks of snow mounted on the road, it is nearly impossible to get that cleared manually. You need a heavy equipment to that moved off and you don’t have a better alternative than putting wheel loader to some use.
That was about snow. If we talk about paving a way in the forest, once the trees are chopped down, you need machines like these to take off the logs and ferry it to some other place. A wheel loader has been proven to be highly successful in getting such work done in a smooth manner.
Wheel loaders are ideally driven on wheels but at times, it has also been moved on tracks, thus displaying its compatibility on wheels as well as on the tracks. It has also shown its metal in the mining industry where it is used to pick up stockpiled stuffs and dump it in the truck. You will come across a lot of stuffs in a mining site that are heavy and are simply lying idle. For instance, piles of rocks, coal, demolition debris etc lie to be ferried by the loaders. The loader fills the materials in the bucket and dumps it in the truck.
The wheel loader can be used for multiple purposes if the attachments can be replaced with something else suited for the desired job. Therefore, there are two different kinds of loaders. The first kind has the bucket permanently fixed with the tractor and the other where the loader can be replaced by some other attachment. This makes the machine user friendly and experts have this one in their recommendation list.
Almost all the major heavy equipments manufacturing companies produces wheel loaders as they get enough orders from big construction and mining houses. To name a few companies like Caterpillar, John Deere, Kawasaki, Volvo etc produce large loaders. Whereas companies like JCB are known for producing quality backhoe loaders. The wheel loaders might be a bit expensive one but it’s worth every dollar you pay.