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20+ Machinery For Construction Industry: With Images and Uses

✔ This article provides information on the 15 most popular machinery for construction industry.  In the construction field, different types of machinery might be heavy, light, or medium. Machinery is used to make work faster, easier, and more convenient.

✔ To make any project economical, machines play a vital role by reducing workers’ numbers and performing work in a short time more efficiently.

 


 

20+ Popular Machinery For Construction Industry  

✔ We have provided a table of 15 popular machinery for construction industry with the image and use of each type.

NameImage Use
1. ExcavatorsUsed for digging trenches or excavation work.
2. BackhoeUsed for excavation and moving heavy debris.
3. Dragline ExcavatorUsed for surface mining.
4. Dump TrucksUsed for transporting construction materials.
5. Loaders Used for loading materials into trucks, laying pipe, clearing rubble, and digging.
6. Bulldozers Used for shallow digging, leveling, and ditching.
7. TrenchersUsed to dig trenches.
8. Tower CranesUsed to hoist and move heavy items and materials
9. PaversUsed to make roads, driveways, patios, walkways, and other outdoor platforms.
10. Feller Bunchers Used in logging.
11. CompactorsUsed to compact the materials like in road.
12. Wheel Tractor ScraperUsed to remove or move gravel, dust, coal, mud, and other unwanted material from the ground surface.
13. Pile Boring MachineUsed to drill/create piles in soil.
14. Pile Driving MachineUsed to drive piles into the ground to create a foundation to support buildings and other large structures.
15. TelehandlersUsed in heavy materials handling.
16. Concrete Mixer TruckUsed to transport concrete from the plant to the site.
 
17. Concrete Pumpsused in transporting concrete from the containers to where it is needed.
 
18. CranesUsed for lifting heavy objects.
 
19. ConveyorsUsed to transport materials horizontally on a construction site.
 
20. GeneratorsUsed in power production required at construction sites.
 
21. CompressorsUsed to power pneumatic tools like drills, road cleaners, etc.
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