Tracked hydraulic excavator
Digs, rehandles, loads, demolishes.
The fleet
Thirty-five machines, and not one of them does everything.
It is the carrier that decides what an attachment can do.
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The 35 machines
An attachment is not chosen on its own:
it is chosen with the machine that carries it.
Here are the machines you meet on a site, what each one can do, and above all
what it cannot do.
This section is an exception to the rest of the site. Elsewhere, no
dimension or capacity is published:
a generic value
helps nobody.
Here, figures do appear — always tied
to a named model, to a source and to a date.
None is an average, none is estimated.
It is the carrier that decides what an attachment can do.
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Contents
- Hydraulic excavators (7)
- Loaders (3)
- Handling and lifting (4)
- Heavy earthmoving and grading (3)
- Transport and compaction (5)
- Agriculture and green spaces (3)
- Drilling, foundations and specialised machines (6)
- Lifting and working at height (4)
11 of these machines directly carry an attachment from our catalogue.
7 machines
Hydraulic excavators
The site's reference carrier.
Articulated arm, slewing superstructure, auxiliary hydraulic line:
it is the machine designed to change tools.
Mini-excavator
The same machine, scaled down to get in where an excavator cannot:
gardens, cellars, interiors, utility trenches in town centres.
Wheeled hydraulic excavator
An excavator that travels by itself on the road between two work points.
Road-rail excavator
An excavator equipped to run on the railway as well as on the road.
High-reach demolition excavator
An excavator whose boom is designed to reach the top of a building and take it down from above, without explosives and without a wrecking ball.
Spider excavator
Four independently adjustable legs:
it stands on a bank, a river bed or a slope where no other excavator can.
Backhoe loader
A loader bucket at the front, an excavator arm at the back, and the road in between.
3 machines
Loaders
They push and they load.
The arm is short, the force is at the front, and the range of tools is real but different from an excavator's.
Skid-steer loader
It turns on the spot by skidding one side against the other.
Compact tracked loader
The same machine on rubber tracks:
it spreads its weight and works on soft ground, sand or waterlogged terrain where the wheeled version bogs down.
Wheeled loader
Loading a lorry, rehandling a stockpile, feeding a plant.
4 machines
Handling and lifting
Lifting, moving, placing.
Forks first, but not only forks.
Site telehandler
A telescopic boom on an all-terrain carrier:
it places a load high up and far out, without a crane and without heavy outriggers.
Rotating telehandler
A telehandler whose superstructure slews:
it sets up once, stabilises, and serves several points without moving again.
Counterbalance forklift truck
Lifting and moving palletised loads on hard, flat ground:
dock, workshop, depot, merchant's yard.
Rough-terrain forklift truck
The fork-lift truck transposed onto a site carrier:
it unloads a lorry at the edge of a haul road, not at a loading dock.
3 machines
Heavy earthmoving and grading
Moving volume, grading a platform.
Few interchangeable tools, a great deal of presence on the same sites.
Dozer
Pushing material ahead of you over a short distance, stripping, opening a haul road, grading a fill.
Grader
Grading a surface to the required slope with a blade placed between the axles.
Scraper
Loading on the move, transporting, spreading on the move.
5 machines
Transport and compaction
They carry almost nothing, but they set the rhythm of the site.
Dump truck
Carrying material on haul roads, off-road, between the extraction point and the treatment point.
Power barrow
Removing spoil from a trench or a small footprint, where a lorry cannot get in.
Site lorry
Taking material off the site and bringing supplies to it.
Compactor
Squeezing a material to give it its final bearing capacity.
Low-loader
Bringing the machine in and taking it away again.
3 machines
Agriculture and green spaces
Power take-off, three-point linkage, hydraulics:
a different hitching system, a different logic of tools.
Agricultural tractor
Pulling, driving, carrying.
Municipal tool carrier
A carrier designed to change equipment with the seasons:
sweeping, mowing, weed control, snow clearing, salting.
Compact tractor
Maintaining grassed surfaces, small transport tasks, small mounted tools.
6 machines
Drilling, foundations and specialised machines
Dedicated machines, sometimes built around a single tool.
Drilling rig
Drilling a well, a micropile, a ground investigation, an anchor.
Special foundations rig
Driving, vibratory driving, large-diameter drilling, building a diaphragm wall.
Trencher
Opening a narrow, regular trench continuously, over a length.
Road milling machine
Removing a thickness of asphalt across a full width before resurfacing.
Paver
Spreading and pre-compacting asphalt to the required thickness and slope.
Sweeper
Cleaning a carriageway, a site exit, a storage area.
4 machines
Lifting and working at height
Present on the same sites, but they carry no excavator attachment.
Mobile crane
Lifting a heavy load to a precise point, then leaving.
Tower crane
Serving a building site continuously from a fixed point.
Loader crane
Loading and unloading the lorry that carries it, and placing in the immediate vicinity.
Mobile elevating work platform
Bringing a person and their tools to a point at height, safely.
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