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    This document provides an overview of excavators, including: 1. A brief history of excavators, noting they have improved earthmoving by making it easier to shape land for construction projects. 2. Basic specs and features of excavators like their boom, dipper, bucket, and cab on a rotating platform over tracks or wheels. 3. A table listing general excavator specifications such as operating weight, engine details, dimensions, performance metrics like travel speed and digging depths.

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    This document provides an overview of excavators, including: 1. A brief history of excavators, noting they have improved earthmoving by making it easier to shape land for construction projects. 2. Basic specs and features of excavators like their boom, dipper, bucket, and cab on a rotating platform over tracks or wheels. 3. A table listing general excavator specifications such as operating weight, engine details, dimensions, performance metrics like travel speed and digging depths.

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    Junior Excavator Textbook

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    This document provides an overview of excavators, including: 1. A brief history of excavators, noting they have improved earthmoving by making it easier to shape land for construction projects. 2. Basic specs and features of excavators like their boom, dipper, bucket, and cab on a rotating platform over tracks or wheels. 3. A table listing general excavator specifications such as operating weight, engine details, dimensions, performance metrics like travel speed and digging depths.

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    Unit Objectives: UNIT 1.2: About The Product

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    UNIT 1.

    2: About the Product

    Unit Objectives
    At the end of this unit you will be able to:

    1. Know the history of excavators

    2. Understand the basic features and use of excavators

    3. Identify the various parts of excavators and their use

    4. Understand the safety features of excavators

    1.2.1 Brief History of Excavators

    Most construction projects, especially large-scale undertakings, begin with land excavation. During this
    initial phase of construction, excavation contractors use heavy equipment to carve away or fill in the
    existing land to make way for new buildings, roadways, and sewers. Before the rise of motorized
    construction machinery, earthmoving was a truly backbreaking process. With the help from hydraulic
    excavators, it is now much easier to shape the land according to the needs of the project.

    Driven by a skilled equipment operator, a hydraulic excavator aids the site supervisor in meeting
    construction deadlines. While their specific capabilities vary depending on size and available attachments,
    all excavators work in a similar fashion. Though they are most commonly seen working on large
    construction projects, models in the mini class are designed to handle smaller jobs.

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    1.2.2 Brief Specs, Features and Performance

    Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a Boom, Dipper (or Stick), bucket and cab on
    a rotating platform known as the “Cabin”. The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels.
    They are a natural progression from the steam shovels and often mistakenly called power shovels.

    All movement and functions of a hydraulic excavator are accomplished through the use of hydraulic fluid,
    with hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic motors. Due to the linear actuation of hydraulic cylinders, their
    mode of operation is fundamentally different from cable-operated excavators which uses winches and
    steel ropes to accomplish the movements.

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    1.2.2.1 General Excavator Specifications

    Item Unit DIMENSIONS


    Operating weight Kg 21,390
    Bucket mass Kg 900
    Name of engine SAA6D107-1 diesel engine
    Engine horsepower KW (HP)/rpm 110 (148)/2,000
    Overall length mm 9,475
    Overall height mm 3,000
    Overall width mm 2,800
    Track width mm 600
    Height of cab mm 3,025
    Radius of upper structure mm 2,800
    Length of track mm 4,080
    Tumbler center distance mm 3,270
    Min. ground clearance mm 440
    PERFORMANCE
    Travel speed (Lo/Mi/Hi) km/h 3.0/4.1/5.5
    Swing speed rpm 12.4
    Max. digging reach mm 9,875
    Max. digging depth mm 6,620
    Max. digging height mm 10,000
    Max. vertical wall depth mm 5,980
    Max. dumping height mm 7,110
    Min. dumping height mm 2,645
    Max. reach at ground level mm 9,700

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    2.1: Names of Parts & Controls, Panels

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