SHOVEL

A shovel is usually a hand tool, which

normally consists of a wide blade
with edges on its sides that are fixed
to accommodate length handle.
BLADE
HANDLE
HOLD OR CONTROL
BLADE
The main parts of a power shovel are
mounting, cabin, boom, dipper stick
or arm & the excavator or dipper
bucket.
Travel unit
Revolving unit
Front add attachment
All excavators such as power
shovel are basically consist of
three unit as explained below
SHOVEL
TRAVEL UNIT
SHOVEL
CRAWLER WHEEL
TRAVEL UNIT MAY BE IN THE FORM OF CRAWLER MOUNTING OR
WHEEL MOUNTING AND ACCORDINGLY THE EXCAVATORS ARE KNOWN
AS CRAWLER MOUNTED OR WHEEL MOUNTED EXCAVATOR.
SHOVEL
REVOLVING UNIT CONSIST OF
OPERATER CABIN CAN BE
REVOLVED IN DESIRED POSITION
AS IT RESTS ON A DECK OR
REVOLVING PLATEFORM
THIS REVOLVING UNIT IS BASIC MODULE PRESENT IN MANY EXCAVATOR UNIT
ONLY THE FRONT ATTACHMENT IS CHANGED AS PER BEHAVIOUR OF
EXCAVATOR IT MOSTLY DIGS ABOVE MACHINE BASE LEVEL AND HAS A
LIMITED DIGGING CAPACITY BELOW BASE LEVEL. IT HAS A QUICK DIGGING
CYCLE AND DOES THE WORK OF DIGGING COMPACT OR HARDER WORKING
FACES . THE DIGGING AND DUMPING ARE PERFORMED WITH GOOD
CONTROL AND ACCURACY
SHOVEL
This machine is chiefly employed for digging trenches
for drains, sewers, water pipes, etc. It is used for
excavating basements, especially on confined sites
which preclude the use of the shovel at the required
level.
This machine is called the back-acter for, like the
dragline, the bucket at the end of the dipper handle of
the drag shovel has a backward cutting action towards
the machine.
BACK ACTER
It has certain advantages of both dragline and shovel: for example,

it resembles the dragline in that it digs below its own level,
but as the bucket can be firmly held whilst excavating (like the shovel) the drag
shovel will dig heavier soils than will a dragline of the same size.