This colorful photohistory features the giant equipment used in the mining and excavation industries. A bucketload of magnificent color photography depicts giant rear- and bottom-dump trucks, track dozers, wheel dozers, wheel loaders, scrapers, graders and hydraulic excavators--all of which are shown at work and from dramatic angles that accentuate their gargantuan size. More than half of the 24 manufacturers represented are North American.
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Eric Orlemann is the author of MBI titles like Giant Earth-Moving Equipment, Euclid and Terex Earth-Moving Machines and Caterpillar.
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EARTHMOVERS!,
By Metal Monster (Morgantown, WV - USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Super-Duty Earthmovers (Paperback)
Super-Duty Earthmovers by Eric C. Orlemann hits you right in the face with colorful pictures of gargantuan machines that you rarely ever see. Orlemann shows various angles of the machines with pictures of humans and automobiles for scale, so that you can put into perspective just how large the machines really are. Overall, Orlemann's usage of big colorful crisp pictures along with stats and miscellaneous information makes Super-Duty Earthmovers a very interesting and enjoyable book. This book is a MUST for earthmoving machinery fans!
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Super Duty Earthmovers,
By Jeff Solley (New Galilee, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Super-Duty Earthmovers (Paperback)
This book is a must have for anyone that likes large equipment. The pictures are fantastic, and it's a book that you just can't seem to put down. The equipment is mostly the very large machines used in large scale mining. Loads of equipment that you just don't see working along the highway building the next shopping center. The information has been very well researched and gives vital statistics without overloading the reader. Eric Orlemann is an author that writes books of such high quality, that they are a must have for the equipment enthusiast.
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Great earthmovers and amazing photos,
By Dalton C. Rocha (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super-Duty Earthmovers (Paperback)
I read this very good book, here in Brazil. This book has dozens of photos. The vast majority of its photos are in color. And the photos of this book are excellent.
The text itself is amazing clear, concise, short and correct. An expect would expect more text, but for me, it was enough. I found just two small problems in this book: 1-About the Caterpillar D-9 there's informations about D-9 made until 1981, but this book has nothing about the new D-9 made since 1982. Since 1982, all D-9 have an elevated drive sprocket track-type tractor. And this book forgets they. 2-On page 81, this book writes 1996, instead of 1986, about the last year of production of Caterpillar D-10. These small problems, don't tanish this book and I must give five stars for it.
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The rear-dump hauler, most commonly referred to as a "dump truck," is one of the most common pieces of earth-moving equipment we see every day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standard bucket capacity, scraper unit, wheel dozers, largest wheel loader, payload rating, electric traction motors, motor grader, working weight, yard bucket, operating weight, prototype unit, cubic yards, wheel motors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Detroit Diesel, Unit Rig, Lectra Haul, Las Vegas, American Mining Congress, Clark Michigan, New Mexico, Komatsu Demag, Komatsu Haulpak, Powder River Basin, Western Contracting Corporation, British Columbia, Caballo Mine, Electric Digger, International Harvester, United States, Captain Mine, Freedom Mine, Liebherr Mining Equipment, North America, Bucyrus International, Dart Trucks, Marion Power Shovel Company, North Dakota, Rochelle North Antelope Complex New!
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The rear-dump hauler, most commonly referred to as a "dump truck," is one of the most common pieces of earth-moving equipment we see every day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standard bucket capacity, scraper unit, wheel dozers, largest wheel loader, payload rating, electric traction motors, motor grader, working weight, yard bucket, operating weight, prototype unit, cubic yards, wheel motors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Detroit Diesel, Unit Rig, Lectra Haul, Las Vegas, American Mining Congress, Clark Michigan, New Mexico, Komatsu Demag, Komatsu Haulpak, Powder River Basin, Western Contracting Corporation, British Columbia, Caballo Mine, Electric Digger, International Harvester, United States, Captain Mine, Freedom Mine, Liebherr Mining Equipment, North America, Bucyrus International, Dart Trucks, Marion Power Shovel Company, North Dakota, Rochelle North Antelope Complex New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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