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Despite advancements in street sweeping technology, the mechanical broom type street sweeper accounts for approximately 90 percent of all street sweepers used in the United States today. [12] In 2018, Boschung, a Swiss street sweeper manufacturer, launched the Urban-Sweeper S2.0, the first fully electric street sweeper releasing zero emissions.
Feather dusters serve the same function as soft brooms or brushes, except that they are only meant to remove loose superficial dust from delicate surfaces (such as paintings and papercrafts) or around fragile items (such as porcelain and glassware). They are effective in cleaning tight areas, or areas where there are many odds and ends.
Principle of rope-shovel operation. [1]A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, [2] is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity and used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. [3]
Excavators are also called diggers, scoopers, mechanical shovels, or 360-degree excavators (sometimes abbreviated simply to "360"). Tracked excavators are sometimes called "trackhoes" by analogy to the backhoe. [4] In the UK, wheeled excavators are sometimes known as "rubber ducks". [5]
Road maintenance agencies and contractors in temperate or polar areas often own several winter service vehicles, using them to keep the roads clear of snow and ice and safe for driving during winter. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Airports use winter service vehicles to keep aircraft surfaces, runways , and taxiways free of snow and ice, which, besides ...
The windrows are then broken up and spread over the road. Casting is the moving of snow by means of a shovel or plow to nearby public lands. On boulevards or highways winging back is done, which consists of pushing the snow banks further from the road. The most expensive option, but necessary when there are no nearby places to dump the snow, is ...
Caterpillar soil compactor equipped with padfoot drum, being used to compact the ground before placing concrete Antique "Kemna" steamroller. A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller [1]) is a compactor-type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations. [1]
Replacing the old road with cobblestones of cement in Bo'ao Road area, Haikou City, Hainan, China. Road work in Oulu, Finland. Roadworks, also called road construction or road work, occur when part of the road, or in rare cases, the entire road, has to be occupied for work relating to the road, most often in the case of road surface repairs.