excavating machinery

Photographs and simple text introduce students in kindergarten through third grade to diggers, describing how they work and what they do.

An illustrated introduction to bulldozers, looking at the parts of the big trucks and the types of work they do.

Text and cross-section illustrations present the design and uses of various digging and excavating machines, including the backhoe loader, walking drag-line excavator, and mining shovel.

Discover fascinating facts including the important role of a digger.

Simple text and illustrations depict the multiple functions of diggers, a type of construction machinery that is used to make holes for buildings, dredge waterways, dig ditches, and more, with information about their history, operation, physical characteristics, and capacities.

Gives information about this machine by listing its working parts, describing its cab, and explaining how it is used throughout the world and how it is constructed.

Illustrations and simple text describe machines that are used in road and house building, forestry, and mining industries. Climb aboard a backhoe, watch as building is knocked over, and learn how a road is made. Take an up-close look at the wide variety of machines that are used on a building site.

Describes underground areas including subways, bank vaults, and basement offices as well as the machines used to construct these places, dig tunnels, mine coal, and drill for oil.

Briefly describes the parts of a digger, or excavator, and the work it does.