Heavy equipment is essential for construction jobs of almost any size, from home building to large-scale commercial and civil projects. Earth-moving equipment covers a broad range of machines that can excavate, grade, lift, and transport, along with other jobs. Earth movers and other heavy equipment help to speed not only earth work but also material handling, demolition, and construction. Many types of heavy construction equipment are designed for multiple functions, making them indispensable on job sites. This blog will quickly discuss the Wheeled or ‘Rubber Tire’ Loader.
A wheel loader is a four-wheeled machine used for earthmoving. Generally, it features a front-mounted bucket designed to scoop, hold and transport loosely packed materials, such as sand, dirt, and stone. This machine may also be called a skip loader, scoop loader, or even a bucket loader. Modern wheel loaders come with a wide variety of attachments, which makes them very versatile tools for your worksite (Wheel Loaders – AMI Attachments).
With a wide range of applications, these machines come in sizes with operating weights as small as 5-tons and buckets sizes of less than 1 cubic yard to the massive machines weighing more than 250-tons and bucket sizes approaching 57 cubic yards. The smaller machines can be found with landscapers and in community materials yards, whereas the larger machines are found in quarries and mining operations. Though primarily used to load material, the wheel loader can also be used to ‘bulldoze’ material and ‘grade’ a site. Wheel Loaders are the absolute best machines for clearing a parking lot of snow too! Got some material you need handled, or thinking about adding a wheel loader to your fleet? Give Hamma Down Enterprises a call, we’ll be glad to assist you with your project or help you figure what is the best wheel loader for you to get.
