Bucket-equipped machine used for digging and loading earth
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] Power shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics like in the modern hydraulic excavators.
Basic parts of a power shovel include the track system, cabin, cables, rack, stick, boom foot-pin, saddle block, boom, boom point sheaves and bucket.
The size of bucket varies from 0.73 to 53 cubic meters.
P&H 4100 XPB cable loading shovel.
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