How Much Do You Know About Road Construction Equipment?

A concrete mixer is that vehicle you see with the big drum that revolves around at the back. That's where they mix water and cement to become concrete.

A motor grader has a long blade as part of its mechanism. That blade plays a very important role in road construction.

Trenchers can really dig down the earth, and in a continuous mechanical manner. So that saves a lot of time for workers.

Scrapers are generally used for earth moving purposes. They're useful in constructions, mining, and also in agriculture work.

A backhoe is essentially a digger machine. It has a digging bucket and an articulated arm working to dig the ground.

A road roller machine is the one that presses down asphalt on the road. It's a bit noisy during operation.

A conveyor indeed looks like a huge assembly line delivery equipment. It has a huge conveyor belt that transports materials easily.

A light tower is a flexible lighting system that comes in very handy on the road. It's built to be sturdy and mobile.

A tipper is a kind of truck with a back platform that carries anything. And whatever it carries can be tilted out of the truck when a part of it is raised.

The bulldozer is probably the most recognized road construction equipment. That's because of its unique look and imposing structure.

A dump truck is useful for hauling and moving bulk material. A backhoe could dump debris or dirt in here, and the truck will dump that somewhere else.

In a road construction site, sometimes some form of liquid load needs to be delivered. That's the use of a tank trunk, also called a tanker.

A trailer per se is not a vehicle. It's usually an attachment that gets driven to haul something to a construction site.

A wheel loader is essentially a kind of tractor. It's also known as a skip loader, a bucket holder, or a front loader.

Roller type compactors come in three different kinds of machines depending on what kind of compacting job they need to do. The plate compactor comes in handy when the road needs to be level graded.

The asphalt mixing plant needs to keep the asphalt hot before it gets poured out. That's why newly layered asphalt sometimes still feel hot to the touch.

A stump grinder is a specialized equipment designed to eliminate any tree stumps that might have been left prior to doing formal road work construction. These powerful tools can hack away whatever stump is left there on the ground.

A crane is very handy in any construction site. So you also see it during road constructions.

A generator is needed in any kind of road construction work. It powers some machinery and equipment needed on the job.

An excavator is much like a backhoe, only it's not exactly the whole machinery with wheels. An excavator is a hydraulic-powered excavating mechanism attached to a track, while a backhoe has its own wheels as a stand-alone vehicle.

An articulated truck has a special pivot joint in its mechanism, making it very flexible for travel. This comes in handy when doing road construction works, and materials need to be delivered in areas where there are very, very sharp turns.

The paver is the special machine designed to lay down the asphalt on the road. It is also called asphalt finisher or simply the paving machine.

Traffic cones are usually placed in certain areas to alert incoming vehicles of ongoing road construction work in a specific section of the road. They're usually colored orange so they are easier to see.

A landscape rake is an attachment to a tractor that does specialized kind of rake jobs. It's specifically designed to clear fields from dirt and debris.

A pulverizer powerfully grinds materials into finer grade, sometimes even in powder form. That's why it's also called a grinder.

A snow pusher is also called a box plow. Before even getting to do road construction work, one needs to push all that snow away on the surface if it's wintertime.

A road sweeper is a special vehicle that has attached circular spinning brushes with water sprays which sweeps through a road when needed. It's useful for cleaning the road construction site after the job is done, or it's used to finish off the job.

An asphalt cutter comes in handy during road repair works. It's specially designed to cut through specific portions of the asphalt road when it needs to be analyzed for repairs.

A wheel saw can easily cut through concrete. It's really useful in road repair works, and is usually powered through a form of hydraulics system attachment.

A heavy-duty broom looks like a wheeled drum rolling machine, but with brush-like material for the drum roll. This brush contraption looks like it's attached to the front end of a small vehicle that operates it.

A cold planer is used to remove partial parts of the road only, either for repair or other purpose. This process is also called pavement milling or cold planing.

A construction compressor is basically an air compressor that road construction workers use if they need the services of pressurized air. These are usually portable in design, so they will be easy to transport on the road.

A forklift truck has many other terms. It's also called a fork hoist, a jitney, or simply a lift truck.

A road header is banged onto a huge rock formation in order to create a cave opening at first. They are excellent tools for heavy-duty rock cutting tasks.

A tunnel boring machine could literally bore a hole through massive land masses. So it will really produce a tunnel, not just a cave opening.