Tools and tasks : pride and reality -- Company and machine cost -- Developing a plan -- Soil and rock -- Machine fundamentals -- Tractors and dozers -- Land clearing -- Excavators : shovels, hoes, draglines, and clamshells -- Loaders -- Trucks and hauling equipment -- Scrapers -- Structural excavation operations and earthen support -- Trenching and trenchless technologies -- Compaction, stabilization, and finishing -- Compressors and drills -- Blasting -- Aggregate processing.
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