Bulldozer

Tushar U Patel

� A bulldozer is a crawler (Continuous tracked tractor)

equipped with a substantial metal plate (known as a blade)

� Used to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, etc.,

during construction work and typically equipped at the

rear with a claw-like device (known as a ripper) to loosen

densely-compacted materials. densely-compacted materials.

� The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean any heavy

equipment (sometimes a loader and sometimes an

excavator), but precisely, the term refers only to a tractor

(usually tracked) fitted with a dozer blade.

History

� The very first bulldozer was adopted from the farm tractor that was utilized to plough the fields. The versatility of this equipment in the squashy ground for road building and logging had led this tractor to become an armored tank during the First World War.an armored tank during the First World War.

Primary tools of Bulldozers

� Blade - bulldozer blade is made by the heavy metals placed on the tractor front with the purpose of pushing the objects, shoving soils, sand and debris.

� Ripper -is a device at the rear of bulldozer which is elongated and claw-like in appearance. Rippers can be single shank or they can also be in a cluster of multi shank rippers. Single shank was commonly chosen in doing heavy ripping.

Uses

� Bulldozers can be found on a wide range of small scale and large construction sites, mines and quarries, military bases, heavy industry factories, and large governmental and public Engineering projects as well as farming.

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