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Heavy & civil
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Heavy & civil
Grader
Construction; Heavy & civil
A machine with a centrally located blade that can be angled to cast to either side, with independent hoist control on each side.
Heel
Construction; Heavy & civil
A floor brace or socket for wall-bracing timbers. The trailing edge of an angled blade.
High wall
Construction; Heavy & civil
A face which is being excavated, as distinguished from spoil piles. Undisturbed soil or rock bordering a cut.
Hoe
Construction; Heavy & civil
A shovel that digs by pulling a boom-and-stick mounted bucket toward itself (backhoe, pullshovel)
Grid
Construction; Heavy & civil
A set of surveyor's closely spaced reference lines laid out at right angles with elevations taken at line intersections.
Grizzly
Construction; Heavy & civil
A coarse screen of iron beams welded into a grid shape used to remove oversize pieces from earth or blasted rock.
