Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Truck

truck10A dump truck (or, in the United Kingdom, Tipper) is a truck used to transport bulk goods (such as sand, gravel or dirt) for construction. A typical dump truck equipped with a hydraulically operated bed is hinged at the rear opened the box, which can be canceled before, so that the contents are deposited on the ground behind the truck on the grounds of tradition.

In Great Britain and Australia the term applies to off-road construction equipment only, and the road vehicle but dump, dump truck (United Kingdom) or known by a truck (AU). The dump truck was Saint John, New Brunswick when Robert T. Mawhinney attached a dump of a trailer designed in 1920.

The machine is equipped with a winch was attached to a cable that fed over sheave (pulley) mounted on a mast behind the cab. The cable was connected at the lower end by the wooden bucket, which was of a pivotally mounted on the back of the truck chassis. The operator has a crank to raise and lower the box. Today, almost all hydraulic dumper and they come in a variety of configurations each designed to achieve a certain task in the supply of materials.


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