Power shovel
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A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity
P&H 4100 XPB cable loading shovel
Shovel digging overburden
Big Brutus, which is now preserved as a museum
Excavator
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Excavators are heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a boom, dipper, bucket, and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house".
Power shovel
…rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics like in the modern hydraulic excavators. Basic parts of a power shovel include the track system, cabin, cables, rack, stick, boom foot-pin, saddle block, boom, boom point sheaves and bucket…
Hidromek excavator in Alicante, Spain
House demolition by a Hitachi excavator in Invermere, British Columbia
A cable-operated excavator under the Northwest (now Terex) name at the Pageant of Steam grounds
Liebherr 314 wheeled excavator