The different categories of construction machines

In a modern classification (modified standard R372) dating from 2000, construction machinery is divided into categories as follows:

• Tractors and small mobile construction machines: mini-excavators, mini-loaders, small compactors, machines for painting lines on roads …
• Extraction and/or loading by sequential displacement: shovels, foundation machines, drilling …
• Extraction by alternative displacement: bulldozers, crawler tractors …
• Loading by alternative displacement: loaders, backhoe loaders …
• Slow-moving finishing: finishers, lime spreaders …
• Adjustment by alternative displacement: graders
• Compacting by alternative displacement: compactors …
• Transport or extraction-transport: dumpers, …
• Handling: forklifts …
• Out of production: tuff trailer…

Among all these machines, the most used are earthmoving machines whose main role is to modify the relief of land by backfilling or clearing.