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Article: A Thumb With Grip.
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- Pacific Builder and Engineer
- Article date:
- October 17, 2005
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Story by Carl Molesworth
New Design Allows Excavator Thumb To Rotate With The Bucket For Greater Productivity
When it comes to versatility in construction equipment, it's hard to beat a hydraulic excavator, especially a hydraulic excavator equipped with a bucket thumb.
Adding a thumb -- also called a clamp in some circles -- to an excavator makes it a multi-tasking wonder, able to grab, hold, load, unload, and place. Not only can the operator use the machine for digging, but he or she also can use it for clearing land, demolition, placing pipe, loading and unloading trucks, handling rocks and logs, feeding crushers and grinders, sorting ...