Backhoe vs Trenchers - What's the difference?
backhoe | trenchers |
A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth.
(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket.
* 1967' June, Charles E. Rhine, ''How to Rent a '''Backhoe'' , '' ,
* 1987 , Dave Roberts, Pipe and Excavation Contracting ,
* 2010 , Robert Day, Foundation Engineering Handbook , 2nd edition,
To excavate using such equipment.
As nouns the difference between backhoe and trenchers
is that backhoe is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth while trenchers is .As a verb backhoe
is to excavate using such equipment.backhoe
English
(wikipedia backhoe)Noun
(en noun)page 149,
- The backhoe' is only one type of heavy equipment for rent.I heard about a couple of tool-rental outfits near Chicago that were doing a brisk business renting ' backhoes and other heavy equipment to homeowners
page 173,
- I'll recommend a good way to calculate backhoe' production rates. Then we'll look at the two '''backhoes''' you'll be using, the wheeled '''backhoe''' and the tracked ' backhoe .
page 2.49,
- Backhoe' pits and trenches are an economical means of performing subsurface exploration. The ' backhoe can quickly excavate the trench that can then be used to observe and test the in situ soil (see Fig. 2.29).
