power shovel

As the head went on up like the business end of a big power shovel, I fired a shot at the heart.

A power shovel had broken into a bedroom, and they could see a body inside.

He gestured toward it with a hand the size of a power shovel and said, "All right.

His mouth dropped open like a power shovel getting ready to take a bite out of a hillside.

Both hands on the controls now, he turned the power shovel and began to trundle back down the road.

It is the earliest type of power shovel or excavator.

Another violent shake, a hand like a power shovel.

Satisfied, he jumped down from his seat and ran hard, getting ahead of the slow-moving power shovel.

Scoop can transform into a power shovel ground vehicle.

Krolli, at the controls of the open power shovel, sat stripped to the waist.

He took the power shovel carefully round the twist in the road and saw the new fall of rock thirty paces ahead.

Krolli started the engine of the mobile power shovel and began to grind forward along the road.

Sometimes a backhoe bucket is reversed to work in a power shovel configuration.

Coal is excavated by power shovels and loaded into haul trucks.

It lurched over, and the weight of the tall boom toppled the power shovel sideways.

The purpose, he said, was so "people coming across the desert could not see" the power shovels, vehicles and execution squads.

The "single, lonely piece of equipment" was one power shovel, a bulldozer, and two dump trucks.

They are a natural progression from the steam shovels and often called power shovels.

This was accomplished using draglines and power shovels.

Power shovel - type of mining machine (also called a front shovel)

With a snarling roar of its engine the power shovel vanished, and seconds later there came a tremendous splash from the river below.

Modern power shovels are the descendants of steam shovels.

A crew had been at work since sunup with cranes and power shovels, clearing out the debris in the tunnel.

There were half a dozen claw-armed manipulators already there, and two giant power shovels.

Farther inland lay a gaping open-pit mine where power shovels and antlike figures were at work.