Top Loader
Top loaders are useful for all kinds of tasks, including construction, digging holes, paving roads, breaking up asphalt, and many other tasks. Some top loaders have buckets with bottoms that can retract, enabling them to unload material more effectively and to grade and scratch off sand. Also, the light frame and fine control of top loaders makes them useful in crowded urban construction sites. Top loaders are mobile machines that can move loose or solid materials from one place to another and pile or load them.
Top loaders deal especially well with transporting loose materials, while other types of loaders can handle large, heavy objects like metal or concrete pipes or even trees. Essentially, top loaders are tractors that lift and moves stuff from here to there. Loaders usually have wheels. They may use a wide bucket on one end to transfer material. Some top loaders have buckets that can be replaced with other tools, whereas other loaders have permanently attached buckets.
There are several kinds of top loaders. If top loaders are especially large, they typically have only one bucket on the front. Smaller loaders frequently come with a small backhoe and are thus called backhoe loaders (or loader backhoes, if you prefer).
If you need prodigious digging capabilities, top loaders are usually not your best solution unless they have good backhoes on them. Many loaders hold about 3-5 cubic meters of material in their bucket, which is generally more than what regular backhoes can handle. Most top loaders have wheels instead of tracks (unlike bulldozers), which gives them greater mobility and allows them to not damage paved roads as much.
There are several fine companies that offer top loaders for sale. Here is information about a few makers of these top loaders, including Caterpillar, John Deere and Volvo. Click on the links below to visit their Web sites.
Bobcat top loaders come in different kinds. Just visit Bobcat.com and click on the Products link at the left. These machines include all-wheel steer loaders, compact truck loaders, mini-track loaders and skid-steer loaders.
Caterpillar top loaders include backhoe, knuckleboom, multi-terrain, skid steer, track and wheel loaders.
John Deere top loaders include backhoe, crawler, 4WD and landscape loaders.
Volvo top loaders include backhoe, wheel and skid steer loaders.
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