A vehicle or machine designed to excavate large quantities of soil.
挖土机；推土机
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To the west are half-built houses and idle earth movers.
Despite the yellow earth movers, the leveling and raising and moving and building, she stayed.
New machinery dug, drilled, pumped, and clawed underground, and many mines began using large-scale earth movers to strip the hillsides above the mine seams.
There's just a wonderful sense of elation now that it's actually happening, the big earth movers are out there, it's just wonderful.
When the firm started the project in May last year, it ripped up the footpath so its lorries and earth movers could move around the site.
The earth movers are towering, terrifying machines, bigger than most of the concrete shanty houses they were sent in to destroy.
Did you see what the earth mover did to manipulate the ground?
By the mid-'80s, the mountains just north of Los Angeles where the Steel Challenge had always been held were falling prey to the bulldozers and earth movers of housing developers.
On Tuesday morning when I passed the spot on the other side of the carriageway I saw an earth mover and a gang at work to restore the caved in road and fill up the potholes.
Construction has begun, and residents would have noticed a large sandy scar and earth movers at the entrance to the mansion, on Oxford Road.
We'll move our bulldozers, motor graders and earth movers to the spot within a week to start cleaning the 40-50 km basin area, " Brig.
The contractors have been hired, the designs are being finalised, and the earth movers are ready to roll in at the end of the month.
Almost every boy has dreamt of driving a bulldozer or operating a big crane or pressing the pedal to the metal of an earth mover the size of a house.
They've got a whole lot of earth movers here and they're just gently digging away at the edges of that pile of rubble.
The boom in mining around the world has boosted the company's exports of its gargantuan trucks and earth movers.
Derivatives
earth moving
noun
A local contractor did all the heavy earth moving and Hayes' brother, who is an irrigation contractor, did all the irrigation work and has been doing the finish work and seed bed preparation.
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The council says the earth moving and other operations carried out on the land already amount to unauthorised development.
Like the aforementioned sports, rain effectively calls a halt to proceedings when it comes to earth moving.
On building sites Avant is an excellent machine for material handling, loading and earth moving.
It will require more grading and earth moving than the Mitford west site and there are no amenities such as washrooms, water, telephones or power.