Face shovel excavator bucket - GIF

[ductape]

Many years ago, steam shovels used a very similar style of bucket action. That evolved into the familiar shoulder-elbow-wrist configuration of modern excavators. This machine is almost a full circle of that, except with hydraulics and diesel instead of ropes, cables, and steam.

[bob_3000]

Many years ago, steam shovels used a very similar style of bucket action. That evolved into the familiar shoulder-elbow-wrist configuration of modern excavators..

I watched a very gifted operator scoop out a kidney shaped pool a couple of weeks ago with a wrist excavator, the finishing guys love him.

[Frank S]

I watched a very gifted operator scoop out a kidney shaped pool a couple of weeks ago with a wrist excavator, the finishing guys love him.

I have a wrist that will fit my Ford 755 backhoe and the auxiliary hydraulics to operate it but have never installed it because I haven't even needed it and don't have a wide finishing bucket. The guy I got the backhoe from dug pools with it for years then removed it and installed it on the Kubota KN 191 excavator and used it on that for several more years Now I have the Kubota as well but he kept the 4 ft finishing bucket

[schuylergrace]

Many years ago, steam shovels used a very similar style of bucket action. That evolved into the familiar shoulder-elbow-wrist configuration of modern excavators. This machine is almost a full circle of that, except with hydraulics and diesel instead of ropes, cables, and steam.

The first thing I thought of was a book I remember from my childhood, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.

[nova_robotics]

Many years ago, steam shovels used a very similar style of bucket action. That evolved into the familiar shoulder-elbow-wrist configuration of modern excavators. This machine is almost a full circle of that, except with hydraulics and diesel instead of ropes, cables, and steam.

Hydraulic Shovels have completely replaced every other digging machine in the oil sands. Everything else is obsolete. They're very neat, but they're reversed from a conventional excavator. Hydraulic Shovels dig away and excavators dig towards you.

Edit: Okay I was replying to someone above and really don't know what happened to the conversation. Looks like things went off the rails from hydraulic digging apparatuses.