Match the excavator to the job: 1. Excavation for a 1” water line to your home. Length of trench= 50 feet, depth of trench 5 feet 2. Excavating the vertical face of a gravel pit from a location in the bottom of the pit 3. Excavating with a long reach in a pond filled with water removing gravel from bottom of pond. 4. Excavating in a deep vertical pit for a pump station foundation pit walls have steel sheet piling to protect from cave-ins.

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Match the excavator to the job:

1. Excavation for a 1” water line to your home. Length of trench= 50 feet, depth of trench 5 feet

2. Excavating the vertical face of a gravel pit from a location in the bottom of the pit

3. Excavating with a long reach in a pond filled with water removing gravel from bottom of pond.

4. Excavating in a deep vertical pit for a pump station foundation pit walls have steel sheet piling to protect from cave-ins.

 

A. Clamshell bucket on crane

B. Dragline bucket on crane

C. Hydraulic excavator

D. Hydraulic shovel

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