A power shovel (also stripping shovel or front shovel or electric mining shovel or Electric Rope Shovel) is a bucket-equipped machine, usually electrically powered, used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. Power Shovels are a type of rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics like in the more common hydraulic excavators. Basics parts of power shovel including the track system,cabin,cables,rack, stick,boom foot-pin,saddle block,boom,boom point sheaves,and bucket. The size of bucket varies from 0.375cu m to 5cu m.
Power shovels are used principally for excavation and removal of overburden in open-cut mining operations, though it may include loading of minerals, such as coal. They are the modern equivalent of steam shovels, and operate in a similar fashion.
Other uses of the power shovel are 1- Suitable for close range of work. 2- Capable of digging very hard materials. 3- Can remove big sized boulders. 4- To excavate the earth and to load the trucks. 5- It is used in various types of jobs such as digging in gravel banks,clay pits,digging cuts in road works,road-side berms,etc.
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