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dump truck [′dəmp ‚trək]
(engineering) A motor or hand-propelled truck for hauling and dumping loose materials, equipped with a body that discharges its contents by gravity. dump truck Any type of truck whose body can be tilted to discharge its load. Dump Truck a self-unloading truck, trailer, or semitrailer. There are two basic types of dump trucks—those with a bunker-type tilting bed and an inclined floor and those with powered unloading, for example, by means of a screw conveyor. Dump trucks with tilting beds are most common. Telescope-type hydraulic lifts are most often used to tilt the beds. In the USSR, dump trucks use lot-produced chassis and have load capacities of 3.5 to 10 tons; dump trucks used in quarries have capacities of 27 tons, 40 tons, and more. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Ziller estimates that it took 10 dumptruck loads of fill that included 600-pound boulders 2 to 3 feet in diameter to build the dam. Brick and radiant heat floors are making a comeback; solar panels will soon be going up again; and as for the 2,000 square feet of asphalt on the parking lot and driveways, it's gone, scraped up and hauled off by the contractor, Canon's Backhoe and Dumptruck Co. Opinion - Page 6 CAPTION(S): DISASTER: Much of the historic city of Prague is under water in the worst flooding for more than a century; SURVIVAL: People are evacuated by dumptruck in Grimma, Germany, above, and volunteers fill sandbags in Prague, above right; STRANDED: Trains caught in floods in Dresden, Germany |
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