Explain the application and mechanical equipment involved in Loose Soils and Wet Soils.

Loose Soils
 APPLICATION
-Loose and non-cohesive soil is usually excavated using a clam-shell bucket and a pay-
loader.
-Pay-loaders are types of heavy equipment that use very large shovels to lift soil into the
back of a dump truck.
-Dump trucks are vehicles that use hydraulics to tilt the contents of the back of the truck
over to dump them on the ground behind the dump truck.
-A tractor with a mounted shovel can also be used. These pieces of machinery can be very
large, so there needs to be plenty of space available for these machines to get to the
location that must be excavated.

 Mechanical Equipment
1. Pay-loader.
2. Dumb truck
3. Trucktor Clam-shell bucket
4.

Wet Soils
 APPLICATION
-Draglines are used to excavate very moist soil.
-The machinery is placed on one or two stable spots and the wet soil is then dragged out.
-In some cases, the soil must be drained, especially of the soil is submerged in water.
-Smaller excavations do not require heavy machinery.
-The traditional shovel is one of the most common excavation tools, especially for soil
-Pickaxes are not as useful for soil but are necessary if the digger reaches a hard part of the
soil that can't be broken up with the shovel.

 Mechanical Equipment
1. Draglines