Bulldozer is the type of construction equipment (commonly called heavy equipment) using the chain-type tractor and equipped with a knife (known as the blade) that lies ahead. Bulldozer applied for a job digging, pushing and pulling the material (soil, sand, etc.). The term bulldozer is often used to describe all types of heavy equipment (Excavator, Loaders, etc.) although this term is rather simply point to a chain tractors are equipped with a blade. Apart Bulldozer blade as standard equipment, on the back side of the bulldozer could be installed additional equipment such as:
- Ripper to unload the material that can not be extracted using a blade, usually for road construction or mining jobs.
- Winch to pull the material, often used on wooden expenditure work in the forest.
For agriculture, more appropriate to use a tractor as a processing tool. Broadly speaking, the benefits of four-wheel tractors are:
- Pulling and moving earth moving equipment
- Pulling machine planter (transplanter)
- Pulling muck machine
- Pulling spray machines, boom sprayer, etc.
- Pulling trailer
- Mover other machines
That must be considered in choosing the tractor that is:
- What kind of work you want done
- Type of implements what you want to use
- The type of land to be traversed (dry land, rice fields, forests, grasslands, bushes, etc.)
- Hours worked per year
- Area of land under cultivation