Most of the riverbed is soft mud that can be scooped by a giant mechanical shovel.

The most productive gold mines in Nevada use $6 million mechanical shovels and $1 million trucks.

And for the mechanical shovels, the slushers.

A Mohawk operated a mechanical shovel on one side of the barricade while two army bulldozers worked on the other side to bring it down.

Ore is mined from the surface using large mechanical shovels to remove the surface rock and dig out the ore.

The boat carried 6 trucks, an ambulance, 4x4 vehicles, three mechanical shovels, food, bottled water, machines of building site, tents, humanitarian material and food.

The land is cleared and the bitumen-soaked sand is dug out with mechanical shovels and loaded on to trucks to be taken to a separation plant.

Strip mining is done on softer minerals such as clays and phosphate are removed through use of mechanical shovels, track dozers, and front end loaders.

In Sondrio old men with broad pink faces spend idle hours watching the big mechanical shovels that are digging into the stream bed, working furiously to make it deeper.

Not only are cargoes dumped in the terminals but mechanical shovels are used as well and mechanical shovels can cause damage.

This morning I saw the tips of cranes and mechanical shovels peeking above the wooden fence surrounding the big city turf where Roy Rogers once rode Trigger.

Excavators are also called diggers, JCBs (a proprietary name, in an example of a generic trademark), mechanical shovels, or 360-degree excavators (sometimes abbreviated simply to 360).

'A bulldozer, a mechanical shovel and a gang of highspeed demolition workers have turned Thornton Heath tram depôt in a matter of hours into something resembling a blitzed site.

His mouth kept opening and shutting like a mechanical shovel, but no words - not even a direct appeal to the Lord Jesus Christ to be excused this experience on health grounds - passed his lips.

Following a series of other tests, Ravi was scooped up through the ceiling with some kind of mechanical shovel, and dumped in a large room among a diversity of other people who turned to study him like a book.

When mining commenced in 1931, the mine was mechanized to an extent not previously seen in Australia, with mechanized drilling and mechanical shovels rather than "hammer and tap" hand drilling and hand shovels.

'An advance guard of hundreds of men, with bulldozers, mechanical shovels, tractors and lorries has for months been scarring the lowlands, daubing the green acres with splashes of grey clay and red earth in a mariner unseen since Beaker Folk raised their burial mounds or Saxons threw up ramparts on surrounding hills.