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Digs deep holes with its long arm and toothy bucket.
⭐ Its whole top part can spin all the way around – 360°!
Pushes earth and rocks with its big front blade.
⭐ Blade low = it digs. Blade on the ground = it pushes. Blade up = it spreads soil.
Lifts heavy loads up high with a hook on a cable.
⭐ Some cranes grow with the building – their tower is made taller again and again!
Carries sand and stones, then tips its box to dump them.
⭐ The biggest dump truck in the world can carry 450 tonnes!
Brings fresh concrete to the building site.
⭐ Its drum keeps turning so the concrete stays soft – and spins backwards to pour it out!
Presses soil and new roads flat and hard with its heavy drum.
⭐ The very first road rollers were pulled by horses!
Scoops up sand and gravel and loads it into trucks.
⭐ Its big bucket can scoop as much as a small car weighs!
Lifts pallets of bricks with its two long forks.
⭐ The biggest forklift ever built could lift 90 tonnes!