Komatsu Excavators - World's Most Popular Excavator Equipment

Komatsu Engineering Company in the 1990s launched a new line of Komatsu excavators that eliminated the usual counterweight design. And so the tight tail swing excavator equipment was products. These machineries are now used extensively in the US and all over the world.


As in any other brand of excavating equipment, Komatsu excavators are engineering and construction vehicles that consist of a bucket and arm as well as a mounted cab on an undercarriage possessing wheels or tracks. The design of excavators is actually a progression from the typical steam shovel.

Albeit many construction and engineering equipment and vehicle companies manufacture Hydraulic excavators, Komatsu is now the top manufacturer of excavating machines today. For every excavator of another brand model, there exist three Komatsu Excavators. What is great about the Komatsu brand is its wide variety of model designs and sizes. Of course, the much smaller machines, known as mini excavators, are also available from this company.

Komatsu excavators are utilized together with bulldozers and loaders. The wheeled versions as well as the compact excavators possess small backfill blades, which are horizontal and bulldozer like and are attached to undercarriages. Such blades are useful in pushing and placing back excavated materials back to the created hole.
Image credit: mwboeckmann