20+ Tunnel Making Tools List: With Images and Uses

✔ Tunnel engineering is a crucial field that involves complex and challenging tasks throughout its course, but it is also very engaging. Tunnels are built underground using specialized equipment that minimizes disturbance to the surface above. Although tunnel construction is typically challenging, it can save time and provide greater convenience in many cases.

1. Tunnel Making Tools List  

Names	Images	Uses
1. Roadheader		Used for excavating rock in mining and civil construction projects.
2. Drilling Jumbo		Used in underground mining.
3. Air Ventilator		Used for providing oxygen inside the tunnel.
4. Crawler Haggloader		Used in the excavating of tunnels and materials handling.
5. Wheel Loader		Used for lifting almost anything, such as debris, gravel, soil, dirt, pallets, etc.
6. Dumper		Used to transport materials to and from a construction site.
7. Breaker		Used for breaking hard stones, rocks, and hard strata.
8. Telehandler		Used to carry and place heavy materials.
9. Batching Plant		Used for preparing large quantities of concrete.
10. Transit-Mixer		Used to transport concrete from a concrete batching plant to the site.

11. Shotcrete Machine		Used to line tunnel walls, mines, subways, and automobile tunnels.
12. MAI Pump		Used for mixing cement primarily for grouting when drilling MAI anchors.
13. Crawler Excavator		Used for digging trenches, holes, and foundations, as well as for handling materials, moving earth, demolition, dredging, etc.
14. Total Station		Used to measure distances, angles, and coordinates for accurate mapping, alignment, and construction control.
15. Crusher Plant		Used to reduce the size of rocks, stones, and ore.
16. Tunnel Boring Machines ( TBMs)		Used to excavate tunnels.

17. Chain Trencher		Used to dig trenches using a chain with digging teeth.
18. Wheel Trencher		Uses a rotating wheel with digging teeth for trenching.
19. Backhoe Excavator		Used for digging and trenching.
20. Earth Auger		Used to drill holes in the ground.
21. Shovel		Helpful in moving loose material.

22. Pickaxe		Used for breaking up hard soil or rock.
23. Ditch Witch		Used for digging narrow trenches.
24. Suction Excavator		Uses suction to remove loose soil or debris without damaging underground utilities.
25. Safety Barriers and Cones		Used to mark the boundaries of the excavation site and enhance safety.
26. Demolition Hammer		Breaks up concrete and hard surfaces during excavation.