Tunnel Making Tools List: With Images and Uses

In this article, we will discuss tunnel making tools list.

Tunnel engineering is very important. The work is difficult and hard throughout its course, but engrossing. The works and therefore the constructions with Tunnel equipment are managed underground without disturbing the bottom surface. In most cases, tunnel construction is hard but it saves a lot of time and gives comfort.

The huge excavation of soil or rock etc. is essential for tunnel construction. With the supply of equipment, tunnel excavation and backfilling have become easier than before. Therefore the equipment is very needed for tunnel construction is as follows:

  1. Tunnel Making Tools List  

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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 tunnel mining, mine engineering, and hydraulic engineering.
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 in construction sites, allowing you to reach out and over obstacles, and are also majorly utilized in repair and maintenance.
9. Batching Plant		Used for preparing large quantities of concrete.
10. Transit-Mixer		Used to transport concrete mortar from a concrete batching plant.

11. Shotcrete Machine		Used to line tunnel walls, in 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 in modern surveying.
15. Crusher Plant		Used to reduce the size of rocks, stones, and ore.