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Terrex T8 scraper

Terrex T8 Motor Scraper at SED 2008

In civil engineering, a Motor-scraper or Wheeled Tractor Scraper is a piece of heavy equipment used for earthmoving. The rear part has a vertically moveable hopper (also known as the bowl) with a sharp horizontal front edge. The hopper can be hydraulically lowered and raised. When the hopper is lowered, the front edge cuts into the soil or clay like a cheese slicer and fills the hopper. When the hopper is full (8 to 34 m³ (10 to 45 yd³) heaped, depending on type) it is raised, and closed with a vertical blade (known as the apron). The scraper can transport its load to the fill area where the blade is raised, the back panel of the hopper, or the ejector, is hydraulically pushed forward and the soil or clay load tumbles out. Then the empty scraper returns to the cut site and repeats the cycle.

Scrapers can be very efficient on short hauls where the cut-and-fill areas are close together and have sufficient length to fill the hopper. The heavier scraper types have two engines ('tandem powered'), one driving the front wheels, one driving the rear wheels, with engines up to 400 kW (550 horsepower).

The First Motorised Scraper was invented by LeTourneau in the 1930s by adapting a pulled scraper for one-man operation, from the pulling tractor, by use of electric motors.

Two scrapers can work together in a push-pull fashion but this requires a long cut area.

Other variations are the "Elevating scrapers" were a conveyed lifts the spoil to load the bowl. These are not suitable for all soil types.

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