A machine with a series of scoops or buckets on a rotating belt, used to excavate or move material.
链斗式挖掘机，掘斗式挖掘机；斗式提升机；链斗式输送机
Example sentencesExamples
So where it was tougher to get the electrical power to, for the bigger bucketwheels, they've always been using truck and shovel.
The bucketwheels were used to strip and stockpile the 4-6 ft. of overburden that covered the rich black sand.
While mining companies used to dig out the oilsands using draglines and bucketwheels, those large pieces of machinery are being phased out in favour of trucks and shovels, which have become better - not to mention bigger - in recent years.
The bucketwheels can mine a total of 7,000 tonnes of oilsand per hour; it takes about two tonnes of oilsands to make one barrel of synthetic crude oil.
No, but it has left crumpled bucketwheels in its wake!
Definition of bucketwheel in US English:
bucketwheel
nounˈbəkətˌ(h)wēl
A machine with a series of scoops or buckets on a rotating belt, used to excavate or move material.
链斗式挖掘机，掘斗式挖掘机；斗式提升机；链斗式输送机
Example sentencesExamples
No, but it has left crumpled bucketwheels in its wake!
While mining companies used to dig out the oilsands using draglines and bucketwheels, those large pieces of machinery are being phased out in favour of trucks and shovels, which have become better - not to mention bigger - in recent years.
The bucketwheels can mine a total of 7,000 tonnes of oilsand per hour; it takes about two tonnes of oilsands to make one barrel of synthetic crude oil.
So where it was tougher to get the electrical power to, for the bigger bucketwheels, they've always been using truck and shovel.
The bucketwheels were used to strip and stockpile the 4-6 ft. of overburden that covered the rich black sand.