Converse of subject

• find: What were the 140 or so little pits found by earlier excavators used for?

Converse of object

• fit: Four 45t tracked excavators fitted with grabs are being used to position the rock.

• use: We are using a long reach excavator to nibble away at the stadium structure.

• wheel: You can find out more about the performance and specifications of the ZAXIS wheeled excavators on the below website.

• track: The long reach tracked excavator was moved over from the Causeway site.

Adjective modifier

• tracked: Many hire centers will hire out the smaller tracked excavators, normally with an operator.

• mini: A mini excavator working in the jacking shield, just ahead of the first pipe, removed 290 cubic meters of spoil.

• hydraulic: When the first hydraulic excavators appeared they were relatively puny affairs with small buckets and a short reach.

• mechanical: The air tools can be used to locate gas and power lines before digging with mechanical excavators.

• original: The original excavators had considered that approximately 40 % of the graves had been robbed.

• early: Most early excavators took great care to scrub all vessels within an inch of their lives, effectively removing all traces of contents.

Modifies a noun

• arm: By using a pneumatic drill on the excavator arm the walls have been lowered in a very short time.

• operator: There are no builders, electricians, plumbers or large excavator operators on the island.

• bucket: The bucket fell from the machine tipping Mr Given out who fell to the ground with the excavator bucket falling onto his legs.

• driver: Another small island below Lock 26 was named Fred's Ait after the Hymac excavator driver, Fred Hill, who dredged the flight.

Noun used with modifier

• ton: Standing on the half-built bridge is the 43 ton excavator - this is to test the bridge!

• land: One of the three German land excavators was landed in sections at Ince, and was then constructed on Frodsham Score.

• reach: A long reach excavator has been mobilized from the mainland via barge on 23rd July.

• degree: Struck by the loader bucket if the access platform is within the working radius of the loading machine ( for 360 degree excavators ).

• 1960s: The 1960s excavator Hugh Thompson admitted that the techniques used then were ' brutal ' .