Regional glossary
Each country and each jobsite has its own name for the same machine. Here's the jobsite name, the technical name and where to learn to use it.
It jumps and strikes the ground with its shoe. The one for trenches and clay soils.
A steel plate that vibrates as it moves forward. For sand, gravel, base courses and pavers.
One or two steel drums that compact soil or asphalt with weight and vibration. Note: on site «rodo» is also the scaffold caster wheel.
Narrow roller with padfoot drums, remote-controlled or walk-behind, for wide and long trenches in clay.
A rotating drum that mixes cement, sand, gravel and water in batches. Sized in bags per batch and drum litres.
A head plunged into fresh concrete to drive out trapped air. «Chicote» is the hose with the head.
Blades that spin over the fresh slab to leave it smooth and hard. It goes in when the slab holds your footprint.
A beam that vibrates resting on the screed rails: it settles and levels the slab surface.
A self-powered pump to drain trenches, basements and flooded areas.
A mast with floodlights and its own engine for night work.
Mounted on a backhoe, skid steer or excavator, it breaks concrete or rock by impact.
A diamond blade on wheels to cut concrete or asphalt in a straight line, always wet.
A compact dumper with a front skip emptied by hydraulic tipping.
Two forks that slide under the pallet, lift it a few centimetres and move it. It doesn't lift loads onto a rack.
Like a pallet jack but with a mast: it lifts the pallet onto a rack or another level.
A basket that lifts people to work at height: the scissor goes straight up; the boom reaches over obstacles.
Frames with their two cross braces make one section; sections stack for height and join to cover the length.
A tall reflective drum to channel traffic in closures that stay on the road overnight.
Modules assembled on the ground to slow traffic at site entrances and yards.
The names come from our guides and training pages. A country only shows up when we measured it: Google searches using that name for the machine, from that country, with at least 5 impressions in Search Console (Oct 2025 – Oct 2026). Called something else where you are?
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