Earth moving machinery is a type of equipment used in the construction of roads (highways or rural roads), railways, tunnels, airports, hydraulic works and buildings. It is designed to carry out several functions; among them, loosening and removing the soil, lifting and loading the soil into vehicles that transport it, distributing the soil in batches of controlled thickness, and compacting the soil. Some machines can perform more than one of these operations.

Among others, the following earth moving machines can be mentioned:

Earth movement is understood as the set of actions to be carried out in the preparation of land for the execution of a work. Excavation is the separation or extraction of certain parts of said volume, once the internal forces that held it together have been overcome: cohesion, adhesion, capillarity, etc. We call loading the action of depositing excavation products in a specific means of transport.

For its part, the means of transporting material to the landfill, quarry or to the internal storage area of ​​the work itself are very varied and depend on the characteristics of the terrain on which work is being done, as well as the geometric characteristics of the work itself, the best known being the rigid dumper, the articulated dumper and the dump truck.