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4,921 Construction Shovel Stock Videos, 4K Footage and Video Clips

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Bulldozer working at mining site loading stone on a truck

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Slow Motion Heavy Machinery Construction Zone Work Western USA Video Series

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Slow Motion Shot of a Bucket of an Excavator Digging, Picking Up Dirt, and Dumping It into the Back of a Dump Truck at a Sunny Construction Site

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Busy Construction

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Slow Motion Shot of a Bucket of an Excavator Picking Up Dirt and Rocks at a Construction Site

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Slow Motion Heavy Machinery Construction Zone Work Western USA Video Series

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Mobile Rock Crusher Machine

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Tractor wade through the water, adjust the floor, mold the pond digger,Nakhon Rat Chasima,Chokchai,Thailand,June 7, 2023.

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Slow Motion Heavy Machinery Construction Zone Work Western USA Video Series

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MS, man getting off bulldozer, workers shifting rubble in background, San Antonio, Texas, USA

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Tractor wade through the water, adjust the floor, mold the pond digger,Nakhon Rat Chasima,Chokchai,Thailand,June 7, 2023.

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4k Aerial top view of industrial excavator loading ground into a dump truck on construction site.

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Heavy equipment working in quarry / Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

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Slow Motion Shot of a Bucket of an Excavator Digging and Picking Up Dirt at a Sunny Construction Site

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excavator for digging coal

video thumbnail — sequence showing excavators digging up oil enrinched sand at the athabasca oil sands refinery in alberta. - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Sequence showing excavators digging up oil enrinched sand at the Athabasca oil sands refinery in Alberta.

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Mechanical digger and truck in coal mining area

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Excavator Working On Construction Site With Sand Conveyor Belt

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Landscaper Man using a Trenching Shovel to Chop at Gravel and Dirt in the Summer

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Latin American construction worker picking up materials with a shovel into a wheelbarrow at a building site

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Man coordinating work on construction site

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Makro digs trees, digs stumps out to adjust the ground to fill the garden,Nakhon Rat Chasima,Chokchai,Thailand,June 7,2023

video thumbnail — close-up, side view shot of a bulldozer's steel tracks rolling over and kicking up dirt at a construction site - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Close-Up, Side View Shot of a Bulldozer's Steel Tracks Rolling over and Kicking Up Dirt at a Construction Site

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Dump truck and dragline at open-pit coal mine

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Unidentifiable workers finishing the paving of a street

video thumbnail — a yellow bulldozer pushes forward to gather sand, then reverses - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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A Yellow Bulldozer Pushes Forward to Gather Sand, then Reverses

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MS HA PAN Shovel digging trench in dirt, Rainbow Valley, Northern Territory, Australia

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United Kingdom 1972, Workers wheelbarrow construction site

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Еxcavator is digging a trench.

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Focusing on an excavator

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Male excavator operator working at a construction site

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Worker Get Off Crane Bucket.

video thumbnail — male worker at a lumberyard moving sawdust with a wooden shovel to a pile - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Male worker at a lumberyard moving sawdust with a wooden shovel to a pile

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Strengthening the dyke in the Netherlands.

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A female worker shovelling concrete at a concrete manufacturing plant

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Engineer coordinating work on construction site

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Digger moving some dirt

video thumbnail — crane shot of excavator machine collecting sand with scoop at construction site - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Crane Shot of Excavator Machine Collecting Sand with Scoop at Construction Site

video thumbnail — team of men lay concrete floor on a london building site; 1936 - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Team of men lay concrete floor on a London building site; 1936

video thumbnail — montage coal yard stacks blowing smoke, coal train chugging and smoking, builders constructing mine shaft, workers running cranes and lowering shovels into shaft / manchester, england, united kingdom - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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MONTAGE Coal yard stacks blowing smoke, coal train chugging and smoking, builders constructing mine shaft, workers running cranes and lowering shovels into shaft / Manchester, England, United Kingdom

video thumbnail — water leaking from connection of valve and pipe at waste water at sewage treatment plant. - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Water leaking from connection of valve and pipe at Waste water at sewage treatment plant.

video thumbnail — stone quarry works/ trucks transporting blocks of stone/ stone masons working with stone/ man and woman chiselling stone architectural feature/ man... - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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1945 MONTAGE B/W Reconstruction of Chisinau city after World War II destruction/ Chisinau, Moldova/ AUDIO

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Soviet industry, the Volga River, toiling peasants in 1920s/1930s USSR

video thumbnail — an earth mover working at a construction site - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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An earth mover working at a construction site

video thumbnail — top view of workers installing swimming pool on hole at house backyard - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Top view of workers installing swimming pool on hole at house backyard

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Highway construction

video thumbnail — tilt up shot of cement mixer pouring concrete on road at construction site - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Tilt up shot of cement mixer pouring concrete on road at construction site

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1933 B/W MONTAGE Building sites w/ zeks / prisoners at work (1933 - 1937) : CU man digging mud, wheelbarrows, worksites in labor camps / gulags / Russia

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Quarry mine industry rock extraction heavy machinery equipment

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German citizens help rebuild Berlin amidst rubble and smoke.

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Road construction work,Asphalt Road Drilling,Using a Backhoe

video thumbnail — gravel collection - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Gravel Collection

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The Kremlin and Russian people and children in wintry Moscow

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Building a footpath in backyard

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Stuttgart rebuilds after World War II

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Compressor roller finishing the paving of a street

video thumbnail — a construction industry lot with large earth moving vehicles, bulldozers, bucket loaders, graders, - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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A Construction Industry Lot With Large Earth Moving Vehicles, Bulldozers, Bucket Loaders, Graders,

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Construction heavy machinery, backlighted

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U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa Oversee A Construction Site In Kenya During Exercise Justified Accord

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Demolition of a building after the earthquake 4k stock video

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Construction Site Aerial Time Lapse

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Demolition of a building

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Jackhammer machine digging up concrete road

video thumbnail — high angle view of construction workers pouring concrete at construction site - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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High angle view of construction workers pouring concrete at construction site

video thumbnail — 4k timelapse:the excavator working (construction concept).panning styles. - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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4K Timelapse:The excavator working (construction concept).panning styles.

video thumbnail — workmen use heavy machinery to smooth down a section of the m1 motorway during its construction. 1959. - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Workmen use heavy machinery to smooth down a section of the M1 motorway during its construction. 1959.

video thumbnail — slow motion of people working at the new road construction in colorado, america amid the 2020 global coronavirus pandemic - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Slow motion of people working at the new road construction in Colorado, America amid the 2020 global Coronavirus pandemic

video thumbnail — еxcavator is digging a trench. - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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Еxcavator is digging a trench.

video thumbnail — an american flag flying on pole / soldiers at attention, shadow of flag on building behind them / a military review against a wooden barracks... - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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American barracks construction in the 1940s

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Bulldozer and steam shovel destroying village of Tignes, France

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Mining dump truck loaded with coal

video thumbnail — workers rebuilding bombed city after wwii/ mykolaiv, ukraine/ audio - construction shovel stock videos & royalty-free footage

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1945 MONTAGE B/W Workers rebuilding bombed city after WWII/ Mykolaiv, Ukraine/ AUDIO

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Dirt excavation for Central Valley Project in Tracy, California

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Road construction between Salonika and Athens in Greece

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Еxcavator is digging a trench.

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Two workers with shovels standing behind pickup truck

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