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Oct 21, 2020 16:34
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French term

L'ensemble de la tête de creusage

Homework / test French to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering
Hello!

I can't seem to find the equivalent of the phrase "l'ensemble de la tête de creusage" in English anywhere. It's to do with construction equipment, I presume a digger, but the only thing related to "tête de creusage" that I can find online is to do with a child's digger toy! I'm afraid that's all the context I have! Thanks in advance for your help!
Proposed translations (English)
3 excavator/excavating attachment (assembly)
4 digger head attachments

Discussion

Althea Draper (asker) Oct 22, 2020:
Thomas - yes, I see what you mean.
Suzie - I had wondered about this. I've seen the term 'creusage en bois de bout' referring to hollowing out a piece of wood that's being turned on a lathe and wondered if there was some sort of parallel in this setting.
Thank you both very much for your help.
Suzie Withers Oct 21, 2020:
Just had a tip-off from someone who knows this field, who said it may be referring to a tunnel boring machine (TBM), which has a "cutting head" to bore into whatever material it is excavating. Obviously, quite a different scale of machine to a digger, but depending on your context, this might be something to explore?
Thomas Miles Oct 21, 2020:
Althea... One thought (possibly very insightful or simply silly) is that 'head' is used for attachments with a 'whirly/spinning/boring' part to it, as would be needed for hedge cutting, verge mowing, or drilling localised holes (in contrast to digging out volumes of earth). There is a parallel here with the 'head' of shavers.
Althea Draper (asker) Oct 21, 2020:
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. My problem is that 'godet' is typically what a digging bucket or digging head attachment is called (and the other attachments all have their own names eg fourches, benne). So, I'm not sure why 'tête de creusage' would be used instead of 'godet'. The only 'tête' I know of is the head of the boom where the arm is attached.
I'm not sure if I'm over complicating this.
Suzie Withers Oct 21, 2020:
Excavator attachments? It seems that these machines can have a number of different attachments - buckets, grabs, rakes etc. - and these seem to be widely known as "attachments".

https://www.msttracks.com/Buckets

(not an expert in the field, though)

Proposed translations

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excavator/excavating attachment (assembly)

Within CAT's 'attachment' category we find listed a range of buckets for excavating (which seems to be a useful hyperonym to encompass digging, trenching and whatever other digging around you may wish to do).

https://parts.cat.com/ProductDisplay?urlRequestType=Base&pro...

Full credit to Suzie W.


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Note added at 1 hr (2020-10-21 17:59:01 GMT)
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Interesting to note that this 'attachment' category includes 'thumbs', which enable loads to be handled with greater 'dexterity'. So best avoid anything based on 'head' as the English metaphors are in a different part of the body.

https://parts.cat.com/en/catcorp/thumbs#facet:&productBeginI...
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digger head attachments

This would be a siple industry term for this phrase in NZ. Here are soe pictures.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=digger head attachment&atb=...

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Note added at 1 hr (2020-10-21 18:02:59 GMT)
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This would be a simple industry term for this phrase in NZ. Here are some pictures
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=digger head attachment&atb=...
Note from asker:
Many thanks for your help
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