Around here, a bulldozer is a large piece of equipment with a front blade used for moving earth. A smaller blade on a truck or tractor is a plow. A front loader has a large bin on the front which can lift materials, including earth, and dump them higher up, such as in a dump truck or snow truck. An earthmover with a digging device on it, which scoops earth by motion toward the base of the equipment, is a backhoe.

In addition to plows and front loaders, in Michigan we also use giant blowers to remove snow from streets. Up north, the blowers are essential, since the piles of snow alongside the roads become too high for the other equipment to reach.

Good luck, all New Englanders, with the oncoming blizzard. I think it will pass us by here.