A backhoe may look like a machine that can do it all, but that's not always the case.

“Many times, people say that the backhoe-loader market is a declining market – it’s shrinking, backhoes are going away. And that’s not true,” says Diego Butzke, product manager, JCB. While he ...

In contrast to modifying a lawn or small agricultural tractor with a bolted-on loader and backhoe frame, JCB set out to design a "true" construction backhoe-loader for the 10-foot dig depth class. The ...

The modern backhoe-loader traces its lineage to a hydraulic digging attachment developed in the late 1940s. Lee Horton and Dave Willens, co-authors of Wain-Roy and the Invention of the Backhoe ...