It’s starting to become old news that backhoe loader sales have suffered as some owners replace them with mini excavators, small wheel loaders, and similar combinations of equipment. What is new is ...

Elton Long, mechanical engineer who lead the design team that developed the first American-made, integrated loader backhoe, died April 6 in Burlington, Iowa. He was 81 years old. Early in his career, ...

The versatility of the backhoe loader (also called a backhoe) has made it a valuable piece of equipment on a jobsite. According to James Gill, product manager, backhoes, with JCB, “One of the major ...

Our analysis of all the brands of these versatile machines in the local market. Where would we be without the backhoe loader? Since this jack of all trades was introduced, construction sites all over ...

JCB was founded on October 23, 1945, by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter, UK. It was the same day as his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born.

In an attempt to put more radials on backhoe-loaders, Michelin replaced its nearly 20-year-old XM27 and XM37 off-road radial tire designs with the industry's only backhoe-loader tire with steel tread ...