Harbor Freight now sells a towable backhoe for a decent price, but it does have a few limitations. Don't worry, there are a ...

A backhoe is part of the excavation family of machines, but there are several differences between it and an excavator. To be clear, not every model of backhoe or excavator is massive like those you ...

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 ...

The machine, pioneered by the company's founder Joseph Cyril Bamford more than 50 years ago, was judged to be the number one digger by a panel of experts on The Greatest Ever, a television series ...

The fastest speed achieved by a backhoe loader (digger) is 116.82 km/h (72.59 mph), in the JCB GT driven by Matthew Lucas (UK) at Bathurst Airport, New South Wales, Australia, on 21 October 2014.