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 ...

JCB, the creator and world’s number one manufacturer of the backhoe loader, recently celebrating production of the one millionth machine. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day with our ...

The backhoe loader has a material-handling bucket at the front and an excavating tool (backhoe) at the rear. Most use two large wheels at the rear of the chassis to power the vehicle, and two smaller ...

At the Bauma show in Munich, the wraps came off the most efficient JCB backhoe-loader ever, offering customers average fuel savings from 6% to 16%. MUNICH, GERMANY - JCB has unveiled a new generation ...

Remember those heady days a couple of years ago when wanting a piece of equipment was reason enough to justify the purchase? It was easy to succumb to the intoxicating draw of the one-trick-pony ...

White sparks burst into the air as a man in blue overalls draws the fiery beam of his welding torch across a large metal tube. He flips up his face mask to inspect the molten join shrouded in a faint ...

Matt wants to show me three JCBs: the 220X, a Backhoe Loader 3CX and a revolutionary new electric mini excavator called – this is the no-nonsense world of construction, remember – the 19C-1E. Once ...

Compact tractor-loader-backhoes (compact TLBs) used to be thought of as toys when compared with the big iron on jobsites of days gone by. Today, however, they are taken more than seriously by seasoned ...

A teenager from Kent has officially become the UK’s youngest qualified digger driver. Finlay Gallagher, who lives in Maidstone, spent his school holidays learning how to operate a JCB backhoe loader.

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