Backhoe Vs Excavator: How Are These Heavy-Duty Machines Different?

Backhoes tend to be smaller and have a front loader in addition to a bucket arm. Meanwhile, excavators are typically more ...
For Construction Pros

Need a helping hand?

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 ...
For Construction Pros

Kubota L47 and M62 Tractor-Loader-Backhoes

Kubota introduces two new 4WD loader and landscaper utility tractors, the L47 and M62, replacing the L39, L45 and M59 models in this unique line, available as either tractor-loaders (TL) or ...
Business Wire

Kubota Redefines the Sub-Compact Tractor Market Once Again: Introducing the All New BX80-Series

Kubota Announces Four New Sub-Compact Tractor Models, Including the BX23S, an Industry-Leading, Standard-Equipped Loader-Backhoe Unit for the Sub-Compact Class GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS ...
Washington Times

Integrated tractor backhoe has roots in southeast Iowa

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) - The integrated tractor backhoe-loader is as common on construction sites as workers in hard hats. But few realize the revolutionary machine was developed at the Case New ...
Construction Equipment

Early Backhoe Loaders

Several widely used construction machines were originally developed for agriculture. The crawler tractor, skid-steer loader, and backhoe loader, were all first designed for farming applications, and ...
Construction Equipment

Backhoe Loaders From Yesteryear

In the years following World War II, two trends in equipment evolution converged to create what has become one of today’s most ubiquitous construction machines— the backhoe loader. Following their ...
Engineering News-Record

Engineer Helped To Pioneer the Ever-Present Loader Backhoe

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, ...
Farmers Weekly

Two tractor-mounted loaders go head-to-head

MX’s T-series loader range, imported by Chillton, was overhauled earlier this year and given a host of improvements including a revised sub-frame and an improved auto-locking system to simplify ...
Farmers Weekly Interactive

Quicke improves weighing on tractor-mounted Q-Series loaders

Tractor loader control and automation is reckoned to have reached new heights with the latest updates to Quicke’s Q-companion ...
AgWeb

Machinery Pete: Livestock Demand Pushes Loader Tractors Up, Late Model Glut Marches On

Machinery Pete – Greg Peterson – selected a pair of used John Deere tractors this week as his Pete’s Pick of the Week during his Monday morning appearance with host Chip Flory on AgriTalk Radio.