When your business hinges on a single machine, it's essential that it be configured to do just about anything its user asks of it. This is certainly true for the Case 580 Super M backhoe loader owned ...

Mastering the backhoe-loader is a big job because it is really two machines in one. A good operator can improve productivity by employing many of the same principles that make excavators and wheel ...

The trusty backhoe loader is next to join today's list of high-tech earthmovers. Top: New loader can be ordered with advanced electronics. (Photo by Tudor Hampton for ENR.) Soon, Caterpillar Inc. will ...

The modern backhoe-loader traces its lineage to a hydraulic digging attachment developed in the late 1940s Some basic concepts that still survive today were developed during this same time period.

Caterpillar has revamped its largest backhoes – the 440 and 450 – with new engines, hydraulics and other features. Watch at ...