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 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.

With great fanfare, a developer rolled out an experimental backhoe in January 1997 that he and others hoped would become a viable alternative to blasting. But after two years, the monstrous machine ...

He doesn’t “dig” Uber, apparently. An Illinois man was busted for allegedly swiping a backhoe digger and driving it 10 miles to the airport to catch a flight, according to police. Timothy Baggott, of ...

JCB has this week unveiled its latest generation of backhoe loaders, with a large number of new features that aim to boost worldwide sales of the machine it launched 70 years ago. Richard Brooks, ...

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 ...

It has become a fashionable home improvement among wealthier London property owners, whose "iceberg homes" contain underground swimming pools, sports cars and gyms. Now the basement excavation craze ...