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 ...

So here’s the thing: I’m an electric motorcycle guy. And I’ve also kind of got a thing for electric excavators. Those two interests have exactly nothing to do with each other — until now, that is.

“Many times, people say that the backhoe-loader market is a declining market – it’s shrinking, backhoes are going away. And that’s not true,” says Diego Butzke, product manager, JCB. While he ...

Mini excavators are so many different things to so many different buyers that the industry can’t agree on the size range that defines “mini.” Miraculously, diverse buying influences have unanimously ...

The versatility of the backhoe loader (also called a backhoe) has made it a valuable piece of equipment on a jobsite. According to James Gill, product manager, backhoes, with JCB, “One of the major ...

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Workers at JCB in Staffordshire are today celebrating the production of half a million backhoe loaders, commonly known as the 'digger'. The first digger rolled of the production line 59 years ago.

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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.