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 ...

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 ...

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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.

To mark 70 years of manufacturing its backhoe loaders, JCB is producing 70 platinum editions of its 3CX and 4CX models. The first JCB model was manufactured in 1953, combining a lightweight backhoe ...

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 ...

Pin-ups for JCB changed through the years. In 2009 a calendar featured a woman using a JCB dumpster as a bubble bath. In a more conventional pose, JCB employee John Wheeldon is pictured in 1948 on an ...

Using backhoes and excavators on sites to lift and place heavy construction materials saves time and money, but doing the job safely demands special care. “A variety of concerns come into play,” says ...

A former Wisconsin grave digger says he was fired because he tried to blow the whistle on drunken, stoned co-workers who smashed casket boxes with a backhoe. Reymond Blazys filed a lawsuit in Madison ...