Before a backhoe starts up for the day, throughout the workday, all the way until the operator goes home, backhoe safety must be top of mind. Few things in day-to-day construction operations are as ...

It seems anywhere you look in a budding city, Caterpillar or CAT has its trucks hard at working hard. From new communities to expanded roadways, the CAT brand has remained integral to the evolution of ...

So you've got a big job to do. You're going to need some heavy equipment to get it done. But what kind of heavy equipment, exactly? Which of those big, yellow machines made by Caterpillar is the one ...

The backhoe loader, or backhoe for short, has been pulling double duty on construction sites for nearly eighty years. Rigid dipper shovels had been in use since 1835, but in 1947, a couple of ...

A backhoe loader and an excavator side-by-side - JcbBackhoes and Mega Machines Channel/Youtube A backhoe is part of the excavation family of machines, but there are several differences between it and ...

Not enough people are stepping up to the excavator, dozer or backhoe, and that’s a big problem when the economy is fueling a need for heavy equipment operators. “We’ve seen an alarming decline in the ...