Backhoeloaders are special sort of digging equipment. They can seem like a kind of a
hybrid of front loaders and excavators. Typical backhoes, also called back
actors or rear actors, have a digging bucked attached at the back, whereas at
the front they can be tractors or front loaders.
Backhoes
have been in use since mid ‘40s and they have proven to be very useful pieces
of equipment in digging industry all over the world. The first company to put
them on the market was Wain-Roy Corporation of Hubbardston. In the ‘50s
numerous other agricultural corporation spotted their chance and started
producing there tractor-like vehicles, most of them to a great success.
However, the leader on the market was the JCB company, with its founder Joseph
Cybil Bamford – for that reason in the United Kingdom and Ireland backhoes are
known almost entirely by the name JCBs – the company’s name became a generic
trademark.
One of the
companies to invest in production of backhoes was Deere & Co., better known
under the name of the company’s founder – John Deere. The first model of John
Deere backhoe entered the market over 40 years ago, and – according to general
manager at the John Deere Dubuque Works, Byron Taylor, ever since then they
have been a one of Deere’s key products. On March 1st 2013 Deere
& Co. celebrated the production of 250.000th backhoe. This only
proves the products of this company are really something to take into
consideration while looking for a good piece of equipment.
