Catch Case's 580EV electric backhoe at Conexpo. All photos provided by Case Construction Equipment. The backhoe loader has been a staple of North American jobsites for decades. It’s the machine parked ...

The modern backhoe-loader traces its lineage to a hydraulic digging attachment developed in the late 1940s. Lee Horton and Dave Willens, co-authors of Wain-Roy and the Invention of the Backhoe ...

All photos provided by Caterpillar. Continuing our deep dive into the 2026 backhoe market, we sat down with David Young, product application specialist at Caterpillar, to break down the company’s ...