BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) - The integrated tractor backhoe-loader is as common on construction sites as workers in hard hats. But few realize the revolutionary machine was developed at the Case New ...
In redesigning its 57-year-old backhoe-loader line, Case retained such legacy features as the over-center boom, Pro Control for taking the slop out of boom swing, open-center backhoe hydraulic control ...
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.