“Over mainly the last five years, there has been a shift in backhoe design toward some of the sectors that are growing and needed solutions,” says Butzke. While the backhoe-loader market may grow, JCB is banking on a “downsized” version of the machine itself. We can expect the backhoe market to come up again.” “The backhoe market has gone down to around 10,000 units… but it has reached a bottom and I only think it will grow from now on. “Obviously, there are things that a backhoe will not do, but from what you can get from a backhoe, it’s a really good deal,” he continues. It can do the work of many machines all at the same time, with one operator and with a fairly low cost of operation. While he acknowledges that backhoe-loaders have lost terrain to compact products such as skid steers, compact track loaders and mini-excavators, Butzke points out that these are specialized machines, and one can’t do the job of the other. And that’s not true,” says Diego Butzke, product manager, JCB.
“Many times, people say that the backhoe-loader market is a declining market – it’s shrinking, backhoes are going away.
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