FAQs

A grain shovel is just that – a shovel for grain, feed, and fertiliser. However, a JCB grain shovel comes as an attachment for agricultural machinery to enable hands free shovelling for up to a massive 5.8m³ of grain at a time. This new generation of JCB grain shovels have a greater focus on strength and durability, making them an extremely robust agricultural attachment.

JCB's backhoe loader is a type of excavator loader with a loader on the front and a backhoe on the rear of the machine.

This makes it ideal for a range of applications, such as loading, excavating, and earthmoving. It can carry out the latter across construction, highways, landscaping, and agriculture, with a variety of attachments that are used for carrying out specialised applications such as loading, digging, dozing, drilling, grading, grabbing, spreading, breaking and sweeping.

A backhoe loader is a type of excavator with a loader-style shovel on the front and a backhoe on the back, with the ability to be driven on and off road at high speed.

Essentially a tractor with two attachments, the "backhoe" (as it's known in the industry) is a versatile piece of equipment that can carry out fast and effective loading, roading, and excavating.

There are a number of JCB backhoe attachments available which include: 6-in-1 shovel, buckets, earth drills, compactors, breakers, sweepers, snow blowers, forks and patch planers. Find out more here.

The loader is located at the front of the machine and is designed to carry large quantities of materials with ease. It can undertake many applications such as loading, dozing, digging, grading, grabbing and spreading using the 6-in-1 shovel.

The backhoe is an excavator arm which is located at the rear of the machine. This means the backhoe loader is three machines in one: excavator, loader, and tractor, which enables it to travel on the road.

The JCB 1CX is the World's first skid steer backhoe and the smallest backhoe loader that JCB produces. At 3.57m in length, 1.8m wide, and 2.38m tall, it is a powerful and versatile machine.

JCB's World Headquarters is based in Rocester, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.

JCB is a family-owned business.

This is a unique machine which has two key functions; the backhoe refers to the hydraulic excavator arm and hinged bucket mounted on the rear of the machine. The machine is also equipped with a regular loading shovel at the front of the machine, hence being called the "backhoe loader".

There are 22 factories in total around the world that make all the different types of JCB machines, engines and attachments.