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The backhoe is one of the most commonly found machines at a construction site. This machine is popular with most finds favor with most construction companies as it is a heavy duty tractor which can withstand the daily grind of rugged construction work. Being as popular as it is, it comes as no surprise that  Used Backhoes are one of the highest selling construction equipments in the world. Another reason for its high sales is the sheer assortment of tasks that it can handle. Besides constructions, backhoes are also used on various projects including plumbing, utility construction, water/sewer work and excavation. The backhoe (also know in the UK as a back/rear actor) is an excavating machine which has a digging bucket and this is attached to the booth via a mechanical arm. The section closest to the vehicle’s cab is called the boom and the arm to which the bucket is attached is called the dipper. The pivot attaching the boom to the vehicle is referred to as the kingpost. Modern backhoes are powered by hydraulics and this extension is mounted either on the back of a tractor or even a front loader. Earlier only this extension arm with the bucket was called the backhoe. But nowadays in construction terminology, the entire machine is now called the backhoe. JCB, a UK-based construction equipment manufacturing company is usually credited with inventing the backhoe. However, Joseph Cyril Bamford (the head of the company) denies that his company was the original inventor. He mentioned getting the idea when he saw hydraulic excavator while on a trip in Norway. He then shipped back one of these machines to the UK and then created his own design using the Norwegian machine as his base. Their first tractor design had a front mounted loading buck and a backhoe on the back. This was their basic design which goes all the way back to the early 1950s and is almost the standard design for all the future variants of this machine. In fact these machines are colloquially referred to as ‘JCBs’ because of their popularity and high sales in Europe. The company’s long-standing predominance has even led to Joe Bamford being the only non-American to be honored with a place in the Hall of Fame of the U.S construction industry. While it remains a relatively simple machine in what does, the backhoe has in recent years gone beyond its simplicity. Advances in technology have made the backhoe go from a simple excavation and digging tool to functions like carrying tools. This is largely due to the integration of hydraulic powered attachments like tiltrotators, breakers, grapples and augers onto this machine. A ‘backhoe fade’ is a darkly humorous term popularly used in the telecommunications industry. It signifies a sudden and initially inexplicable loss of signal which might affect a few or even millions of people which is a result of an accidental severing of a cable by a backhoe or construction work.