Visit just about any construction site and chances are you’ll see a tractor-loader-backhoe, or TLB, at work. There’s a good reason for that, says Bob Tyler, John Deere marketing manager for backhoe loaders: “It’s a jack-of-all-trades.” With its loader bucket on the front and excavating bucket on the back, a TLB can save an installer from owning both a front-end loader and an excavator. And it can out-lift a skid-steer loader and out-dig a compact excavator. “With this single machine, you have just one engine to service and one fuel tank to fill, and you don’t need a trailer to
