excavator
Senior Member
JCBiron. I have never heard anything about JCB building Cat backhoes. Do you have any more information on this? I do know that some Cat backhoes used Ford differentials, I'm thinking 416 & 426 machines?
JCB is not together with anyone on their excavators (or anything for that matter). As someone above posted, in the earlier years, JCB had a joint effort with Sumitomo (hence the JS name), but that dissovled in the mid-90's. The JCB JS excavator is designed and built by JCB in their Heavy Line plant in the UK. Now I'm not claiming that it is entirely JCB components, because like everyone in the industry, they use a lot of Japanese pumps, valves, motors, etc. But the machine is engineered and built by JCB.
I think some of the confusion comes from the fact that JCB used to make Cat's backhoes for them in the 80's, and still made their cabs into the 90's I believe.