Compact tractor-loader-backhoes were designed to reduce hand labor, but this article compares how they add up to other compact equipment.

Kubota introduces its BX80-Series of sub-compact 4WD diesel tractors, the BX1880, BX2380, BX2680 and BX23S, which leads the sub-compact tractor class as a standard-equipped loader-backhoe unit.

The Renegade TLB-25 is a 25 HP sub-compact tractor loader backhoe designed and manufactured by Tamarack Industries. This TLB represents innovation and resurrection in the rental industry, purpose ...

The CBL40 is, at heart, a sturdy backhoe-loader. But with a universal coupler up front, and with a backhoe that can be removed to allow using attachments with the machine's optional three-point hitch ...

When the compact tractor loader backhoe (TLB) first motored onto the scene a little more than 30 years ago, it faced an uphill climb. As with any new equipment category, it took a lot of time and ...

Numbers aren’t everything—but neither is a compact tractor. We tested the limits of John Deere’s latest.

KOREAN brand TYM has stepped into the sub-compact market with its 25hp (18.6kW) TS25 tractor/loader/backhoe heavyweight.

A tractor’s horsepower (hp) rating is one of the factors that determine whether a tractor is compact (about 25 to 50 hp) or subcompact (typically less than 25 hp). Specification charts aside ...

Tractor loaders, wheeled loaders and telehandlers of all sizes, from ultra-compact to ultra-heavyweight, have become indispensable providers of muscle for contractors and farms large and small ...

Small But Capable: Is 2025 The Year of The Utility Tractor? These steel and rubber Swiss Army knives offer many of the features of higher horsepower machines in a smaller, easier-to-use tractor.