Muckaway:
When I trained at the CITB college, I got my backhoe loader ticket by pretty much avoiding JCBs. I always opted for Cat and Case. Mostly because I hate the X pattern levers JCB insist on using. Happy to say I’ve now gotten used to them.
My Dad always used to have Massey Ferguson backhoes that became Fermec then Terex machines, only used to use JCB’S if hired in from Hewdens or whoever and yeah i remember the x pattern he was never a fan of JCB’s really