Backhoe VS. Excavator 2 is available

 Backhoe is equivalent to about an 8 tonner so an 8 tonne excavator should have been used. A more experienced excavator operator should have been used to trench and backfill. A set of excavator forks should have been used to unload. A wheel excavator should have been used for speed. Loading trucks is definitely quicker with an excavator you dig from your side and load over back of truck for fastest load time with a mud bucket.  It all depends on the operator's skill, I've just seen other video where the excavator beats the backhoe. In addition to this, there are tasks where one or the other will perform better, if they were meant to do the same jobs in the same way there would only be one vehicle.  The excavator is better at digging if there are cables and pipes in the ground because you have mutch better view of what you are doing. And if you have a rotortilt you can just put the pallet forks on that, same thing goes for the sweeping attachment. Plus the backhoe is a JCB so it would be broken  half the time that the excavator is working.  Like the video, and good PR, but in reality, this isn't fair (for those unfamiliar with both). The excavator comes into its own with jobs where range of motion exceeds 180-degrees, and where you have to both 'break' and 'move' simultaneously (with the excavator, you have to break, pile and then relocate to move the material, while with an excavator, you simply break). In most class-comparisons, the excavator has greater reach, greater down-pressure, and really, the weight-class was seriously low on this comparison, to the favor of the backhoe (less down-force for the excavator).  Trenching tends to actually favor the excavator, but 'back fill' will normally favor the backhoe a little. Might want to look up what a Volvo EC221 excavator can do - several videos showing 2-minute load times for 22-ton dump trucks are all over the place. In the end, both backhoe and excavator serve a purpose, you can't drive nails with a screwdriver and you can't tighten screws with a hammer.