442E Backhoe Loader

Customer driven improvements are designed into the 442E.Learn More

Lower Operating Costs

The 442E has an adjustment system that is simple to adjust ensuring easy maintenance of the Stabilizer and E-Stick a wear pads. This means less machine downtime and more convenience for the operator providing low operating costs.

All Wheel Braking

All Wheel Braking is standard on all 442E Backhoe loaders. When driving in two wheel drive, applying the brakes engages four wheel drive. Releasing the brakes returns the transmission to two wheel drive. This effective systemworks well in hazardous, slippery or steep surfaces. Braking modes are controlled by an easily accessible All Wheel Drive Switch improving braking effectiveness and helps reduce tire wear.

Improved Weight Distribution

The 442E has been designed with a long wheel base to ensure optimum balance and handling, particularly when roading. This is achieved with no loss in turning circle.

Pattern Changer

The 442E has an in-cab backhoe control pattern changer as standard, allowing operators to choose between either ISO, or SAE control patterns. Conveniently located within reach of the operator the operator can easily select a preferred operating control pattern.

160 Liter Fuel Tank

Responding to customer needs, a large 160 liter fuel tank with the Cat engine and efficient hydraulic system ensures longer periods between fill ups and less inconvenience.

Increased Rimpull

The 442E is equipped with a larger torque converter. This increases rimpull, which equates to improved loading characteristics, which in turn offers more productivity.

Cat Immobilizer System

Machine theft has serious repercussions for your business, such as loss of business, higher insurance costs and inconvenience. The Cat Immobilizer System is a diesel engine immobilizer system, designed to provide theft protection. The system meets Thatcham approval and PTAG attack time requirements and a premium discount may be available from certain Insurance companies (see your Cat dealer for details). The system uses the same key but has a one touch pad for easy disarming.

Electro-Deposition Coating

Your 442E has been protected by an undercoat of electrodeposited (E-Coat) primer, which completely seals each metallic component and offers a superlative degree of protection from damage and corrosion. Coupled with the high solids polyurethane top coat, your 442E will stay looking good for longer, ensuring optimum resale value.

The E-series cab. Comfort, visibility, Style - Designed In!Learn More

The 442E Cab is designed with today’s Operator in mind. The E-Series cab is designed to provide maximum comfort, ease of operation and with modern styling meets the requirements of today’s demanding operator. The design incorporates curved glass for improved interior space and visibility. A wide cab provides a spacious environment for better performance when turning the seat from one mode of operation to the other. Cab comfort is enhanced with the first-class Cat air suspension seat, reducing fatigue. An easy to open single rear piece window provides the operator with excellent ventilation and superb visibility. The rear wiper easily cleans a large area of the rear screen to ensure excellent visibility of the working area when working in wet or dusty conditions. Excellent ergonomics ensure that all controls are within easy reach of the operator, and tinted glass is standard in all cabs. Other features such as remote stabilizer controls, large adjustable vents throughout the cab, and clear gauges provide the operator with a comfortable operating environment designed to reduce operator fatigue and increase productivity.

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Joystick Controls

Excavator style joystick controls provide smooth modulation and are ergonomically designed for low effort control maximizing operator comfort. The location of the controls naturally positions the operator in to the most comfortable of operating positions. Proportional controls in both the loader and the excavator hoe joysticks give precise control of loader and excavator worktools and extendable stick.

Excavator Control Pattern Changer

The 442E has an in-cab backhoe control pattern changer as standard, allowing operators to choose between either ISO, or SAE control patterns. Conveniently located within reach of the operator the operator can easily select a preferred operating control pattern.

Stabilizer Controls

Pilot operated, conveniently located stabilizer controls are available with optional Auto-Up feature, reducing cycle times and improving visibility to the rear.

Multi Position Joystick Pods

The joysticks are pod-mounted, with two location positions, fore and aft for the controls. This allows the operator to move forward when excavating close to the rear of the machine, and have a clear view to the trench.

Visibility

With no centrally mounted control console impeding vision, the operator has an unobstructed view to the working area.

The working envirnoment has been designed with the operator in mind.Learn More

Vibration

Caterpillar understands that backhoe loaders work in some of the harshest environments. By controlling normal machine vibrations caused by these harsh conditions, operator efficiency and productivity are improved. The 442E has features, both standard and optional, that reduce vibration.

HVAC System

The 442E benefits from an optional, powerful air conditioning system, which with good ventilation to the operator, ensures the operator stays cool in the highest of working temperatures. The ventilation system also provides plenty of demisting, defrosting and heating capability.

Work Lights

The 442E has adjustable front and rear work lights. This allows the operator to direct the light wherever needed, providing maximum illumination to the work area whatever the ambient light conditions.

Cab Air Filter

The 442E has an easy access cab air filter, situated within the right hand rear fender. The cab air intake is positioned high up to minimize dust intake into the air filter.

Cab Mounts

The cab is attached to the mainframe with resilient mounts, reducing vibration and sound providing the operator with an all round comfortable working environment.

Cab Options

The 442E is available in 2 cab options, providing the best choices to suit individual operator needs.

Cat Air Suspension Seat

The major interface between the machine and the operator is optimal, and the Cat air suspension seat provides the operator with a comfortable working platform to ensure high levels of productivity with the minimum of fatigue.

The 442E Parallel Lift Loader now has even greater performance.Learn More

Powerful Loader Performance

The 442E Parallel Lift Loader offers self levelling as standard, ensuring faster loading cycles. Designed with performance in mind the 442E has high breakout forces enabling the operator to easily fill the bucket in toughest of ground conditions whilst also providing safe lifting of any palletized load. Available with either a General Purpose or Multi Purpose bucket, the 442E can be matched to your needs precisely. Work tool visibility is excellent with the narrow sloping hood and divergent loader arms allowing a clear line of sight to the bucket edges. A large torque tube provides torsional stiffness, needed when grading or picking up irregular shaped heavy objects with the loader bucket.

Ride Control

Caterpillar’s proven Ride Control system is an option designed to reduce machine pitching and bouncing giving operators a smooth ride in all applications, including load and carry, roading, or simply moving around the jobsite. An accumulator acts as a shock absorber to reduce machine pitching and provide a smoother ride over rough terrain. The system is engaged by a switch on the front console.

Return to Dig

Your 442E is equipped with a standard Return to Dig system. This system reduces loading cycle times by bringing the loader bucket back to the dig position automatically when lowering the arms. By the time the loader arms have been lowered to ground level, the bucket is in the correct position ready for the next load.

The 442E has greater dig depth, higher forces and an improved design for increased performance.Learn More

Excavator-style Backhoe

The Cat excavator style boom has more than just good looks. Whether close-up truck loading on a single road carriageway, or digging over obstacles such as walls, the excavator boom outperforms the rest. Combine the versatility with the powerful breakout forces, the controllability of the load sensing, flowsharing hydraulic system and the 442E is capable of producing high levels of productivity with the minimum of operator effort. The boom is a narrow design, ensuring maximum visibility to the work tool.

Extendable Stick

The 442E is supplied with an extendable stick that increases dig depth and reach capability increasing the machines versatility and utilisation. A sliding inner section design keeps the wear pads out of the dirt, extending adjustment and replacement intervals. When wear pad adjustment is necessary the adjustment bolts are easy to access taking minutes to adjust, without the need to disassemble the E-Stick. Auxliary lines, for operating worktools, have been routed so that they are protected from damage when working in the narrowest of trenches.

Slider Frame and Swing Frame

The 442E is designed to make necessary maintenance easy to perform. The E-Series cast slider frame has exterior lock clamps, with no backhoe disassembly needed when servicing. The Swing Frame/Boom Foot pins have replaceable bushings in the bores.

Cat Cushion Swing Option

The 442E is equipped with Cat Cushion Swing, which enables very fast trenching by damping the boom oscillation down when returning to trench with the hoe.

Increased Depth

The 442E has a dig depth of 6.2m, further increasing the productivity and versatility of this machine.

Increased Performance

The geometry of the boom and stick have been designed to provide high breakout forces which equates to excellent digging performance making the 442E one of the best excavating backhoe available.

Load sensing, flow-sharing system matches power and flow supply to demand – where you need it, when you need it.Learn More

Hydraulic Performance

It’s rare that you’ll be working at full production 100% of the time, so why should the machine be working flat out, using more fuel, making more noise, and increasing wear? The 442E has a load-sensing, closed center hydraulic system, which closely matches power and flow to the demand needed by the job in hand. So whether you’re in full trenching mode, or delicately digging around services, you are in total control. In applications such as loading and carrying, speed is important, and the system will match the flow needed to get the job done quickly and efficiently. As there is minimal demand on the system unless needed, there are less parasitic power losses enabling more power to be available for rimpull – providing better loading and roading performance increasing productivity.

Flow Sharing Valves

The 442E features flow-sharing hydraulic valves, ensuring the correct flow of oil reaches the implement cylinders, providing greater control and eliminating oil starvation when operating multiple functions,such as grading with the backhoe.

Hardware

The 442E is equipped with a highly efficient variable displacement piston pump, reliable high performance hydraulic hose is constructed from two strong steel braided layers and O-ring face seal fittings provides a robust system ensuring excellent durability and resistance to damage from pressure spikes and hydraulic pulsing.

Enhance the versatility of your 442E, with a wide choice of tools on offer to suit your needs.Learn More

Backhoe Buckets

Cat offers a huge variety of hoe buckets to meet your requirements, including:

• Standard Duty Bucket. Used in easy to penetrate, low impact, moderately abrasive materials.
• Heavy Duty Bucket. Used for digging fragmented rock, frozen ground and highly abrasive materials.
• Extreme Service Bucket. Used in highly abrasive, high impact soil.
• High Capacity Bucket. Same durable construction as the HD bucket, but longer tip radius provides increased fill capacity.

Durability

Cat backhoe buckets offer superior durability with the following features:

• Thick cutting edges.
• DRS (Diagonal Retention System) ensures easier replacement of pin on teeth and greater strength.
• Thick wear material on the side plates for better reinforcement and less wear.
• ID plates on all buckets showing part number, GET sizes and machine compatibility.

Sizes

Work tools are available in a full range of sizes, from a 9”/228 mm Cribbing bucket for cable trenching, a range of Ditch Cleaning buckets, right up to large capacity 36”/914 mm buckets for mass excavation.

Quick coupler - Loader and Hoe

A hydraulic quick coupler is available for the Loader, and a mechanical quick coupler option is available for the Hoe. For operators who require fast tool changes, both quick coupler options can save a lot of time, money and effort.

Hydro-mechanical Work Tools

Caterpillar has designed a range of hydro-mechanical tools carefully matched to the machine for optimum performance, including: Hoe

• H65 Hydraulic Hammer
• Auger
• Vibratory Plate Compactor
• Cold Planer Loader
• Angle Broom
• Pickup Sweeper

442E has a 40 kph transmission as standard - less time on the road, more time on the job site.Learn More

40 kph Power-Shuttle Transmission

The 442E comes equipped with 40 kph Power-Shuttle transmission, improving roading speed and providing better spacing between gear ratios. It utilizes a constant mesh, synchronized, four speed system. The forward/reverse lever on the steering column is placed for easy direction changes on the move, and the gear selection is from the floor mounted shift lever.

Large Torque Converter

The 442E has a larger torque converter, which equates to more rimpull, improving loading and roading performance considerably.

Optional All Wheel Steer

The 442E is available with AWS, enabling 2WS, Circle Steer, or Crab Steer to be selected for those tight situations. This makes the machine far more manoeuvrable in confined working areas.

Diff-Lock

A manually operated differential lock in the rear axle is fitted as standard providing maximum traction on adverse ground conditions when required.

Air Filter

A dry type axial air cleaner with an integral pre-cleaner and automatic integrated dust ejection system extends the life of the air filter life when working in dusty conditions reducing service time and costs.

Cat Engine

The 442E is available with either the 3054C turbocharged engine that meets Stage II emission regulation EU Directive 97/68/EC or the C4.4 turbocharged After cooled engine that meets Stage IIIA EU emission Directive 2004/26/EC. A choice of power rating enables the performance of the machine to be matched to customer requirements. All engines are reliable 4 cylinder, 4 stroke direct injection diesel engines equipped with standard glow plug starting for optimum cold weather performance. This provides reliable starting performance down to -18 C. All engines feature a reliable gear driven water pump and a durable poly vee front end auxiliary drive belt that is automatically tensioned for longer life reducing operating costs.

Axles and Brakes

The heavy duty Cat rear axle is an enclosed design with a wet multi-plate Kevlar braking system. This system is oil immersed and self adjusting, and allows operation in the harshest environments. The system has dual brake pedals for split braking for good maneuverability in confined working areas.

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Reduced Maintenance

The 442E is equipped with a flip open hood, allowing access to all check/fill points, air cleaner, washer bottles, visual indicators etc. The E-Series carries on the tradition with sealed for life axle oscillation, driveshaft universal joints, trunnions etc. Daily maintenance, which can be a chore for the busy operator, is kept to a minimum on the 442E.

Boom and Stick Design

The Boom and Stick design allows all wear adjustment to be done with Stick in-situ, using a simple adjustment mechanism – no dismantling to shim the wear pads. The Stabiliser legs are also externally adjustable, reducing machine down time and inconvenience.

Cat Filters

All Cat filters are vertically mounted for spill free servicing and reduced oil contamination. They are also low micron filters, filtering even the tiny particles from the oil and keeping the engine, transmission and hydraulic system running smoothly for years.

Scheduled Oil Sampling

Your Cat dealer will be able to provide the Caterpillar S•O•SSM. This enables your dealer to analyze wear before problems arise, so that premature failure can be avoided, and corrective action can take place to reduce costs and downtime.

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Customer Support Agreements (CSA’s)

Your Cat dealer can offer a comprehensive range of CSA’s which can be individually tailored to suit your finances and requirements. Dealers can offer a range of options from a full Preventative Maintenance with S•O•S package to a Parts Only CSA. Protect your valuable investment and know exactly what your monthly payments will be to help you run your business.

Finance

Have you explored the range of options available from your dealer to finance your machine? They can offer a selection of attractive packages tailored exactly to your requirements.

Machine Selection

Your dealer can help guide you with your machine purchase decision, based on your requirements and help keep operating costs to a minimum. Is the machine you have in mind exactly the best for your job, or could other attachments be more suitable?

Operating Techniques

Your dealer can advise operating techniques for your machine which will minimize wear and tear, maximize productivity, and lower owning and operating costs.

Remanufactured components (Reman)

Sometimes, the most cost effective way to repair the machine is with remanufactured components. Reman components are rebuilt to original specification at a Cat Reman facility, using genuine parts and skilled technicians. Reman parts are guaranteed for 1 year.