Patent ID: 8483917

Claim:
A backhoe loader comprising; a transmission including at least a hydraulic clutch; a cab including an operator's seat allowed to be set in two positions of a forwardly oriented position and a backwardly orientated position; a loader disposed forwards of the cab; a backhoe disposed rearwards of the cab; a hydraulic pump configured to supply an operating oil to the hydraulic clutch; a hydraulic circuit including a relief valve configured to set an intra-circuit hydraulic pressure to be a first hydraulic pressure, the hydraulic circuit being configured to supply supplying the operating oil from the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic clutch; a work mode determining unit configured to determine whether or not an operating mode is a backhoe work mode using the backhoe; and a relief valve controlling unit configured to control a relief pressure of the relief valve at a second hydraulic pressure lower than the first hydraulic pressure when the work mode determining unit determines that the operating mode is the backhoe work mode.