With the advent of compact mechanized technologies in the mid-1950s, agriculture was slowly becoming industrialized. But Minnesota turkey producer Eddie Velo still had difficulty finding young men ...

The term ‘Bobcat’ defines skid-steer loaders, but the invention came from the need to clean up something nasty in a North Dakota barn. Back in 1957 brothers Louis and Cyril Keller needed to help a ...

Model M200 was the first Melroe compact loader built to the designs of the Keller Brothers. It all started in the small town of Gwinner, N.D., where E.G. Melroe founded the Melroe Manufacturing Co. in ...

FORMAN, N.D. — Cleaning barns and ridding them of manure has been a labor intensive job for farmers and ranchers alike for decades. But in 1956, inspiration struck two Minnesota brothers, ...

Cyril Keller, co-inventor of the original skid steer, and other family members and dignitaries were on hand at the Gwinner, ND, production facility to mark the occasion. Cyril Keller, one of the ...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. - The region’s agricultural machine history reads like a multi-season championship sports dynasty, with interlocking heroes taking the stage at different times - Melroe, ...

Kono, the Riga-based authorised dealer for the Bobcat equipment range in Latvia, has completed a project to renovate a M-600D skid-steer loader dating back around 50 years. The machine was introduced ...

A small family company in Minnesota owned by two brothers, Bobcat, is a brand of construction machinery originally built by Keller Welding and Repair. The company was founded when the brothers ...