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 ...

The Bobcat skid-steer loader, initially built to clean turkey barns and which has since revolutionized the compact equipment industry worldwide, is 50 years old. All year long, the West Fargo-based ...

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 ...

When a construction crew in Lancaster, Calif., returned to the jobsite after the Labor Day weekend, they were shocked to discover that a 2013 Melroe Bobcat skid steer was missing. It’s a good thing ...

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, ...

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 ...

FARGO - The man who helped invent the Bobcat skid-steer loader died Sunday evening. Louis Keller, who along with his brother Cyril, built the original skid-steer loader, a compact 3-wheel machine, to ...