The Birth of the Skid-Steer Loader
In 1957, Eddie Velo, a turkey farmer, arrived at the blacksmith shop of brothers Cyril and Louis Keller in Rothsay, Minnesota, pleading for help. He was unable to operate his motorized loader between the vertical posts inside his poultry barns. The Keller brothers agreed to assist Velo by building a lightweight, motor-driven loader that could be moved to the second floor of the barns and maneuver freely to clean the spaces around the posts.
They scoured junkyards for materials and ideas, and eventually cobbled together a three-wheeled loader with two drive wheels at the front and a small caster wheel at the rear. Powered by a 6-horsepower magneto-start engine, the new loader was controlled independently on the left and right sides. The tines on the front lifting fork were made from window frames of the nearby Rothsay jail — the only steel strong enough that the brothers could find at the time.
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