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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warning: Do not operate heavy equipment. But really, who would pass up a chance to get behind the wheel of a bulldozer, a dump truck or that ever prevalent skid-steer loader, the Bobcat. What if ...

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 ...