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AEM HOF Loses Two Members
SHARE April 21, 2021
AEM has noted that two of its Hall of Fame members passed away in the last year: Cyril Keller, co-inventor of the skid steer loader, and Helmut Claas, former chairman of the German agriculture machinery company Claas.
Cyril Keller, a member of the 1999 induction class to what was then known as the Construction Equipment Hall of Fame, passed away October 28, 2020, in his hometown of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, at age of 98. Keller was inducted, along with his younger brother Louis (1923-2010), for his development of the first skid steer loader.
The Keller brothers, originally trained as blacksmiths, operated their own machine shop in Rothsay, Minnesota. A farmer friend of theirs said he needed a machine capable of cleaning out stalls in his turkey barns that was light enough to operate on the barn’s upper levels. Their first design of a three-wheel loader eventually deve