“The handiest implement on the farm. With this transport, you can load your swather for the road in less than three minutes. While loaded, you can tow your swather at speeds up to 30 miles per hour. No chains or hold-downs are needed. In one week of swathing, you can save up to six hours of work. Saves on tires and large drive chains. For information, write or call.”
This advertisement, created about 55 years ago, promoted the EZE-Load swather transport, built by EZE-Load Manufacturing of rural Britton. The company was founded around 1969 by father and son Clayton and Paul Bremmon. While the family no longer manufactures swather transports, their business remains strong today as Bremmon Shop.
Mechanical aptitude runs deep in the Bremmon family. Paul tells of a distant ancestor, Ole Brubakken, who homesteaded in the Veblen area in the 1880s and displayed a knack for mechanics. One of Brubakken’s nephews, Ole Johnson, went on to work for the Ford Motor Company, where he invented the three-piece oil ring. Though he received little recognition or financial gain, the design became an automotive necessity, with billions produced over the years. The oil ring is still used in motors to this day.
Generations later, the Bremmons continued to innovate. Paul explains that his father, Clayton, and his uncles were skilled mechanics who sought a solution to a common problem of their time—slow, inefficient swather transportation. “In the ’60s, my dad was pushed into doing something about it,” he said. “Swathers drove so slow and so rough on the road that it was hard on people and took forever to move.”
Clayton devised a solution, and his brother Raymond, with his machining expertise, helped bring it to life. The result was the EZE-Load swather transport, a product that saved farmers time and effort and left a lasting impact on the industry. The transport included a double ramp to load the swather. After you drove up it, the ramps flipped up with no chains needed. The design allowed for the easy movement of swathers and made it possible to drive on narrow roads with them.
The swather transports were a success, and the Bremmons soon marketed them under the umbrella of their new business, EZE-Load Manufacturing.
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