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Feb 15, 2011 · Working with farm equipment, he developed an engineer’s eye for innovation and invention, despite attaining only an eighth-grade education. He worked in an uncle’s machine shop as a teenager, served in the military, then founded Hetteen Hoist and Derrick in the mid-1940s.
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Feb 15, 2011 · Edgar died on Saturday, February 12. He was 90. “Edgar was an icon, a snowmobile pioneer and visionary who helped grow a seed of a sport and industry into a thriving pursuit and business that people love worldwide,” said Polaris President and COO Bennett Morgan.
Nov 20, 2023 · Allan joined the Hetteen Hoist and Derrick Company after graduating from Roseau High School, in 1948. Allan became a partner in the business, adding car salvage and car repair to the services. Allan was known for his knowledge, mechanical talents, building, and welding skills.
Though Hetteen is often credited with inventing the Polaris snowmobile at roughly the same time that J. Armand Bombardier was working up his Ski-Doo line, the company’s first sled was actually pieced together by business partner David Johnson while Hetteen was out of town in January of 1956.
Feb 14, 2011 · Photo courtesy Polaris. The man remembered by many as the grandfather of snowmobiling has passed away at the age of 90. Edgar Hetteen, who cofounded Polaris Industries and founded Arctic Cat,...
Aug 12, 2019 · 1944: Edgar Hetteen establishes his first business, Hetteen Hoist & Derrick in Roseau, Minnesota. The business operates from a building that was once a rural dance hall, the Pine Needle Inn. The structure had been moved into Roseau before Hetteen moved in.
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Oct 10, 2016 · A Roseau County native, Johnson, along with boyhood friend and brother-in-law Edgar Hetteen, started the Hetteen Hoist and Derrick company in Roseau in 1945, making straw choppers and other...
