Customer Spotlight: Helmuth Repair and Their Skyjack SJ16 Vertical Mast Lift
Helmuth Repair, a family-owned farm equipment dealer in Kalona, Iowa since 1956, uses a Skyjack SJ16 from The Lift Bros to prep, clean and paint tall equipment without step ladders.

Helmuth Repair is a family-owned farm equipment dealer and repair shop in Kalona, Iowa. The business started in 1956, when John C. Helmuth began selling feed mixers and fixing local farmers' equipment. Today Floyd Helmuth, Nelson Yutzy and Anthony Yutzy run it as a third-generation company, selling and servicing farm equipment, Kärcher pressure washers and Honda small engines.
Helmuth Repair picked up a Skyjack SJ16 vertical mast lift from The Lift Bros.
The photo above is our own photo of a Skyjack SJ16. We'll swap in Helmuth Repair's own photos when they send them.
In Floyd's words
"We really enjoy our SJ16. Out detailer/painter uses it to drive around our bigger, taller equipment to prep, clean and paint. It has eliminated the use of step ladders which reduces the hazard of falling off ladders. The Lift Bros. have gone (above and beyond) to take care of any ongoing needs and questions we have had!"
— Floyd Helmuth, Helmuth Repair
What an SJ16 does
The Skyjack SJ16 is a compact, self-propelled 16-foot vertical mast lift. One person stands on the platform, drives it right up to the work and raises the platform straight up, so there is no ladder to climb, move and re-climb.
Learn more about Helmuth Repair
See their equipment, engines and parts at helmuthrepair.com.
Looking for a lift like this one?
We sell used and refurbished vertical mast lifts, scissor lifts and boom lifts from Genie, Skyjack and JLG. Browse our vertical mast lifts or call The Lift Bros at 918-476-0541.
Thanks to Floyd and the Helmuth Repair team for letting us feature them.
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