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Tools & Equipment
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The family behind Klein Tools has made lineman’s pliers since 1857
A Chicago blacksmith’s repair for a telegraph lineman became Klein Tools, which his descendants still own and run, six generations on, for the trades that carry its pliers.
The Vermeer family still runs the Pella company that gave tree crews the stump cutter
Gary Vermeer’s heirs still own and run the Iowa maker of stump cutters and underground drills, under hiring rules the family began writing in 1989.