American Logging Tool Corporation (ALTCo)

Finding its roots in the American Logging Tool Company and the Evart Tool Company, the American Logging Tool Corporation was incorporated in 1912. Early catalogs from the company show that their primary products were cant hooks, peavies, pike poles, pickeroons, loading hooks, spuds, and log dogs. In 1954, the company was merged into the Broderick and Bascom Rope of St. Louis, Missouri, as a subsidiary of the parent company. In 1957, the company purchased the assets and facilities of the Rixford Manufacturing Company of East Highgate, Vermont, eventually closing the facility and moving its equipment to Evart, Michigan, in late 1958. The company also bought the non-axe assets and rights of the Warren Axe and Tool Company in 1958. IN 1961, employees of the company purchased the business from Broderick and Bascom Rope making it a separate company once more. The company continued profitably until the early 90s. Notes of a bank liquidation of the company’s assets are noted in 1993.