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Customers have relied on YO-HO Quality Tools for more than 80 years. Find YO-HO tools at hardware, farm and home stores nationwide or browse our online store.
YO-HO specialty tool groups offer a variety of enhanced features such as reinforced handles or heavy-duty blades.
80 Years of Quality Products and Customer Satisfaction
Yeoman & Company was founded in 1929 by William F. Yeoman of Monticello, Iowa. The company’s products were known as “YO-HO Tools” reflecting the Yeoman name and that of two local brothers named Hoag who had invested in the early business.
In the beginning, area manufacturers were used to produce the steel rake heads and shovel blades. Assembly of the finished tools took place in the basement of the family home. Then William and his eldest son, Willard, would load the tools into the family automobile and peddle them to area hardware stores. By 1935 the company expanded to a building in Monticello and managed its own manufacturing.
During World War II, Yeoman & Company was designated an essential industry and produced tools for Victory Gardens and snow tools to clear the decks of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.
The YO-HO signature yellow color was introduced in 1971 with the addition of an electrostatic powder coating system to its manufacturing operation. Yeoman was the first production powder coater west of the Mississippi River.