Don Kotula, the founder of Northern Tool and Equipment, died on Saturday at the age of 78. Don Kotula, founder of Burnsville-based Northern Tool + Equipment uses the company's original log splitter ...

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Any given garage or workshop can house a multitude of different small, diesel engine-powered implements, such as log splitters. The annoying thing about these many small engines is that, much like the ...

Launched by Don Kotula in 1981 as a mail-order business that offered a patented log splitter design, Northern Tool & Equipment moved into brick-and-mortar retail later that year, expanded online in ...

Don Kotula, the founder of Northern Tool and Equipment, died on Saturday at the age of 78. Kotula founded Northern Tool out of an Eagan garage in 1981 and helped it grow to a billion-dollar ...