High Tensile Steels

We have been here at Akota B-26/122 for a while now. High Tensile Steels is basically just us working with metal every day. It's a lot of heavy lifting and making sure things are cut right. People come by when they need specific pieces for building stuff or just small repairs. The shop isn't fancy. There is always dust around and the noise of machines is constant. We try to keep the inventory sorted so we can find what someone asks for without digging through a pile for an hour. Sometimes it gets busy and we might be slow to answer the phone, but we are usually here. My father started this and now I handle most of the day-to-day things. We know most of the guys who stop in. It is just a regular place where we sell steel. If you are looking for those shiny office buildings, this isn't it. We deal with the raw material. The rain sometimes makes things difficult in the yard but we manage. We’ve seen the neighborhood change quite a bit over the years. Some days are long, especially when a big truck arrives and we have to unload everything by hand. We don't have a big team, just a few of us who know the sizes and weights. It works for us. We just stay focused on the work at hand. That’s really all there is to it here.