Michigan

Helping out a friend that started his own company furnishing re-bar to construction companies. All sizes from #3 to #14 bar. We cut it to length, bent it into specifications for use in buildings and roadwork. He started as a ‘job shop’ …when you got a job (contract) you went and fulfilled that job, waited till you got another. We had no building to work in just a field with the equipment…Quonset hut came later, then a huge pole barn. No heat..railway came through the building for unloading steel bars.
First winter working outside,1976, we got a blizzard a little like the one that just came through. First half of day clear machines of snow, after lunch work on the steel. The rest of that year we got snow everyday till about the middle of February. At least an inch a day. This was all before we unionized.