B-Line
was a local company in Highland, Illinois that made the eponymous fittings the trade
calls "B-line".
Some years ago they were absorbed by Eaton.
This
is what are referred to as angles, brackets, L's, T's etc. in heavy plate with hot-dipped
galvanizing.
These are made as structural elements for electrical boxes, switchgear,
busses and so forth and had to be just perfect.
This is because it might be thousands
of volts of electricity and lawyers just love when that happens to their clients.
And,
of course, everyone suffers (except the lawyers).
Consequently, they are overbuilt
by an order of magnitude and absolute overkill for bolting wooden beams together.
Just
what Dean ordered.
Dean had hundreds of pieces of B-Line and in the winter of
2013 he and Bruce dismantled O'Neill Lumber.
They were able to salvage hundreds
of 6" x 8" x 22 foot treated timbers which would make up window frames
inside the steel superstructure.