Joshua Shanks wrote:

Hello! Does anyone know what kind of steel is used for the tools the
water companies use to turn on and off a water main leading into a
house? They're about 5 feet long, T-shaped, with a socket on the long
end and a chisel tip on one end of the "T", and a spike on the other
end. Any ideas?
if you need one you can go to home depot and buy one, pretty cheap and
cheaply made(mild steel)... i made one myself out of a piece of 3/4 inch
pipe(cut groove in one end with a hack saw and then beat the center
part in to make the groove to turn the valve( need a pipe wrench to turn
the pipe(or you can go overboard on the home made tool by putting a
handle on it with some pipe fittings)....