I got some hard maple into the shop today:
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What’s it gonna be?
He cashed in his gold so he could invest in hard maple🤣
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I did cash out all my gold after many years of stacking. A bit sad for me, but gold had gone up so much (particularly this last year), it was time to liquidate it.
I’m retiring from a lot of my businesses. I might be done with precious metals. I sold my steel company last month and shut down my new construction division as well. Hardest part was saying goodbye to so many great employees.
I turn 63 next week.
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I can’t tell if it is 8/4 or what. What is the thickness?
Any quarter sawn in there?
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Been 4 decades scene I went to lumber mills to purchase lumber. Hard Maple, seldom. Only for special repairs. Typically pine, even spruce specialty lengths or finishes.
I think 12,000 does not go far these days when purchasing specialty lumber like hard maple.
Imported?
What grade and lengths? (S2S) (S4S)
Fully dressed, ready-to-go boards?
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Happy Birthday coming, Nick and enjoy your retirement.
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I haven’t been happy about it so far. I sold truckloads of steel and when they hauled it all out of here, I almost cried. Who would have thunk that a grown man could get choked up about steel plate.
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Go stand outside mid July and weld seams 10 hours a day for a week.
After that you’ll be glad it’s gone.
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Or grind for 10 hours.
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thats a nice looking stack of boards Nick !, are You planning on starting a table company??
Large Horse Stables Nick.
Stall Chew guards with vertical maple board bottoms look unique.
Horse stall gates usually have a U shape so the horses can look out of the stall.
You engineer the stables?
fancy ! I prolly would have used yellow pine for that…but then Im not rich with a stable…
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Cool design here, so you can open them to let the horse stick their head out? Maybe tend to them?
One serious question. That floor looks slick. Can a horse in shoes slip on that?
Some of us are old enough to remember these, and a floor like that was treacherous 
They are kind of U-shaped. Each has one to look out and also the same little doors between stalls.
Yes, each has a little door that can open (kind of U-shaped) as well as between stalls.
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Sort of. Almost everyone who works for me is a horse owner. It was a group effort.
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Here is more about the doors at the back of each stall that lead to the turnouts. I designed and built them. I think they were the first energy code-compliant doors. They passed a blower tests.
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If any of you want a side business, come out and visit me and I’ll show you how to make these doors.
I have hundreds of inquiries about them as a lot of horse lovers like to heat and even air condition their stables, which they can no longer do with just plain old horse stall doors.
I’m not doing it. I’m retired. I just designed and built these to see if I could make 4-foot wide horse doors that pass a blower door test.
If interested in starting a side business, come visit me and we’ll show you how to make them.
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