Breaking ground on our new shop
The posts are set, the 3 phase transformer is set, the pad is graded. Ready for plumbing and electrical rough in and then slab pour in a couple weeks. Stay tuned for progress pix.
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We harvested this downed Russian olive ten days ago. It was a good test of our abilities and the limits of our equipment.
My nephews at Silverleaf Farms pointed it out to me. We get a lot of our logs this way, by word of mouth. I knew the neighbor of the lot where the tree was lying and she gave me the name of the owner. I called and the owner was delighted to have us cut it down and haul it off.
We agreed on a price and got it out in two 5 hour days, limited by serious cold temperatures and snow.
See more on this story in days to come.
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Tin Shed Millworks
Our new shop is almost ready to open. We have power and the concrete floors are sealed. We will be setting up machinery and doing finish touches for the next few weeks and hope to be fully operational by the end of June. It will never be this clean again!
Read MoreWhere our planks end up
ABH Designs is thriving in EL Paso Texas. Every project shown in this short video includes our live edge planks. Thanks to one of our partners here in Albuquerque we can get him pallets of material very inexpensively.
Read MoreHarvest
Today we harvested an amazing Russian olive, probably 60 years old, standing dead for a long time. We were going to fell it with the chainsaw but our friend Martin knocked it over with his backhoe so we got an extra 12” of the biggest diameter log. Very glad of the backhoe- it would have
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