Maybe it was their surroundings. Most Newfies would feed you before themselves. Of course there are always exceptions to the rule. Lord tunderin
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Sounds just like our East coast.
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Haha I’m not sure I’ve ever met someone from there before, I was speaking about the cubans!
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LMAO twice.
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You can, kinda, see it if you zoom in some.
I’ve always wanted to do some riding out that way. I’m told there are still places you can ride for two days and not see a fence.
I never had the chance and now I’ve sold all the horses. I have ridden some beautiful trails in my life though so I feel blessed anyway. lol
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Ain’t that the truth! A single residential interior door can present small challenges if you want it hung properly. Residential French entry doors are far more than double the challenge of a single door. There is so much going on with double doors. I can’t imagine getting those huge ass doors to swing properly! My hat is off to you sir! 
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Thanks @shag, appreciate it brother!!!
Doors are an art, and not everyone can do them. I’ve been doing them ever since I started building this company. I was a typical shop worker before 2000 in Saginaw, assembly line, production work, same thing every day. Got the call from my best friend, and move to PoHo, and started doing replacement windows and doors in some of the roughest areas of Detroit, to the tune of over 6k windows and 1,500 doors. That turned into doing retail work in malls, and that involved a LOT of Aluminum and Glass doors, had to learn fast. Now after 23 years, I’m a Specialist, and large retail companies like Apple, Microsoft, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Tiffany & Co, and others, will fly me out to their stores for simple door repairs, because they know if I’m coming out, the problem will get fixed.
Now we are a Certified Tubelite Fabricator, and don’t have to buy doors. I build them.
These giant Ford doors have been a bugger, issues abound, but I’m trudging thru it, making notes, writing everything down, so when we have to build the 8 pairs, (16 doors) and frames, they go into production then the opening and work.
Just wait until I do the next cladded doors for Tiffany & Co for the Lennox Mall in Atlanta, Polished Gold are going to be gorgeous when they are built.
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WOW! Having the skill to fabricate the doors themselves… WOW!
I wondered how many doors you were talking about.That’s so awesome!
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I’ll agree with you there @mota, but I’ve been doing it so long, it’s kinda like riding a bike. I can look at a set, and know within seconds what I’ve got to do to make the adjustments. Double doors this big, are a whole nother universe. Butt hinges, power assist closers, loaded with steel, emergency escape handles, custom handles, etc. are brain scrambling at times to make everything work and look proper.
I’ve got the eyelines dialed in perfect, they swing, just have to make some minor adjustments in the morning and they should be good to go.
Chances are, anyone who has ever been to or seen an Apple Store, I’ve built those custom doors, and our shop has done the storefront glass, and some we have built the entire store minus HVAC and electrical.
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I’ll bet that’s the truth. I’m not sure which is more impressive, managing to hang them square and working properly or fabricating the doors in the first place.
YOU are the real deal.
Did the closures need to be custom fabricated? When you install them, how many guys will you take for your crew?
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The enclosure boxes are custom 1/4” A36 steel. Run on our waterjet, then bent on a 350 ton press brake, then corners welded solid. The closures themselves are off the shelf, power assist made by Tormax, to the tune of $10k a piece.
It was just me and a helper hanging these in the shop, but it will probably involve 4-5 people to install them in the field. We are just doing a supply only deal, another Glazing contractor hired us to build them, they are doing the install. We got in Fords ass because these were specd to be German doors, and told them, why bring Foreign doors to be put in an American manufacturer’s headquarters, we can build them 75 miles away, that’s why I’m doing mock up doors to work it all out so I can fabricate the rest and when they go out the door, they work.
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Fucking right!
My son is a supervisor without a crew on the Portland airport remodel project. The project has two general’s. He’s the problem solver for one of them on a scale like you’re talking about.
Seriously impressive.
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@mota right on!!! I feel for your son. I’ve done airport work before, and it isn’t very fun. And they are doing an airport remodel?? Way worse than just doing a store in one!!!
We did a giant store in the Seattle Airport, and it was a giant headache, and a mess. A big corner store with 200ft of 3D fascia panels that were painted a custom orange, thank god we have a 30ft paint booth also!!!
Props to your son for making it thru every day, airport remodels are a tough gig, and VERY stressful every day. Not only does he have 2 project managers to deal with, airport management is on another planet with their thoughts and ideas on a daily basis.
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As I recall they’re a little more than half way through the five year project. The airport remains open in its entirety as they do the remodel. He’s had it about up to here with “management.” Just a few years until he retires. He may get serious about stereotomy in one way or another.
This was several months ago. They’re dry fitting the ceiling decoration for the terminal.
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Hey I wanted to thank you for doing that, I was hoping there would be a way to pull that in so people could really put the spot in perspective. Really big open spaces!
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pretty cool stuff to do fabrication work on. Doors were never my thing. even my grow room doors kinda suck LOL
As a former steel fabricator and structural engineer I can see how the work you are doing could be a lot of fun and satisfaction but I also get the dickin around to get eerything just right.
I used to fabricate bridge beams , entire bridges for BC’s logging and mining industry as well as a few big ass pile drivers and a few natural gas pipeline “bridges”. With a margin of error at +/- 3mm , everything had to be perfect. It’s a pisser when everything is perfect and material still don’t wanna do what you want it to do.
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That’s why we used to always just light a few! 
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Good call brother… 
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Only $18 bucks a piece… 
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Survival ropes, huh?
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