Your humility is truly exceptional and so welcome and refreshing.
Lotta serious talent here at the House, no doubt.
I love seeing the fabricators on this place, welding things and fixing things and tuning things.
In one of your online interviews re the RW, there was a line I absolutely loved because I feel the exact same way. In trying to develop the RW, you said "(I found) little machine shops that were right under my nose, like a little building on the side of a railroad track and you go inside and there's all these CNC machines and lasers and
guys that know....everything about doing things"
Awesome sentiment there, KB. Indeed, machine shop guys are awesomely talented and capable. To wit: We have a little camp in Maine, the caretaker we use is a guy in his 30's, native of Fayette ME where the camp is, his day job is a mill wright and he's a mellow, laid back, working fool. He found a couple of big old Bridgeport brand machines on line and bought em for cheap and refurbished and installed them in his garage, BPT has been outta biz for years but their machines last forever in the right hands.So now he can machine at home too. So anyway we had a tall, good size maple close the camp that had to come down, was on a fairly steep hill 20' rear of camp. I wasn't going to do it on my vacation (NFW, lol) but he said he'd do it, no problem, he has a friend that works for Lucas Tree in Maine ( I figured that guy would do the climbing) and they'd do the job together in the off season. Sounds like a plan. So we come back the following season, tree is gone, perfect looking job. I asked him about it, he said he did the climbing. That blew my mind, that this highly skilled machinist also had what it took to take down a big tricky tree. SMH, those guys are a different breed.
And lol, if I had what it takes to develop the RW, I'm sure my first iteration would also be of wood, cuz metal is just so....complicated
