I’ve been the small-town guy in a huge city, looking at a high-end piece of furniture, or a barnwood fireplace mantle, and wondering where the wood was sourced.
How did it end up in: Anaheim, California; Chicago, Illinois; or Florence, Italy, when there typically isn’t a barn in sight in any of those places?
Meanwhile, I know the treasure and history that my birth state boasts! I had always wondered if there was a way to reclaim the “junk wood”; moreover, I have been a part of a couple of barn rehabilitation projects. Spending my high school summers working with Manchester’s own, John Heffernen, and salvaging a few barns myself, I can attest to the amount of physical labor these projects require. That’s where the dreaming stopped for me. It’s hard, hot, humid, and dusty work, ‘till the very last minute of the very last day on site. Then you pack up your equipment, clean up, admire your work, and ride off into the sunset. It seems like this episode would be a better fit for “Dirty Jobs” with, Mike Rowe, than The World With Nate podcast.
Ezrah and Elias have first-hand knowledge of an impending day of back-breaking work.
Work that will slow even the most zealous of workers. To look at that and use it as fuel for your passion, while working with your hands, to salvage the old, and to give life to the new. That’s something I needed to talk about!
These men are the real deal. Not the type who will tell you about scripture, but the kind who will show you how He has worked in their lives to repurpose and rekindle when their sense of hope seemed to dwindle.
“There is so much beauty in this old milled lumber that lies behind a thin layer of dust and dirt. Our desire is to bring that into homes and businesses across the country to be enjoyed for years to come,” 3:10 Timber Co.’s Elias (bald one) and Ezrah (redhead).
We can’t let the history and craftsmanship of those who’ve gone before us fade forever. It is important we take a look back at the past, so that we may place our beacon in the future.
Thank you for your work in preserving some of our Midwestern history Ezrah & Elias, I’m forever enamored by your passion for this craft; whereas, I will forever gush about your fire and devotion to God.
