Mill Worker - Auburn, WA

My first real dive into the magic of wood working was a garage door manufacturing company in Auburn, Wa. I started there as a temp in May of 2003 and couldn't tell the difference between Redwood and Hemlock.


At the time I was hired the company was behind 1200 doors and everything was crazy. From my point of view I couldn't understand the disorganization of everything. I later found out that a few months before I started working there the company only did a few doors on each line per week. They were behind because they closed a plant back east and shifted all the wood door orders to the Auburn plant.

I think it was only a few months into the job and I knew that working with wood was going to be my greatest passion next to music.

By the time I decided to leave custom garage door manufacturing I had worked with Hemlock, Cedar, Spanish Cedar, Redwood, Knotty Pine, Honduras Mahogany, African Mahogany, Vertical Grain Fir, Meranti, Bamboo, White Oak, Pine & Teak.

South Hill - Puyallup, Wa

South Hill was one of my first job sites with Local 470. We poured a lot of concrete on this site part of which you can see at the bottom of each picture. Also on the other side of the cherry picker and also where you see the rebar sticking out of the ground. There was a lot of on the job learning when it came to building forms. This job lasted about 2 weeks.

St. Anthony's hospital - Gig Harbor, Wa

This is what St. Anthony's Hospital looked like when I started on the job on November 1, 2008.


This picture was taken on the morning of my last day on the job.