For years we had just one building at work. Then we got the building next door and broke a hole in the wall to connect them. One of my first orders of business was to build a huge table. We have a table 50' long in the old building so I decided to build one 30' long here. I brought a friend aboard who is a professional carpenter and very good at this stuff. We had some beers and hung out for a few days in the evenings and got it done.
We used all new lumber for this as the company was paying for everything (including my friend's labor). We built it upside down and I remember we had a hell of a time flipping it over, we way underestimated how heavy it would be. We had a forklift but it is so big that even that was scary, we were nervous we would tear it in half. So we had some huge straps and chains and all kinds of rigging to get it on its side then somehow try to let it down easily. I later painted the whole thing myself, grey and blue. After that I had my coworker do a huge logo in white in the middle of the table, then I covered the whole thing with 5mm thick acrylic sheets.
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