HUSKEY LUMBER COMPANY

THIS IS A CHRISTIAN COMPANY, AND I WORKED AT IT FOR 3 YEARS....

WITH MY VULGAR HUGE MOUTH, BELIEVE OT OR NOT.

IT IS ALSO WHERE I MIGHT ALOT OF REALLY NICE PEOPLE..

ONE BEING JOHN SCHAUB, A VERY SPECIAL FRIEND OF MINE.

When I started at Husley Lumber I was hired in as a yard employee, loading and unloading trucks with a forklift, helping customers frind the lumber in the yard they purchased inside the store and general duties involved in the lumber business,

After about 6 months of employment the owner and president, Jim Huskey, asked me if I wanted to do lumber "take-offs". A "take-off" is when you calculate the lumber needed to build a house off of the set of blueprints for the house. Since I was in Nashville Tennessee most of the new homes being built by this company were of people of noteworthy standing in the community....THE COUNRTY MUSIC community. Many of the people were quite wealthy and built mansions. These structures were of immense footage, a majority of the homes had square footage over 8,000 and some as large as 12,000 square footage.

The homes had to be "stucturally engineered" and that was part of my job....engineering mansions of the country music stars.

One house in particular I did was for Tony Brown, a country record producer. It was featured in Architectual Digest magazine. The home is a single level home with 3 bedrooms, a weight room and a theater that sat about 20 people and a dining room that would seat 30 people and a leather floor in the library. It was a 10,000 square foot home and had a guest cottage behind, with an observatory on the roof and a 4 car garage. MOST IMPRESSIVE.

The contractor "Groovy", did called me when he was done and told me he has never seen a more complicated house to build and never seen a take-off as close as the one I did for this lot.

Ed Jenkins, of Pinnacle Builders of Brentwood Tessessee, who has been building custom homes for over 40 years told me "he has never, in all his year of being a contractor, EVER seen take-offs as close as the ones I complete".
He stated it was phenomenal....No, Ed just right, lol.
PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

I was quite the talk of the constuction site and since they are a bunch of beer drinkers, the bar also...and they all went to church too, so I imagine I was also talked about after the Sunday service.
I'm just doing my job...right, I might add.
Y'all are doing all the talking.

People,noticing too much about what Jack was doing and talking about me,caused quite a problem for the company...just like the non-competition agreement did at South Bend Clutch.

LOWE'S HOME IMPROVEMENT was trying to monopolize on the aggressive and extremely lucrative housing market in the middle Tennessee area, but they could not get a take-off done right, let alone in a timely manner. Making money is all about timing, and contractors have to have a tight schedule if they are to make money.

When word had spread about my speed and accuracy at my job the competitors wanted to capitalize on my talents.

They would have a home owner or contractor bring in a blueprint for a take-off (estimate), and LOWE'S would have one of their employees dress up in street clothes and pose as the home owner and bring their blueprints in to Huskey Lumber to get an estimate done...by me.

THINK PEOPLE...I WAS DOING THE WORK LOAD

OF TWO LARGE LUMBER COMPANIES,

AND GETTING PAID FROM ONE.

When the owner caught wind of what was going on he started charging to do the estimates...ten cents per square foot.
An 8,000 square foot home, which is average, was $800.00 for the estimate, and believe it or not, LOWE'S was willing to pay us to do it...WOW.!!!!!!!

I WAS ON SALARY...$750.00  PER WEEK

The owner of the company wouldn't allow it....smart man.
He would allow LOWE'S to find out how to put Huskey Lumber out of business, maybe.
Hiring a key individual that was making him money and keeping his customer base happy, profitable and satisfied.

IT IS THE WAY BUSINESS IS DONE...DO YOU HEAR ME  "BAY AREA DICKHEADS"

I also did numerous homes for stars of note...Martina McBride, George Strait and Ronnie Dunn of BROOKS AND DUNN fame.

I gained a rather notorious reputation as being very fast and extremely detail oriented, as my take-offs were extremely close as far as, accuracy in the amount of lumber and engineering accuracy.

The reason I was so proficient was because the job was very challenging and I enjoyed it, and liked working with most of the people at the company.

I STILL DRANK AND LEFT THE COMPANY

BECAUSE OF THE STRESS LEVEL

OF MY JOB DUTIES

ALSO, MY FRIEND, JOHN SCHAUB, HAD QUIT

AND THE JOB WAS NOT AS FUN

AS IT WAS WHEN HE WORKED THERE.

The top salesman at the company, Floyd Barnes, who was a certified engineer and the top salesman of lumber in the area, stated once when I caught and engineering error that could have caused a problem that could have gotten and entire house torn down to the basement and rebuilt, "Jack you are better at this than I am." I took it as a complement but it was just "team work" to get the job done right.

JUST HELPING MY TEAM MEMBERS OUT TO GET THE JOB DONE...THAT'S ALL.


Floyd Barnes and Michael Cooper, where the individuals that helped me learn to do my job, the least thing I could do is return the respect, when I could and, definately when I was asked.