My business burned down Sunday night. Looking for strength and prayers.

Glad your house and your family are safe.

Prayers for you today . Have seen many times how God can bring goodness out of bad things when you call and look to Him .

More prayers for you OP.

BUMP !!!

This isn't a tragedy it's poor planning. God's people should have more wisdom than this. I hope OP gets on his knees, humble himself, and learns something from this.

Damn dude, that sucks. Checked your site you make some pretty cool shit...

Hang in there, you'll get back what you lost and then some!

Jewish lightning? (I HIGHLY doubt there's such a thing as an uninsured building...)

I disagree. The building was not finished yet, and could not be appraised for insurance purposes until it was finished.

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Where do you doofuses come from? Can't insure a building under construction? That's funny because I've done it several times.

Which is something that you should downplay given the nature of your business.

What you said in that video is so right. So many times we get upset and down about bad days and set backs, but later we look back and say, "if that had not happened, I wouldn't be where I am today". It can be impossible to see the good that can come from such a devastating loss but just like you said in that video, you may be looking back at this from next year able to see improvements that wouldn't have happened if it weren't for this. Hang in there. You absolutely can come back from this and may even discover a benefit that can't be seen right now.

Going to have to talk the wife, but we may be future customers. Would love to able to support a fellow Tennessean and get gear for our hunting property at the same time.

It might depend on what insurance company he has. Some are rather picky.
My youngest daughter bought another car in September, a newer used car. Her old car had just liability. She went right from the dealer to the insurance company to pay the insurance for her new car, which has full coverage, BTW. Under the insurance she had on the old beater, if anything happened to her new car BEFORE she got to the insurance office, all that would have been covered was the basic liability. So, if her new car got totaled on the way to the insurance company office, she would have lost all the money she paid for the new car.
Like I said, it depends on the insurance company.

Not a bro.

This isn't about his religion, in case you couldn't tell.

Just about well-wishing for someone who took a hard hit.

But you come in here to bash his faith. I'm not a christian or anything close to it, but I'm not gonna come in here to talk shit about his beliefs.

Have some couth.

Hang in. God will make the way. Prayed.

Good luck O/P.

While you are rebuilding, I'd suggest you look at your web site home page. It isn't terribly inviting. The products page would be a better place to land!

Prayers for you OP

I wanted to buy a house a year ago but lost several thousand dollars with a small business which left me bewildered. I hired homeless and other needy guys who all turned out to be drunks or drug addicts. One burglarized my house and went to prison for something else later. Anyway, I have had to wait now to buy a home, and look what has happened - mortgage interest rates have fallen, and look to fall some more, with the result that I'll save far more over the life of a home loan than I lost with the business. And ----- the deep feelings and understandings arising out of what took place, as I handle them the proper way, allow me to approach my own challenges and the realities of other peoples' lives more realistically. It would appear sometimes that some of what we need to be useful to God and man in this life is not always realized without some pain and loss.

same here

This is not INTENDED TO BE UNKIND, BUT IF YOU WERE MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING OR WHATEVER YOU DO TO FILL YOUR ORDERS, HOUSING MATERIALS, ETC. FOR THAT PURPOSE how could you possibly do that without being insured????????
Sorry for the caps, did not see that.

blessings and abundance to you

Jewish lightening

That sucks.. I'm sorry :(

Really sorry for your loss!

Trying to find the "up side" to this.
If you have any inventory that "survived" this.i'd so market that and jump on it with a testimonial video.If it came through after 700 degree temps..

This isnt just a clever way to post a commercial is it?

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers, guys... it is humbling some of the help that is appearing from the most unexpected places. I feel more encouraged today than any day since this happened.

The garage is almost cleared out, we are building workbenches, the CNC will be ordered this afternoon...

And apologies trying to keep up with this thread. Kinda hard to sneak onto GLP too much with all that is happening, but I'll stay on it. ;-)

Oh and Trolls? They gonna troll. It's just how they roll.

What unfortunate luck. keep your faith in God and He will grant you strength beyond strength. will say a prayer for you.

The nasties that show up to sucker punch never fail to surprise me . Are they sick , twisted , jealous of OP ?