Menard Metal Craft

Home renovation: the iron worker edition.
Fabricate and erect steel columns for my own house? I got that. I used to do this for a living! I forgot how much fun(and equally stressful) it is to work with some real steel. And I have got to say, as a former iron worker (local non-Union), being able to fabricate and erect columns at my own house feels like I’m truly living the dream. It’s been a great experience. It’s had everything I could have ever possibly missed from hanging steel on a job site. Plans in need of revisions, everything. It really felt like a part of my brain woke up again. And hell, looks good from my house!

Valar Morghulis. Valar Dohaeris. 🫡

In all honesty after looking further into this phrase and rewatching the clips it was used in, I felt compelled to include a bit more than the usual “thanks for the support! I appreciate your order!” written on the inside of the packaging. I do appreciate all the orders I get. It’s when I look further into the custom requests that sometimes they can land pretty heavy in the depths of the moment. Anyways; heres a lesser frequented version as well : Valar Jorrāelias : All Men Must Love/ Live.

Hope everyone is doing alright out there! Stay safe I love you all.
- Trent

It can happen just like that. As confident as you may feel using the tool, one wrong move and it can happen to the best of us. In this scenario thankfully a depressed-center cut-off wheel was used. The depressed center greatly increases the strength of the wheel, allowing the wheel to typically remain in tact at the center in the event of accidental mis-use. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Hello Dude, thanks for coming; I’m Jackie Treehorn. Or that’s what plays through my mind when I flip these spikes in slow motion.
I’m Trent Menard, and many things make me think of many other things, such as the scene referenced above. The original image generator (your mind) is a fascinating place to spend some time in. While modern image generators might make it easier to share these internal visions there’s still something I find more fulfilling about going into the back yard and flipping this spike till my hand felt bruised from the horrible catches while I was focused on the phone blinding flipping over and over to recreate this movie scene stuck in my head. Something about the process of it all, a bit more cathartic to create than to generate . Anyways thank you all for being here over the years through my ebbs and flows of content, from my incredibly niche ideas that no one may get, to the unedited straight clips; I appreciate you all making me feel welcomed in sharing what keeps me going in the shop. Thank you.