Well, good luck getting it going. Those things can do a lot of generating and the vertical ones are no more an eyesore than a smoke stack except they don't smoke. Hopefully the city council is not of yesterdays generation I guess. Of course if it were up to me, it'd almost be a mandate to generate at least X% if your own power.

so how come the "Accounting offices" - are empty ?

Great looking shop Minte! :pimp

The little tree in the lobby picture.. every morning it drops loads of leaves yep?
I used to have one, never knew how a tree so small can drop so many leaves and still have some left..

My father didn't start it alone. Him and I started it together. We started as a tool and die company. Unfortunately, he didn't live long enough to see the plastics. When he died in the 1990's we were 18 employees in a 3800 sq ft shop.

They are not empty. I made sure to take the picture from an angle.

That's a weeping fig. I had it in my office for nearly 15 years at the old building. My new office only faces north and they need more sun, so the lobby was the perfect place for it.

We painted a load of our tools pink because they kept walking out the door. Worked quite well in stopping it :)

http://carhumor.net/wp-content/uploa...h-hand-job.jpg

You started the company in 1967 with your Dad? Damn, how old are you? :upsidedow

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ADG

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classic! funny, i bought my niece a tool set for her college dorm room when she went off to college, all the handles and such are pink on the tools, she still has all of a fe months later, i asked her how she doesn't lose tools, she said no one will borrow them because they are pink. :1orglaugh

Old enough to have served in the Army during Vietnam.

19 blonde hair blue eyes and big tits for me please.

Thanks

I'm confused. Why would you open up a new factory under an Obama administration? You've told us time and time again that Obama is anti business and it's not a good time to expand.

I think Minte is really the janitor in this factory.

thought it was a porn company.... im disappointing :(

Looks good. Good looking shop.

so do you work in adult or did you

That didn't honestly answer my question... :upsidedow

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I was breaking your balls a little, because I'm surprised anyone would post so much about their mainstream biz on a porn board (especially since you appear to have little if anything to do with adult anymore - Mintesbabes is parked, and the other non-nude bikini TGP site I know of that you used to operate hasn't been updated in ages).

Anyway, it appears that you ducked my original question/point. With what you've posted it was pretty easy to find out about your mainstream company in about 5 minutes.

Given how old you would have been in 1967 when your Dad's company was started, I still kind of doubt that you started the business with your Dad as you claim, since you were probably still a kid (which would make it possible for you to have served in Vietnam while a young guy since the war didn't end until 1975, although I'm not sure how much you were running the business with your Dad while simultaneously serving in the military as a young adult).

If you have a good mainstream business that you inherited/took over from your Dad, I seriously wonder why you would jeopardize your good luck by mixing it up with porn on GFY?

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ADG

I don't actually owe anyone any justification or answers. If you want to think what you think, that's fine. But the fact is I did start in business with my father. He retired in the 1980's and passed on in the 90's.

I am not jeopardizing anything by posting here. I could've retired years ago and spent the rest of my life doing pretty much whatever. Once you get to a certain point, there is not much that can take you down. It's called debt to equity. And having been at this for as long as I have there is a lot of equity.

However, I only posted these pictures because I do have friends here. THey were very interested to see how the move to the new building went.

My life story is of little interest to anyone here. If you have questions about the building or machines I'll be happy to answer them.

You said it in your first two words.

Paul Markham made the same comment. Look up his apology thread if you have doubts.

Capitalista! No money in porn !

Congrats Minte. The new plant looks great.

I was unaware the bikinipage was gone (end of an era, huh?). Remember the days of being one of the few to have a T1 to their house? :D

You know I can look back to those days and call them the *good old days* and mean it. The internet was really fun when it was building steam.

There is nothing cleaner than a will run factory floor. Very nice.

Congrats Minte! Very impressive operation. Don't know why ADG is busting your balls so bad, guess he holds grudges over politics. I don't like yours either but thats got nothing to do with this post. I can appreciate anyone who either starts from scratch or takes over a small business and expands it to whole new levels. Takes alot of work and determination. I will however say, you still have to live in Wisconsin LMAO! :thumbsup

From what I can tell, you were probably 12-13 years old in 1967, the year that your Dad started the company that you took over when he retired/died.

If you want everyone to believe that you started your company with your Dad at that age, fine. People here believe most of what is fed to them, even when it doesn't pass the smell test. :winkwink:

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I just don't think that it is very wise to trumpet your mainstream business on a porn board, in case a competitor or someone else has an axe to grind with you or your business. :2 cents:

Reminds me of a long time ago, when I worked for a privately owned business. After the old man who founded the company died, and his kid took over, the company was a total joke. This was plainly nepotism at it's worst.

Most of the talented people left. Fortunately for the son, the old man knew a few things about business (and apparently his son), and had a plan for consultants to manage the transition, so that despite the son's ineptitude, the company still flourished.

To this day, the kid still is an arrogant SOB that tries to convince everyone that he is a self-made man, built his own company (when he mostly spends his time screwing around), yadda, yadda, when the truth was that he simply inherited an already established company, and he was nothing more than an empty shirt with a big wallet, and an even bigger ego, that knew how to shut up and listen to the consultants, and the real people running the business when they got behind the boardroom doors.

Good on you, that you have apparently been able to build upon your Dad's second generation company. Not sure why you need to embellish your story that you essentially co-founded the company with your Dad.

Oh well, rock on...

http://www.hightech-edge.com/wp-cont...reenshot-1.jpg

My point was that boasting about mainstream endeavors is not always the wisest thing to do if you also have a footprint in the porn industry. I'll leave it at that.

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ADG

You are right about one thing. i've had enough here. take care.

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Dunno why you're seeing it as boasting? To anyone from a manufacturing background things like this are far more interesting that all the tinfoil hat threads that flood the board.

Ok back to the porn biz :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

Check out this hottie :winkwink:

http://i.imgur.com/mwbYIe1.jpg

pretty sure Minte pulled the pics because of people being dicks in this thread. :2 cents:

Exactly. Put the pics back on line...

Logic fail. Having anti business president does not mean that ALL businesses should close or bankrupt.... You can work under anti business government, it just makes it harder than working under pro business government.

I thought he had thicker skin, why would you even care if some internet posters talk bad about you :)
Plus more people said positive things.

Why is that? I like seeing people being successful. You did not get the meaning I guess. Stop smoking so much weed. :winkwink:

Ah, thats what I thought was odd. Corn in Thailand. They mentioned that.
Corn is an amazing thing.
I am sad you removed the pics but I understand.
They were inspiring me to work harder.
100% recyclable is very cool.

http://i.imgur.com/GmbdCCc.jpg

How about that, I can use Google Images too!

the images were recycled :thumbsup