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08-29-2016, 08:11 PM
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Commercial Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Chilliwack, British Columbia
Trailer: All Escape(s)
Posts: 833
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Updates on Building Expansion
We are starting of finally see some progress!
Reace
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08-29-2016, 08:12 PM
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#2
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: no fixed address, California
Trailer: 2017-21' Escape (sold) Casita 17' (sold)
Posts: 1,348
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holy cow - bigger than i imagined.
congrats!
and good luck
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08-29-2016, 08:13 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
Trailer: 2009 Escape 17B 2020 Toyota Highlander XLE
Posts: 17,136
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You sure it's gonna be big enough?
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
- Bertolt Brecht
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08-29-2016, 08:16 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Benton County, Iowa
Trailer: 2013 Escape 21 Classic Number 6, pulled by 2018 Toyota Highlander
Posts: 8,260
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Go big or go home. We're out here pushing the merchandise from coast to coast and border to border. Looks good to me.
Should in in by winter I'd hope.
Dave
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08-29-2016, 08:33 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0TA / 2016 Ram Eco Diesel 4X4
Posts: 8,038
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Quote:
Originally Posted by reace
We are starting of finally see some progress!
Reace
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Hi: Reace... Way to GROW!!! We're all pullin' fer ya!!! Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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'16 Ram Eco D. 4X4 Laramie Longhorn CC & '14 Escape 5.0TA
St.Thomas (Not the Virgin Islands) Ontario
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08-29-2016, 08:35 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Portland, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 11,051
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Wowser!
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Donna D.
Ten Forward
2014 Escape 5.0TA
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08-29-2016, 08:42 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Canyon Lake, Texas
Trailer: 2015 19 "Past Tents", 2021 F150 Lariat 2.7L EB
Posts: 10,222
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Looking good Reace. The rafters and roof won't be long now.
Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
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"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy an RV. And that is pretty close."
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08-29-2016, 08:50 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Ponoka, Alberta
Trailer: 2016 19 classic "outta sight", jeep rubicon unlimited
Posts: 1,645
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Very happy for you all! You all deserve it!!!
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08-29-2016, 08:50 PM
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#9
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Southern Alberta, Alberta
Trailer: 2015 Escape 5.0TA
Posts: 1,734
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Looks good Reace and Tammy. [emoji106]
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Doug
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08-29-2016, 09:00 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Middle, Tennessee
Trailer: 2017 Escape 19' #2
Posts: 1,441
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Looks great y'alll
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08-29-2016, 09:04 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Denison, Texas
Trailer: 2015 21'; 2011 19' sold; 4Runner; ph ninezero3 327-27ninefour
Posts: 5,136
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Totally wild! Can't recognize the place.
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Cathy. Floating Cloud
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.... "
Emerson
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08-29-2016, 09:12 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Fremont, California
Trailer: 2016 21/ '16 Tundra 4.6L Dbl. Cab
Posts: 1,562
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WOW! Congratulations on the progress and good luck on the build!
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Steve and Debbie
2016 - 21'
“Get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down” -Indigo Girls
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08-29-2016, 09:22 PM
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#13
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Commercial Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Chilliwack, British Columbia
Trailer: All Escape(s)
Posts: 833
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We have been impatiently waiting...just like many of you! There will be a lot of juggling once we get moving. This new building is the new fiberglass facility. The new layout with expanded room and improved production and assembly equipment will allow for faster production. This combined with the new mold design. This new building will be able to maintain the proper temperature 24 hours a day any time of the year. This will help as our molds will now be able to stay indoors and remain at a constant temperature. Currently we move the molds into the shop and they are pre-heated in the spray booth overnight for the following day build.
This building will also house the 3-4 trailers at the beginning of production where the windows get cut out, belly band installed, exterior lights installed, etc. That crew will be happy to be out of the cold as they are currently in the lean-to tent on the end of the building.
Once the fiberglass area is opened up in the main building, we will begin renovations to expand our assembly line inside from 9 bays to 16 bays. The headliner bay will relocate to another building on the property...expanding from 1 bay to 3 bays.
Tammy and her crew will be relocating to the front building within the next couple of months as the front business is nearing completion on their new location.
Exciting times are now just around the corner! And for those of you waiting...so is the new 5.0TA. I am expecting to receive the new molds by the end of September.
Reace
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08-29-2016, 09:22 PM
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#14
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Seatac, Washington
Trailer: "The Trailer", 2nd Gen 21' & a 2017 Tundra CrewMax in Blazing Blue Pearl
Posts: 2,888
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Yay!
Look at all the naked, need to be worked on, fiberglass shells! Not enough production room or do they need to sit outside for a while to finish curing and/or venting off fiberglass fumes? Heck if I know all that stuff.
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08-29-2016, 09:30 PM
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#15
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Galesville, Wisconsin
Trailer: 2017 21 "Blue II" & 2017 Highlander XLE (previously 2010 17B "Blue" & 2008 Tacoma)
Posts: 4,234
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Congratulations on the progress Reace, Tammy and Crew. It must feel really good to be past all the initial problems and seeing such progress. Looks like you are at stage where the siding roofing and insulation will happen quickly. I can't wait to see it all in May.
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Eric (and Mary who is in no way responsible for anything stupid I post)
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." George Bernard Shaw
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08-29-2016, 09:57 PM
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#16
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trailer: 2017 Escape 5.0 TA
Posts: 15,552
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Glad to see that progress is being made. Lots of work yet, but at least there now is an end it sight.
Very much looking forward to seeing the new 5.0TA come out of the 2017 moulds.
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2017 Escape 5.0 TA
2015 Ford F150 Lariat 3.5L EcoBoost
2009 Escape 19 (previous)
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
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08-29-2016, 10:51 PM
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#17
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Houston, Texas
Trailer: 2017 Escape 19 aka "Bon Temps"
Posts: 267
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Looking good.
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08-29-2016, 11:12 PM
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#18
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Trailer: 2015 Escape 19 "Seventy Degrees"
Posts: 3,495
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Awesome. Should go up fast from this point. Congrats
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08-30-2016, 01:23 AM
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#19
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Commercial Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 - "Felicity"
Posts: 2,945
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Excellent. Creating a business and getting it over the birth pains to expansion as you have done is a challenge few can endure. Those long hours/days/weeks/months/years poring over the spread sheets to confirm this could work is only worthwhile if you have a bit of a masochist in your DNA. Heck, I got jazzed the first time I shipped parts to Australia and that's hardly a burp compared to where you've been (and are going..)
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08-30-2016, 09:40 AM
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#20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Travis County, Texas
Trailer: 2015 Esc 21. Formerly, Casita LD (16 & 17)
Posts: 803
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2016 has been nothing short of an amazing year for ETI. Congrats on being able to see it through. And thanks for updating the Escape Community on your progress.
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