New member

[Stefan Schoenberger]

Hi everyone

My name is Stefan and since two days I'm a member of this forum.
To my person: I grew up in south Germany and there I made my apprenticeship as carpenter (building timber frame houses, stairs and railings, roofs, interior carpentry).

In summer 2003 I immigrated into Canada (near Goderich - Ontario) and started as a farm labour on a cash crop farm. Then in spring 2004 I started, besides farming, my own business in wood constructions. Right now one half of my tools fits into my Jeep Grand Cherokee, where the other half is stored in two shelves at home. When my business becomes a certain size I would like to move into my own little shop with some bigger stationary machines in it. At the moment I have to use a friends shop to accomplish bigger jobs.

I hope to be a usefull member to this forum and also get some good ideas for my business.

Stefan

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Welcome to the creek. We wil enjoy your input.

By the way.......................we LOVE pictures of your work!

Bruce

[Mark Singer]

Welcome and thanks for telling your story....I would tell you mine....but Desperate Housewives just started and I can't miss it...:confused:

[Rob Will]

Stefan,
Welcome......I'm a farmer too.
Some of my ancestors were furniture makers from Germany.
This is a good group of people..... good to have you aboard.
Rob

[Dick Parr]

Welcome to the Creek Stefan.:)

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Welcome to the Creek Stefan! From beginners to pros...they're all here willing to exchange information and opinions! Again....Welcome!

[Bart Leetch]

Welcome to Sawmill Creek Stefan...

Put on you chest high waders & jump right in.

[John Lucas]

Stefan,
You have an interesting background. I look forward to your posts and pictures. The diversity of the creek members is one of the reasons it is so strong.

[Frank Pellow]

Stefan, welcome to Saw Mill Creek, and a belated welecome to Canada.

You live in a beautiful part of Ontario. My wife, Margaret, and I usually manage to visit the Goderich area at least once a year.

[lou sansone]

welcome to the creek stefan.

lou

[Ed Lang]

Welcome Stefan!

[Jay Knoll]

Welcome to the creek!

Jay

[Roger Everett]

Welcome aboard Stefan.
Roger

[Ken Shoemaker]

Welcome Aboard!!!! Looking forward to your input.

[Tom Hamilton]

Guten Tag!

Welcome to the Creek and a great world of experience and fun.

All the best in 06, Tom

[Jim Dunn]

Welcome Stefan and Merry Christmas.

[Jim Becker]

Stefan, welcome to the 'Creek! I really do hope you'll teach us all some of the many things you've learned...it sounds like you have some wonderful experience.

[Jason Tuinstra]

Stefan, welcome! Good to have you around. But are you really German? That name just dosen't have a German sound to it :p

[David Wilson]

Stefan

Welcome aboard

[Corey Hallagan]

Welcome to SMC Stefan! You will love it here, enjoy!

Corey

[Tyler Howell]

Welcome to the Creek Stefan. Glad you joined. great bunch of folks here

[Andy Hoyt]

Stefan - Welcome to the Creek! And I'm especially pleased to see that you have a timberframing background. We should double team the stickbuilders in here and get them to see the light.

In Munchen steht ein Hofbräuhaus
Eins - zwei - gsuffa!

[Alan Turner]

Welcome, Stephan. I am sure you will have much to add to our store of knowledge.

[Vaughn McMillan]

Welcome to the Creek, Stephan. We look forward to learning from and sharing with you.

- Vaughn

[Gregg Mason]

Wecome aboard.

[Stefan Schoenberger]

Thanks to everyone!

to Jason:
Yes, I'm a German. When I checked our family tree, only Geremans were in it (and that's a really old family tree). By the way could it be that your name sounds a bit Dutch?

Stefan

[Jim Young]

Welcome Stefan, I see you mention southern Germany, where? I come from Augsburg. I moved over here in 1973 with my family as a child, a little before you were born :smile: I still go back every year or two depending on economics to visit my family.

[tod evans]

welcome stefan

[Stefan Schoenberger]

Hi Jim

With this link you can see where I lived, before I moved to Canada.
This was about 2.5 hours from Augsburg away.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=DE&addtohistory=&address=&city=illmensee&zipcode=


Stefan

[sascha gast]

Servus, schoen noch einen deutschen hier zu haben. Ich bin aus nuernberg und lebe seit 10 jahren in los angeles.
have fun here, great people

sascha

[Roger Bailey]

I look fowards to your future posts.