Timberleaf Trailers

Bio: I started my career in 1976 in Denver as a woodworker. Within two years of working as an employee in either a shop making wooden puppets ( where I met my future wife) of building children’s furniture, I just fell into being a part owner of a custom cabinet shop. Since that beginning at the very young age of 25 I have been self-employed ever since.

After five years of that initial partnership I went on to own my own woodworking business for another fifteen years.

I then segued into kitchen remodeling and then that transitioned into full on home remodeling for twenty years in older Denver homes. 

Five years ago I had a wild idea to build a teardrop trailer for my wife and I because none of the fifty or so manufacturers in the U.S. built one that met all the criteria I was searching for. After obsessing about the design for a month or so and sharing the drawings with friends and hearing their feedback, the idea of launching my own business building them for the public launched. After nervously sharing my idea with my wife and getting the thumbs up within minutes of sharing my idea with her I jumped right in forming a business plan. That was in November of 2015. My goal was to phase into building trailers while phasing out of my construction business and to be building trailers full time in two years. I had four employees in my construction business at the time. I reached that goal in Four months!

I have had ups and downs since the start but have kept every employee busy and paid on time since we started. I completely shut down the construction business in mid 2016.After two years of solid growth I realized the shop we started in was not going to be enough and started searching for a new facility. After living in Denver for over forty years and the same home for 31 years, my wife and I decided to move out of the city to somewhere where the real estate was more affordable. We landed here in Grand Junction.

We moved into a leased shop that is two and half times as big as the old one and are now finalizing plans to build a new custom shop with the capacity to more than double our output. WE hope to be in that facility, up and running by Fall of 2021.