By Bill Murgatroy
Contributor
UNITY — No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you.
At the crest of Unity’s County Farm Hill in a driveway off Second New Hampshire Turnpike sits a large wooden chair lying on its back. The curious part-time project — which now rests in front of Vincent Martin’s business Plasti-Cut Solutions, LLC — took two years to perfect the creation pursued by Martin and his sons.
A former plastics customer of Martin’s, Creative Custom Woodcraft, of Hoosick Falls, New York, showed him a plain wooden kitchen chair and asked him to build one seven times larger for a business display.
So they got to work.
The completed chair stands 24 feet tall at the back and is 10½ feet wide without the attached arms. It lies on its back waiting for shipment on a special Lowboy flatbed trailer that meets road height requirements. The seat measures 10½ by 11½ feet. The heavy chair is constructed of pressure-treated lumber. Its many laminated pieces are held together with hundreds of weather resistant deck screws. The enormous chair will ship in September and be placed at the business on New York State Route 7 in Hoosick Falls.
Plasti-Cut Solutions recently completed a 3,000 piece order of sneeze guards for the Salem New Hampshire school system. The foldable clear acrylic shields come in two sizes and will provide students with a protective barrier on desks and cafeteria tables.
Vincent and his wife, Andrea, have seven children and are active members of the Sugar River Mennonite Fellowship in Charlestown, which brought them to New Hampshire in 2016.
Martin’s business was formerly located nearby in Bennington, Vermont.
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