Those two men, who happened to be neighbors and best friends, spent many an evening tossing around ideas and discussing what type of business might make best use of their talents. Tim grew up in the metal product manufacturing industry while Bruce was plying his trade on the administration side of real estate. Well, they started a business making tubular steel hammock stands and their first big break came when they became the primary supplier of hammock stands for one of the largest woven rope hammock companies in the United States. Tim and Bruce worked hard, the company grew, and in an ideal world that would be the end of the story. Unfortunately, we don?t live in such a place and when the hammock company was sold, the new owners used their own production facility for hammock parts. Many people would have been satisfied that they?d taken a shot at their dreams and sought the security of a traditional job. But Tim and Bruce weren?t ready to give up ? in their minds it was just a minor setback that needed to be overcome.