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A glass-topped wooden dining table.

A man works with his tools in the background of a long working station with piles of wood cylinders on top.

"If he had a time machine he'd say, 'These were never going to be dining tables mate!'"
A glass table with wooden legs glistens from the reflection of the beautiful blue sky.

"And I thought, 'Well, he's not going to do anything with his hands this boy.'"
A man sits behind his long working table in his workshop filled with multiple tools.

Planks of wood rest against a timber wall.

"It's an heirloom, something they can keep in the family and can hand down to their kids, that's my main objective,"
Mr Porter said.

A family gathers around a long table for lunch. Food sits on top of a white table cloth as the family laugh and chat.

"People should not throw them away, there's actually a financial value to them, like a very big financial value to them, but there's also the intrinsic value that that piece of our history doesn't get wasted,"
Mr Webcke said.
A silhouette of a man sawing a table is in the foreground of an old farm barn with a large field surrounding it.

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