Built straight, built to last
Jack Fairbank started this business in 2014 with a truck, a Skilsaw, and a list of people who said they would call him when they needed something built. Most of them did. The name came from the logging trail behind the property where he grew up, a red-clay track through second-growth timber that his grandfather used to say was the straightest mile in the county. Straight work, straight talk. That was the idea from the beginning.
The first few years were mostly decks and fences, the kind of work that teaches you how to read a yard, how soil drains, where the frost heaves, which neighbors will flag you down to ask questions. By 2018 Jack had taken on a second crew member and started doing more structural work: sistering joists in old farmhouses, replacing sill plates that had been sitting in standing water for a decade, opening walls for kitchen renovations. That shift toward structural repair is where the business found its footing. It is slower, more technical work, and a lot of contractors avoid it. Jack leaned into it.