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Dan Hawkes

Dan Hawkes

Dan Hawkes is owner at Tru-Line Hardwood Flooring and Dustfree Resurfacing LLC in Whitesboro, N.Y.

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From Bowling Lanes to a Modern Wood Flooring Business
Wood flooring pro Dan Hawkes reflects on how being raised in a bowling lane sanding business formed is current career and business.
July 19, 2018
That's me with my grandpa running his G&G Mini Sander invention for bowling lanes; it was a 42-inch-wide belt sander that followed sanding by his G&G Maxi Sander and prepped the lane for finish coats.
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