Harbor Saw & Supply is wasting no time relocating its business following Monday’s fire, and employees plan to reopen soon at the store’s old location at 2211 W. First St, near the intersection with South Wooding Street.

On Thursday, Manager Jake Lennox, son of store owner Fred Lennox, was working with other Harbor Saw employees to move large machinery and various supplies into the company’s old warehouse building, which they intend to use as the new rigging shop. They planned to reopen by Friday. The warehouse is located closer to the intersection of South Wooding and Commerce streets.

The rigging shop allows them to manufacture wire rope and rigging for logging and construction operations.

Lennox said one of his main goals is to remind customers they can still work with them despite Monday’s fire that consumed their store’s building along Simpson Avenue.

“If somebody needs something, we’ll get it,” said Lennox. “If we don’t have it right away, at least give us a chance to take care of it.”

The main store and saw shop will eventually reopen in its previous building along West First Street, where they last operated in 2003. The building currently has a tenant, who Lennox said “was real understanding,” and agreed to look for a new place.

Lennox said he wasn’t sure how long it will take for the main store to reopen, and said it also “depends how smoothly everything goes with the insurance, which my dad’s doing now.”

The fire left the building with a collapsed roof and a lot of ruined merchandise, but Lennox said they’re already working to restock their supplies.

“We’re slowly going to have to bring inventory in,” said Lennox. “I’m bringing in stuff we use on a daily basis, that I know we sell on a daily basis. Then I’ll start bringing in the other stuff.”

Going forward, Lennox said he hopes they can eventually rebuild the store at the site of the fire, and that moving into the company’s old buildings would just be temporary.

Louis Krauss | The Daily World Tyler Drew demonstrates the rigging press machine at Harbor Saw Supplys warehouse along West First Street in Aberdeen. Manager Jake Lennox said they intend to reopen the rigging shop today.