Lesnett's Machinery, Inc

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Lesnett's Machinery, Inc We are a Machine Shop/Job Shop & do fabricating & repair. Work with metals & some plastics. Frank and his wife Ruth ran the business from 1967 to 1990.

Lesnett's Machinery was founded in 1967 by the late John "Frank" Lesnett. His son Terry Frank Lesnett stepped in and took over the business after Frank retired June 1990. Terry started working for his father at the age of 10 and gradually over the next 23 years Frank groomed and tutored his son, Terry to be the best machinist he could achieve, to always take pride in his work and nothing short of perfection was acceptable. Frank and Terry shared many interests besides the profession of machinist. Frank had a love of Harley-Davidson Knucklehead Motorcycles and passed the love of motorcycles to Terry.

10/08/2026

10.8.2026...Stitches removed today! We went to urgent care early this morning & the wound healed nicely. 😍

10/04/2026

Just wanted to update. Terry is healing well & the 12 stitches come out on Thursday👍 Hoping for a quiet week ahead!

9.29.2026…This is not how I planned to start posting again but my Terry keeps me on my toes for sure!!!He had an acciden...
09/29/2026

9.29.2026…This is not how I planned to start posting again but my Terry keeps me on my toes for sure!!!

He had an accident at the machine shop this morning and I have been at urgent care with him getting him fixed up once again. Terry believes in maintenance on everything and especially the machines and equipment at the shop. He decided to run the tracer on the American Zip-Shift lathe this morning and he noticed that the tracer function seemed to be losing power and there is a separate machine on the outside of the shop that operates the feature and runs on hydraulics and is housed in what he calls the doghouse. When he walked out to check on the outside unit there was a fountain of hydraulic fluid spewing all over the side of the shops block wall. He shut it down and went back out to see where and what line had ruptured and when he put his left hand on the window sill to look inside the doghouse there was a lot of fluid on the sill and he had his weight pushed into the sill and his left hand went through the glass window and he cut his wrist very deep and was bleeding profusely. Terry and I got to urgent care and he was lucky that he had not cut the artery or the tendons. The doctor said he was very, very close to have severed them. I have been running on adrenaline and now I am crashing. He will be at a disadvantage at the shop for at least the next 10 days. They gave him a shot in his behind of a strong antibiotic and with strict instructions that he cannot get the area wet and for sure he won’t be working the chuck handles on the lathes! He went back to the shop to see if he can get the window replaced and not sure what he plans to do the rest of the day but he is at the shop. Doctor told him to go home and relax and watch a movie. The doctor doesn’t know Terry and where he thinks he should be. ❤️

08/29/2026

Hello everyone. This is Debbie, Terry's wife and other half. I am sorry that I have stopped posting for some time and I have removed some posts and also had considered closing down this business page due to the stress I have been put under that started after Terry's accident back on November 28 of last year. Life has been like dominoes falling one after another and with each new challenge I was becoming less responsive to live and fight the next battle. All of the events have taken a very big toll on me, and I am still not quite ready for a normal existence yet, but I am trying. Isolation is the only way I can cope for now. Terry has been by my side when I needed him just as I have been by his side during his darkest times. That I am grateful for, our marriage and our dedication to one another is very special and a bond that can never be broken. Otherwise, I would not have made it alone. Terry and I have been together longer than we have been with anyone else in the world. 53yrs💕

I want to start posting again because I know a lot of you love and care about Terry and the old machine shop and what he is up to at the machine shop. I want to post an entire album of all of the pictures during the past 16yrs of the restoration of Terry's 1941 Plymouth Truck that I know everyone loves to see. I will have pictures and videos to add to that. Terry has been up to a few things lately and he has made something he wanted to share, and I will be posting that too. Give me a little time and I will try to get back into this page.

Have a Blessed and Magical Day!✨

When our beloved Skippy passed away March 24, 2026, Terry wanted Skippy to be near him at the business where Skippy's li...
05/10/2026

When our beloved Skippy passed away March 24, 2026, Terry wanted Skippy to be near him at the business where Skippy's life started 16yrs ago and was Skippy's home his entire life. We have an area on our home property where we have put to rest all our previous fur-babies, and I have always done something nice to memorialize their final resting place. I wanted Skippy to always be close to us even after death, but Skippy was truly Terry's buddy, and I went along with his wishes and Skippy's final resting place is at the business. I have a small "Memory Garden" in our backyard at home that I had a beautiful bench engraved when Terry's mother passed away in 2017 and I decided to add a memorial to the garden in memory of Skippy. I found a place that did just what I wanted and had one of my favorite pictures of Skippy engraved into the polished black granite and also picked what I wanted the stone to read. It is so beautiful and every single day I walk into my backyard I see my sweet boy Skippy and brings me sadness he is gone and joy for having him in my life for those 16yrs. I wanted to share the photos with our closest of friends and customers that also cared about Skippy. I am still so very depressed over his death because he was such a huge part of our life and daily routines at our business. Terry is managing it well most of the time, but it still hurts for him too.🙏💔😢

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2910 E Main Street
Lakeland, FL
33801

Telephone

(863) 665-7156

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