He started box elder seeds in 1903, selecting and planting either 28[1] or 32[46] of the saplings in a carefully designed pattern in the spring of 1907.[45] In the spring of 1908, the trees had grown to six feet tall and he began training them along a trellis, grafting the branches at critical points to form the parts of his chair.[45] In 1913, he cut all the trees except those forming the legs, which he left to grow and increase in diameter for another year, before harvesting and drying the chair in 1914; eleven years after he started the box elder seeds.[45] Dubbed The Chair that Lived; it is the only known tree shaping that John Krubsack did.[45][46] The chair is on permanent display in a Plexiglas case at the entrance of Noritage Furniture; the furniture manufacturing business now owned by Krubsack's descendants, Steve and Dennis Krubsack.[3]