So I need another stove.

[Corie]

I've got two families, both in serious need. Won't go into their situations on the public forum, but rest assured they both need help.



They've both got fireplaces that would fit the small winterwarm. One is in stroudsburg, pa and one is across the bridge over in the jersey. I am inclined to say the family in NJ might be in greater need, although they are quite a bit further away.



Anyone got an idea for another insert? I'd give them the aspen, but what difference is that little box going to do when it comes to actually heating most of a house?


Ultimately, they both need small inserts. Any dealers on the forum got something to donate? Or maybe elk can get one of the low cost dutchwest inserts from VC?


Anyone?

 

[webbie]

Where in NJ?

Didn't the harman dude say there was TWO stoves somewhere or another?

Maybe Englander has a return/used something or another we can buy for a couple hundred? (I'll throw in some free ads for them or any other company that wants to contribute).

Speaking of that, I would think about giving a yearly dealer listing to any dealer who donated a stove (used, floor model, discontinued) of reasonable value - that's a $300 value and beside that the dealer gets rid of a dog.

 

[Corie]

The house is in Sicklerville, NJ. The family has two special needs kids, wife had to quit her job to home school and take care of them.



Tim from Harman said there were two, but when I contacted the dealer, he told me there was only one? I was a little confused myself.


I was hoping englander might have a partial reject that they could refurb and send my way. It really has to be an insert, because the house is small and room is REALLY tight in the stove area. I'm looking to the possiblity of a freestanding stove, but it doesn't look like it would work.


Thanks for the advertising offer craig. Hopefully someone will take you up on that!

 

[bacsales]

I have some used pacific inserts and possibly a dutchwest insert I could donate. I would love the free advert. I will try to get you some pics tomorrow .

 

[webbie]

Great - PM or email Corie with the info and pics. When he gets any of the units, you get a years listing (for a retail shop if you have one) - or, if another type of business, some banners, etc.

Corie, PM or email jack so you can get started....

 

[bacsales]

We are a wholesale distributor for Vermont Castings, Napolean, Selkirk MB, Breckwell, ST Croix pellet, Simpson DV etc. I was thinking of using the advertising to prospect for new retailers. I sold the pe and the dutchwest but I found a seville insert by vc. I sent Corie a link to the owners manual. I hope it works.

Jack Cohen
BAC Sales

 

[Bob512]

Corie, I will donate some time and money for the NJ family. If that guy donates the insert, I can give something towards the the liner, chimney, beer, and pizza, etc. :coolsmile: Quick

 

[stoveguy2esw]

hey guys count us in , i have an englander 13-nci lined up for the donor program.

 

[Corie]

More stoves that families! This is a first.



Jack has graciously offered a Seville Insert. I am in contact with both families now to decide which one will be the best fit for their home.




Mike, Let me send a few emails. I have families from last night that never got free-standing stoves and could really use them.


Thanks again to EVERYONE. This industry is amazing and I cannot wait to be a full time part of it.

 

[stoveguy2esw]

More stoves that families! This is a first.



Jack has graciously offered a Seville Insert. I am in contact with both families now to decide which one will be the best fit for their home.




Mike, Let me send a few emails. I have families from last night that never got free-standing stoves and could really use them.


Thanks again to EVERYONE. This industry is amazing and I cannot wait to be a full time part of it.

would a freestanding one do better, the 13-nci is an insert, but a 13 ncp or L is freestanding im sure i could swing one of those instead if better suited, either way man , just let me know i'll get you a stove

 

[Corie]

Oops, forgot that the code meant insert.

 

[BrotherBart]

Oops, forgot that the code meant insert.

Repeat after me:

L= legs

P= pedistal

I = insert

BB = needy old man in Virginia

 

[Corie]

Hahaha.

Yeah, the codes are so obvious. But you know what being an engineer (almost) means.


No common sense.

 

[BrotherBart]

Hahaha.

Yeah, the codes are so obvious. But you know what being an engineer (almost) means.


No common sense.

Back when colleges first started graduating "Industrial Engineers" the oil company I worked for hired some of them. Their first day in the refinery a bunch of the chemical and mechanical engineers took them all into a room and explained to them what a "real" engineer was.

 

[webbie]

A strange thing about engineers is that they are often fixed in their outlook on things.....like it's hard to describe, but they sometimes only see one way of doing things rather than the multiple ways which you would think should be looked at. On one hand focus is good, but engineers that are more rounded and open are likely to be able to do better in certain industries.

There is a big difference between building roads and overpasses (fairly fixed in design) and thinking about stoves, installation, etc...... most engineers would make terrible installers and carpenters because - as I have always said, carpentry is the art of knowing how to cover up your mistakes. So when you can't get Cast to see your side of the story - always remember he is an engineer!

Some the the top hardware and software engineers at apple (including Woz himself) were out of left field and didn't even have degrees. Not as much that way anymore since current stuff is not as loose - these days they get assigned a little part of a big project and have to complete it. I doubt apple hired bums who sleep in their vans anymore....you need the degrees just to talk to HR.

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Burrell Carver Smith is an engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the digital board for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired February, 1979, initially as an Apple ][ service technician.

According to Folklore.org, one day, Smith put a handwritten manual on Andy Hertzfeld's desk explaining the digital board of the Apple ][; Hertzfeld was very impressed at how well Burrell explained the digital board of the Apple ][, even though he didn't know who had written it. Later that day, Burrell explained to him that he was the author. When Hertzfeld was asked to find someone to assist working on the original Macintosh project, Andy suggested Burrell, despite his position as a lowly service technician.
According to "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" by Alan Deutschman, Steve Jobs filed for a temporary restraining order against Burrell (who was fired due to internal politics). Terms were to limit him from coming within 100 yards of the Jobs' family, nanny, car, and office. This was done in response to reports of Burrell throwing rocks and cherry bombs at Steve Jobs' house and car.

 

[begreen]

I love it when the cartalk guys get a lady calling in whose hubby is an engineer. She is usually trying to deal with a practical situation like when to downshift, and hubby is ranting theoretical at her, telling her that the world will end because she's using to much gas by engine braking with a downshift instead of foot braking. It's especially great when they get hubby on the line.

 

[BrotherBart]

Most of my career I worked in the midst of engineers. At a pressure vessel manufacturing company and the oil company. Great folks if you understand that they work in a world of absolutes. Life situations that are fluid and can have many right answers drive them nuts.

The hardest job I ever observed was Human Resources people supporting engineers. They have to try to explain that something is the way it is just because somebody up the ladder said so. Not because it is logical.