BRADLEY SMOKER | "Taste the Great Outdoors"

This post may seem rather strange so let me "do some explaining" ;D. A generous friend of the forum, who wishes to remain anonymous, has donated a Raptor/Guru (Competitor model) temperature control device that can control any electric cooker or appliance up to 1,800 watts. It has never been used. It should be considered an early Thanksgiving, because it's this member's way to express his/her thanks to the people of this forum.

Not shown, but will be included in the package, is the kill plug, which is not needed for the Bradley smoker and abrasive pad to clean probes. I cut Scott Brite scouring pads into small pieces, after the abrasive pad I received with my Guru Raptor was used. With the proper accessories such as a blower and adapter door, the Competitor can be used with many models of bullet smokers, kettle and ceramic grills. Unattended it can control those types of cookers to the same low temperature ranges that you get in the Bradley.

Check out their website for more information.
The BBQ Guru Power Draft Blowers (http://secure.thebbqguru.com/ProductCart/pc/viewCat_P.asp?idCategory=29)
The BBQ Guru Adapter Doors (https://secure.thebbqguru.com/ProductCart/pc/viewCat_P.asp?idCategory=30)

Additional Gifts: Three anonymous members have donated bisquettes, any other items:

• 1 box, 120 Hickory Bisquettes
  1 Slightly used 4 Rack Cover
  1 Pig Tail Food Flipper
  "Both in search of a loving home."
  
• 1 box 48 Apple Bisquettes
  "Can't smoke if you don't have them"
• 1 Sterilite Show Offs Container
  "Just the right size for a 120 bisquette box."

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My first thought was to have a contest, but recalling the conversation I had with this member, it seemed better to give this to someone who is currently going through some financial difficulties that has had a significant impact on your lifestyle. So many have lost there jobs and are unemployed or had to take a less paying job, or a reduction of hours. For others it may have been some sort of catastrophe, unexpected medical bills, a ballooning mortgage or something else.

Knowing that this can be a very private matter, the only way I have to limit this to those that are having difficulties is by the following system:

1) Most important truthfulness!

2) To make sure that this is limited to those who are having financial problems, you will need to identify yourself by your member name. What is considered "financial difficulties"; only you can determine that. To keep your situation as private as possible, DO NOT  respond to this posting. Send me a personal message and a way for me to contact you; if you do not have an email listed in your profile.

3) Your personal message only needs to include a contact. I don't need to know your hardship, I just need your honesty. All who respond will be assigned an identifying number and that number will be either drawn from a hat, or randomly selected by a computer program.

4) The contact information is essential, because the winner will not be announced on the board, though notification that someone has been granted the gift will be announced. The winner will be notified by me, using the contact information that was sent with the PM. The donor will remain anonymous, but will be notified as to who the winner is. If the selected person cannot be contacted by the information provided, another person will be drawn. If the winner wishes to announce on the board that they won and thank the member who donated this gift; that would be great.

5) Other restrictions besides currently going through financial difficulties:
It doesn't matter where you live, but you most already be a member and your membership date has to be September 30, 2009 or earlier. Deadline for entry is October 22, 2009; at 11:59 PM; EDT.

I hope this makes sense if not if you are entering your name send me a PM for clarification. If you are not entering and see some confusion in this posting please reply to the post, so that I can address the issue.

Habs,

This is a wonderful idea.

Anonymous Donor - On behalf of everyone here, Thank You!

What a kind gesture

I have to 2nd WildCats comment!  8)

That is an awesome gesture "and" what makes this forum the best out there!  8)

Spectacular!

Mike

That just goes to show you the caliber of folks that hang their hat here. What an awesome gesture.

John

This is great! What more can you say.

Brad

That is a very generous gift and will make someone very happy.It could not come at a better time than now with so many needing help! Habs, say thanks to your friend for us and a big thank you to yourself for all that you do on this forum and the recipe site.  ;D

Wonderful to see such a caring group on the forum. It never stops amazing me the great folks I've had the pleasure to meet here. Thank you who ever you are for coming through at the perfect time. It goes without saying that Habs and many others certainly make this a fantastic place to hang out. My hat is off to all of you.
Pat and Ann

This is outstanding, way better than any smoked food photo. BRAVO to the silent donator of the Raptor/Guru.

Rick

These are some very special people on this forum...People who never cease to amaze me....(not that it matters if I'm amazed) but the generosity and caring is frankly heartwarming. (Is that a word anybody uses anymore?)

Just goes to show that there is still a lot of good in the world, to the person who donated this a big thank you for brightening the day of a lot of folks here on the forum.  :)

More importantly it will brighten the day for someone down on their luck at the moment when they learn they have won.

And to Habs ....... nice job.  :)

There is nothing on my part to add. All the members who commented before me were eloquent enough to say what I wanted to say. I just want to second what each and every one of them said.

Habs and and anonymous donor... Thanks

HR

Wow,  what a generous gift and a great idea for the gifting it.    Bravo (Stealing Rick's word) to the person donating and Habs for setting it up. 

Deb

Without a doubt this has got to be the most generous group of people with whom we have the honor of being associated.  To the donor, thank you for a very generous gesture and to Habs, thank you for handling it in such a fitting manner.

Larry & Jan

What a wonderful idea and a big thank you to the donor. Its been said many time but this truly is like an extended family.  :)

Once again this gift shows what a great group of people we have here.

I keep reading this and wanted to post something that is worthy of the kindness of the generous donor.

All i can keep thinking is WOW!

We as smokers/posters smoke for our on benefit and post because we have ego's and want to be accepted
by our fellow craftsman.

And then someone with a pure heart makes this offer thru a gentleman that is a stateman in his own right,
and it puts me (probably all) on an ego check.

Like I said when I first joined the forum, "Is this Heaven?", now I know it's just the caring people of the "Bradley
Family Forum".

CRG  (Sonny)

Quote from: classicrockgriller on October 02, 2009, 09:04:50 AM
I keep reading this and wanted to post something that is worthy of the kindness of the generous donor.

All i can keep thinking is WOW!

We as smokers/posters smoke for our on benefit and post because we have ego's and want to be accepted
by our fellow craftsman.

And then someone with a pure heart makes this offer thru a gentleman that is a stateman in his own right,
and it puts me (probably all) on an ego check.

Like I said when I first joined the forum, "Is this Heaven?", now I know it's just the caring people of the "Bradley
Family Forum".

CRG  (Sonny)

Well said, well said

I just want to add my thanks to the Donor and to Habs for coming up with a great way of giving back to the forum.

Daryl

Quote from: Wildcat on October 01, 2009, 03:06:11 PM
Habs,

This is a wonderful idea.

Anonymous Donor - On behalf of everyone here, Thank You!

This pretty much says it for me.

Thanks to the donor and to Habs for dealing with it in such a gracious manner.
I hope the recipient makes good use of it.
And to all on the board what a wonderful community we have here and I am
proud to be part of it, even though I do not contribute as much as some, I
have always felt welcome.
Sorry getting off the soap box now. ::)

You all are awesome, never seen such a good group of people in one place!

Kevin

Quote from: classicrockgriller on October 02, 2009, 09:04:50 AM
I keep reading this and wanted to post something that is worthy of the kindness of the generous donor.
All i can keep thinking is WOW!
We as smokers/posters smoke for our on benefit and post because we have ego's and want to be accepted
by our fellow craftsman.
And then someone with a pure heart makes this offer thru a gentleman that is a stateman in his own right,
and it puts me (probably all) on an ego check.
Like I said when I first joined the forum, "Is this Heaven?", now I know it's just the caring people of the "Bradley
Family Forum".
CRG  (Sonny)

Hats off to you Sonny. No matter how hard I tried, I could not have said it more eloquently or more profoundly than how you put it.

HR

Just Seen this. What an Awesome contribution to the Bradley Forum Family. To Those that shall remain unknown. Thank-You for your generosity

Thanks to the generosity of two additional members; 120 Hickory pack, 1 slightly used cover (only used 2 days), and a 48 Apple pack has been added to the gift. Please refer to the original post.

This make this gift even more useful.

Truely awesome ! thanks you two and God Bless !

Generous gestures go to show the world is still all right.

Thanks to all three

HR

FANTASTIC!

Wow! What a generous gift and a great idea  :)
Kind of like Great Expectations  :D
I'm sure the winner will make great use of it all.
Thanks to Habs and the Secret Donor!
Carolyn

One week left to enter the gift give-away. To date not many have entered. I don't believe this is a sign that the economy is improving. For those that fall into the situation that is outlined in the original post, I would not let an opportunity like this go by. Your information will be kept private. I will only be the one that knows who entered, and the three donors of the gifts will be the only ones that know who the gift was given to.

I just notice the above post was wrong, the last post should have stated 2 week. Sorry for any confusion.


One week left to enter the gift give-away. For those that fall into the situation that is outlined in the original post, I would not let an opportunity like this go by. Your information will be kept private. I will only be the one that knows who entered, and the three donors of the gifts will be the only ones that know who the gift was given to. The donors will also keep the information confidential.

Added to the gift package, 1 Sterilite Show Off Container. It is the perfect size to hold a full 120 bisquette box.

Full information can be found at the Top of Thread (http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=11785.0)

Hey Hab,
This is a great idea.  I just hit this first off - in my long time away from sharing here.  Hope everyone is doing well, although this is the last thread that would show it.  Things are good up in my neck of the woods.  Changed jobs in 2008 before the bad stuff came luckily.  Joined a car dealership before the auto market sucked.  A few bad months, but things are going, not strong, but well.  Wishing everyone the best.

A Pig Tail Food Flipper had been added to the gift package.


Hi WTF;

Glad to see you posting again.

Welcome back WTF! You have been missed.

After the announcement that a name has been drawn, the person will have 7 days to respond. If there is no response in that time period another person will be selected.

Good luck to all that enter.

Drawing: The names will be given to a family member who is not a member of the forum, or lives in my household. He will randomly assign a number to each name and kept that confidential. Once he has completed numbering he will call me to let me know he has completed the task. At that point I will use a computer program and randomly select a number. This will be repeated twice more to give a second and third choice, incase there is difficulty contacting the person(s) selected. After the numbers have been selected, I will call my relative to find out which numbers were assigned to each name.

The winner will be contacted and have five (5) days to respond; if no response is recieved after the fifth day the runner up will be contacted. Once the winner responds back, it will be announced that a winner has been selected.

I also would like to thank the donors of the gifts for there generosity.

Habs, I think everyone on the forum is #1. Happy for the selected one  #2. Very Proud of the Donor  #3. Thankful to you for being the "Spokesperson"

Quote from: classicrockgriller on October 22, 2009, 09:14:51 PM
Habs, I think everyone on the forum is #1. Happy for the selected one  #2. Very Proud of the Donor  #3. Thankful to you for being the "Spokesperson"

HR

A member has been selected. I will be sending notifications soon.

Quote from: Habanero Smoker on October 23, 2009, 01:03:43 PM
A member has been selected. I will be sending notifications soon.

I'm sure the person who receives this great gift will be very happy.

This is such a generous and well planed thing you guys have done.

Quote from: OU812 on October 23, 2009, 01:15:06 PM

Quote from: Habanero Smoker on October 23, 2009, 01:03:43 PM
A member has been selected. I will be sending notifications soon.

I'm sure the person who receives this great gift will be very happy.

This is such a generous and well planed thing you guys have done.

Totally awesome !

Habs you and the donors rock this site. Good on ya.

Well done and I for one hope the winner has a better year next year.

Congrats to the winner!
Do enjoy what you have won  :)
Thanks to the generous donors, you made someones day,
Carolyn

The winner of the Guru/Raptor packages wanted me to post his thanks. His word can do it much better then I could.

• "I would like to thank the donors of the gifts for there generosity. And I'm very proud to be a member of such a fine group of people. Thank you all for the kind thoughts and wishes.
  
  I also would like to wish all the others who signed up for the chance to win the prize all the best and I hope we all do better in the coming year.
  
  I really just want everyone to know how much winning this and all the kind thoughts and wishes mean to me."

I just saw this thread for the first time and all I can say is WOW....I'm speechless, you guys all rock.
SIA