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Lakewood's Canadian manufacturing plant.
When the fire boa is uncrated at the Flint Hill warehouse, it's loaded onto a dolly for its first stop, the welding stations where hinge blocks are attached and doors hung. Muscle power pushes the stove to its second stop for grinding and sanding and then the heavy steel load is picked up by machines.
A conveyor belt’s engine does the moving to a bricking station where a giant steel hook dangles from an overhead track for the next step. Suspended from a chain, the stove enters a special booth—built to OSHA regulations—for a paint job.
After lamps dry the paint, the overhead track drops the stove at a second ramp and "conveyor beh' where knobs, warranty, owners manual add ‘ other final touches are added as the completed unit is boxed for sale. “From start to finish, it’s just a matter of a few hours/’ John noted. With the assembly line finishing operation, the Lees now handle retail sales as well as supplying dealers from their Hint Hill headquarters.
“Next year, we plan to have the equipment to bend and cut the steel ourselves,” added John, who is learning the skills in welding courses for the next step of the manufacturing process.
Old friends and a yen for country living combined to bring the Lees to Rappahannock. A Northern Virginia native, Margaret is from Alexandria where she met John, "a diplomat brat”, at George Washington High School. A buddy of theirs from GW, Bruce Vierling, frequently invited them both to his family’s place in Flint Hill. The Lees fell in love with Rappahannock but country living, no matter how enticing, offered few opportunities for jobs. Prac
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