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[slimjim]

Please allow me to invite you to my home here in  Maine, my adress is 1409 Alfred road Lyman Me, Alfred road is state route 111, just 5 miles off the Maine turnpike exit 32 west, we have lots of room for visitors and my wife is a New York schooled Chef so the groceries are good, stop and say HI

[yoderheating]

 Sounds fun but I'm not driving all the way to Maine to look at a furnace. But the same to you, if you are ever in Virginia around Roanoke let me know.

[slimjim]

Thats the way all of our gassers are built and there are some major changes in the works for our new stove that wiil make it even hotter. Yoder I know you said that you don't deal up here but we (Brian and I)usually do a couple of shows a year in the Va and Ky area to help those dealers and to spread the word, would you be interested in joining us, we really like to have competition close together and all promoting alternative energy together, our county fair cicuits up here are a big hit with the alt energy crowd because people know where to find us all. For the last 3 years at Fryburg fair myself, Empire and Vigas have dumped over 1 million BTU,s to show our units in operation, there was also Heatmor, Harmon and several pellet stove companies as well as solar and electric alts all together.

[yoderheating]

 What shows do you do in Va?

[slimjim]

Two years ago we did the logging expo at the Richmond fairgrounds, thats the video that you see of the chip burner on our website believe it or not we sold 2 chip burners from there to a pallet manufacturing facility in Edmunton Alberta Canada, that was a pretty big show to attract from that far away and last year we did the farm expo in Louisville, Ky. I would like to do more but one of the things that I am consistantly told by loggers in the south is that nobody chips the tops of the trees, they just leave them lay in the woods to rot. The liberals up here would hang a guy for that, consiquently there is not much call for the chip burner in your area. As well the competition of less expensive stoves down there is pretty fierce, up here people tend to look more at efficiency rather than just price alone although your heatmasters seem to be opening up a pretty good market in that respect, what ever happened to the guy that was looking to sell for you guys in Massachusetts?

[yoderheating]

I have no idea about any dealers north of Maryland. Some of the larger operations here chip on site and everyone else I know hauls pulpwood off to be chipped at a mill. I've never done the Richmond show, we don't have any dealers on that end of the state. Most of our sales are in the mountains on the western part of Va.