Yes General Motors came to my father and told him that they’re going to start to change the way they make cars so that they won’t have the Chrome bumpers anymore they’re going to use plastic on the outside were the bumpers used to be and they need a new way to tow the car’s so that because conventional towing would damage the bumpers. Conventional towing in those days was using a rubber sling which would damage the new plastic bumpers. It took me all but 15 seconds to come up with the idea that to tow by the tires using the shocks of the car in combination with the tow truck that’s pulling at will greatly reduce the stress on the rear part of a tow truck and on the car itself. This just makes common sense to me anybody can figure this out is not a big deal designing and building that’s the big deal I just came up with the idea.

And the only reason that Canadian tire ordered so many was I know the owner of one of the Canadian tire stores who told me that I could demonstrate my product for free outside his store which was a pretty big store and I got lots of people that were interested in it including the corporate executives at Canadian tire.

Because I was also the new product development guy, I came up with the tandem lifter prototype which by the end when we decided not to produce this product because of the dangers of the consumer not installing these properly on their vehicles and the insurance company giving us scenarios the types of accidents that could happen. We decided not to go through with the project in the end and a Chinese dentist bought the tandem version is seen here below and he was the happiest guy in the world because he was able to lift it up onto the top of his minivan by himself. Even though we had to make him an extension rod to be old to push the bike up and we made it spring assisted because his tandem was so heavy. But it worked extremely well.

Has a U.S. and Canadian Patent This one above was the tandem lifter. One was made to see if a short Chinese person could lift it up onto a minivan It worked.

Now the U.S. Military has copied the HANDY HOIST to put missiles onto the top of Hummers. I can design and build just about anything, And if I can’t I will find someone who will.

I have 2 patents and as far as I am concerned, I have two too many. Do you know how long it takes to get a u.s Patent? 1 Year. In Canada 12 years!! 12 Years!!! What the heck!

LIFT AND GO HOOK LIFT. VULCAN SOLD THIS FOR TWO MILLION BUT IF THEY WAITED JUST 4 YEARS THEY COULD HAVE SOLD IT FOR 20. But let’s not forget the Alm kids were running the show now, they had no idea what they were doing. I wanted to buy one for myself but they didn’t want to give me one, since the different variations and the military version are shown below, I have figured out a few things. After my dad left Vulcan. It DIDN’T TAKE LONG TO FALL APART. Military hook lift. One truck and 15 containers, tool shops to move around for mobile hospitals, and more

This is a self powering solar trailer Specifically designed to provide additional power for an electric Tricycle which I did not design but modified. (I added another solar panel to the top)

This is what it looks like. it goes 20 km/hr. for 60km. Though it will not break any speed records, it is the first “off-grid” designed system that actually works. I use this prototype to buy groceries and run errands. I use it when I am not in a hurry. I save on parking and fuel and even time because I don’t have to look for parking. It produces no carbon or any pollutants. It is completely GREEN. And it is always charging. This is the best thing.

The trailer can be detached and re-attached to something else like a regular bicycle to be used as a power source for a campsite or to power a laptop and a cell phone. The trailer hitch is lockable but now I am working on a lighter solution. I believe such a vehicle could be used in small towns for the postman, a visiting nurse, older people just to get around. Tourist organizations to make groups more mobile. I can figure out how to even carry camping gear to take a small trip out of the city and even to pull children on their bicycles when they get tired.

My father has created some pretty amazing things, and together we created truly magnificent things as well. But we had a very big problem. We could not work together. We were a great team, when we could work together because I dreamed it up, he designed it, we prototyped it, and then it went into production after it was patented. We listened to our suppliers, distributors, and customers; improving it.

The three innovations which I did with my father have to be put into separate pages because is just too much information here you can have a little picture of each thing if you want I don’t know if you have a picture of the electric car anymore I have it somewhere but I don’t exactly know it is a picture not available or something like that and the information somewhere else that doesn’t take away from the rest of the page I leave it up to you to figure it out I can see that your creative enough

Within 4 seconds I came up with this except my concept design (I was too young to be an engineer) was the back boom was made entirely of metal.

I created the idea behind this mechanism above when I was 15 Not bad for a kid, eh??? My company my dad was working for made Millions The Company? Vulcan Equipment I remember that Vulcan Equipment, that that time on 95 Research Rd., and had a prototype within 6 months and had sold a whole whack of them to the Police. I am very sorry to admit to the fact that you can thank me for designing the first town truck, that could tow a car out of a parked place.

Later models were made with fancier colors and other newly improved features. My dad came up with many innovative variations to what this thing could lift.

After going into the tow truck business we created the world’s first tow truck that could take a car out of a parked place. This joint venture with my dad and I put Vulcan on the map. I regret having come up with this idea. The police forces around the world particularly liked this one.

For now, see my dad’s designs first,

Mine are further down

I came up with the first tow truck idea, the “hook lift,” the bike lift, the bicycle, and the software. All the patents are in our names so you can check if you want. When I came to Europe y years ago, I had already made 20 improvements to the hook lift. I still have my father’s original design and in 30 years the design of the hook has not changed. I just can’t believe it. it is exactly the same. I just came up with the ideas and made the prototypes and my dad did all the engineering and calculations and Vulcan made most of the money until Mr. Alms kids screwed everything up including not giving my father all his severance pay.

Disgusting!!!!

So it’s a combination of luck, more luck, and even more luck.
In much of the things that I’ve created over my lifetime, I would say that it’s maybe 20% skill and 80% luck.

I believe it is the only tow tuck in the world that can tow motorcycles very easily.

Then when you have the right team put together of marketing experts sales experts and a whole package then you can really sell product which we did. Soon the managers forgot were all the products came from and start started to cut the size of the new product development Department down where all the original innovation came from which was a very big mistake and they figured this out when it was too late many companies make the same mistake is very common..

Then came the really big stuff which the Canadian Military wanted these tow trucks for the field

What about all the things I do not have pictures of
Crane trolley, Forging manipulator, ore feeding conveyer, copy milling machine, suction oil drilling platforms, production line of laminates for plastic company, for plywood company, machine to make books, for Schick razors he made a machine that would pack 10 razors to every package, press rollers and uni rollers, grinding wheel press, flying sheer, steering for those military vehicles the navy seals use, steering for all types of specialty aircraft for the U.S. Military, all types of hydraulic cylinders and switches, production press, deck cranes for the U.S. NAVY, Mobile cranes, Air control valves, Special rubber piston seals, assorted furniture and lamps, tire re-treading machines, panel saw, electro hydraulic devices, wheel dollies to carry heavy parts from one end of a factory to another and you should push it with one finger (amazing), wood planer, Subway tunnel washing machine horse race starting gate which all open at exactly the same time. He has some 38 patents to his name.

I could make a separate web site just on my dads stuff and it would take me 5 years to compile it. He eventually figured out how to tow two cars at the same time.

It was very versatile. In the end, they were selling all over the world, even Japan
It was the only one that could tow a motorcycle
with the special wheel dolly by father designed, cars that were completely damaged could still be towed.

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

then those tow trucks got bigger and bigger

Later there was a military version created but by this time there were too many people working on this project and Vulcan screwed it up but that is just my opinion.

My dad also designed a tire repair machine that would fix defects in the rubber on the outside.

We didn’t go out with the intention of changing the world. It just happened. It was a byproduct of what we created. The money was also a byproduct of what we created. But many of these inventions unfortunately are used for evil purposes rather than the good. And the inventor has no control over that. One of these inventions as an amazing thing that was that everybody uses for good almost and the other one is something that was truly amazing that was used for evil purposes. What I mean by evil purposes is that police and other organizations who love to tow your cars when you parked in bad places I’m talking about that kind of evil because I invented a tow truck to take the car out of a Park Place were no other tow truck could ever do before and now the whole world uses exactly that type of technology.

Changed the way a support line works in any military operation
with the hook lift truck, which we created together. We originally Licensed a variation of it from a French company to make improvements on theirs and this is what we came up with. But no one wanted it in Canada, so we sold the patents for the new device back to the French company and not even realizing it, changed the way goods are transported throughout Europe and also changed the way, the military moves its’ support lines forward.
I quit doing work for them and my father, after they sold it, because I wanted one for myself. I wanted to develop mobile offices and specialty containers but the company didn’t think it would go anywhere. No body is perfect!

Now electrical generating plants can be picked up with ease and delivered anywhere. I spoke to a soldier who told me that this type of vehicle is great because it is only a target 1/2 the time. He said that when the truck is transporting something it is a target, but when it is going back to pick up another container, it is not, so the trucks last much longer in battle. Cool eh???

Here are some other cool variations I have seen, but you know, in almost 40 years, I have only seen one improvement to the original hook, and since then I have come up with another 40 and when I try to contact companies here in Europe to see if we can do something together, no one ever called me  back. Hmmm.  Something is wrong with Europe.

What is so cool about the military truck I was told by a colonel in the U.S. Army and another in the German army told me that these hook lifts are fantastic because they are not but targets while they are not transporting goods so they have a better chance of surviving a war unlike other trucks that have things on them that are fixed for example indications truck is a good target to hit or other things. But a hook lift that is caring things like medical supplies containers are only a target when they have something on the back of them and when they don’t people don’t concern themselves with them so they end up saving more machines saving also costs of machines down the road for the governments that ordered them.

My father has created some pretty amazing things, and together we created truly magnificent things as well. But we had a very big problem. We could not work together. We were a great team, when we could work together because I dreamed it up, he designed it, we prototyped it, and then it went into production after it was patented. We listened to our suppliers, distributors, and customers; improving it.

The three innovations which I did with my father have to be put into separate pages because is just too much information here you can have a little picture of each thing if you want I don’t know if you have a picture of the electric car anymore I have it somewhere but I don’t exactly know it is a picture not available or something like that and the information somewhere else that doesn’t take away from the rest of the page I leave it up to you to figure it out I can see that your creative enough

Within 4 seconds I came up with this except my concept design (I was too young to be an engineer) was the back boom was made entirely of metal.

Later models were made with fancier colors and other newly improved features. My dad came up with many innovative variations to what this thing could lift.

For now, see my dad’s designs first,

Mine are further down

I came up with the first tow truck idea, the “hook lift,” the bike lift, the bicycle, and the software. All the patents are in our names so you can check if you want. When I came to Europe y years ago, I had already made 20 improvements to the hook lift. I still have my father’s original design and in 30 years the design of the hook has not changed. I just can’t believe it. it is exactly the same. I just came up with the ideas and made the prototypes and my dad did all the engineering and calculations and Vulcan made most of the money until Mr. Alms kids screwed everything up including not giving my father all his severance pay.

Disgusting!!!!

So it’s a combination of luck, more luck, and even more luck.
In much of the things that I’ve created over my lifetime, I would say that it’s maybe 20% skill and 80% luck.

I believe it is the only tow tuck in the world that can tow motorcycles very easily.

Then when you have the right team put together of marketing experts sales experts and a whole package then you can really sell product which we did. Soon the managers forgot were all the products came from and start started to cut the size of the new product development Department down where all the original innovation came from which was a very big mistake and they figured this out when it was too late many companies make the same mistake is very common..

Then came the really big stuff which the Canadian Military wanted these tow trucks for the field

What about all the things I do not have pictures of
Crane trolley, Forging manipulator, ore feeding conveyer, copy milling machine, suction oil drilling platforms, production line of laminates for plastic company, for plywood company, machine to make books, for Schick razors he made a machine that would pack 10 razors to every package, press rollers and uni rollers, grinding wheel press, flying sheer, steering for those military vehicles the navy seals use, steering for all types of specialty aircraft for the U.S. Military, all types of hydraulic cylinders and switches, production press, deck cranes for the U.S. NAVY, Mobile cranes, Air control valves, Special rubber piston seals, assorted furniture and lamps, tire re-treading machines, panel saw, electro hydraulic devices, wheel dollies to carry heavy parts from one end of a factory to another and you should push it with one finger (amazing), wood planer, Subway tunnel washing machine horse race starting gate which all open at exactly the same time. He has some 38 patents to his name.

I could make a separate web site just on my dads stuff and it would take me 5 years to compile it. He eventually figured out how to tow two cars at the same time.

It was very versatile. In the end, they were selling all over the world, even Japan
It was the only one that could tow a motorcycle
with the special wheel dolly by father designed, cars that were completely damaged could still be towed.

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

then those tow trucks got bigger and bigger

Later there was a military version created but by this time there were too many people working on this project and Vulcan screwed it up but that is just my opinion.

My dad also designed a tire repair machine that would fix defects in the rubber on the outside.

We didn’t go out with the intention of changing the world. It just happened. It was a byproduct of what we created. The money was also a byproduct of what we created. But many of these inventions unfortunately are used for evil purposes rather than the good. And the inventor has no control over that. One of these inventions as an amazing thing that was that everybody uses for good almost and the other one is something that was truly amazing that was used for evil purposes. What I mean by evil purposes is that police and other organizations who love to tow your cars when you parked in bad places I’m talking about that kind of evil because I invented a tow truck to take the car out of a Park Place were no other tow truck could ever do before and now the whole world uses exactly that type of technology.

Changed the way a support line works in any military operation
with the hook lift truck, which we created together. We originally Licensed a variation of it from a French company to make improvements on theirs and this is what we came up with. But no one wanted it in Canada, so we sold the patents for the new device back to the French company and not even realizing it, changed the way goods are transported throughout Europe and also changed the way, the military moves its’ support lines forward.
I quit doing work for them and my father, after they sold it, because I wanted one for myself. I wanted to develop mobile offices and specialty containers but the company didn’t think it would go anywhere. No body is perfect!

Now electrical generating plants can be picked up with ease and delivered anywhere. I spoke to a soldier who told me that this type of vehicle is great because it is only a target 1/2 the time. He said that when the truck is transporting something it is a target, but when it is going back to pick up another container, it is not, so the trucks last much longer in battle. Cool eh???

Here are some other cool variations I have seen, but you know, in almost 40 years, I have only seen one improvement to the original hook, and since then I have come up with another 40 and when I try to contact companies here in Europe to see if we can do something together, no one ever called me  back. Hmmm.  Something is wrong with Europe.

What is so cool about the military truck I was told by a colonel in the U.S. Army and another in the German army told me that these hook lifts are fantastic because they are not but targets while they are not transporting goods so they have a better chance of surviving a war unlike other trucks that have things on them that are fixed for example indications truck is a good target to hit or other things. But a hook lift that is caring things like medical supplies containers are only a target when they have something on the back of them and when they don’t people don’t concern themselves with them so they end up saving more machines saving also costs of machines down the road for the governments that ordered them.

My father has created some pretty amazing things, and together we created truly magnificent things as well. But we had a very big problem. We could not work together. We were a great team, when we could work together because I dreamed it up, he designed it, we prototyped it, and then it went into production after it was patented. We listened to our suppliers, distributors, and customers; improving it.

The three innovations which I did with my father have to be put into separate pages because is just too much information here you can have a little picture of each thing if you want I don’t know if you have a picture of the electric car anymore I have it somewhere but I don’t exactly know it is a picture not available or something like that and the information somewhere else that doesn’t take away from the rest of the page I leave it up to you to figure it out I can see that your creative enough

Within 4 seconds I came up with this except my concept design (I was too young to be an engineer) was the back boom was made entirely of metal.

Later models were made with fancier colors and other newly improved features. My dad came up with many innovative variations to what this thing could lift.

For now, see my dad’s designs first,

Mine are further down

I came up with the first tow truck idea, the “hook lift,” the bike lift, the bicycle, and the software. All the patents are in our names so you can check if you want. When I came to Europe y years ago, I had already made 20 improvements to the hook lift. I still have my father’s original design and in 30 years the design of the hook has not changed. I just can’t believe it. it is exactly the same. I just came up with the ideas and made the prototypes and my dad did all the engineering and calculations and Vulcan made most of the money until Mr. Alms kids screwed everything up including not giving my father all his severance pay.

Disgusting!!!!

So it’s a combination of luck, more luck, and even more luck.
In much of the things that I’ve created over my lifetime, I would say that it’s maybe 20% skill and 80% luck.

I believe it is the only tow tuck in the world that can tow motorcycles very easily.

Then when you have the right team put together of marketing experts sales experts and a whole package then you can really sell product which we did. Soon the managers forgot were all the products came from and start started to cut the size of the new product development Department down where all the original innovation came from which was a very big mistake and they figured this out when it was too late many companies make the same mistake is very common..

Then came the really big stuff which the Canadian Military wanted these tow trucks for the field

What about all the things I do not have pictures of
Crane trolley, Forging manipulator, ore feeding conveyer, copy milling machine, suction oil drilling platforms, production line of laminates for plastic company, for plywood company, machine to make books, for Schick razors he made a machine that would pack 10 razors to every package, press rollers and uni rollers, grinding wheel press, flying sheer, steering for those military vehicles the navy seals use, steering for all types of specialty aircraft for the U.S. Military, all types of hydraulic cylinders and switches, production press, deck cranes for the U.S. NAVY, Mobile cranes, Air control valves, Special rubber piston seals, assorted furniture and lamps, tire re-treading machines, panel saw, electro hydraulic devices, wheel dollies to carry heavy parts from one end of a factory to another and you should push it with one finger (amazing), wood planer, Subway tunnel washing machine horse race starting gate which all open at exactly the same time. He has some 38 patents to his name.

I could make a separate web site just on my dads stuff and it would take me 5 years to compile it. He eventually figured out how to tow two cars at the same time.

It was very versatile. In the end, they were selling all over the world, even Japan
It was the only one that could tow a motorcycle
with the special wheel dolly by father designed, cars that were completely damaged could still be towed.

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

then those tow trucks got bigger and bigger

Later there was a military version created but by this time there were too many people working on this project and Vulcan screwed it up but that is just my opinion.

My dad also designed a tire repair machine that would fix defects in the rubber on the outside.

We didn’t go out with the intention of changing the world. It just happened. It was a byproduct of what we created. The money was also a byproduct of what we created. But many of these inventions unfortunately are used for evil purposes rather than the good. And the inventor has no control over that. One of these inventions as an amazing thing that was that everybody uses for good almost and the other one is something that was truly amazing that was used for evil purposes. What I mean by evil purposes is that police and other organizations who love to tow your cars when you parked in bad places I’m talking about that kind of evil because I invented a tow truck to take the car out of a Park Place were no other tow truck could ever do before and now the whole world uses exactly that type of technology.

Changed the way a support line works in any military operation
with the hook lift truck, which we created together. We originally Licensed a variation of it from a French company to make improvements on theirs and this is what we came up with. But no one wanted it in Canada, so we sold the patents for the new device back to the French company and not even realizing it, changed the way goods are transported throughout Europe and also changed the way, the military moves its’ support lines forward.
I quit doing work for them and my father, after they sold it, because I wanted one for myself. I wanted to develop mobile offices and specialty containers but the company didn’t think it would go anywhere. No body is perfect!

Now electrical generating plants can be picked up with ease and delivered anywhere. I spoke to a soldier who told me that this type of vehicle is great because it is only a target 1/2 the time. He said that when the truck is transporting something it is a target, but when it is going back to pick up another container, it is not, so the trucks last much longer in battle. Cool eh???

Here are some other cool variations I have seen, but you know, in almost 40 years, I have only seen one improvement to the original hook, and since then I have come up with another 40 and when I try to contact companies here in Europe to see if we can do something together, no one ever called me  back. Hmmm.  Something is wrong with Europe.

What is so cool about the military truck I was told by a colonel in the U.S. Army and another in the German army told me that these hook lifts are fantastic because they are not but targets while they are not transporting goods so they have a better chance of surviving a war unlike other trucks that have things on them that are fixed for example indications truck is a good target to hit or other things. But a hook lift that is caring things like medical supplies containers are only a target when they have something on the back of them and when they don’t people don’t concern themselves with them so they end up saving more machines saving also costs of machines down the road for the governments that ordered them.

My father has created some pretty amazing things, and together we created truly magnificent things as well. But we had a very big problem. We could not work together. We were a great team, when we could work together because I dreamed it up, he designed it, we prototyped it, and then it went into production after it was patented. We listened to our suppliers, distributors, and customers; improving it.

The three innovations which I did with my father have to be put into separate pages because is just too much information here you can have a little picture of each thing if you want I don’t know if you have a picture of the electric car anymore I have it somewhere but I don’t exactly know it is a picture not available or something like that and the information somewhere else that doesn’t take away from the rest of the page I leave it up to you to figure it out I can see that your creative enough

Within 4 seconds I came up with this except my concept design (I was too young to be an engineer) was the back boom was made entirely of metal.

Later models were made with fancier colors and other newly improved features. My dad came up with many innovative variations to what this thing could lift.

For now, see my dad’s designs first,

Mine are further down

I came up with the first tow truck idea, the “hook lift,” the bike lift, the bicycle, and the software. All the patents are in our names so you can check if you want. When I came to Europe y years ago, I had already made 20 improvements to the hook lift. I still have my father’s original design and in 30 years the design of the hook has not changed. I just can’t believe it. it is exactly the same. I just came up with the ideas and made the prototypes and my dad did all the engineering and calculations and Vulcan made most of the money until Mr. Alms kids screwed everything up including not giving my father all his severance pay.

Disgusting!!!!

So it’s a combination of luck, more luck, and even more luck.
In much of the things that I’ve created over my lifetime, I would say that it’s maybe 20% skill and 80% luck.

I believe it is the only tow tuck in the world that can tow motorcycles very easily.

Then when you have the right team put together of marketing experts sales experts and a whole package then you can really sell product which we did. Soon the managers forgot were all the products came from and start started to cut the size of the new product development Department down where all the original innovation came from which was a very big mistake and they figured this out when it was too late many companies make the same mistake is very common..

Then came the really big stuff which the Canadian Military wanted these tow trucks for the field

What about all the things I do not have pictures of
Crane trolley, Forging manipulator, ore feeding conveyer, copy milling machine, suction oil drilling platforms, production line of laminates for plastic company, for plywood company, machine to make books, for Schick razors he made a machine that would pack 10 razors to every package, press rollers and uni rollers, grinding wheel press, flying sheer, steering for those military vehicles the navy seals use, steering for all types of specialty aircraft for the U.S. Military, all types of hydraulic cylinders and switches, production press, deck cranes for the U.S. NAVY, Mobile cranes, Air control valves, Special rubber piston seals, assorted furniture and lamps, tire re-treading machines, panel saw, electro hydraulic devices, wheel dollies to carry heavy parts from one end of a factory to another and you should push it with one finger (amazing), wood planer, Subway tunnel washing machine horse race starting gate which all open at exactly the same time. He has some 38 patents to his name.

I could make a separate web site just on my dads stuff and it would take me 5 years to compile it. He eventually figured out how to tow two cars at the same time.

It was very versatile. In the end, they were selling all over the world, even Japan
It was the only one that could tow a motorcycle
with the special wheel dolly by father designed, cars that were completely damaged could still be towed.

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

then those tow trucks got bigger and bigger

Later there was a military version created but by this time there were too many people working on this project and Vulcan screwed it up but that is just my opinion.

My dad also designed a tire repair machine that would fix defects in the rubber on the outside.

We didn’t go out with the intention of changing the world. It just happened. It was a byproduct of what we created. The money was also a byproduct of what we created. But many of these inventions unfortunately are used for evil purposes rather than the good. And the inventor has no control over that. One of these inventions as an amazing thing that was that everybody uses for good almost and the other one is something that was truly amazing that was used for evil purposes. What I mean by evil purposes is that police and other organizations who love to tow your cars when you parked in bad places I’m talking about that kind of evil because I invented a tow truck to take the car out of a Park Place were no other tow truck could ever do before and now the whole world uses exactly that type of technology.

Changed the way a support line works in any military operation
with the hook lift truck, which we created together. We originally Licensed a variation of it from a French company to make improvements on theirs and this is what we came up with. But no one wanted it in Canada, so we sold the patents for the new device back to the French company and not even realizing it, changed the way goods are transported throughout Europe and also changed the way, the military moves its’ support lines forward.
I quit doing work for them and my father, after they sold it, because I wanted one for myself. I wanted to develop mobile offices and specialty containers but the company didn’t think it would go anywhere. No body is perfect!

Now electrical generating plants can be picked up with ease and delivered anywhere. I spoke to a soldier who told me that this type of vehicle is great because it is only a target 1/2 the time. He said that when the truck is transporting something it is a target, but when it is going back to pick up another container, it is not, so the trucks last much longer in battle. Cool eh???

Here are some other cool variations I have seen, but you know, in almost 40 years, I have only seen one improvement to the original hook, and since then I have come up with another 40 and when I try to contact companies here in Europe to see if we can do something together, no one ever called me  back. Hmmm.  Something is wrong with Europe.

What is so cool about the military truck I was told by a colonel in the U.S. Army and another in the German army told me that these hook lifts are fantastic because they are not but targets while they are not transporting goods so they have a better chance of surviving a war unlike other trucks that have things on them that are fixed for example indications truck is a good target to hit or other things. But a hook lift that is caring things like medical supplies containers are only a target when they have something on the back of them and when they don’t people don’t concern themselves with them so they end up saving more machines saving also costs of machines down the road for the governments that ordered them.

My father has created some pretty amazing things, and together we created truly magnificent things as well. But we had a very big problem. We could not work together. We were a great team, when we could work together because I dreamed it up, he designed it, we prototyped it, and then it went into production after it was patented. We listened to our suppliers, distributors, and customers; improving it.

The three innovations which I did with my father have to be put into separate pages because is just too much information here you can have a little picture of each thing if you want I don’t know if you have a picture of the electric car anymore I have it somewhere but I don’t exactly know it is a picture not available or something like that and the information somewhere else that doesn’t take away from the rest of the page I leave it up to you to figure it out I can see that your creative enough

Within 4 seconds I came up with this except my concept design (I was too young to be an engineer) was the back boom was made entirely of metal.

Later models were made with fancier colors and other newly improved features. My dad came up with many innovative variations to what this thing could lift.

For now, see my dad’s designs first,

Mine are further down

I came up with the first tow truck idea, the “hook lift,” the bike lift, the bicycle, and the software. All the patents are in our names so you can check if you want. When I came to Europe y years ago, I had already made 20 improvements to the hook lift. I still have my father’s original design and in 30 years the design of the hook has not changed. I just can’t believe it. it is exactly the same. I just came up with the ideas and made the prototypes and my dad did all the engineering and calculations and Vulcan made most of the money until Mr. Alms kids screwed everything up including not giving my father all his severance pay.

Disgusting!!!!

So it’s a combination of luck, more luck, and even more luck.
In much of the things that I’ve created over my lifetime, I would say that it’s maybe 20% skill and 80% luck.

I believe it is the only tow tuck in the world that can tow motorcycles very easily.

Then when you have the right team put together of marketing experts sales experts and a whole package then you can really sell product which we did. Soon the managers forgot were all the products came from and start started to cut the size of the new product development Department down where all the original innovation came from which was a very big mistake and they figured this out when it was too late many companies make the same mistake is very common..

Then came the really big stuff which the Canadian Military wanted these tow trucks for the field

What about all the things I do not have pictures of
Crane trolley, Forging manipulator, ore feeding conveyer, copy milling machine, suction oil drilling platforms, production line of laminates for plastic company, for plywood company, machine to make books, for Schick razors he made a machine that would pack 10 razors to every package, press rollers and uni rollers, grinding wheel press, flying sheer, steering for those military vehicles the navy seals use, steering for all types of specialty aircraft for the U.S. Military, all types of hydraulic cylinders and switches, production press, deck cranes for the U.S. NAVY, Mobile cranes, Air control valves, Special rubber piston seals, assorted furniture and lamps, tire re-treading machines, panel saw, electro hydraulic devices, wheel dollies to carry heavy parts from one end of a factory to another and you should push it with one finger (amazing), wood planer, Subway tunnel washing machine horse race starting gate which all open at exactly the same time. He has some 38 patents to his name.

I could make a separate web site just on my dads stuff and it would take me 5 years to compile it. He eventually figured out how to tow two cars at the same time.

It was very versatile. In the end, they were selling all over the world, even Japan
It was the only one that could tow a motorcycle
with the special wheel dolly by father designed, cars that were completely damaged could still be towed.

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

then those tow trucks got bigger and bigger

Later there was a military version created but by this time there were too many people working on this project and Vulcan screwed it up but that is just my opinion.

My dad also designed a tire repair machine that would fix defects in the rubber on the outside.

We didn’t go out with the intention of changing the world. It just happened. It was a byproduct of what we created. The money was also a byproduct of what we created. But many of these inventions unfortunately are used for evil purposes rather than the good. And the inventor has no control over that. One of these inventions as an amazing thing that was that everybody uses for good almost and the other one is something that was truly amazing that was used for evil purposes. What I mean by evil purposes is that police and other organizations who love to tow your cars when you parked in bad places I’m talking about that kind of evil because I invented a tow truck to take the car out of a Park Place were no other tow truck could ever do before and now the whole world uses exactly that type of technology.

Changed the way a support line works in any military operation
with the hook lift truck, which we created together. We originally Licensed a variation of it from a French company to make improvements on theirs and this is what we came up with. But no one wanted it in Canada, so we sold the patents for the new device back to the French company and not even realizing it, changed the way goods are transported throughout Europe and also changed the way, the military moves its’ support lines forward.
I quit doing work for them and my father, after they sold it, because I wanted one for myself. I wanted to develop mobile offices and specialty containers but the company didn’t think it would go anywhere. No body is perfect!

Now electrical generating plants can be picked up with ease and delivered anywhere. I spoke to a soldier who told me that this type of vehicle is great because it is only a target 1/2 the time. He said that when the truck is transporting something it is a target, but when it is going back to pick up another container, it is not, so the trucks last much longer in battle. Cool eh???

Here are some other cool variations I have seen, but you know, in almost 40 years, I have only seen one improvement to the original hook, and since then I have come up with another 40 and when I try to contact companies here in Europe to see if we can do something together, no one ever called me  back. Hmmm.  Something is wrong with Europe.

What is so cool about the military truck I was told by a colonel in the U.S. Army and another in the German army told me that these hook lifts are fantastic because they are not but targets while they are not transporting goods so they have a better chance of surviving a war unlike other trucks that have things on them that are fixed for example indications truck is a good target to hit or other things. But a hook lift that is caring things like medical supplies containers are only a target when they have something on the back of them and when they don’t people don’t concern themselves with them so they end up saving more machines saving also costs of machines down the road for the governments that ordered them.

My father has created some pretty amazing things, and together we created truly magnificent things as well. But we had a very big problem. We could not work together. We were a great team, when we could work together because I dreamed it up, he designed it, we prototyped it, and then it went into production after it was patented. We listened to our suppliers, distributors, and customers; improving it.

The three innovations which I did with my father have to be put into separate pages because is just too much information here you can have a little picture of each thing if you want I don’t know if you have a picture of the electric car anymore I have it somewhere but I don’t exactly know it is a picture not available or something like that and the information somewhere else that doesn’t take away from the rest of the page I leave it up to you to figure it out I can see that your creative enough

Within 4 seconds I came up with this except my concept design (I was too young to be an engineer) was the back boom was made entirely of metal.

Later models were made with fancier colors and other newly improved features. My dad came up with many innovative variations to what this thing could lift.

For now, see my dad’s designs first,

Mine are further down

I came up with the first tow truck idea, the “hook lift,” the bike lift, the bicycle, and the software. All the patents are in our names so you can check if you want. When I came to Europe y years ago, I had already made 20 improvements to the hook lift. I still have my father’s original design and in 30 years the design of the hook has not changed. I just can’t believe it. it is exactly the same. I just came up with the ideas and made the prototypes and my dad did all the engineering and calculations and Vulcan made most of the money until Mr. Alms kids screwed everything up including not giving my father all his severance pay.

Disgusting!!!!

So it’s a combination of luck, more luck, and even more luck.
In much of the things that I’ve created over my lifetime, I would say that it’s maybe 20% skill and 80% luck.

I believe it is the only tow tuck in the world that can tow motorcycles very easily.

Then when you have the right team put together of marketing experts sales experts and a whole package then you can really sell product which we did. Soon the managers forgot were all the products came from and start started to cut the size of the new product development Department down where all the original innovation came from which was a very big mistake and they figured this out when it was too late many companies make the same mistake is very common..

Then came the really big stuff which the Canadian Military wanted these tow trucks for the field

What about all the things I do not have pictures of
Crane trolley, Forging manipulator, ore feeding conveyer, copy milling machine, suction oil drilling platforms, production line of laminates for plastic company, for plywood company, machine to make books, for Schick razors he made a machine that would pack 10 razors to every package, press rollers and uni rollers, grinding wheel press, flying sheer, steering for those military vehicles the navy seals use, steering for all types of specialty aircraft for the U.S. Military, all types of hydraulic cylinders and switches, production press, deck cranes for the U.S. NAVY, Mobile cranes, Air control valves, Special rubber piston seals, assorted furniture and lamps, tire re-treading machines, panel saw, electro hydraulic devices, wheel dollies to carry heavy parts from one end of a factory to another and you should push it with one finger (amazing), wood planer, Subway tunnel washing machine horse race starting gate which all open at exactly the same time. He has some 38 patents to his name.

I could make a separate web site just on my dads stuff and it would take me 5 years to compile it. He eventually figured out how to tow two cars at the same time.

It was very versatile. In the end, they were selling all over the world, even Japan
It was the only one that could tow a motorcycle
with the special wheel dolly by father designed, cars that were completely damaged could still be towed.

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

then those tow trucks got bigger and bigger

Later there was a military version created but by this time there were too many people working on this project and Vulcan screwed it up but that is just my opinion.

My dad also designed a tire repair machine that would fix defects in the rubber on the outside.

We didn’t go out with the intention of changing the world. It just happened. It was a byproduct of what we created. The money was also a byproduct of what we created. But many of these inventions unfortunately are used for evil purposes rather than the good. And the inventor has no control over that. One of these inventions as an amazing thing that was that everybody uses for good almost and the other one is something that was truly amazing that was used for evil purposes. What I mean by evil purposes is that police and other organizations who love to tow your cars when you parked in bad places I’m talking about that kind of evil because I invented a tow truck to take the car out of a Park Place were no other tow truck could ever do before and now the whole world uses exactly that type of technology.

Changed the way a support line works in any military operation
with the hook lift truck, which we created together. We originally Licensed a variation of it from a French company to make improvements on theirs and this is what we came up with. But no one wanted it in Canada, so we sold the patents for the new device back to the French company and not even realizing it, changed the way goods are transported throughout Europe and also changed the way, the military moves its’ support lines forward.
I quit doing work for them and my father, after they sold it, because I wanted one for myself. I wanted to develop mobile offices and specialty containers but the company didn’t think it would go anywhere. No body is perfect!

Now electrical generating plants can be picked up with ease and delivered anywhere. I spoke to a soldier who told me that this type of vehicle is great because it is only a target 1/2 the time. He said that when the truck is transporting something it is a target, but when it is going back to pick up another container, it is not, so the trucks last much longer in battle. Cool eh???

Here are some other cool variations I have seen, but you know, in almost 40 years, I have only seen one improvement to the original hook, and since then I have come up with another 40 and when I try to contact companies here in Europe to see if we can do something together, no one ever called me  back. Hmmm.  Something is wrong with Europe.

What is so cool about the military truck I was told by a colonel in the U.S. Army and another in the German army told me that these hook lifts are fantastic because they are not but targets while they are not transporting goods so they have a better chance of surviving a war unlike other trucks that have things on them that are fixed for example indications truck is a good target to hit or other things. But a hook lift that is caring things like medical supplies containers are only a target when they have something on the back of them and when they don’t people don’t concern themselves with them so they end up saving more machines saving also costs of machines down the road for the governments that ordered them.

It didn’t matter much what it was and we did it all without using CAD.
My father tried to teach me mechanical design, but I just wanted to skip that part and go straight to the building of it. It drove my dad nuts. I guess it was the only way I could have any fun.
He showed me at least how to fix my own cars, change the brakes and things like that. I learned at a very early age that nothing is impossible when you have the right compliations of talent and bart of the battle is knowing what kind of talent you need.

Impellers for the Harrier Jet, so that you can fire bullets into the turbine and it will not affect the engine’s performance.

This aircraft could also be fueled in the air.

My father also designed many car lifts. This was one of the first ones I saw. Still using the old sling type of lift to be mounted onto the back of a pick-up truck, so it could pull another car. Later below, my dad worked on other things like hoists for cars but nothing really took off like the towtruck idea I cam up with

All kinds of Automated Processes like the Kit Kat Bar when Rountree approached my dad because they were having problems with a lot of waste in their main plant. I remember when I was a kid, my dad used to bring boxes of broken Kit Kat bars from the “line.” I had so many friends then….yes because of the almost unlimited supply of Kit Kat bars. I don’t remember how long it took. It wasn’t very long. But my dad fixed the problem and soon he brought home no Kit Kat bars.

Below it was distributed by Vulcan and later sold to FMC then as the story goes Coats bought it for a few million more.

I bet you have seen these around in Automotive garages
Sold to FMC for just over a million and a half it had paid for itself over and over again. Have you seen one of these in your local automotive garage?
Most garage owners even after 30 years still think it is the best one on the market. Now that is impressive.
The only reason they are replacing them is that the new larger wheel sizes the 19″ and more require the different types of machine.

Here above after it was sold to FMC and then later coats it kept changing hands making millions more each time.

Dream Design and Build

this was the rd thing I did with my dad to change the world and how we live in it.
He specialized in creating retreading tire machines and rubber ovens to cure the tires

Here you could see it in action. We had to also create a Military wheel dolly to carry damaged vehicles. We have all the original drawings and patents. I have seen many companies claim that they figured it all out. But it was not them. It was us and we can prove it all.

Leslie Bubik Sr. My Dad has some 38 patents to his name. Most of the things that Vulcan equipment is or was manufacturing were invented by my dad. All except for one thing. The only tow truck that could take a car out of a parked place. I thought if a trailer follows a car with great ease, then this boom thing I came up with may be able, to remove a car from a parked spot. Many of his designs have changed the world from a little to a lot. I have only a few patents and came up with the original concept for the “Vulcan Wheel lift.” When I was 15, my dad came to me and said that if I can figure out a way to tow cars in an easier manner than was presently being done, that I would get the bicycle and stereo of my choice.

Here is my dad below.
we created two things together that changed the world.
But if we could have worked together we could have owned the world!

He was one of the first to use robots. which he also designed, to move heavy laminates from one part of an automated assembly line which he also designed.

But we are basically only limited by the laws of physics, so if you need something designed and it does not matter what it is, I can assure you of that, (anything mechanical or electro-mechanical) I have a new design for a new revolutionary tow truck but I think I will just keep it to myself this time.

Here the “jiffy Jack” would lift a car off the ground in about 1 or 2 seconds.  Later used by the Racing industry to lift race cars

A razor blade packing machine for Schick
I saw it work when I was a kid. it put ten razors into each box in about a second with no errors. One of my dads specialties was automation

One year, when I was a kid, in a German Magazine (below) admiring the best designs, in the world. Of the 4, 2 were ours. Cool Eh? The Jiffy Jack was popular in the racing circuit for a while because it could lift and drop a car in about a second. And the Cradle snatcher as it would be known would be the best selling tow truck in the world for many many years. Well until the patents expired and everyone started copying.

Horse Racing Gates for the Canadians The only series of gates that all open at precisely the same time. They came to my dad to figure this one out. Not bad eh? I see those gates everywhere now. Even in Europe. Their distinctive green and white colours. He also designed them to make them more portable.
They came back to my dad, after it was finished, because the customer could not get the gates off the track fast enough after the race started. I could,’t beleive what I was hearing. So we added wheels. YES WHEELS so it could be pulled off the track faster. My dad was only asked to design the new gate

Assorted Hoists and Tow trucks (big and small) for Vulcan Equipment CANADA including the big monster above. Most of the things Vulcan equipment had produced in the past Automotive related, he designed.
By that time he had a large R and D department and one of his drafts men was Japanese named Ken Murimatsu. I wonder what ever happened to him. I helped his and his wife build a Japanese restaurant. Because his wife wanted to go into the business. Because I have a diploma from Ryerson University in Hospitality interior design, I helped them design and build it. I also have a Piece of paper in Hotel and Restaurant Management as well as in Resort and Hospitality Management, just in case you are interested to know. I was one of those kids who could make his mind up what he wanted to do. I guess I can always get a job in a hotel.

Mike Bogdan of Hungary and others who helped my dad in the new product development area of Vulcan equipment. By that time I was no longer there and soon my dad retired too.

He has single handily designed machines that must be collectively produced trillions in revenue for all these companies over the years  and I guess if you were to take all of them and add their revenues, jobs they created  all over the world combined,   I don’t know what comes after trillions  but whatever that number is, I have no doubt it is up there somewhere.  Have you seen these around?

Vulcan was the leading company in Tire Retreating equipment. This is true Recycling of tires

My dad helped design the military tow truck, by this time there were 200 engineers and no one knew what was going on.  Look at this thing below. It looks like it was designed by  5 year old.  They also put a crane on it to make it more versatile. They put all their eggs inone basket.  I have done this too in business.  It is very dangerous because you make one mistake and you can lose everything.

Military hook lift.  One truck and 15 containers, tool shops to move around for mobile hospitals, and  more

Almost anything can be lifted and transported.  we did not design the containers. those where done by other companies

How did I come up with the idea? Simple really when you hand your coat over your shoulder, you usually do with with a finger or too and drape it over your shoulder and you put it up onto your shoulder. That is how the idea became a truck Cool eh??? I love engineering stuff.
And now I do cheap engineering, just for myself.

That is Ken Murimatzu  (I am not sure of the spelling) He was a Japanese engineer.  My dad’s department grew and later my dad was working with  4 other engineers.

My father and his team in New product development made Vulcan a very rich company.
After my dad retired and the owner eventually died and then the Alm sons took is over and really screwed up that company. I told my dad they would screw the company up within 10 years but it only took them 3 years.
I have many fond memories of hanging out there including a few summer jobs driving a fork lift and loading the trucks which never seemed to end. They were waiting in lines to take the products away.
I remember one year when Design CANADA put out there stuff about the 4 best designs in CANADA and three of them were my dads I also remember an article about the 4 best designs in the world the three of them where my dads the 4th was that high speed train in Japan.

Because I was also the new product development guy, I came up with the tandem lifter prototype which by the end when we decided not to produce this product because of the dangers of the consumer not installing these properly on their vehicles and the insurance company giving us scenarios the types of accidents that could happen. We decided not to go through with the project in the end and a Chinese dentist bought the tandem version is seen here below and he was the happiest guy in the world because he was able to lift it up onto the top of his minivan by himself. Even though we had to make him an extension rod to be old to push the bike up and we made it spring assisted because his tandem was so heavy. But it worked extremely well

Has a U.S. and Canadian Patent

This one above was the tandem lifter. One was made to see if a short Chinese person could lift it up onto a minivan

It worked.

Now the U.S. Military has copied the HANDY HOIST to put missiles onto the top of Hummers. I can design and build just about anything,  And if I can’t I will find someone who will

I have 2 patents and as far as I am concerned, I have two too many. Do you know how long it takes to get a u.s Patent? 1 Year. In Canada 12 years!! 12 Years!!! What the heck!

The military version is even cooler because where it used to take several trucks to carry around tall the stuff they need. Now all the new are a few trucks and they move their buildings around instead cool eh???

“MY DAD AND I SHOULD HAVE WON SOME KIND OF AN AWARD FOR THIS PRODUCT BUT NEVER DID. DO THEY HAVE AWARDS IN ENGINEERING AS THEY DO FOR MOVIES? IF NOT. THEY SHOULD!”

I have several improvements to the designs but I have never seen them improve much in the last 30 years. They basically IT looks the same which tells you what a good design it was. But there is always room for improvement and I am now looking for a company that makes them. The hook and go, as I like to call it are the best thing I ever created and the sky is the limit with what you can do with these things.

Almost anything can be lifted and transported. we did not design the containers. those were done by other companies

It was originally designed to lift cars but I told my dad it could lift a shop like for a trades person who can leave all his tools at one pace while he moves his office to another. This concept took off. But my this time it was already owned by another company.

How did I come up with the idea?

Simple really when you hang your coat over your shoulder, you usually do with with a finger or too and drape it over your shoulder and you pull it up onto your shoulder. That is how the idea became a truck Cool eh??? I love engineering stuff. Now you can see these being produced under different names. Multi-lift, (made in Sweden I think) (good name) Swamp Loader (also good) lift more than just cars and containers. And the design hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years. But I have many improvements and Ideas which I would like to share with the right company. All the Patents are under my father’s name Leslie Bubik and it is easy enough to check. My father has 38 patents to his name and I have two and as far as I am concerned, I have two too many. Ampliroll, a French company may have been the first one to buy it. It was 35 years ago and I was not involved with the sale of products. But I am sure someone knows something.

FMC bought my father’s tire changer and garages and still using them today. Now that is cool too! I also remember Coats buying it. Perhaps coats bought it from FMC who knows.

If you do not get your product and sell your idea and make your money within 7 years when you patent something. ( 7 years goes by very quickly when you are creating machines) then everyone can copy you and compete against you. You are not really protected unless you have the means to pay a whole battery of lawyers to keep your product safe.

My father and his team in New product development made Vulcan a very rich company.

After my dad retired and the owner eventually died and then the Alms sons took it over and really screwed up that company.

I have many fond memories of hanging out there including a few summer jobs driving a forklift and loading the trucks which never seemed to end. They were waiting in lines to take the products away.

I remember one year when Design CANADA put out their stuff about the 4 best designs in CANADA and three of them were my dad’s I also remember an article about the 4 best designs in the world One was mine, one was my dads. the 3rd was a portable 12v compressor the 4th was that high-speed train in Japan. Cool eh?