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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.

Within 20 minutes I came up with this except my conceptual design (I was too young to be an engineer) was the back boom was make entirely of metal. My dad made the design much better by putting straps on it.

I designed 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. The police loved it and it make me sick that for ever good idea you will always find someone you will use it for evil purposes.

Later they were more dressed up but my dad beleived that for an elegant concept you could not see any of the ugly hydraulic hoses.

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.

Eventually the boo, was chopped off and the tow truck lifted from under but the one above could do so much more like towing motorcycles

Eventually no boom at all and a sleek design emerged which also reduced drag and fuel consumption but those were all my dads designs. I had nothing to do with those.

The next time I was approached my my dad when the question emerged. HOW DO YOU TOW A CAR THAT HAS BEEN SO BADLY DAMAGED IN A WRECK THAT IT COULD NOT BE TOWED CONVENTIONALLY? It only took 30 seconds. See below and the HOOK AND GO WAS BORN SEE BELOW. iFG YOU WANT TO SEE WHO DESIGNED THESE THINGS, JUST DO A SEARCH AND SEE WHO THE DESIGNER IS. LESIE BUBIK.

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 unrollers, 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, Sunway tunnel washing machine horse race starting gate which all doors open at exactly the same time. My dad, now 86 has some 38 patents to his name.

I only have 2 As far as I am concerned I have two too many. And we are working on a device which will heat European homes for a fraction of the price. I have tried to contact companies to do something together. No one is interested. I just don't get it.

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.

Get your mind out to the gutter. This is a concrete vibrator used to take the care out of concrete as it is being poured, and allowing it to settle properly in it's mould.

One year, when I was a kid, in a German Magazine 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 my cradle snatcher, which I did not come up with the name. Today cradle snatcher means quite a different thing, but it was quite a different thing.

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. He also had a small group of creative engineers. Ken Murimasu from Japan and Mike Bogdan of Hungary were the others who helped my dad in the new product development area of Vulcan equipment.

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?

My dad designed parts of the military tow truck. In my opinion they tried to do too much even my dad was disgusted by it. It was , after all , ugly compared to the other stuff we designed

I think next to My HANDY-HOIST, THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS i EVER DESIGNED.

LIFT AND GO. 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 shown below, I have figured out a few things, I just need a company who wants to pay me a few hundred thousand for the idea and I want to be involved worth the fabrication of it. After my dad left Vulcan. It only took two more years to the Alms kids is to screw it up more. They didn't even pay my dad his severance pay when they somehow escaped Canada and fled to the states leaving many companies holding the bag who depended on Vulcan for their survival. When I found out about my dads severance this I went after Vulcan, myself, and eventually they paid my dad and I got my 10% of it. If it wasn't for my dad and me there would not have been such a big Vulcan. It is a shame really. I really wanted my own lift and go.

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

The military version is even more cool because where it used to take several trucks to carry around tall the stuff they need. Now all they new are a dew 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 AWARD IN ENGINEERING LIKE THEY DO FOR MOVIES? IF NOT. THEY SHOULD!"

I have several improvements to the designs but I have never seen them improved much in the last 30 years. They basically look the same which tell you what a good design it was. But there is always room for improvement and I am not looking for a company who makes them to hire me on as a sales guy for them. The hook and go, as I like to callit are the best thing I ever created and the sky is the limit with what you can do with these things. The one thing the disturbs me that when I wanted to buy one, Vulcan didn't want to give me a break in the price. When I create a series of new ones I want one for myself free, including the truck. My dad has offered to help me if I land a contract with one of you guys.

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

It was originally designed to left 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 you 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) SwapLoader (also good) lift more than just cars and containers. And the design hansn'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 fathers 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 ones to buy it. It was 35 yeas ago and I was not involved with the sale of products. But I am sure someone knows something.

FMC bought my fathers 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 Alm sons took is over and really screwed up that company.

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 One was mime, one was my dads. the 3rd was a portable 12v compressor the 4th was that high speed train in Japan. Cool eh?

I designed the handy-hoist is 20 minutes, It took 3 years t get a patent and 4 guys from the government to screw up a deal. Here a petite women illustrates how easy it is to lift a bike onto the top of a car with great ease.

Since I designed this thing, I have figured out how to lift ladders , kayaks , lumber and al kind of other things. The American army copied my Patent, "thanks Guys." and they use a variation of my design to lift missals onto hummers. I am looking for an investor ore a company who will take me on to create a line of lifters but so far, ...nothing. I just don't get it.

50 years ahead of it's time. Canadian Tire Ordered 19,000 units and in the middle of the deal told us to provide them with a colour box. Just before the signing of the deal, my mother got sick and I had to walk away from the deal. And my business partner pulled all the units of all the shelves of all the stored we had them in including Mazda who wanted to give the Handy-Host bike lifting assistant which it was called by then. I think it was when Canadian tire came to use again and asked us to set up a shop to install these things for people for a small fee because they didn't have faith that people could install the Handy-Hoist properly themselves. From what I can see with Les the Handyman 15 years since then, Canadian Tire was right. My business partner still has all the dies and forms and the machine to stamp out the parts should something happen and someone wants to manufacture them again.