Following 7 years of hands-on heating system work after 400 hours of oil burner technology training at Tech School, I started my own Heating Contracting business in 1988. In ’96, I took a break from heating and air conditioning work to become an independent inventor of hand tools, circulator flanges, valves and system connector types. In 2002, I took a sales job, but in 2003, I went back into HVAC contracting on the New Hampshire seacoast. In 2020, I moved to the Lakes Region to develop beekeeping inventions and ended up with the most advanced – Indoor Climate Controlled – beehive in the world. In 2025, I am back to HVAC Contracting. See protechhvac.com.
A beekeeper since 2017, and an inventor since 1996, I merged these two activities and started inventing beekeeping equipment after my 1st colony froze to death in the last week of December 2017.
If you want to see the most advanced beehive in the world, and the only bear-proof beehive in the world, be sure to check out my Beefortress website.
And if you like black bears, then you’ll really want to go to my site and scroll to the bottom of the home page to see embedded YT videos of black bears interacting with my beehives.
Once I realized I had 3 times as many estimates per week as the other sales engineers at Thayer Corp., in Auburn, Maine, I knew the Excel Workbook I’d been working on since the Windows environment replaced the DOS environment and Lotus 123 was replaced by Excel, would shape it into something great. It began as a Job Estimating system, then grew to include Job Costing and Job Billing. Now, I see it as the best way to do business in the building trades, because it is 100% honest, 100% transparent and 100% verifiable. Check out the rite-forms site for yourself to learn more.
When my 1-1/2 year-old Czech German Shepherd and I couldn’t bare to play outdoors in the -20 F temperature in January 2020, I created an indoor exercise routine that I called Doggy Skeet.
After throwing several rounds of 50 Skeet, Nax Aites Bohemia (Naxy) was down for a nap. It’s like playing frisbee in your living room without breaking anything and it is so much fun! And Naxy gets amazing exercise.
My first invention was a hand tool. Then, in 2-1/2 years I created the modern day flanges and valves for forced hot water circulators that I licensed to Taco, Inc., in 1999 under two Agreements. No, Webstone, Watts, Legend, Nibco, nor any other company invented said valves. I did. See my story on the maverick inventor site.
NewHampshireConnections.com is a site that I am creating to be all about New Hampshire. While it is under construction, you can join our own public and private free speech chat system. On the home page you can watch many-a-video related to New Hampshire and its history. Stay tuned for many more developments to come, soon.
NewHampshireConnections.com is a site that I am creating to be all about New Hampshire. While it is under construction, you can join our own public and private free speech chat system. On the home page you can watch many-a-video related to New Hampshire and its history. Stay tuned for many more developments to come, soon
