The truck he was loaned was none other than the same one heвЂ™d witnessed being tipped by muscle power.

Garfield had the sense to patent his ideas and then managed to persuade a coal company to lend him a truck so he could demonstrate his hydraulic tipper device. (Picture courtesy Wood Hydraulic Hoist and Body Company). Garfield got into the вЂњHow can I make a coal truck easy to unloadвЂќ and sure enough after a while he had a вЂњeurekaвЂќ moment and his mind created a hydraulic tipper truck solution.ДЇirst model Wood Hydraulic Hoist and Body Company tip truck kit. Modern day psychologists will affirm that a human mind will keep on working on the solution to that problem even when a person is asleep. ThereвЂ™s an old saying that tells us вЂњIf you say to yourself вЂ How can IвЂ your mind starts working on a solutionвЂќ. It was dirty, dusty hard labor and the laborers were not particularly happy that the tipping of the truck bed had to be powered by human muscles. Back then the tipping device used to unload was manually operated and required physical strength.

It was quite by chance in 1911 that he got into conversation with two workers who were unloading a couple of tons of coal from a truck. These were the Wild West years in the wake of the Civil War and Garfield was raised in that time before the character and creativity sapping entertainment industries were established: days when young people learned to make their own entertainment by doing creative things, whose minds were not stifled by passive living.ДЄs he matured Garfield married a lady named Murlen and tried to set up a profitable business repairing machines and vehicles. If you are the eldest of thirteen children then you will likely be given responsibilities at an early age. He grew up the elder brother to a dozen siblings and learned early to be inventive and self reliant, and also to be responsible. The story of the Gar Wood mahogany runabout speed boats begins, oddly enough, with ferry boat racing on Lake Osakis in Minnesota and coal dump trucks.Д«orn in 1880 Garfield Arthur Wood was the eldest son of a ferry operator on Lake Osakis, in Minnesota.

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