I have been on Dutch TV twice, namely in "Van zuks dus" and "Man bijt hond" (see PUBLICATIONS). Both times a video was taken of the stock of spades that hinders the access to my work bench, and tender-hearted was spoken of the fact that I had ordered so many spades and not being able to get rid of them. That's a very sad thing indeed, but I have never presented myself as a smart business man. I don't have the ambition to become a smart business man. I had the ambition to develope a totally new, improved version of the windmill, and later, to develope a totally new, improved version of the spade. In both cases I succeeded very well, in my opinion. The electric part of the windmill needs developing, but mechanically it's doing great. More development however is quite expensive and that's why the windmill project has stopped.

The spade however is as far as I'm concerned fully developed and should be manufactured properly in great numbers. I consider that the task of a business-man with a lot of money, and that's not me. I am an inventor and not a business-man, and if some one should be called a loser then it is that business-man who doesn't want to invest in the APPELSPADE, and it is also the person who has to plod with an old-fashioned spade instead of an APPELSPADE !