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Later, outside, he goes to his Toyota Tacoma truck and pulls a doctored piece of equipment from the back. "I have the same stuff that's in everybody's truck, but some of mine has been souped up," he says as he adjusts an extension tube that he has added to the original body. It's basically an outdoor duster, more powerful than an indoor tool should be. It's held together by duct tape. A jet nozzle concentrates the flow of the dust for precision application. "It's been tweaked for maximum efficiency," he says proudly. "It's like a car. Every car is made to do the same thing: to go. But some get there faster. You can make your car go faster or stay like everybody else's. I choose to make my car go fast."

Sandidge says he had a five-year plan for his business but that he's met its goals in nearly two years.

Next on the list: completing a brown-recluse-control book, transforming part of his McLouth garage into a climate-controlled research lab and working on a patent for his application tool.

"It doesn't exist anywhere except in my hands," he says. "And I have about a hundred of them in my shop. I think once they hit the market, I'll be rich."

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