Pickup truck wheelchair conversion. 1:54 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LAArDkolwE
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3242#post77706
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...269#post116169
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Pickup truck wheelchair conversion. 1:54 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LAArDkolwE
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3242#post77706
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...269#post116169
The client that I'm building the All Terrain Track Chair for has one of these conversions done on his lifted GMC 2500 truck. It's pretty sweet to see in action. I took some pics and video while we tested the track chair with him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAQCloVl-Ek
That's impressive Kent
There one problem with the door. What if someone parks to close like a lot of dumb ass drivers do !!then you can’t get in.
That's actually a very good point. Someone could even park at the proper distance away from you in a non-handicapped parking space that is adjacent to your handicapped parking space, and it would still be too difficult to open the door.
I use a wheelchair. And yes parking is an obscene issue.
disabled folks are some of the worst parkers. As to the truck, I saw one. Asked the guy how it was. Not that old and he was having issues already, just to much involved. Also, most folks just can't afford something like that. I got my used van at a great price of 15,000 when most well used ones were going in the mid 20,000 . New, forget it. 75, 000 and up. This was in the early 2000s . So yea, things look great but the costs are out of reach for most.
Another approach:
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A while back I saw a similar but quite a bit simpler retrieval arm mounted in the bed of a full sized crew cab pickup. the drivers seat rotated out and dropped down so the man could go from his chair to the seat but he hd hooked a cable to the chair before getting out of it. he pushed a couple of buttons his seat raised and swung in while the chair was hoisted and swung into the truck bed.
I learned that he had been a CSM in the Army 30 years of service wiht only weeks until retirement when the vehicle he war riding it drove over an IED in Afghanistan paralyzing him from the waist down.
The optimistic Sgt Major said one day he will walk again because after 10 years he could now wiggle 2 of his toes on 1 foot.
You know what I believed him. He was a private in Germany just about the time I was leaving Germany I obviously never knew him but I knew the unit he was in back then. We talked quite a while and I learned that I might have seen him once when I went to Afghanistan on a road building project. that I made some pre-stressed concrete forms for .
Jon,Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Can you link to the source of this video? I tried going to that website listed in the video, and searching, and nothing came up for me in Google.
Thanks
Kent
Not sure of the source. I found it floating around social media and figured it was relevant here.
that is fantastic. Hope I never need one. A local guy has a small compact (hyundai getz i think) & his chair is so light he lifts it over his head onto a rack & the chair clicks down to secure it.One of our local servos gives the old service treatment & fills his car etc so he remains in drivers seat. He looks about as mobile as that chap. The VW must have filler on passenger side or it could cause issues though it seems to only needs, at most, the width of the drivers door.
It does take up a lot of room but for independance it's all good.
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Ha ha a car that loads your luggage but first has to sneak a peak at what's inside Kind of creepy and cool at the same time.
Pull up to the airport or hotel a porter rolls your luggage out and the car says thank you I'll take it from here. While the poor guy stands there in shock looking around for the candid camera
The car isn't going to tip him............or is it?Quote:
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One never knows, it might. After all the car is probably of driving itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by ranald
It’s fake. I can tell the arms are computer animated. It’s a good fake though.
But how do I get my luggage out to the car?
Easy just ask your car to unload it for you be sure to tip it with a tank full of premium gasoline. But then again if a car can drive itself and load your luggage it may even be able to pump it's own gas. and with the advanced wifi technology it could even pay for it as well Pretty soon cars won't even need us lazy humans at allQuote:
Originally Posted by Karl_H