Archive for the ‘Winter’ Category
星期日, 一月 1st, 2017
It’s all a question of hardware…!!!
Today I was on tour with my Minitrac (see older blogposts) for the first time in the snow.
With its tractor tyres it is a perfect technical aid.
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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks LIX
星期二, 十一月 22nd, 2016Empty detergent bottle to be used as “One-Hand Salt Shaker”
The topic of how to get through winter in a Rolli has been on my mind for quite a while (see earlier articles).
In one of these former articles, I advised putting salt in front of your car before the snow arrives, so that the wheelchair would not slip away while getting in and out.
I always salt my wheelchairramp (ski slope) at the front door at the same time.
One can easily imagine how “professional” it looks when a wheelchairdriver balances a bucket full of salt on his knees and tries to spread it on the driveway. This really does not work well!
One thing’s for sure, the seat cushion on the chair as well as other “sensitive parts” will no longer freeze.;-)
After years of research the Rollinator team finally found a solution.
One-Hand Salt Shaker
(special wheelchairdriver)
The One-Hand Salt Shaker stands out with its ergonomic form, which allows the user to aim more accurately when spreading the salt using only one arm.
You can pretty much modify any empty liquid detergent bottle. However, I advise against those XXL-supersize bottles because of the excessive weight. During laboratory trials wheels burst and users got thrown out of their vehicles (just kidding).
To fill the salt shaker, a proven method is simply rolling a newspaper, advertisement, brochure etc. to make a quick funnel.
To prevent the salt shaker from dropping you could attach a key chain to the handle and hang the bottle around your neck as some sort of a trophy – but don’t get strangled… !!!
The special One-Handed Salt Shaker is also 98.74 % pedestrian and walking frame user friendly.
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Winter Special
星期三, 十一月 16th, 2016Here is a collection of links with tips and odd stories around the subject winter. Sorry, but not all blogposts referred to are translated yet!!! More to follow…
Wheelblades, wheelchairski
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=9362&lang=entranslated!
FreeWheel
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=15468&lang=entranslated!
Put salt next to the car before snow falls…!!!
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=15740
Reflectors and Illumination
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=5699&lang=en translated! http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4162&lang=en translated! http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=882&lang=entranslated!
Moutainbike Winter Tyres
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=1311&lang=en translated! http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4829&lang=en translated! http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=2068&lang=en translated! http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4759&lang=entranslated!
Wheelchair auxiliary snow chains
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4928&lang=entranslated!
Running direction of “Schwalbe” tyres
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=2271&lang=entranslated!
Wheelchair tyre cleaning carpet
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=1328&lang=entranslated!
Wheelchair tyre slippers
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=3298&lang=entranslated!
Christmas Tree remote control
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4397&lang=entranslated!
Special wheelchair for removing snow
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4239&lang=entranslated!
Story referring to the picture
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4582
Miscellaneous
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=750 http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4636 If you have good ideas, as usual e-mail to rollinator@eigude.de
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Addendum Technical Aids Tips and Tricks IXL
星期一, 十月 6th, 2014I have nominated the FreeWheel 2012 as technical aid of the year.
I don’t want to repeat the whole blogpost here, so please see yourself the Blogpost 2012 FreeWheel.
It is a spoked wheel in the size of a children’s bicycle which you can clamp to the footrest in front of your wheelchair. This thing is ingenious and in permanent use for me.
Uneven paths, curbs, cobble stone, sand, gravel, grass and of course snow are no barrier anymore with the FreeWheel.
In the past the FreeWheel was only available for rigid frame wheelchairs. I bought from the inventor Patrick Dougherty his sample wheel for the trade fair and clamped it by magic on my foldable wheelchair with end-to-end footrest.
I sent him the pictures of my variant of wheelchair adaption, and he gave some thought about an adaptor.
After 2 years of development there is officially a FreeWheel Adaptor for foldable wheelchairs available since spring 2014.
Unfortunately only for wheelchairs with split footrest, as far as I understood.
FreeWheel adaptor for foldable wheelchairs
For questions as usual please contact: rollinator@eigude.de
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Winter tip
星期一, 十二月 10th, 2012Prepare – put salt on the ground BEFORE the snow falls!
2 years ago I had the biggest difficulties in winter to get from my wheelchair into the car.
After the snow fell, it froze on the ground to a single layer of ice right next to my door. This caused my wheelchair during transfer to constantly slip which was terrible
After my friends had removed the ice shelf next to my “Ferrari”, came the nice men from the county road service to clean the street and pushed a mountain of snow right next to my car.
So I still could not get in to the car!!!!!
Before the next snow fall I had all of a sudden salt already laying there next to my door for immediate defrosting. Miraculously, the salt seems to be falling from the sky, as there is hardly ever any ice and snow on the road next to my “Pole”…!!!!!
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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks IXL
星期四, 十一月 15th, 2012Wheelchair Tuning Part XXX (Competitor)
星期日, 二月 12th, 2012That standard wheelchairs, snow and sand are not the best friends is not really the insight of the day.
The low budget mountainbike wheelchair tyres
(see older blog post),
constructed by myself are indeed a big relief for me on bad ground conditions, but the small front tyres are for sand and snow by far the worst solution.
Well, with some special skating wheels as front tyres you might be able to illuminate the snow, but you are not moving any faster anyhow.
Actually I don’t understand it, but the engineers at the wheelchair companies don’t seem to know neither snow nor sand. Even after longer consideration I couldn’t think of any country which would not have at least one of it. Probably they live on trees, otherwise there would be adequate summer and winter equipment for each wheelchair as a standard.
Some day I will build in old MacGyver manner out of an inflatable physiotherapy ball and a hand fan a mobile mounting set with which my rolling vehicle turns into a ground-independent hovercraft wheelchair
Until I get there I continue combing through the technical aids scene to see what the colleagues are developing.
I am living in the city, but last year even my hometown Frankfurt was full of snow.
As formerly alpine skiing obsessed who was skiing with 2 meter skis in the Alps still in 2007 (no carving ski in children’s length) I already thought several times to cut my 2 cellar decoration skis in homeopathic pieces and screw them to my wheelchair instead of the front tyres to be able to leave my flat in last year’s snow chaos.
A seating test in a monoski on a fair was quite nice, and I was extremely surprised how stable I was sitting in it, until I asked my friend behind me if he was standing on the ski?
He said yes, took off his foot, I fell over, and the project monoski was postponed for the time being…!!!
Who was it, a Swiss man…!!!
When I read the post of a wheelchair hotel in Oberstdorf known to me I was immediately impressed.
Patrick Mayer, what a coincidence, a wheeler himself from Switzerland, who certainly has much more test snow than me each year, developed the Wheel Blades.
The
www.wheelblades.ch
are small blades which can be clamped with an iron clip anytime easily (even for quadriplegics) to the front tyres of the wheelchair.
The front tyres remain on the wheelchair!!! The binding is individually adjustable.
There was a real expert at work. Look at the Video,
he rolls down a flat ski-slope with these things on his wheelchair. The envy factor increases, ok I grant it to him.
He has even added slide rails to the blades so that they keep the track on the slope. Excellent, chapeau!!!
The Wheel Blades can be ordered in advance from October 2012, I will do it.
To anticipate anything, they might get paid by the employer’s accident insurance at best, or you have a good lawyer at the social court!!!
I haven’t heard anything yet about test rides in the snow board half pipe, and the snow and waterski suitability still has to be proved
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Winter Special
星期二, 十二月 20th, 2011Here is a collection of links with tips and odd stories around the subject winter.
Sorry, but not all blogposts referred to are translated yet!!! More to follow…
Wheelblades, wheelchairski
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=9362&lang=en translated!
FreeWheel
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=15468&lang=en translated!
Reflectors and Illumination
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=5699&lang=en translated!
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4162&lang=en translated!
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=882&lang=en translated!
Moutainbike Winter Tyres
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=1311&lang=en translated!
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4829&lang=en translated!
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=2068&lang=en translated!
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4759&lang=en translated!
Wheelchair auxiliary snow chains
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4928&lang=en translated!
Running direction of “Schwalbe” tyres
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=2271
Wheelchair tyre cleaning carpet
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=1328
Wheelchair tyre slippers
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=3298
Christmas Tree remote control
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4397
Special wheelchair for removing snow
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4239
Story referring to the picture
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4582
Miscellaneous
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=750
http://www.eigude.de/blog/?p=4636
If you have good ideas, as usual e-mail to rollinator@eigude.de
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Wishing everybody a pleasant 4th Advent
星期日, 十二月 18th, 2011Yesterday culture was on schedule.
Schiller’s “The Robbers” (Die Räuber)
in the Frankfurt Theatre.
1. Advent
星期日, 十一月 27th, 2011
Wishing you all a pleasant 1st Advent!
You have to set priorities, please note the orthosis