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TankChair! A Powerchair for off
road!
A picture tells a
thousand words here!
The owner of the
company Soden Gang that is currently designing this chair contacted me
recently to see if I was interested in testing one of these
Powerchairs! Well what would you say! I cant
wait!
He is interested
in quality feedback from me (and 5 other people in a similar
position to myself) and is prepared to ship me a chair from
the US to get it.
That's what you
call commitment! He is keen to see a finished version
out and about helping people to get back to nature in a way
that no other chair can!
This one
(pictured) is just the proof of concept "learning"
PowerChair that he first built to allow his wife to get into
the fields and woods so she didn't miss out.
The next ones are
far more seriously designed with a view to production. They
will be ready in 3 to 4 months with much money spent on the
project so far.
They will be pre
production prototypes for test with various different
chassis and parts for evaluation by myself and the other 5
guys (gals? I don't know!)
They apparently
are smaller with far lower seats. The base is now 30
inches wide rather than the huge 42 of the one in the
photos. The seat is self levelling so people like me
that are paralysed from the chest down are able to go up
steep slopes, and down, with no fear of falling out and low
enough to transfer with a board.
I must say I can't
really see how this would fit in with my concrete jungle
town life, but we will see! Can you imagine that chair
in a shopping centre, or in the pub! I suppose I will
need to get out in the countryside to really test it but I
am not sure if it will fit into my van yet? Looking at
it it may be a close fit! Especially height wise.
My head hits the ceiling with my current PowerChair. I
t would be good though when flying my model aircraft on
grassy fields and muddy ground!
Watch this space
for a Big Review!
Burgerman
Manufacturers
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