Just looking for ideas. My wife uses a disabled scooter and living
right beside the sea she would like to make use of it. However its a
shingle beach at the top and sand at the bottom and the scooter just
stalls on the shingle bit. I was thinking of laying some sort of
matting down to go over the shingle, say two lengths which I could
keep repositioning etc. Any ideas about what could be used?
I have tried a more powerful scooter with big wheels with the same
result, I even thought about electric quad bike but perhaps not very
practicable and difficult to get except in child versions so any other
ideas appreciated.

wrote

Just looking for ideas. My wife uses a disabled scooter and living
right beside the sea she would like to make use of it. However its a
shingle beach at the top and sand at the bottom and the scooter just
stalls on the shingle bit. I was thinking of laying some sort of
matting down to go over the shingle, say two lengths which I could
keep repositioning etc. Any ideas about what could be used?
I have tried a more powerful scooter with big wheels with the same
result, I even thought about electric quad bike but perhaps not very
practicable and difficult to get except in child versions so any other
ideas appreciated.


Sounds like a job for DIY catterpillar tracks to me :-)

Phil

On 6 Aug, 11:08, "TheScullster" wrote:
wrote

Just looking for ideas. My wife uses a disabled scooter and living
right beside the sea she would like to make use of it. However its a
shingle beach at the top and sand at the bottom and the scooter just
stalls on the shingle bit. I was thinking of laying some sort of
matting down to go over the shingle, say two lengths which I could
keep repositioning etc. Any ideas about what could be used?
I have tried a more powerful scooter with big wheels with the same
result, I even thought about electric quad bike but perhaps not very
practicable and difficult to get except in child versions so any other
ideas appreciated.

Sounds like a job for DIY catterpillar tracks to me :-)

Phil

Had crossed my mind too, where would you get the tracks from, and how
would you keep them on?

wrote:
Just looking for ideas. My wife uses a disabled scooter and living
right beside the sea she would like to make use of it. However its a
shingle beach at the top and sand at the bottom and the scooter just
stalls on the shingle bit. I was thinking of laying some sort of
matting down to go over the shingle, say two lengths which I could
keep repositioning etc. Any ideas about what could be used?
I have tried a more powerful scooter with big wheels with the same
result, I even thought about electric quad bike but perhaps not very
practicable and difficult to get except in child versions so any other
ideas appreciated.

If you Google for all terrain wheelchair you get quite a few hits, if you
then add "hire" to the search you could possibly find somewhere near you
that could hire one from?
http://www.caravanable.co.uk/landeez...wheelchair.htm

Either that or join your local Freecycle groups and ask if anyone has one
you could borrow? There are some very helpful people on Freecycle; there
might be some close to you who have found a solution to your problem
already. www.freecycle.org

Si

wrote:

Had crossed my mind too, where would you get the tracks from,

Rubber tracks often offered on eBay for use on micro and mini diggers.
About £25 each.

and how would you keep them on?

That would be an ecumenical question.


You could try one of these for her:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yanmar-C10R-1-...QitemZ14014206
7944QQihZ004QQcategoryZ112394QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrd Z1QQcmdZViewItem

http://tinyurl.com/38gnpr

And it would come in handy for making castles and for taking a few
pebbles home at the end of the day.

wrote:
On 6 Aug, 11:08, "TheScullster" wrote:
wrote

Just looking for ideas. My wife uses a disabled scooter and living
right beside the sea she would like to make use of it. However its a
shingle beach at the top and sand at the bottom and the scooter just
stalls on the shingle bit. I was thinking of laying some sort of
matting down to go over the shingle, say two lengths which I could
keep repositioning etc. Any ideas about what could be used?
I have tried a more powerful scooter with big wheels with the same
result, I even thought about electric quad bike but perhaps not very
practicable and difficult to get except in child versions so any other
ideas appreciated.
Sounds like a job for DIY catterpillar tracks to me :-)

Phil

Had crossed my mind too, where would you get the tracks from, and how
would you keep them on?

I've seen some pretty big model tanks running on tracks..

Alternatively you could try some very large timimg belts etc. etc.

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:00:16 -0700 someone who may be
wrote this:-

Just looking for ideas. My wife uses a disabled scooter and living
right beside the sea she would like to make use of it. However its a
shingle beach at the top and sand at the bottom and the scooter just
stalls on the shingle bit. I was thinking of laying some sort of
matting down to go over the shingle, say two lengths which I could
keep repositioning etc. Any ideas about what could be used?

Old carpet. A long enough length may be carryable, depending on the
amount of shingle. It only needs to be a bit wider then the track of
the scooter.



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