Hi Mike,
I am not seeing why - the tracks on the wheelchairs aren't like the metal plates on real tanks - so they wouldn't tear up your carpet, floor, or tile. I wonder how well they do corners tho - lots of houses don't have a lot of manuvering space. I would guess they would cost a pretty penny - I hate the way supplies for the sick and disabled are so vastly over priced. I guess they know they have a captive audience and they sock it to ya. I noticed the site Kendall sent had pictures but no prices..... A wheelchair shouldn't cost as much as small car.
Trisha
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From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of Michael H. Collis
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:36 PM
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Subject: Re: Beach SNIPPIT
they have "tanked chairs," Trisha. The Problem is, we can't obtain them, because of Medicare's policy of "in home use only." Any extreme chair has to be private;y funded.
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>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:53:15 -0400
>From: Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Beach SNIPPIT
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Oh Meir,
>
> I cracked up visualizing a tank track on a wheelchair - I couldn't figure out whether to put them on the sides or have someone perched on top. The ulitmate bully stopper - just flatten them. The picture of the track wheel at the site Ken sent was much tamer. Sigh.....
>
> Trisha
>
>
>
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>Of Meir Weiss
>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:04 PM
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>Subject: Re: Beach SNIPPIT
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> like a bycycle
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>TIRES of various treads? Or and Rubbers ?
>
>And I guess a tire rim like those
>
>Mobile utility dune buggies? To shovel through sand?
>
>Tanks can do it in afganistan!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>sheesh@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Trisha Cummings
>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 13:58
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Beach SNIPPIT
>
>Hi Meir,
>
> Actually I was wondering about that - this summer I was able to go to Rehoboth
>for some beach time - I was admiring the nice boardwalk and off ramps - but I
>was wondering exactly how a non-mobile person would make it down to the water.
>Sand is a bear to walk in and I don't see how a chair would be able the sand. Do
>they have sand friendly chairs? - I envisioned a kind of motorized sand sled.
>Rehoboth seems much more accessible than Asseateague Island which is National
>Park.
>
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