[TheForge] on death and dying.OT

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Damn I hate it when I do that.... here is the link.

<http://www.tlb.org/scooter.html>

Charles


xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:

> I have hung in a harness trimming trees before and it gets painful 
> relatively quickly.   That is why real tree saddles have a wooden seat 
> you sit on.     Regarding the balancing act, here is a good site on a 
> homebuilt Segway with caveats.
> Charles
>
> Grover Richardson wrote:
>
>> If it was easy, or cheap, someone would already have on one the 
>> market<G>.
>> Anything ADA related is hideously expensive.  The govt funds bunches 
>> of it,
>> there are the liability aspects, and of course, each and every unit 
>> must be
>> tailored to the specific specifications of the individual, so each 
>> one is a
>> custom fit.
>>
>> In order for it to be unconditionally stable, it should have either a 
>> large
>> footprint, or 3 legs<G>.  Look at the walking robots they have today. 
>> As far as standing in a rig without leg support, have you ever hung in a
>> parachute??  If you have no muscular support, this is similar to 
>> hanging in
>> a parachute, very constrictive to blood flow I would suspect (Hey 
>> jarheads
>> out there, am I wrong???, tar heel here<G>).  And seriously
>> uncomfortable<G>.
>>
>> Still, brainstorming is good.  It's much simpler to figure out how 
>> things
>> will go wrong, than to try them and have to cut them up into scrap<G>.
>>
>> Woof
>>
>>  
>>
>
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