Where is Gooserider?

Big Radio said:

Gooserider,I just read about the fight you're in just today,sad news to be sure,never like to hear about a fellow wood cutter being injured.I read earlier in the thread you wanted the garden,well I'd be willing to go over and do the tilling for you.My machine is large so there might be a little collateral damage but man does it till good.If you want I can bring the grapple over and push any brush back into the woods or whatever.Let me know.

Brian

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Really cool to see folks really stepping up for Goose.....Brian has 12 or so posts here, and is willing to get Arthurs and Mary Anns gerden up and going....I love this site....just plain good/nice folks who love to help

daveswoodhauler said:

Big Radio said:

Gooserider,I just read about the fight you're in just today,sad news to be sure,never like to hear about a fellow wood cutter being injured.I read earlier in the thread you wanted the garden,well I'd be willing to go over and do the tilling for you.My machine is large so there might be a little collateral damage but man does it till good.If you want I can bring the grapple over and push any brush back into the woods or whatever.Let me know.

Brian

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Really cool to see folks really stepping up for Goose.....Brian has 12 or so posts here, and is willing to get Arthurs and Mary Anns gerden up and going....I love this site....just plain good/nice folks who love to help

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Either that or he just wanted to show off that fancy tractor.

Flatbedford said:

daveswoodhauler said:

Big Radio said:

Gooserider,I just read about the fight you're in just today,sad news to be sure,never like to hear about a fellow wood cutter being injured.I read earlier in the thread you wanted the garden,well I'd be willing to go over and do the tilling for you.My machine is large so there might be a little collateral damage but man does it till good.If you want I can bring the grapple over and push any brush back into the woods or whatever.Let me know.

Brian

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Really cool to see folks really stepping up for Goose.....Brian has 12 or so posts here, and is willing to get Arthurs and Mary Anns gerden up and going....I love this site....just plain good/nice folks who love to help

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Either that or he just wanted to show off that fancy tractor.

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Thats is one cool tractor.....a nice truck as well.....its one I am looking to get in a few years...want a 250 quad cab, but I think I am going to have to settle for the 150 as the Mrs's will be driving ;-)

daveswoodhauler said:

Flatbedford said:

daveswoodhauler said:

Big Radio said:

Gooserider,I just read about the fight you're in just today,sad news to be sure,never like to hear about a fellow wood cutter being injured.I read earlier in the thread you wanted the garden,well I'd be willing to go over and do the tilling for you.My machine is large so there might be a little collateral damage but man does it till good.If you want I can bring the grapple over and push any brush back into the woods or whatever.Let me know.

Brian

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Really cool to see folks really stepping up for Goose.....Brian has 12 or so posts here, and is willing to get Arthurs and Mary Anns gerden up and going....I love this site....just plain good/nice folks who love to help

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Either that or he just wanted to show off that fancy tractor.

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Thats is one cool tractor.....a nice truck as well.....its one I am looking to get in a few years...want a 250 quad cab, but I think I am going to have to settle for the 150 as the Mrs's will be driving ;-)

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You have the same Yellow Yard Wagon I have what more could you need? It has to be the handiest wagon I've ever had...

Ray

raybonz said:

daveswoodhauler said:

Flatbedford said:

daveswoodhauler said:

Big Radio said:

Gooserider,I just read about the fight you're in just today,sad news to be sure,never like to hear about a fellow wood cutter being injured.I read earlier in the thread you wanted the garden,well I'd be willing to go over and do the tilling for you.My machine is large so there might be a little collateral damage but man does it till good.If you want I can bring the grapple over and push any brush back into the woods or whatever.Let me know.

Brian

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Really cool to see folks really stepping up for Goose.....Brian has 12 or so posts here, and is willing to get Arthurs and Mary Anns gerden up and going....I love this site....just plain good/nice folks who love to help

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Either that or he just wanted to show off that fancy tractor.

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Thats is one cool tractor.....a nice truck as well.....its one I am looking to get in a few years...want a 250 quad cab, but I think I am going to have to settle for the 150 as the Mrs's will be driving ;-)

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You have the same Yellow Yard Wagon I have what more could you need? It has to be the handiest wagon I've ever had...

Ray

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Hijacking the thread again...sorry!

When I got the garden cart from my wife, after putting it together I was not too happy with the little plastic piece that the handle went into and clipped to the cart...so I was thinking that this was the first piece that would ever break, so before I even put the thing togeher I called the mfg, and told them the plastic part was missing so I would have a spare as I was usre it was going to fail.
So, after 2 years of some pretty good abuse, the plastic part is still in tact, but I have lost about 3 of the little freakin cotter pins that hold the sides up ...a very good wagon all in all.....You shoud have seen the size of the brush pile I had on top of it once....I love that little dam cart....just brought my trash out with it!

Gooserider, good to see you're back on line...Godspeed with your complete recovery.

Well I'm doing a bit better now, and am able to get on for a bit. They put in a "PIC" line this morning which should make the anti-biotics that I'm getting for the UTI easier to deal with... A PIC line is sort of a semi-permanent IV setup where they go down into one of the big veins in your arm and put a catheter in that goes up the vein and down to your chest to dump almost directly into the heart. Fairly major procedure to install, with use of lots of surgical draping, local anesthetics, and high tech ultrasound equipment to make sure the tube is going where they want it... Advantages are that it allows easier administration of IV drugs, and can be kept in as long as it's needed (up to several months!) while a standard IV line is only good for a couple days.

Dinner just arrived, will post more in a bit...

Gooserider

Gooserider - I just saw this thread. Wish you all the best and a speedy recovery! Will keep you in our prayers. Enjoy dinner!

Damm, hospital wireless just ate another message! >:-(

Shorter version - I do plan to keep burning if at all possible, but it will require solving a number of issues ranging from processing the wood to getting it into the stove...

I'm running Kubuntu on the new machine, because it seemed like most compatible with the hospital wireless limitations (I don't want to try downloading lots of stuff over it) and was supposed to be easiest to set up. It is a Linux distro that uses KDE as it's windowing environment, as opposed to the Gnome that Ubuntu uses... '

I will probably be giving the garden a miss this year, I probably won't be getting out until after planting season is over, and I am going to have to figure out how to change my setup to make it wheelchair compatible... Much as I appreciate the offer of getting tilled by that cool tractor, I'm currently doing raised beds which aren't going to work with a tiller. Presumably I will need to start by moving the beds so that they will be wide enough to get between them with the wheelchair, and possibly clearing more land or moving the garden entirely, but I don't think it is something I can rush into... I will also need to look at getting an outdoors compatible chair. They make some cool ones, particularly the "Renegade" but that chair is not suitable for use as an indoor daily use chair, (even according to the inventor, who I met a few days ago) for several reasons... OTOH an indoor chair has a really tough time on anything other than smooth hard (paved) surfaces... Seems like it makes more sense to skip the garden this season and work on solving all the other issues...

Gooserider

I agree with BB. One step at a time and things will get done. It may not be as fast as you'd like, but you will handle it. I think you are one tough guy Goose. Hang in there.

That Renegade does look neat!

BrotherBart said:

I think gas heat and the produce section of the supermarket make a lot of sense this year Goose. Enough rugged individualism will be needed doing things like getting in and out of the bed and the can. Take it a piece at a time my man. I know of what I speak. The little brown haired girl is somewhat ambulatory but it takes a half hour to get out of the bathtub. I just installed a stair lift and and for the first time in years it doesn't take an hour to get back upstairs. Before she couldn't handle going down and up except to go to a doctor's appointment every few months.

Ya gotta takes pieces of it and tackle them one at a time.

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+1 Bart very good advice as usual..

Ray

Hey Goose,
The Renegade looks and sounds like one heck of a product.

LOL on showing off the tractor,good one ,I'm still grinning on that one.OK Goose No garden this year.I have one more Idea I'll post in the other thread.
Brian

VCBurner said:

Hey Goose,
The Renegade looks and sounds like one heck of a product.

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It is just as impressive "live"... Very shortly after I got here, the guy that makes them showed up with a couple of demo units. I got a chance to give one a very limited try in the corridors and around the gym. It was an interesting machine, and I can see a lot of use for it as a part time use chair for outside and other difficult enviornments. However it is not at all suitable for a "Daily driver" inside use chair, for many of the same reasons that make it so good outdoors (and this was the opinion of the inventor as well, not just my thinking...)

It is ruggedly built, which translates to HEAVY, and weight is something that on always wants to avoid in a chair if possible - your arms and shoulders have to do what your legs used to, and they really aren't up to the strains involved, and every ounce makes it worse.

The chair is bigger than normal - longer wheel base, increased wheel camber, etc. The bigger the chair, the bigger the turning radius and the harder it is to manuever in...

The knobby tires and transmission allow it to be geared down to go over obstacles, but increase the rolling resistance on smooth surfaces....

So it pretty much has to be a second chair, and as such the ins. co. isn't going to pay for it - and it isn't cheap, even as chairs go. According to one catalog I've been looking at, typical good to upper quality chairs run $1,500-3,000 or more, and the Renegade is at the upper end of that range... (Thanks largely to gov't regulations on "medical devices", and gov't / insurance co. payment policies that have the effect of setting a "price floor" on them) BTW that price is for "manual" chairs - power chairs start around $10K and go up a lot from there.... This is one reason why I'm sure they have me in a manual chair and haven't even talked power chairs at all, but they have no hesitation to put people that need them under power...

So the Renegade is fairly far down on the shopping list, not to mention that I'm wanting to learn a lot more about what other options might be available out there....

Gooserider

I knew I'd heard of that chair before, the local news has had a few stories about it.

It's discontinued, but this is the ultimate chair......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK5uAeEV7tI

Webmaster said:

It's discontinued, but this is the ultimate chair......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK5uAeEV7tI

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Isn't that the chair that was developed by Dean Kamen?

Yes, that is the one. I saw another video of something having a boxing match in a ring while sitting in it!

26 grand though - and not available. This chair (the balancing technology) was the basis for the Segway.

Too bad it is discontinued. I don't think anything else is even close......I can only imagine goose wielding a chain saw in one - would make an impressive video!

I actually saw that chair being tested at one point in it's life cycle several years back - I was working for another company and was "baby sitting" one of our systems while it was being put through "compliance testing" for UL and other such safety standards. They were testing that chair in one of the test stations, and it was quite impressive watching them put it th through it's paces... Of course I couldn't talk about it at the time - part of the rules of the place was that everyone had to promise not to talk about what they saw (and we really weren't even supposed to look) happening in any of the other test areas....

However my understanding is that even though the chair has LOTS of demand, it was discontinued because the way the gov't regulations are written it is apparently not possible to make the chair comply with all of them.... So Big Brother says that the wishes of those who want to purchase one voluntarily (and can afford to pay for one) are not allowed to count...

Gooserider

Gooserider said:

I actually saw that chair being tested at one point in it's life cycle several years back - I was working for another company and was "baby sitting" one of our systems while it was being put through "compliance testing" for UL and other such safety standards. They were testing that chair in one of the test stations, and it was quite impressive watching them put it th through it's paces... Of course I couldn't talk about it at the time - part of the rules of the place was that everyone had to promise not to talk about what they saw (and we really weren't even supposed to look) happening in any of the other test areas....

However my understanding is that even though the chair has LOTS of demand, it was discontinued because the way the gov't regulations are written it is apparently not possible to make the chair comply with all of them.... So Big Brother says that the wishes of those who want to purchase one voluntarily (and can afford to pay for one) are not allowed to count...

Gooserider

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Just found this one on Craigslist.. http://southcoast.craigslist.org/for/1695362365.html I don't know a thing about wheelchairs.. Hope you're doing well..

Ray

raybonz said:

Gooserider said:

I actually saw that chair being tested at one point in it's life cycle several years back - I was working for another company and was "baby sitting" one of our systems while it was being put through "compliance testing" for UL and other such safety standards. They were testing that chair in one of the test stations, and it was quite impressive watching them put it th through it's paces... Of course I couldn't talk about it at the time - part of the rules of the place was that everyone had to promise not to talk about what they saw (and we really weren't even supposed to look) happening in any of the other test areas....

However my understanding is that even though the chair has LOTS of demand, it was discontinued because the way the gov't regulations are written it is apparently not possible to make the chair comply with all of them.... So Big Brother says that the wishes of those who want to purchase one voluntarily (and can afford to pay for one) are not allowed to count...

Gooserider

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Just found this one on Craigslist.. http://southcoast.craigslist.org/for/1695362365.html I don't know a thing about wheelchairs.. Hope you're doing well..

Ray

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Pretty certain that isn't one of the Dean Kamen chairs - looks like a pretty standard rear wheel drive unit without any of the fancier bells and whistles, which agrees with the price tag (there are manual chairs that are MUCH more expensive) I'm at the manual chair level of things, so I don't know a lot about the electrics other than what I've picked up from a lot of the other folks on our floor that are in electrics of dfferent sorts.... The general rule is that unless you are unable to use a manual chair, it is best to stay away from the electrics... Looking at the chair in that advert, I'd almost be tempted to think it was intended more as a "Transport chair" for a patient that might not even be in good enough shape to be independent in an electric. Definitely a very basic configuration at any rate.

Gooserider