Handicap People Mover

super99 · Sep 2, 2020

I belong to the Antique Engine and Tractor Assn in Geneseo, ILL. The club needs a handicap people mover. I have thought for a while that a hydraulic hog cart would be just he ticket, you could let it down to ground level to load and then raise it to haul them around. I was telling a neighbor about it and he said they had an old one that they didn't use anymore that needed some repair that he would donate to the club. I picked it up this am, one of the cylinder mounts was tore out and needed fixed. It was too bad to heat and bend back into shape, so I cut out the bad parts and found some scrap to make new pieces with. I got them cut and fit, ground the rust off around it and am ready to weld in the patch tomorrow and then start on the cylinder mount.

Janicholson · Sep 2, 2020

As good as it gets, well "almost" done. Jim

RCP · Sep 2, 2020

Good work, do you have any pictures that show the whole rig?

super99 · Sep 2, 2020

These are before I picked it up.

Original plan was to shorten the sides but now looks like leave them and add a tarp over the top for a sunshade. Still need to come up with a way to fasten the wheel chairs so they don’t move around when moving. I’m gonna add a plate to the back for a short ramp.

Goose · Sep 2, 2020

Somewhere, it would take some serious digging to find, I have a couple of pictures on a flash drive of one specifically made for that purpose.

My home town goes berserk on July 4th, with trolleys pulled by farm tractors shuttling people around town to various events, and between downtown and the park a half mile to a mile away. I'd thought about building one of these.

From what I recall from the pictures, the unit has one hydraulic axle that can be raised and lowered to ground level, with a ramp for wheelchair access. A square tubing frame lined with plywood. Possibly 8'x16'. Benches along the sides, fore and aft. Maybe a gate in front. If I can find the photos, I'll post them.

504 · Sep 2, 2020

Is the show on this year, or are you just getting the crops out?

47fivewindow · Sep 2, 2020

I shows me that you are a good person to think of others less fortunate. I am impressed by the effort.

super99 · Sep 2, 2020

The show will go on but in reduced capacity. The feature tractor is cancelled, no daily parade. Most displays that drew a crowd are cancelled. We have crops to harvest and wheat to thresh so that will be most all the demonstrations. If you want to bring a tractor to display it’s okay . There will be corn shelling and plowing.

J Hamilton · Sep 2, 2020

We have one very similar to that at Threshermans in Pinckneyville Illinois

showcrop · Sep 3, 2020

That is very good of you to do that. Could you post a pic of the wagon so that we can see what you are working on?

Rich'sToys · Sep 3, 2020

(quoted from post at 20:23:34 09/02/20)
Original plan was to shorten the sides but now looks like leave them and add a tarp over the top for a sunshade. Still need to come up with a way to fasten the wheel chairs so they don't move around when moving. I'm gonna add a plate to the back for a short ramp.

I was also going to suggest shortening the sides, but putting a tarp over it for a sunshade is a much better idea. Maybe take out a couple of the cross members so it doesn't look so much like a cage!

Most wheelchairs have a brake, so I wouldn't think that moving around would be a huge problem. You wouldn't be driving that fast.

Let us know how it turns out, and kudos to you for doing that!

Centerplate · Sep 3, 2020

Very good job Chris.

DoubleO7 · Sep 3, 2020

Interesting and commendable project.

Ask your local school bus garage guys where the nearest bus scrapyard is if there is one.
Or they might have a parts bus out back.

Find one that has the handicap platform or had one in it.
Inside the handicap bus will be a bag on the wall full of wheelchair anchoring straps, buckles, etc. And the e-track clip tracks in the floor that go with the stuff in the bag.

DFZ · Sep 3, 2020

We run a pumpkin patch with lots of hay ride wagons. We installed a wheelchair lift on one wagon. You can find them used (At least here in SW Washington) on craigslist for under $250 quite often.
We reinforced under the wooden deck with a plate of steel and brought steel gussets down to a plate on the main beam of the wagon. We didn't want all the weight of the lift and the torque of an extended lift on the wooden deck of the wagon.

Works great so far. Installed a battery at the front of the wagon and a wire to keep it charged from the tractor. We even installed D-rings on the deck of the wagon if anybody insisted on strapping down the wheelchair per DOT regulations. Luckily nobody has ever insisted that we strap them down, and the chair has never moved - especially if somebody is there to help hold on to it.

Frank 41 · Sep 4, 2020

I pulled a Donahue trailer that I & I has, at Rantoul with my 730 standard. The drawbar was low and the trailer had the area around it's hitch welded up and an enclosed banister. You could get a wheelchair on the front plus driving off the road with the tractor, lowered the step almost to the road. Lots of fun.

showcrop · Sep 5, 2020

This is great stuff! This is ingenuity at it's best and makes it possible to accomplish a very worthwhile task affordably. Hopefully the people in charge can have some backbone and stand up to those that will inevitably come along and say that there is too much liability of someone getting injured with this home-made equipment.

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