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Could you build me a ___________? Custom Assistive Technology is an idea built to your specifications for individual workers! Have you dreamed of a product ‘If only I could have a …” ???
If a person has the ability to go out of their house freely, but they cannot enter the doors of our workshops, churches or offices, are they really “shut-in”?
Can’t get a job? Work to your potential and mow your own yard! Hand Control Levers allow workers with lower extremity impairments to control equipment foot pedals (such as brakes and clutch) by hand. Most brakes and clutches are controlled by foot pedals, preventing workers with lower extremity impairments to operate the equipment. Hand Control Levers are bolted onto foot pedals of lawnmowers.
This article will explore the use of powered door operators to make equipment or “garage” entrances to work places and outbuildings accessible to people with disabilities. There is no reason a person who can enter and exit their home with ease should be shut out of the workshop.
I love summer weather, but when there are multiple mornings with temperatures in the 40’s and frost alerts, I know fall is coming. I kick into high gear finishing all those projects can’t be done in ice and snow. If I prepare so diligently for the unavoidable cold weather that fall brings, can I take the warnings seriously about another fall that is preventable?
So it happened. I fell through a rotten floor board in my barn and twisted my ankle. When my daughter twisted her ankle awhile back, I told her “Use crutches and don’t put weight on it…it will heal twice as fast as if you over-use it.” So, believe it or not, I took my own […]
Many of us like to think we have an “old farm truck”. Here’s how you know you have a real farm truck – or you just like to think you do! Top ten signs you have a REAL old farm truck: 10. There’s more than 1 busted bale of hay or straw in the back. […]