Lenny! On the front of the Dingo, mount a couple of transducers similar to
those used in the Kay Sonic Aid, or even simpler, a Laser cane and have the
information fed back to you!
Jewel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Franklin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wilst we are talkking about building a house
>
> Dale, my Son in-law has one of those walk behind Dingo Loaders that he
> uses in his stamped concrete business. The only close contact that I have
> had with this machine was when I helped him change a blown tire on it a
> couple of weeks ago. In addition to the loader bucket this machine came
> with 2 different sized post whole augers, a trenching attachment and a
> grader blade. He purchased it used, and I think that he paid about $5,000
> for this particular machine. He uses the bucket to dig out for concrete
> sidewalks and patios, and the post whole auger to dig wholes for concrete
> columns to support wooden decks. I am confident that I could operate this
> machine as a totally blind person however the main drawback is that I
> would probably be stopping and walking around to find out what was in
> front of me pretty regularly.
>
>
>
> Paul Franklin
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dale Leavens
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wilst we are talkking about building a house
>
>
> I think I would like to have and operate one of those little Dingo
> style loaders, a walk-behind machine. One would need to take very good
> care not to have it tip into the digging works or otherwise drop a track
> or wheel over the edge of something too high to retain it's balance but
> under the right circumstances it could work rather well.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Franklin
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wilst we are talkking about building a house
>
> I was born with R P, so for most of my early life I was partially sighted
> during the day and essentially blind at night or in low light situations.
> While growing up in the hills of rural Connecticut, I learned to operate
> all types of excavating equipment, and for about 10 years I ran my own
> part time excavating business. I had several backhoes and front end
> loaders, a couple of good sized dozers and a truck and trailer to haul it
> all around. For the most part I depended on equipment operators to do most
> of the jobs and drive the truck. Occasionally if we were busy, and we had
> a simple job like digging a ditch or clearing a building lot, I might
> tackle it myself. I really enjoyed using the equipment especially the
> dozers, but I actually spent most of my time estimating jobs or trying to
> keep the equipment running. Eventually my sight deteriorated to the point
> that the excavating business no longer work for me, and I guess that maybe
> my intellectual age finally began to catch up with my chronological age so
> I decided that it was time to get a real job.
>
> As a totally blind person the only type of equipment that I think that I
> might still be able to operate with any degree of success would be a
> backhoe. If someone located the unit where the whole needed to be dug,
> using the sound of the engine, the sound of the bucket scraping through
> the soil, feeling the changes of balance of the machine and relying on
> many hours of experience working the controls of a backhoe, I think I
> could still dig a pretty good ditch.
>
> Paul Franklin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Rossi
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wilst we are talkking about building a house
>
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, carl wrote:
>
> > has anyone had a go of an earth mover or a back ho?
> >
> Not yet. My father-in-law has a couple of pieces of equipment like that,
> but I've not yet convinced him to let me take one out for a spin.
>
> --
> Blue skies.
> Dan Rossi
> Carnegie Mellon University.
> E-Mail: [email protected]
> Tel: (412) 268-9081
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