HOMEMADE BEACH WHEELCHAIR - Wheelie Good Tips Ep.48

Hey everyone! With summer just around the corner you might be considering heading to the beach. Paraplegic Susan Ramage shows us how she accesses the water with a homemade beach wheelchair. What adaptions do you use to access the water?
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[@edevans5991]

I'm currently working on something similar, putting wider casters and fatter main wheel on an old wheel chair we have. It would be nice if everyone would decide on the same axle diameter so it was easier to mix and match from bikes to wheelchairs to lawn mower wheels. The beach chairs we have rented have the opposite problem, the seat is quite high so it isn't necessarily easy to get my mom up there. If I can add a random note, we are able to get my mom out at sea in an inflatable kayak the side floats make it very stable so the fact she has quite a bad sense of balance isn't an issue. Only wait for a calm enough day that the surf isn't an issue. Just another thought about enjoying the outdoors.

[@tessahenley4598]

Details please!?????

[@mohsenabdelrehiem4249]

Thanks from Egypt ❤ Mohsen

[@straydoggio]

Wonderful. Well done Frank and Susan.

[@annettefilpi1509]

You are so inspiring! My adult son has cerebral palsy and we have such difficulty getting down the sand and to the water. We occasionally get lucky and find a rental beach wheelchair but they are few and far between. This is awesome! May I ask you where you purchased those wheels? We live in the US but hopefully I can locate some that are similar. Blessings ! Just keep swimming! ❤️

[@frankramage3069]

Hi Annette, I got the wheels from a bike shop that sold fat wheeled bikes. Replaced the steel bearings with nylon/synthetic bushes and used stainless steel bolts for axles

[@hoanipakau657]

So glad to have come across this video. Inspirational..

[@mymilkyway]

Love! Unlimited!

[@teamcq9204]

Great video. Frank, you’re the man.

[@cliffjohnson1622]

Where can I find those wheels?

[@BarbaryStudio]

Good question

[@chadwick6818]

I have been thinking about something like this for a customer of mine with Spina bifida. Thank you

[@mysongs740]

I'm in that serious dark place now. My girls are taking me to the beach in June. Hopefully I can get out of it then.

[@GordonlovesGod]

Do you have WhatsApp?

[@danakelley6652]

Can you post what you used this would change my life

[@NewZealandSpinalTrust]

Not entirely sure what the question is but here's some details from Susan and Frank who built the device. Hi, this chair certainly changed Susan's life. With the help of a support worker I take her into the surf, support worker takes the chair out. Then I "launch" Susan with the waves so that she can body surf in, just like the old days before her accident. I was inspired to build this after Susan tried a balloon tyred beach chair. I bought a new, cheap alluminium framed wheelchair (Chineese), along with 4in x 20in wide bicycle wheels and tyres. Removed the steel bearings from wheels and replaced them with nylon/syntheic bushes I had made. Axles are stainless steel bolts. Took the castors off and replaced with 1in alluminium tube with buggy wheels from buggy used to tow kayaks across sand. Pivot the arm rests so transfers to the chair can be made. I'm not an engineer, a firefighter. I think most people with basic skills could build this, a great winter project. Get "a round tuit" and as Nike famously said, "Just do it" Frank Tauranga New Zealand (Aotearoa)

[@mhalsbrook]

hope you market this

[@morgancalvi6675]

I hope they market this as well. I broke my neck when I was 22 (I am 59 now)...but it was an incomplete injury. I ended up sooooo cocky because I got so much back, when a bone infection got into my spine and it reaggravated the injury (more than likely permanent this time), I was in a seriously dark place for a LONG time. Going to the beach has been a part of my life since I was a baby. I need something like this for my mental health.

[@paulbond1518]

Really good conversion,would be so good if you could list the items you used,many thanks

[@cferguson2453]

Where can we get/buy your plans for your great Homemade Beach chair - it's is so much more portable and functional than the weird balloon wheeled contraptions!!

[@brettladbrook7120]

Hi. Were are you based in the world? This is based in NZ. I would contact a wheelchair supply company as they will have the hubs and be able to build a wheel with a wider rim. Alternatively get an old chair and get the wheels respoked with wider rims from a bicycle shop. The front wheel system is custom made. Any engineer good could fabricate this by looking at the video. Looks a very simple effective way of doing this

[@frankramage3069]

Hi, this chair certainly changed Susan's life. With the help of a support worker I take her into the surf, support worker takes the chair out. Then I "launch" Susan with the waves so that she can body surf in, just like the old days before her accident. I was inspired to build this after Susan tried a balloon tyred beach chair. I bought a new, cheap alluminium framed wheelchair (Chineese), along with 4in x 20in wide bicycle wheels and tyres. Removed the steel bearings from wheels and replaced them with nylon/syntheic bushes I had made. Axles are stainless steel bolts. Took the castors off and replaced with 1in alluminium tube with buggy wheels from buggy used to tow kayaks across sand. Pivot the arm rests so transfers to the chair can be made. I'm not an engineer, a firefighter. I think most people with basic skills could build this, a great winter project. Get "a round tuit" and as Nike famously said, "Just do it" Frank Tauranga New Zealand (Aotearoa)