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[Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>]

Hi there, Gene--and Rob!
 
Gene, you bought a used golf cart for Chris?  Now you got me wondering if I 
should go borrow my mother's electric wheelchair and use that to drag my 
strawbales--she lives just up the street, and her electric rig is built like 
a tank.  But I'd have to drive her chair down the hill to our place and it 
might get up a pretty good head of steam before I could get it stopped.  If I 
could get it stopped...I don't recollect seeing a brake on it.  I'll have to 
think about this some more... the electric wheelchair should work as long as 
the ground isn't too wet and muddy.  I do have a regular wheelchair I keep on 
hand to get Mother from the van into the house.  I'm thinking now I could 
drag/tip half a bale if not the whole bale from the van onto the seat of the 
wheelchair, and then move the wheelchair to where I need the bale. I think 
I'd have an easier time using the wheelchair to transport stuff than our big 
old wheelbarrow, and I won't have to drag a tarp over the ground.  Though I'd 
better have the shop vac ready to clean out the van.
 
thanks for the idea!
 
-Rebecca in western Washington state
 
 
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