Yes Dale, Running over something living was a major worry for me and that is why I always had someone sighted keep an eye on what was going on. The deep snow makes going really tough for small things and the noise a snow blower makes could easily drown out any cry for help, especially when the snow tends to muffle sounds anyway. I recall my 3 year old grandson's first experience with anything near deep snow. It snowed about 2 feet one evening and my grandson would not listen to the warnings that deep snow makes it really hard for short folks to go through. He ran off our deck, got about 10 feet and just disappeared. We were watching and I went out to fetch him because he was hopelessly bogged down and could not really go anywhere... The other real worry is the discharge from the blower. Man, that stuff can cut just like a sharp knife so you really need to know where it is being thrown. Cy, the Ancient okie...
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 1:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] How to Operate a Snow Blower Doesn't anyone worry about stray animals or children when running snow blowers? Although it is not the issue here it once was now that kids tend not to play out of doors and now that this neighbourhood is growing a little older I wouldn't rely on no grand children visiting. You just can't predict reliably what a little kid might do and even if they know you are blind it doesn't really have the same meaning for them. There are at least two cats which worry some of the birds around here I be happy enough to be gone but not that way.I am pretty sure my neighbor's dog would come running to frisk with me in an instant if he got free and that would break my heart to shred her. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fowle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] How to Operate a Snow Blower > robert, > Lots of time and research effort have been spent over the years > on methods of navigating like following a straight line etc. in > small ish spaces. > > Not much usefull has come of it. > > Audible beacons might work but you probably wouldn't hear them > over the blower unless you ran them at rock concert levels and > your neighbors would justifiably object. > > Radio frequency direction finding just isn't that accurate. > > You could put up "talking signs' transmitters at the corners of > the area to be covered and wear one of their glasses mounted > receivers, then follow the infrared beams to get the edges, but > this again won't work to cover an entire area. > > some kind of computer with camera on your shoulder might do the > trick, but it'd have to be build to nasa standards to stand the > cold. > > sorry, these kinds of ideas aren't new, it is sometimes just hard > to do what eyes do so easilly. > > tom > > > Net-Tamer V 1.13 Beta - Registered > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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