5/25/2023 0 Comments Home designer suite 2015 kickass![]() “I use the Ripchair to tend the zinfandel grapes on my small vineyard as well as tow a mower on my hilly property in San Miguel” near Paso Robles, Calif., he says. One of the vineyard customers is Mark McCue, 58, in his 25th year as a C6-8 quadriplegic. Opens in a new window The Ripchair “is better than anything” Mike McLaughlin can imagine for navigating his Nebraska property. He says he has a customer in Nebraska who uses a Ripchair to work his farm and two customers in California who use them to tend their vineyards. Howe says the Ripchair can also run an excavator and frontend loader. Many customers use it to tow lawn and field mowers others attach a snowplow blade. ![]() In addition to facilitating outdoor exploration, the machine is a workhorse equipped with front and back trailer hitches that can tow up to 1,000 pounds. It has a top speed of 17 mph (set to a max of 10 mph at the factory), can handle marsh, sand, snow and mud and it can go up, down and across slopes as steep as 60 percent (for safety and liability reasons the owner’s manual recommends avoiding slopes steeper than 20 percent). The engine runs approximately eight hours on a five-gallon tank of gas.Ī click through the videos on the company website shows that when it comes to adaptive off-road ability, the Ripchair 3.0 is in a league all its own. A four-stroke gasoline engine delivers 29 horsepower to the Ripchair’s 11-inch wide, aggressive rubber tracks that provide superior traction and a zero turn radius. Next, an overhead bar pulls down and locks the chair in place, becoming the front bumper. The company eliminated the transfer issue altogether - the user stays in their own wheelchair, manual or power, and backs it into the Ripchair’s unique ramp design, which lifts and locks in place, providing 10 inches of ground clearance. opens in a new window Mark McCue, a C6-8 quad, uses the Ripchair to navigate his hilly California property and tend his zinfandel grapes. Geoff Howe, CEO, explains that the Ripchair 3.0 was designed for wheelchair users with a focus on three goals - ease of transfer, ability to go anywhere and ruggedness. ![]() The Ripchair 3.0 is manufactured by Howe and Howe Technologies, a company that specializes in extreme vehicles for use in military, police and firefighting work. It is a serious adaptive off-road vehicle for wheelchair users with options that can do a wide variety of work tasks. Opens in a new window The Track Chair Ripchair 3.0 has generated a lot of media buzz, ranging from the Discovery Channel to Fox Sports, and for good reason.
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