Small Lift Chair

My son's just turned four and keeps asking wistfully when he can take the chair-lift with me. We live in a small city with a natural mountain gorge and running river in the centre, it's a real beautiful spot and we go there at least once a week. Unique landscape. It has a chair-lift like I suppose you see at ski places, where you sit in the little chair and it is carried across the river on a steel cable. People are on it all the time. There are no restraints or belts, just narrow little wooden seats and it is quite high, I guess maybe twenty or thirty metres above the ground at its highest. At what age would you consider taking your child across? Thanks for your opinion.

Funny thing, you are afraid and he's not. If he says he's ready then take him. You do need to go over the rules (repeatedly) with him and make him understand that if he doesn't like it there is no turning back. Also safety stuff he should know. If he can remember and repeat everything back to you and still seems confident go for it! Either he will be fine or he won't bother asking for quite a while.

2007-08-14 04:11:39 by thunderboltsimone

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my mother 88 years old and frail is very small and the lift cushion that she use's to sit and stand from her chair at the dining room table is to big for her. It is made for a 300 lb person and I can't find a smaller one or a child size.

your local pharmacy should be able to help you. they would have names of manufacturers for the products they sell and one of them should be able to help you even if it means special ordering it.

2006-05-03 17:27:41 by alandw

Price: $179.99 $40.99

Home assembly required; 200-pound maximum weight capacity
Set of 2 contemporary stools from Winsome Wood; air lift design for seat height of 25 to 30 inches
Black side lever adjusts seat height up and down; swivel chair design

And no, I don't plan on strapping them to a lawn chair and going airborne.

Just curious.

approx. 8000,
The Mythbusters did a show on this one, here's info from that episode:

**per Episode 21 — "Ping-Pong Rescue" of Mythbusters:
"It would require such a large number of balloons (3500) to lift an average (44 lb.) 4 year old girl just a few feet off the ground"

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbu sters/mythbusters.html

2007-09-25 07:57:27 by opjames

Price: $33.30

Innovative Lift-Off hinge for easy cleaning
Fits round bowls
Durable, white multicoated enamel finish

A small plastic gear-wheel is missing two teeth.Manafactured by Jaeger,it pushes the ram on my Mums riser -chair.

Anyone know of a UK stocker please,a very longshot.

Thanks in advance

I've repaired one of these chair-lifts many years ago.
In fact, it was the same problem; broken teeth on a gear.
I can't even remember the brand name now but I do remember that the client had kept great records and had all the information on hand including the original purchase receipt.
I got on-line with the company and apparently, it was guaranteed for life, and it was a common problem with the product because they sent me a repair kit with all the instructions and materials needed free of charge!
I was happy and so was my client.
I hope this helps you.
Good luck.

2009-01-09 12:33:30 by gary b

So, I know this sounds crazy, but I was with a group of friends {we're all over 18] and we were messign around playing little kid sleepover games. Ya'know light as a feather, stiff as a board, sandman, there's a knife in your back, ones that are supposed to make scratches happen, ect.

Then a friend suggested one I had never heard of before. You need atleast 5 people. One person sits in a chair and the others stand around them. They each grab a limb then try to pick up the seated person. Usually it's hard. Then they all put one hand above the person's head clockwise and layer the other hand over the first and pull them all away in the reverse order. After you do that you lift them up the same way as before and they become unexpectedly light.
I know it sounds crazy, but it worked several times. We even lifted a really heavy guy with four small girls.
Is there a name associated with this "game"?
And does anyone know why in the world it works?!

I can appreciate serious answers. Thanks.

Wow, I've never heard of this one before so I can't tell you what the name is.

Here is my theory on how it might work. Everyone is surrounded by a magnetic field, an aura. By placing your hands on their head in clockwise order and then pulling them pulling them away, you are reversing the magnetic field that surrounds them. This would effect how their field is connected to the field that surrounds the earth.

Again this is my theory based on metaphysical practices.

2008-07-21 19:57:29 by StaceyM