Wheel Chair Repurposed into Bike Trailer

Reader John, who blogs at Hackin5hit, and also submitted bike haiku, sent along details on an awesome trailer hack. 

John introduces the project on his Hackin5hit blog this way:

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It started as two pieces of 1/2"emt (electrical conduit, $1.80ea @ Lowe's), an old wheelchair discovered in a pile of junk behind someone's house (I paid them $20, probably could have been free), a piece of uni-strut from a garbage can outside WSECU in downtown Olympia, an air-hose coupling from Harbor Freight (already had this but not more than $2 new) and the bin was ~$12 on sale @ one of the big Lowe's-Depot stores. There is a little bit of aluminum angle stock from my scrap bin and a bit of scrap hose for the flexible bit of the hitch.

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Here is a picture of his hitch (more details in video below):

And the full meal deal, as shown in the Haiku entry is here:

John went on to describe what he did via video, the full blog entry can be found here:

Thanks John!  Sorry it took me a while to get this posted, but better late than never =)

John has a hanging work stand that will be featured in a future post so stay tuned!

Comments

[John]

I'm glad people will get to see this. It has been reading features like this that prompted me to build my trailer. Nobody reads my blog yet (probably too broad spectrum, but it is mostly written for me to write than to be read), so thank you for getting this out there.

I have also added pipe-clamped flashlights to every bike in the stable (super-cheap and super-easy). Thanks to Ed for sending that one in.

[Driving school Pershore]

This is a very creative way of reusing things. I love to see things that can be use again but in other purpose. A big hand for that.

[wheelchairs]

I really appreciated your post, this would really provide the great information .Thanks for sharing.
wheelchairs

[Power wheelchairs]

woo nice hack bro.

[Lightweight Wheelchairs]

Wow Impressive!
Your blog is very informative. However, it is pretty hard task but your post and experience serve and teach me how to handle and make it more simple and manageable. Thanks for sharing this Wheel Chair Repurposed into Bike Trailer blog.