The Rural Voice, 1999-08, Page 13Scrap Book
'Body Guard'
designed to save
lives on farms
Working with a man injured in
a farm accident got Saskatchewan
inventor Tracy Gardener thinking
about ways to make farming safer.
"I wanted to do something that
might prevent farm amputations
and injuries from happening to
other folks," Gardener said.
The result is the Body Guard, a
remote control device that allows
farmers to shut down their equip-
ment even when they're not on it.
Working on the same principle
as the remote car starter, the Body
Guard is a tiny radio remote
control mounted on a key fob.
With the press of a button a
farmer can turn off an engine up
to 75 metres away.
Gardener notes two people die
every week in Canadian farm
accidents, with children and
seniors making up 23 per cent of
the total.
"With this you can be halfway
across the yard and see your
toddler head for the hopper on the
grain auger and you can shut the
auger off long before you could
ever get there," he says.
The Body Guard installs in line
in machines with electrical
shutoffs and with the addition of a
solenoid on mechanically operated
systems. Multiple transmitters and
receivers are available for a
variety of applications including
stationary equipment like mills
and grain driers.
"We can make this work on
any machine with a 12 -volt
electrical system. Mechanical,
electrical, gas, diesel, fuel -injected
or carburated, it doesn't matter.
We can stop it," says Blaine Lynn,
Gardener's partner in Excel
Innovations in Martensville, Sask-
atchewan which created and sells
the Body Guard. They
demonstrate it recently at a farm
show in Regina. 0
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