One-Handed Fish Cleaner
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Following a farm accident in 1981 that cost him his right arm, George Reesor found there were very few tasks that he couldn't do with one hand. Cleaning fish seemed to be one of them. After giving the matter a lot of thought, he came up with a one-handed fish cleaner.
It's simply a 3-legged wooden bench with a piece of plywood for a work surface. An 18-in. length of 1 by 1 1/2-in. light metal tubing fastens to the end of the bench with a hinge, and a small plywood pad is bolted to one end of the tubing above the work surface. Two nails, spaced about 3/8 in. apart, protrude 1/4 in. through the plywood pad. A foot-operated lever, attached to the single leg directly below the hinge, is used to apply downward pressure on the pad to hold the fish in place. A piece of scrap wood at the other end of the tubing acts as a counterweight to hold the pad in the raised position.
"With this device, I'm now able to keep making use of the free protein that's swimming around in our farm pond," says Reesor.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, George Reesor, 11893 McCowan Rd., Rt. 4, Stouffville, Ontario, Canada L4A 7X5).
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One-Handed Fish Cleaner FARM HOME Miscellaneous 27-3-31 Following a farm accident in 1981 that cost him his right arm, George Reesor found there were very few tasks that he couldn't do with one hand. Cleaning fish seemed to be one of them. After giving the matter a lot of thought, he came up with a one-handed fish cleaner.
It's simply a 3-legged wooden bench with a piece of plywood for a work surface. An 18-in. length of 1 by 1 1/2-in. light metal tubing fastens to the end of the bench with a hinge, and a small plywood pad is bolted to one end of the tubing above the work surface. Two nails, spaced about 3/8 in. apart, protrude 1/4 in. through the plywood pad. A foot-operated lever, attached to the single leg directly below the hinge, is used to apply downward pressure on the pad to hold the fish in place. A piece of scrap wood at the other end of the tubing acts as a counterweight to hold the pad in the raised position.
"With this device, I'm now able to keep making use of the free protein that's swimming around in our farm pond," says Reesor.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, George Reesor, 11893 McCowan Rd., Rt. 4, Stouffville, Ontario, Canada L4A 7X5).
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