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http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4574298.htmlWATERVILLE -- You'd think that a man who has had three strokes, chronic pain in his hands and been advised to take it easy would sit back indoors and watch the snow pile up during a winter storm. Not Keith Inman.
Instead of relaxing in a recliner, when the snow begins to fall, Inman, 58, heads outdoors and fires up his 1998 Honda Civic. Then the work and fun begins. Mounted in the front of the small sedan is a homemade snowplow he uses to clear the large parking lot behind the apartment building where he and his wife, Irene, live on Summer Street. It is a labor of love and Yankee ingenuity.
Inman paid a man $30 for an old scrap snowblower body and attached a pair of $13 wheels he bought at Mardens. He then screwed aluminum to the inside of the contraption so snow would not stick to the 49- inch plow. Using a garden tractor frame, Inman then bolted the rig to the front of his car. Inman said it is easy to remove the plow and reinstall it when it snows. "Two bolts hold it on -- that's it," he said.
The front-wheel-drive car pushes the snow well because the plow wheels take most of the weight, he explained.
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