] "All I know is it seems like a good idea to get a ] sedentary animal moving," said Sid Cannon, the vice ] president of Boise, Idaho-based Conveyor Engineering, a ] company that designs heavy-duty conveyor systems used in ] mining and has offered to build Maggie's treadmill. ] ] "I figured that we put rocks on our conveyors that are as ] big as an elephant, and a treadmill is basically a ] conveyor, so building one would be no big deal." ] ] It has turned out not to be that easy. Big wheels keep on turning... |