Motorized Hard Hats

Motorized Hard Hats AG WORLD 31-3-22 When co-workers left an aluminum hard hat on John Lamb's tool box, they had no way of knowing it would get him started as a hard hat designer. Lamb, a machinist at Columbus Machine Works in Columbus, Ohio, took the hard hat home and jazzed it up to wear to a NASCAR race. He added stickers and found a NASCAR toy that made noise. He took it apart and mounted it on the hat so that he could turn it on and make an engine revving sound or say things like, "Come æn for fuel, boys." That was 1998. Since then Lamb has patented his "Unique Hat Designs" and created three different styles. He says he can custom make hats with any theme customers want. He used a yellow hard hat to make a hat for a local Deere dealer. The hard hat has five small toy tractors mounted on a propeller that spins. His NASCAR hats include small cars and stickers and he's had four of them autographed by racers and race car owners. His Ohio State Buckeye hard hat is popular with football fans. It includes football helmets and Brutus the Buckeye figures spinning around the Ohio State logo. Lamb would like to find a manufacturer to make his unique hard hats. But for now he's making them himself in his home shop. "I can stick about anything on the hats," Lamb says, and he invites people to contact him with ideas for customized hard hats. Lamb makes the metal parts that rotate and assembles everything securely on the hard hat. Power comes from a small 12-volt battery that slips into a pocket. Prices vary according to the design. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Lamb, 1433 Delmont Rd., Lancaster, Ohio 43130 (ph 740 654-0717; johnlambhatman@yahoo.com).

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