Saturday 30 January 2016

Ingenious

Some of us appreciate the labour that goes into reinventing things: the thought and effort that makes something out of very little.
So this bit of engineering is outstanding: it might be a competitor in Scrapheap Challenge, but this is designed to do a job of work and go on doing it. The engine is Chinese. The chassis is made up by the smithy across the road, and the drive train, which is driven by a large alternator belt, is made up of parts from a car. It has little in the way of suspension: just a tractor front end with an articulated beam for the wheels. It is, in a world where very little goes to waste, impressive.


1 comment:

  1. I absolutely love this ingenious tractor! I think mechanics in Africa are the most resourceful ever! Brilliant strip down efficiency....

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