Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Tractor Accessories


In upcoming era, Agriculture dictionary will have,
Elephant :- means JCB or Earth movers
Bull :- means Tractor
 We are so much dependent on Tractors such that, it has replaced Bull in our farm. Tractor application does not stops there, but much more are possible through power driven out of PTO shaft. Some examples are,

Mini-Crane

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Power Generator


Powerful Sprayer

SugarCane Leaf Chopper


Cow Urine Collection


Simple, Effective, Pure, Easy distribution of nutrient is Cow Urine. It has lot of nutrient values and easy to disperse through Drip irrigation which is other-wise prone to clogging of waster/dust.

I have implemented cow urine collection unit and connected it to a tank, wherein it is distributed through drip irrigation.



Bio-Shredder


Our Grandfathers had Cow, Buffalo, Goat, Sheep, Poultry in double digit numbers
Our Fathers had them atleast in single in digit.
But we cannot hardly have or maintain them in today’s practical scenario.

How are they linked to farming ?
Cattle give us manure as bi-products and bio-fertilizer are very effective.
To match it, we can produce bio-manure by shredding bio-products like leaf, stem, roots of coconut, plantain, other plants and trees.

Our Bio-Shredder, driven by Tractor PTO shaft yield good result. Can be moved anywhere, can shred anything.



Furrower


Preparing agricultural land in very labour intensive. Expecting precision will be harder. Most crops like SugarCane, Turmeric, Tapioca, etc needs furrows for plantation. We have “Furrower” which creates furrows, precisely, quickly, in less time.




My Farm


I have Rain Gun and Drip irrigations system installed in my farm. Results are good.
Some of my farm products I would like to share …


Turmeric Harvester


Harvesting Turmeric is little complicated as the Turmeric lies below surface i.e., buried inside soil. Just Ploughing will break turmeric into pieces. We have designed a combination of ploughing + filtering to dig out turmeric. Results are very good and save labour and time.

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Reaper


Automating/Mechanising the work is need of the day.
India being 2nd largest population, but we face Labour scarcity.
One major area is “Harvesting”.
We have reapers for harvesting SugarCane, other tropical crops like Ragi, Maize, Cholam, Corn…

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Line Sower

Sowing seeds in fresh land is easier and we have lot of device for the same. But for mulching and land cover purpose, sowing is difficult by going inside the existing crops. To minimise the difficulties and man power, I have designed a sower sowing seeds in a straight line and powered by 2 people.

Sower resembles olden days plough, but it is miniature version made of steel. One person has to pull the Sower (pulling is not harder, it is similar to normal walking speed), another person has to control the flow of seeds.

Speed or Area of sowing will be equal to time taken walk around your field.
I have been using it for mulching in Sugar-cane and it is every effective.



Monday, March 19, 2012

Flange cum Air Releaser

In Rain Gun or Sprinkler system it is important to release air else will lead to choking of water line. For each outlet it is mandatory to have air releaser. To have air releaser in the outlet, we need to assemble Tee-coupler, Bend, Coupling and then Air Releaser. This method has more number of components and thus increases cost, time of fitting and later maintenance.
To overcome all this pain, designed a Flange attached with a coupling, so that Air releaser can be mounted on it. It save cost and time to assemble fittings.

Quick Coupler

Rain Gun irrigation is very good but I faced a common problem,
How to easily connect and disconnect Rain Gun from the Outlet point ?
Because commonly “flange” is used but it is time consuming, tedious, adds weight to Rain Gun.
Inspired by Sprinkler irrigation system which I have used in 1990’s, created a Aluminum based coupler which makes things easier.

Highlights are,
  • Female coupler is attached to each outlet point instead of Flange
  • Male coupler is attached to Rain Gun
  • Female coupler has Rubber lining to prevent leak
  • Just pushing male coupler into female coupler will lock the unit by a hook
  • Releasing hook, unit can be disconnected
  • Door locks can be used to lock the whole unit, thus making it secure
Ultimately it is
  • Faster
  • Easier
  • Weightless
  • Corrosion free
  • Leak proof

Multi-Purpose Thrasher

In my young days, I have seen Paddy Thrasher as machine which needs operated in certain way and involves manual labour after thrashing. With my friend who owns a workshop we have designed a new model which works faster and no post-processing required after thrashing.

Advantages are,
  • Faster
  • Can be used for Paddy, Corn, Peas, Ragi, Maize and similar grain varieties
  • Powered by Tractor PTO shaft, so no separate engine required for running