Have you looked into what Marcin Jakubowski and associates are doing? Here's a link: http://opensourceecology.org/marcin-jakubowski/
It's truly a wide-ranging, radical undertaking of design, fabrication, proto-typing and testing. Much of it is food-production related equipment. I believe there are some other websites connected with their work, so do some Googling on Marcin's name.
They may have affiliates in Canada by now, so contact them and ask. Good luck.
Here's another one. Videos by another interesting tinkerer...
https://www.youtube.com/user/mladenkorotaj/videos
I got onto his Youtube channel because somebody on a site I got to published this project by the guy, a homemade small tractor...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRR85S8EH8M
So, almost two weeks after I started this thread, I’ve decided to make a suggestion: I think it’d be great if people posted some reports on how the field testing of various prototype equipment has actually worked out. Thoughts about adequacy to task, and ideas for improvement, and pics or diagrams of further tweaks and actual improvements, etc.
Of course, if there are any videos of equipment prototypes actually functioning, links to these would be great to add. I, for one, would like to watch them.
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Have you looked into what
Have you looked into what Marcin Jakubowski and associates are doing? Here's a link: http://opensourceecology.org/marcin-jakubowski/
It's truly a wide-ranging, radical undertaking of design, fabrication, proto-typing and testing. Much of it is food-production related equipment. I believe there are some other websites connected with their work, so do some Googling on Marcin's name.
They may have affiliates in Canada by now, so contact them and ask. Good luck.
Matt, in terms of contact you
Matt, in terms of contacts you'd wish to make, how wide a net are you casting? Does it extend outside of Canada? beyond North America?
Besides Farm Hack, there are some other things I could point you toward. One is based in France.
Looking forward to your reply (here, as a comment).
This is a great post!
This is a great post! Interesting conceptions & geometries to these varied solutions. Glad to see this added to the FarmHack site. Thanks.
Here's another one. Videos
Here's another one. Videos by another interesting tinkerer...
https://www.youtube.com/user/mladenkorotaj/videos
I got onto his Youtube channel because somebody on a site I got to published this project by the guy, a homemade small tractor...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRR85S8EH8M
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So, almost two weeks after I started this thread, I’ve decided to make a suggestion: I think it’d be great if people posted some reports on how the field testing of various prototype equipment has actually worked out. Thoughts about adequacy to task, and ideas for improvement, and pics or diagrams of further tweaks and actual improvements, etc.
Of course, if there are any videos of equipment prototypes actually functioning, links to these would be great to add. I, for one, would like to watch them.