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Peanut sowing machine
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Witnessing farmers were tired of sowing peanuts, Mr. Huynh Tien, a 60 years old man in Tan Thanh hamlet, Cat Hai commune, Phu Cat district (Binh Dinh) took advantages of scraps in order to invent peanut sowing machine, a simple machine which doesn't use fuel and has the capacity of 9 – 10 peanut sowers.
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The machine is very simple to produce, only weighs 24 Kg with size 60 x 80 cm, including 2 ru-lot axis. The ru-lot axis is 25 cm in diameter, and 54 cm in length, plays role as wheels and is also a transmission part across the machine. The machine include 4 empty tanks which can contains 1 kg peanuts in each tank.
Inside the tank is a plastic tube like spiral spring – plays role as peanut classification, and a hopper to make sure that peanuts can fall into the right position, they all were made from plastic. At the bottom of the machine there are 4 slotter knives which help to make sowing task more easily.
The machine was completely made from scraps, it only costs 2 – 2,5 million VND. Besides, it is far cheaper than hiring 9 – 10 sowers.
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