Concept
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A stationary human powered generator that provides a power take off to run various other tools
Human Power
bike power
bicycle
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This tool could use some more documentation

Links to these types of tools
Maya Pedal Bicycle Machines
Rock the Bike Bike Blender
Pedal Powered Farms and Factories (dead link, archived on the WBM on 2012-10-23)
Pedal Power Engineering
low-tech magazine
 


Pedal Power Engineering
Here's a shameless plug- we've designed and build more than a dozen pedal powered machines for a variety of applications- all of our designs are open source so feel free to build your own, but if you don't have the resources (time or tools) to build your own, we would be happy to talk about building a custom machine for you. For more information, contact me andy[at]pedal-power.com

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Tool comment

Here's a list of documents on pedal power machines that I have downloaded in the past couple months:

forage chopper pedal powered.docx
human powered chaff cutter.pdf
human powered chaff cutter output.pdf
human powered flywheel optimization.pdf
human powered paddy harvester.pdf
human powered trip hammer.pdf
pedal chaff cutter.pdf
pedal driven unit.pdf
pedal flour mill.pdf
pedal powered Blender Mayapedal.pdf
pedal powered ice cream maker.pdf
pedal powered nursery fertilizer mixer.pdf
pedal powered pump.pdf
Pedal Powered Soap_Mixer_ny0207.pdf
pedal water distiller.pdf

Tool comment

One classic pedal powered machine is Rodale's "Energy Cycle" in "Pedal Power In Work, Leisure and Transportation"

http://farmhack.org/sites/default/files/forum/Pedal_Power_In_Work_Leisure_And_Transportation_1977.pdf

Relevant chapter starts on pdf pg 67.