culticycle

Preparation notes.

Design Improvement notes.

These brackets are designed to be welded out of 2" and 1 1/4" * 1/8" steel bar stock. and spaced at 25.25" apart. Next step is documenting the cultivator side bracket.

The pioneer homesteader this references can be found here http://pioneerfarmequipment.com/homesteader.html

Some ideas for design of tool carrier attachment. link link

Edixon and I have been working on writing up build instructions and drawings from our work on the culticycle and have posted them on the tool page above. We based most of our work off of the build instructions from tim (greentractorfarm), but have modified some things based on the tools and knowledge that we have. Does anybody have suggestions about how best to display both sets of build instructions. Is it helpful to have the instructions as a googledoc rather than as a word document on google drive so that collaborators can edit and change things in real time?

Tim - Front End Questions: We are starting to plan telescoping tie rods out of square tubing. Your documentation recommends 3/4 and 1 in square tubing. This seems pretty robust. What about using 3/4" and 1/2" square tubing?

We have been looking at steering designs for go carts, specifically, www.diygokarts.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11146. In step 15, why is it necessary to create the 30 bend in the steering knuckle instead of a series of bearings similar to the go cart designs linked above?

There were some great conversations this weekend around improving and redesigning different parts of the culticycle. Here is a place to post those ideas or further thoughts on culticycle design.

We will be fabricating a prototype of the culticycle based on Tim's documentation. We will have CAD files and hand drawings along with more pictures and build description. Should we add this information to Tim's culticycle page or should we start our own culticycle page? Are there examples on FarmHack of separate collaborators building documentation for a tool on the same page?

I am building a human powered farm tractor for worldwide distribution. This is a topic for exploring applications, features, and matching equipment.

Hi all! Severine asked me to throw this conversation up here -Will

On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Etienne wrote:

Hi guys !

I hope everything's fine for you on the other side of the atlantic. I'm Etienne, currently working for ADABio autoconstruction which is, as you probably know, the french cousin of Farm Hack. Julien gave me your e-mail addresses, I'm not sure you'll be all concerned about this topic so sorry about that.

I wonder if the pedal power flywheel technology might be helpful for powering through bumps and irregularities in the row and even out the effort? http://www.pedal-power.com/ I imagine that some of the ergonomics might work well too?