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Tote Washer

This is a washer designed to rinse off harvest totes between uses in the field. It was designed and built for the Small Farms program at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora, Oregon with a Clackamas Extension Innovation Grant.

Bed lifter

Heavy Stirrup design using used municipal equipment cutting edge scrap...grader/plow blade. Requires a heavy frame to mount to 3-pt, and grader blade 'stirrup' must be specially welded to suit the high carbon alloy...usually 1070-1090 steel.

Low cost yield monitor and mapper

a yield monitor designed for balers to replace the bale counter and data log the location and time of each bale created to generate a yield map for use in open source agricultural record keeping tools such as FarmOS.

Mobile Chicken Processing Station

Insitu was approached by a local poultry farmer with and increased demand in poultry production. His needs include a mobile processing station that could be moved to various chicken pen locations - 2-4 per week - and process at least 100 chickens a week. The platform needed to accommodate 2-4 people, be mobile, provide overhead cover, and contain all necessary equipment. Scalder, plucker, evisceration table, chilling tubs, and drying rack. The need for potable heated and cooled water also existed and solutions are being developed in tandem.

Tractor or tool carrier for cultivating and harvesting

The tractor I have designed has been in use for two years cultivating cutflower and garlic. I have some modifications I'd like to see and than create another one to sell to farmers. Also need sources to reduce cost of manufacturing and developing safety guidlines Listed is the tractor on our first run

Low Cost Row Crop Header

This low cost prototype attachment bolts onto a standard grain head to enable harvesting of crops like sunflower and corn without changing heads.