Machinery, Tools & Equipment

CIMMYT ends the drudgery of traditional grain processing

THE International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) has introduced a multi-crop thresher to transform labour-intensive traditional grain processing into a smarter and less strenuous way of producing high quality traditional grain meals....

 https://www.herald.co.zw/cimmyt-ends-the-drudgery-of-traditional-grain-processing/

Filter prolongs life of oil in tractors

Mr. Pietie Conradie, well known for his farm solutions in the town of Richmond in South Africa, designed an oil purifying ‘rocket’ – practical, cheap, simple and easy to assemble.

The goal of Pietie’s oil purifying system was to keep the oil in his tractors’ hydraulic system clean. The oil in these systems are usually exposed to lower temperatures as the oil in engines, allowing it to stay cleaner for longer and retain it’s lubrication better.

In some tractor models, however, the brakes, the power steering and the power lift use the same oil as the hydraulic system, causing the filter to become blocked as a result of impurities from the brakes landing in the oil. This type of blockage affects the functioning of the brakes, the steering wheel and the lifting system......