Mechanical connoisseurs, love creation

Only 1 hour can cut 2 tons of cassava, saving 10 times more time than manual cassava cutting. Power of the machine is only 350W (3 hours to lose 1 power). The cassava cutter manufactured by farmer Dao Van Huy has become a lifeline for many cassava-growing households.

For over 8 years, farmers cooperating with Dai An Khe, An Thai, Hai Thuong, Hai Lang, Quang Tri villages (his hometown of Huy) have no longer had to sit and cut cassava by hand. Instead, they use cassava cutting machines created by Mr. Huy which is both effective and saves a lot of time and effort in harvesting crops.

Farmers love creativity

As a pure farmer but with a lot of talent in mechanics, Huy often spends most of his time tinkering, researching, repairing and manufacturing household appliances. The idea of ​​inventing a cassava cutting machine has been cooked in him since 2004. When he realized that at that time, most of the local people he invested in growing cassava, but the stage of harvesting and cutting cassava into Dried slices are mostly made by hand, both time consuming and labor intensive.

To get the perfect cassava cutting machine, Mr. Huy has spent a lot of time thinking and figuring out the operating principle of the machine. After that, he proceeded to search and gather related materials. When basically enough materials including corrugated iron, moat-bike, bicycle rim, plow belt and small old water pump ., he started to weld the tray about 1 m long, 50cm wide. On the tray, there are 2 - 4 round holes for cassava tubers to penetrate, under the tray there is 1 blade. Welding iron bars about 40 - 50m high as a tray.

The machine looked simple at first glance, but to create it, Mr. Huy took a lot of effort to research and practice. It is not easy to drop cassava roots into the holes in the tray, plug in the electricity, then the rotary rotates, the tray rotates and the blade operates to cut cassava and creates circles that are beautiful.

Mr. Huy with his product

Harvest season in 2004, when put into testing, people in his hometown are very excited because it brings remarkable effect.

'Mechanic' cool hands

The sound of far away, up to now, there have been over 1,000 people come to Mr. Huy to order machines. Not only farmers in the province find him to buy and repair mechanical machines, but people in distant districts of Phong Dien, Phong Thuy, Thua Thien Hue and other surrounding areas also become his regular customers. Everyone after using the device has the same thinking that admires his practical creativity. Because it not only helps her to lessen the difficulty in harvesting cassava, but also helps many households escape poverty thanks to boldly investing more.

Not only known as a farmer 'inventor', Mr. Huy is also known as a cool mechanic. Although there has never been any vocational training school for repairing machines, but most of the machines in his hands are well repaired and used effectively. His creative achievements not only stop at each type of cassava cutting machine, Mr. Huy also buys old types of rice harvester made by Japan to repair, sharpen the blade and create a rice harvester by hand. .

This type of machine is very suitable for fields with terraced terrain, time-efficient and convenient for users. In peak seasons to season, he must work day and night to produce all kinds of machine as well as repair plows, water pumps, rice harvesters . for guests.