Young farmer and machine '2 in 1'

In the past two years, in the season of deciduous rubber, many farmers in Vu Hoa commune, Duc Linh district, Binh Thuan province used a device similar to a lawn mower to scan leaves. Where the 'fan' is, the rubber leaf entangled there quickly.

Mr. Dang Xuan Truong is blowing leaves - Photo: THU THAO

But few people know this is the technical initiative of Mr. Dang Xuan Truong - a farmer who just finished secondary school .

People in Vu Hoa commune include rubber grown in Vu Hoa a lot, up to several hundred hectares. Every November, December and on the days of Tet holiday, it is time for the fall season of rubber trees. On this occasion, the fallen leaves almost all day with very thick density, very easy to catch fire, every rubber garden owner runs and runs to hire people to sweep the leaves. The farmer, Dang Xuan Truong, still occasionally asked his relatives to go to sweep rubber leaves, the work was not heavy but quite labor intensive. At that time, Mr. Truong wished: if there was a machine that could scan this leaf quickly, it would be good.

One evening, Truong suddenly saw and discovered the desk fan of the house when the fan was able to catch light objects in the wind. He contacted the house-cutting mower still used by him for a long time. The machine also cleared the grass under the beds, there were also gaps near the gaps in the row of rubber that the growers still used as the runway. fire stop .

So the next day, everyone in the house did not see Mr. Truong going to work as usual, but reveled in the lawn mower. He observed, disassembling the front lawn knife, using the propeller attached. When it started, the machine also blew dry leaves but less than an hour the fan blades crumbled!

Using a plastic propeller, he turned to set an iron fan, but failed because the rotor was too heavy, the lawn mower did not rotate. Think again, tinkering and decide to try the aluminum propeller. To have this propeller, he had to ask the mechanic of the mound in the district to help, the size of the propeller was about half a meter. And this time luckily smiled at Mr. Truong: the machine ran well and rolled the leaves into clusters.

He brought the device to test in some acquaintance gardens, at the beginning of the semi-trust garden, but when he saw that the rubber leaf was blown into the bed quickly, people eagerly came out. The machine not only rolls dry leaves in the upper layer of the face, but even the sticky leaves in the soil are swept along the fan direction. The operator also only held a fan-propelled tree and stood up straight, without needing to stoop as if scanning leaves with brooms.

Previously, to scan 1 ha of rubber, gardeners often had to hire up to three people (three people) and worked continuously for one day. But with Mr. Truong's "leaf blowing" machine, in one day the machine was able to scan neatly up to 3 hectares. And so Mr. Truong was hired by a lot of garden owners to sweep the leaves with a contract of VND 60,000 / ha, this price helped the garden owner save VND 40,000-50,000 / day, and clean the garden 5-6 times faster than before. .

The lawn mower costs just over 1 million VND, making a fan blade and the fan mounting part is only 50,000 VND which can be used for a two-time job. People in the commune saw him doing business and also mimicked the improvement of their lawn mowers. Anyone who asked would be happy to help Truong.

Binh Thuan Rubber Company also sent staff to learn and learn the experience of this leaf blower. Up to now, there have been dozens of leaf blowers put into use in Duc Linh district (Binh Thuan). Even in the fall of rubber trees, people here still discuss about sweeping leaves for rubber gardens. in Long Khanh, Dau Giay .

' It's just a simple improvement of farmers like me, not a technical innovation like everyone says, ' said the 28-year-old farmer.

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