Simple Inventions

[Robbo]

How's this for a simple kiwi invention. Could have done with one of these years ago, luckily i still have all my fingers but it would have saved me a few cuts and bruises.

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2014/06/face-day-283/

Has anyone else in the past come up with a simple and useful invention??

[unstuck]

How's this for a simple kiwi invention. Could have done with one of these years ago, luckily i still have all my fingers but it would have saved me a few cuts and bruises.

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2014/06/face-day-283/

Has anyone else in the past come up with a simple and useful invention??

Not a new idea by any means, The swiss have been using something similar for years. I tried using one once and they are a fucking pain in the ass.:2thumbsup:

[Robbo]

Not a new idea by any means, The swiss have been using something similar for years. I tried using one once and they are a fucking pain in the ass.:2thumbsup:

Mmmm, that's interesting, the news article made it sound like the latest and greatest thing to hit the wood chopping market. Not having seen one before i thought the idea was quite good though.
Luckily my wood chopping days have become redundant thanks to a heat pump.:2thumbsup

[unstuck]

Mmmm, that's interesting, the news article made it sound like the latest and greatest thing to hit the wood chopping market. Not having seen one before i thought the idea was quite good though.
Luckily my wood chopping days have become redundant thanks to a heat pump.:2thumbsup

Firewood seems to take up too much of my time, time I could be playing in the mud. :2thumbsup

[Drew]

I'm off to get firewood soon actually, and don't think I'd bother with the kindling cutter. Looks awkward and slow.

[Woodman]

Little Lucifers. Then don't need kindling

[ellipsis]

...sometimes it's hard to work out if these ideas are 'simple inventions, for people', or 'inventions for simple people'...

[FJRider]

...sometimes it's hard to work out if these ideas are 'simple inventions, for people', or 'inventions for simple people'...

Inventing has gone downhill ... after the invention of sliced bread ... :weep:

[R650R]

A good idea for the elderly and metrosexual city folk but I've never had problems with chopping kindling.
Its all about picking the right piece of wood and noting the grain etc and not rushing. Wouldn't pay $135 for one.
Wonder how long before a Chinese knock off appears in mega10 for $40 etc...

Now that Swedish ex pat in Cromwell on country Calendar last night with all his walnut tree machines and processing equipment, what a legend, and still working at 97 years old.
Loved how the French Agribusiness company machine could only shell 7kg an hour but his does 300kg hr!

[george formby]

I got a Smart Splitter for the G/F to use for kindling & logs. Wee thing struggles with an axe. I expected it to to be a bit gimmicky but no, awesome thing.
Very simple indeed & very effective for domestic folk like us.

[FJRider]

Simple inventions .. mmmmmmmmm

I think this one has potential ..

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/93520129736610604/

[Big Dog]

When I was a kid we had an older axe with a broken handle. I sawed off the sharp bit of the handle and wedged it into an off shoot on a stump, two hand drop / push the log into the blade, step back and pound with the sledge or the lump hammer depending how big the log. Split the kindling or even larger logs with that and a shortened sledge.
The previous owners of that house left a lot of garden tools behind. Many with broken bits. Many got repurposed.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[Big Dog]

Simple inventions .. mmmmmmmmm

I think this one has potential ..

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/93520129736610604/

When I was at boarding school I used to put porn inside popular mechanics or other innocuous titles and sell them for four times what they cost me.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[unstuck]

Now that Swedish ex pat in Cromwell on country Calendar last night with all his walnut tree machines and processing equipment, what a legend, and still working at 97 years old.
Loved how the French Agribusiness company machine could only shell 7kg an hour but his does 300kg hr!

That dude is a legend. :headbang::headbang::headbang:

[awa355]

It is not really all that differcult to learn to use an axe.

We used to get a little magazine called Innovations ( or sommat like that ). Full of bloody useless ' bright ' ideas for mundane tasks around the house.

[unstuck]

There used to be a section in The New Zealand Farmer magazine I think it was, that had a heap of cool ideas from some clever farmers.:Punk::Punk:

[AllanB]

She was on TV a while back with it - designed it for girls and old peoples to use.

[Big Dog]

It is not really all that differcult to learn to use an axe.

We used to get a little magazine called Innovations ( or sommat like that ). Full of bloody useless ' bright ' ideas for mundane tasks around the house.

I was 7 and wanted to cut more kindling than. My brother who was 10. Necessity is the mother of invention.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[vifferman]

Some years ago, I made a handy-dandy chain cleaner/oiler doofer. Keeps the rear wheel clean, and the excess cleaner/oil drains off into a plastic pot. Cost me $0, because I made it out of assorted crap that was lying around.
I posted pix on here at the time, but I kantbefukt dredging them up again. I've got plans for handy-dandy chain cleaner/oiler doofer (MkII) in my head, which will be even kewler (the doofer AND my head), if I can galvanise myself into action to construct it.
I've invented other shit too, like a doofer which flashed the brakelight in a slowly decaying cycle when the brake was applied. I cheated on that one though - I came up with the concept, and #2Son sorted it out in his head, soldered the bits up, programmed the doohickey and all that, and I only did the easy installation bit. Then the WOF dude said it was illegal (which was weird, because at about that time those wankers at ACC or wherever were talking about making blinky lights on mobikes compulsory). So, I disconnected it momentarily for the WOF, then reconnected it. Then it blew up and I couldn't be arsed with it any more as the novelty had worn off. I'm good like that...

[Robbo]

Some years ago, I made a handy-dandy chain cleaner/oiler doofer. Keeps the rear wheel clean, and the excess cleaner/oil drains off into a plastic pot. Cost me $0, because I made it out of assorted crap that was lying around.
I posted pix on here at the time, but I kantbefukt dredging them up again. I've got plans for handy-dandy chain cleaner/oiler doofer (MkII) in my head, which will be even kewler (the doofer AND my head), if I can galvanise myself into action to construct it.
I've invented other shit too, like a doofer which flashed the brakelight in a slowly decaying cycle when the brake was applied. I cheated on that one though - I came up with the concept, and #2Son sorted it out in his head, soldered the bits up, programmed the doohickey and all that, and I only did the easy installation bit. Then the WOF dude said it was illegal (which was weird, because at about that time those wankers at ACC or wherever were talking about making blinky lights on mobikes compulsory). So, I disconnected it momentarily for the WOF, then reconnected it. Then it blew up and I couldn't be arsed with it any more as the novelty had worn off. I'm good like that...

And that's why "Kiwi Ingenuity" is still alive and well. Simple ideas that have arrived from a need to simplify some gadget or process and coming up with an idea to solve it. Over the years i have seen many simple inventions, mainly from the Trade or Farming sectors. Some have been brilliant, some have been disasterous and some have made lots of money for their inventors. It's always great to hear what others have done in regards to this, just like your two ideas above Vifferman. :2thumbsup

[Ocean1]

Firewood seems to take up too much of my time, time I could be playing in the mud. :2thumbsup

I reckon if you worked as hard of a cold winter's evening as you do chopping wood during summer you wouldn't need the fucking firewood.

[unstuck]

I reckon if you worked as hard of a cold winter's evening as you do chopping wood during summer you wouldn't need the fucking firewood.

Unfortunately, I get to do firewood all year round.
Admittedly most of the winter work is felling and limbing, but it still keeps you warm. :laugh: