Very cool video! I first saw one of those while in Nyaungshwe, a city at the north end of Inle Lake in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State back in January of 2002. The low open bed trailer it was pulling was carrying some of the local residents, and I was very intrigued. I would see one again in Cambodia (March 2009) and am sure I will see more when I travel to Laos next month. Thanks for posting.

@craigrmeyer

8 ай бұрын

Well let me tell you man, they're NOT rare if you're out in the right places. They're still big all over SE Asia, the poorer the better. Also, in Laos, look for these funky trucks that use the same single-cylinder engine. Those pungadda-pungadda diesels are a standby over there.

That's impressive how much wood that thing was pulling. Thats a good 10,000 lbs+

@craigrmeyer

2 ай бұрын

Wow really? 5 tons?

I saw these in Turkey and they went as fast as 30 MPH.

@craigrmeyer

3 ай бұрын

Holy smokes man. The turbo model!

The front part is actually a 2 wheeled kubota tractor and they are made in japan i have a kubota t32 2 wheeled tractor only it is a gasoline and i also have a 4 wheeled kubota zb1400 tractor thank you for sharing

Love it! Creating something practical!

@craigrmeyer

Жыл бұрын

These things are so practical it makes my head spin.

Looks more fun than my car

@craigrmeyer

4 ай бұрын

Oh for sure man for sure.

damn those little tractors can pull a lot of weight.

Man after my own hart

@craigrmeyer

3 жыл бұрын

Not lying: I still want one.

Graig do you know how much these tractors?

@craigrmeyer

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I've learned just a teensy amount. If you have any questions, fire away, and I'll tell you whatever I can. As an underworked engineer my mind wanders, wondering what else I could do with one of those butt-solid single-cylinder Chinese diesel engines.

@utulangi6078

3 жыл бұрын

@@craigrmeyer i have a small kubota diesel engine and i want to build a walk behind tractor, just like the ones in your video, to use as a cultivator on my tapioca farm here in Tonga. I wanted to see how they're constructed before i start. Thank you for sharing your video.

@craigrmeyer

3 жыл бұрын

@@utulangi6078 Oh! Well of course it's my pleasure.

@craigrmeyer

3 жыл бұрын

@@utulangi6078 As I recall, the real wizardry has to do with how they switch tension from belt to belt. There's a gearbox transmission also, between one belt pulley and the transaxle that holds the wheels. I don't know a thing about tapioca, but I do know that the Thai King Bhumibon helped to invent these things. His special innovation had to do with the clutching system that somehow made these much easier to use in wet marshy rice fields. I'm not a dumb guy exactly, but I would NEVER have thought of that. Walk-behind tractors have been around forever actually, like over a century in the States at least. The real finesse has to do with gearing, and finer points like clutching and steering. There MUST be more information about these on the web. More videos of their controls, and how to use them. If not, that's just an absurd shame, because there are at least 10,000's of these in use, if not 100,000's or millions! I wish you could just fly out here, meet someone who speaks Vietnamese/Laotian/Thai/etc, and just come out and ASK these people how they work. But of course not anymore. One big maker of these is the Kubota company. And surely others too. And they have websites, and youtube videos, etc. Just scrape around and absorb as much as you can.

@utulangi6078

3 жыл бұрын

@@craigrmeyer one day after these shutdowns on the pandemic i will definately come down. I am also in contact with a supplier from Thailand about some of the implements that i will need. I will start by building one but as my farm grows i will need more of these machines. I also like it's multi-purpose use. I will share with you my progress on my build if you want. Anf keep in mind that there aren't many of these walk behind tractors here. So the parts will be with what i can find here. About tapioca; it is also called manioc, cassave, yucca, etc and a food stable in many countries around the world. I'm a new farmer and i find it easy to plant. But cultivating it i find, via youtube, that in south east Asia, they use these machines to weed between the rows which will be a huge advantage to my farm and a big save on labour costs.