NAMPO Harvest Day 2017
Patent winners at Grain SA's Nampo Harvest Day─── ANDRE GROBLER 10:32 Wed, 17 May 2017
The winners of the annual Omnia/Grain SA patent competition were announced at the Grain SA Nampo Harvest Day agricultural trade exhibition on the first day.
Omnia organiser of the Patent Competition, Piet Groenewald, says the competition is an example of how farmers sometimes battle to get the correct tools and machines to do specific jobs. He says the patents are an indication that a farmer can make something better or invent something that works for him.
Competitors competed in six categories for the prize money worth R50 000.
Category: Inventions of machinery, implements and agricultural equipment
- The winner is Cornie Botes’ pigsty cooling system.
- Second place is Bertus Goosen with an electric earth drill.
- Third place is Jannie Myburgh with a fire smotherer
In the modified machinery, implements and agricultural equipment category
- Winner: Mynhardt du Bruin with an orchard sprayer.
- Second: Gerrit Smith with a tooth rolling harrow.
- Third: Cornie Botes with a pig growth feeder.
Category: New tools
- Winner: Thinus Crous with his borehole recoverer for submersible pumps.
- Second: Bertus Goosen with his wheel spanner extension.
- Third: Gerrit Smith with his fence spur bending tool.
In the tools modified category –
- Winner: Gerrit Smith with his drill bit sharpener.
- Second: Bertus Goosen with his wheel spanner support tool.
- Third: Ronald Goldberg with his working station magnet.
Category: Domestic/garden equipment division for new tools –
- Winner: Bertus Goosen with a multi-braai.
- Second and third: Chrissie Prinsloo with a leave blower and knife sharpener from old parts.
Category: Domestic/garden equipment division for modified tools –
- Winner: Gerrit Smith won with his Indian Myna catcher.
- Second: Bertus Goosen with a meat cutter.
Open category:
- Winner: Gerrit Smith with a mini work shed.
- Second: Hannes de Wet with rowing boats made from old plastic fertiliser tanks.
Category: Scholar
- Winner: Edwin Lambert with a mouse catcher.
- Second: Isabella van Onselen with a dog and horse shower.
- Third: Nicoline Goosen with a dough cutter.
Category: Student
- Winner: Suné Crous with a handle for carton milk containers.
- Samantha Goosen also won a prize for a dog bed she entered in the competition.
Pictures and story : Andre Grobler
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