First Entry Low Tech Inventions

Low Tech Inventions are inventions which utilize ordinary techniques of metal-working along with products available at most supply houses or over the internet to create useful or intriguing mechanical solutions to everyday problems. The era of low-tech inventions is probably past, since limited places to work, controlled markets and other economic factors mitigate against inventiveness. However, the internet, particularly Ebay, might offer new opportunities to low-tech inventors.

Nothing is out of the question where low-tech inventions are concerned. Like Rube Goldberg, the inventor can let their mind wander at will, solving problems anywhere and everywhere, limited only by their imaginations.

Some of my low-tech inventions are a way to power diesel engines with powdered coal; a machine which will automatically plant bushes and trees in orderly rows; a way to build an efficient and economic masher for farm products; adaptations to a roto-tiller to make it an easy one-handed, no-strain job; a machine to cut 1/4" plywood into exactly sized pieces using an ordinary pipe-cutting wheel and an electric drill for power; and a way to make beads from clam-sheel (wampum).

Here's a link to four of my ideas on paper: http://www.tailsntales.com/inventions.htm