{"id":46,"date":"2013-12-18T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2013\/12\/the-motorized-solution-to-harvesting-wheat-in-nepal.html"},"modified":"2015-10-13T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:56:31","slug":"the-motorized-solution-to-harvesting-wheat-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2013\/12\/the-motorized-solution-to-harvesting-wheat-in-nepal.html","title":{"rendered":"The Motorized &#8220;Solution&#8221; to Harvesting Wheat in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/scythe-versus-grain-wheaper.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/scythe-versus-grain-wheaper.gif\" alt=\"scythe versus grain wheaper\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Three short videos demonstrate how an ingenious (and centuries old) adaptation of the scythe for harvesting wheat beats simple tools and high-tech alike.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Leppold writes us:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of a low-tech approach that is clearly superior to the motorized &#8220;solution&#8221;; and yet the expensive, fossil-fueled &#8220;upgrade&#8221; is being successfully marketed in developing nations like Nepal and India. One man from Canada is attempting to bring some sanity to the situation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=06edzfeznHM\" target=\"_blank\"> The current &#8220;no-tech&#8221; method<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fMxSCDp-f9I\" target=\"_blank\">The low-tech approach<\/a>, being demonstrated in Nepal by Alexander Vido.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sjasNdqqaBY&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">The motorized &#8220;solution&#8221;<\/a> that is being promoted by agricultural agencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alexander Vido and his teenage son brought donated equipment to Nepal in 2012, and made this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6kgblvM26DM\" target=\"_blank\">short video of their volunteer efforts<\/a>. The project is described at <a href=\"http:\/\/scytheworks.ca\/SPIN.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scythe Project in Nepal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Steve. The project&#8217;s website has lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/scytheworks.ca\/technical.html\" target=\"_blank\">technical information<\/a>. Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2013\/03\/the-religion-of-complexity.html\" target=\"_self\">The Religion of Complexity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three short videos demonstrate how an ingenious (and centuries old) adaptation of the scythe for harvesting wheat beats simple tools and high-tech alike. Steve Leppold writes us: Here&#8217;s an example of a low-tech approach that is clearly superior to the motorized &#8220;solution&#8221;; and yet the expensive, fossil-fueled &#8220;upgrade&#8221; is being successfully marketed in developing nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,15,315,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}