Weekend Mission: This Man Made an Electric Snowplow Out of Trash
They are saying that necessity is the mother of
invention. And a Canadian guy was in dire need of Vietnamese takeout.
But since the bike paths hadn't been cleared, he turned his electric motorcycle
into a DIY snowplow using leftover parts to get his fix.
They are saying that necessity is the mother of
invention. And a Canadian guy was in dire need of Vietnamese takeout.
Phil Marciniak of Saanich, British Columbia built the
intrepid device after working on some prototype designs
.
He uses an electric shipping bike for his job as an appliance
repairman, so he already had a huge electric motorcycle on hand that
And with a background in maintenance and
painting, he was able to seamlessly fabricate a snowplow for his shipping electric bike.
The cutting edge design he is showing uses a junk plow
made from sections of an old 200 liter polyethylene rainwater barrel
The design already has some deep iterations. The re
maining year he experimented with advanced prototypes, such as a simple angled plow,
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