The Finished Product!

Its Done!

• The finished product assembled and ready to go!
• 49 more to go!

So easy even a pregnant girl can use it!

• This was the prototype
• We used this to get a feel of how the different handle positions worked
• Looks to be easily used

Now that the all the metal pieces are finished we are just waiting for the wood tech department to finish the handles so that we can start to assemble the wheel hoes and start to sell them.  We will be choosing a few target markets to hopefully sell all 50 units.  Much more to come! 

Metal Works (Engineering Department)

One all pieces had been fabricated and grind down with no imperfections then the powder coating could start.  The Horticulture Department decided to go with a dark green color to stick with the Morrisville State College colors as well as a Horticulture color. 

Finished Cutting blades

• Cutting blade (part not painted) serves as an oscillating feature to the wheel hoe making for ease of back and forth cutting.

The finished main housing

• These are the main parts of the wheel hoe
• Serve as the center attachment for all other parts
• Also provides for strength as well as the center balancing point of the wheel hoe. 

The Engineering department is all done!  Lots of time and effort was put into these pieces in which I'm sure they are happy to be done.  Now they can collect!

Metal Works (engineering Department)

The Engineering Department also took part in the fabrication of all metal parts which will make for 50 wheel hoe units.  The metals department came up with a contract for the horticulture department stating what exactly they will be doing and how with a price in which they received after all parts were finished and delivered.  The metals department had to make multiple pieces for a full assembly, which also had to then be powder coated.   I was not at the making of these parts but below are a few pictures of the machines and the process that went into the making of all metal parts. 

 

•  Machine is used to grind down any imperfections

Looks to be grinding

The steel to hold the cutting blade
 Allows oscillating movement

Hand grinding with power tool

The main body of the Wheel hoe
This has most the support
Multiple holes for handle placement

Looks to be drilling the holes for the handle