Ferintosh farmer takes top honours at Manitoba Ag Days showcase
A central Alberta farmer’s inventiveness secured more accolades this month at the Manitoba Ag Days Innovation Showcase.
Darcy Goossen of Ferintosh, a hamlet in Camrose County, already created the award-winning TireGrabber, a device which helps farmers safely change large-scale tires (up to 95 inches in diameter) on their own.
Now, he’s adapted it into the TireGrabber Reversible, which is what gained first place in the 2020 showcase’s farm safety category in Brandon. The reversible variant of his invention allows for safe changing of tire’s 34-89 inches in diameter.
The three-arm device balances the tire, centres it, and allows for safer and easier handling. It also enables the operator to flat-stack tires, decreasing the amount of warehouse space needed for storage.