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25 August 2013

 

Re: Kuliglig

It’s a Tagalog word as in … “kinukuliglig” … for shaking of the arms, of the body in extreme excitement.

But, the Filipino farmer all over the country, in an … arousal … so profound in this machine’s capabilities overshadowing the carabao, grabbed at the first word, that came to mind “mangiwgiwgiw ed samit ya inter tonian maquina ed inaoan ag nasabsabaan.”

THE COMING OF THE WALK-BEHIND POWER TRACTOR . . .

The first “kuliglig” came to the farming world, through the ingenuity of an American inventor … David Bradley, of the David Bradley Corp. in Bradley, Illinois between 1946 and 1967, and was manufactured for Sears, Roebuck and Co.

So, this idea floating around, that the Nipponese invented it, is as fallacious of the … red sun … rising from the west.

But, that’s the beauty of the Japanese mind – they copy the blueprint and lo and behold!, comes innovations galore.

The new walk-behind tractor, after it went through Japanese hands, turns into a cornucopia of implements, that can be connected, thereby displacing the regular Ford Farm Tractor, in cost and diesel fuel use.

THE KULIGLIG AS A PEOPLE MOVER . . .

Usually, this machine has a cart that can be connected to the engine in hauling sacks of harvested rice, and this is where the … foxier-than-a-fox … Filipino farmer comes in.

He saw that putting temporary seats on both sides of the cart, and having a roof added – he could make a killing during typhoon seasons, where no passenger jeeps can drive through the impassable roads.

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