Ugears Combine

Experience the wonder of movement mechanics first-hand with the UGears Combine harvester design set. This design offers a first-rate example of movement mechanics and is ideal for demonstrating the fundamentals of maker movement and how energy can be transferred in between objects to produce the function of an engine.

Building mechanical designs is an excellent method to exercise your head and hands. Model packages are typically used to assist improve hand-eye coordination, patience, teleological thinking, and an understanding of the physics and mechanics involved in the design being developed. We carefully design all of our moving designs to run utilizing easy, real-life mechanical concepts which the home builder can observe and appreciate both while developing the design and while watching it run after it's been finished.

An integrate harvester is a complex maker that is so-called because it "combines" three different parts of collecting crops into one maker: gaining, threshing, and winnowing. Before the combine harvester, collecting crops was an exhausting and lengthy practice that could take huge groups of individuals days or weeks of effort just to select the crops, to say absolutely nothing of processing them into food or product for business use.

The earliest combine harvesters emerged in the 1820s, 2 entire centuries earlier! These first harvesters were drawn by mules, oxen, or other animals. When steam engines began to make a splash, it wasn't long prior to steam-powered engines were included into combine harvester styles. These harvesters were far more expensive and large, however, so many farmers stuck to livestock-driven harvesters. That all began to change with the advent of the internal combustion engine around the turn of the 20th century, and it wouldn't be long up until the gas or diesel-driven combine harvester all of us know today ended up being the gold requirement for crop harvesting.

Don't stress over gas or coal, costs, though; the UGears Combine harvester design set is set in movement by a rubber-band motor! Roll the design backward to power the motor up, release the handbrake, and enjoy it go! See your design head for the fields with its spinning wheels and rotating cutter board just like a genuine combine harvester would.

The ended up design also has a concealed compartment that can be opened with a lever which lies to the left of the motorist's cabin. This compartment can be used as storage for individual bits or spare parts. This lever also operates as a brake to lock or run the harvester.

The UGears Combine harvester design has 154 high-quality precision-cut plywood parts. The approximated time of assembly for the design has to do with 2-3 hours. All 154 parts are carefully cut from strong plywood boards utilizing a high-accuracy laser cutting approach to guarantee quality and dependability. Ranked at intermediate trouble, this design is suitable for ages 14 and up.

Size: 5.3 x 6.5 x 11 in
Package size: 14.6 x 6.7 x 1.2 in
Number of parts: 154
Level: Intermediate
Assembly Time: 2 hours
Recommended Age: 14+
Set weight: 1.6 pounds
Producer: UGears