Posted on 01/23/2017 10:56:06 AM PST by blam
William Thonton
January 23, 2017
The Oggun tractor, which will be manufactured in Fyffe, was developed for farmers domestically and in the developing world as a low-cost alternative to heavy farm equipment. (William Thornton / wthornton@al.com)
In a new factory off Main Street in Fyffe, a business this week began marketing a product it says could revolutionize agricultural for the small farmer all over the world.
CleBer LLC hosted the opening of its plant which will manufacture the Oggun Iron Horse, a tractor designed for small-scale domestic and international farmers.
The tractor, which can sport a 19 horsepower Honda gas or Kohler diesel engine, weighs 1,500 pounds and uses hydraulic steering and brakes. It is built to sell at $10,000 in the gas model, and $13,000 in diesel.
The Oggun was designed so that all of its components are non-proprietary, so it can be fixed and maintained without having to order expensive, model specific parts - usually patent protected - that might be hard to acquire in the developing world.
The Oggun factory, which adjoins Liberty Steel Manufacturing, could produce up to 10,000 tractors a year. But first will come marketing, said Horace Clemons, one of the founders of CleBer.
"This is where the real work begins," Clemons said.
Clemons and his business partner, Saul Berenthal, have a background in personal computers and software. But Berenthal, a native of Cuba, believed a tractor like the Oggun could be a boon to the small farmers of his homeland.
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Brilliant! I’d buy one in a heartbeat.
Dang! That there’s some kind of super-tractor!
>An Alabama-Made Tractor Could Revolutionize Farming Around The Globe<
Uh, what is revolutionary about this. This configuration had been around since maybe the 1920’s.
Somebody needs to do their research before writing an article like this.
I need a tractor to take care of 30 acres of field mowing, using the PTO for wood chipping and moving and loading 1100 pound bales of hay among other chores. Don’t think this tractor is a starter for me. Wish it was.
From just looking at it, $10,000 sounds way too high.
GREAT NEWS! American ingenuity to solve a need! Great Idea. Now if we could make a good small car for the average man—A Model T for for the 21st Century (or a VW Bug for American Trump Age) Maybe a 3 wheeler? Or car like the old Metropolitan of the 50s?
Watch and see if crony-capitalist oligarchs use their political influence within the nanny state to slap this small company down.
No doubt the EPA could manufacture a case against them on mileage or emission standards, or “particulate in the atmosphere standards.”
Or the NTSB or OSHA could get them on safety standards
IRS could start a long audit of their owners.
The power of the DC beltway is immense.
And all “non-proprietary” parts. Great idea.
Good old Redneck ingenuity!...............
Do much farming?
Went to their website, and it looks like their plans were originally to make it in or export it to Cuba. Maybe the election changed things???
http://cleberllc.com/tractor-oggun/
Looks like an affordable road grader. I need a road grader.
Or you could get a Porsche for under 10k...
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/porsche/tractor/1959/418718
The downside to non-proprietary is that this machine is wide open for knockoffs and it will be knocked off, should it prove to be a success.
It looks like half sand rail and half lawn and garden tractor, I honestly don’t see the $10,000 in it, but I wish them nothing but the best. Maybe they know more about their market than I do, entirely possible.
a 19 horsepower Honda gas or Kohler diesel engine
A Honda XR650L has 40 HP for $6500.
I know, apples and oranges, still... 19 HP sounds low for a serious engine... unless they are just mowing grass.
What was old, is now new again.
Look at the old Ford tractors. Basic. Cheap. Fix at home.
And can be rebuilt endlessly.
Looks like the original tractors looked.
I don’t see a PTO on the Oggun, maybe it’s hydraulic only? I have a small Kubota with a backhoe and am very happy with it.
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