Designed and built on Marcin Jakubowski's farm, this tractor cost far less than a commercial tractor.
As a small scale farmer, I tend to fabricate many implements and tools for the tractor or bull dozer on my own farm. This stems perhaps from an early exposure to shop work and repairing farm equipment on into high school shop class and FFA, and these skills along with the sheer desire to weld and use a cutting torch have carried over into real life experience as a part of the day to day workings of a farmstead.
This is a great article on NPR highlighting the Open Source Ecology Project of Marcin Jakubowski with a goal of blueprinting 50 different machines or tools that can be fabricated in the home or farm shop for far less cost than a production version.
