Having a grandfather in his seventh decade and still working on the family farm, “Koinglo” Tarcutta inspired Jake Angel to design a ‘roll-bar’ for a quad bike.
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Mr Angel is in Year 12 at Wagga Wagga High School, and one of his subjects is design and technology.
This allows him to fully express his interest in building an object of purpose and lasting value.
“I like being able to solve a mechanical problem and create something for myself,” he said.
“My grandfather still wanted to be productive. “He pokes around the farm and can now pick up and carry objects without straining himself with this winch attachment.”
Mr Angel acknowledges he also had in mind the number of accidents occurring annually on quad bikes with many leading to death.
The ‘roll bar’ as it is now attached to a quad bike has been ten months in the design and production stage. “I had one prototype and two other designs before I came up with this one,” Mr Angel said. “This one can be fitted to any quad bike,”
Wagga Wagga High School Design and Technology teacher, Scott Trenaman said the courses studied by Mr Angel, including metal and engineering will give him a head start if he wants to study for a trade qualification.
The design of the combination ‘roll bar’ will be assessed externally by an independent team of markers from the board of studies.
Mr Trenaman said the assessed mark will go towards 60 percent of Mr Angel’s final mark in design and technology with the remaining 40 percent assessed following the completion of his HSC. “The ‘roll bar’ would have been entered in the inventors section at the Henty Machinery Field Days but it is not running this year,” he said.
Mr Angel is thinking of studying an agribusiness course at Charles Sturt University and hopes to pursue a career in agriculture.
