As fresh vegetable prices rise due to the coronavirus lockdown, this Australian dad decided to make a massive vegetable patch. <br /><br />He found that using a pick to prepare the soil was hard and tedious work and when he saw his oldest son on the lawn tractor mowing the grass he had an idea for a genius invention to make the work quicker, easier and more enjoyable.<br /><br />Jacob Strickling first used the back wheels of his youngest son's slider bike and attached them to an old wakeboard he had leftover from Summer. <br /><br />Being a hoarder, he also had three picks in the shed which he attached with long screws to the wakeboard. <br /><br />His idea was to ride the newly made plough like a wakeboard and get towed by the lawn tractor.<br /><br />The first attempt was a bit of a failure and so Strickling added a front wheel to the wakeboard and attached the rope to the front.<br /><br />"With these improvements, the wakeboarding plough was a surprising success," said Strickling.<br /><br />"Not only did it work and turn the soil over rapidly, it was actually really fun to ride," he added.<br /><br />Jacob Strickling's youngest children also had a go once some safety foam from an old surfboard was added to the end of the picks.
