Inventors get crafty with their ideas

BRAD Pickford, from Breed’n Betsy, Byaduk, with his award in the Business, Corporate & Education Technology Class, for creating a Teaching Simulator to help students learn to castrate lambs and calves. Photo: LARA FITZPATRICK.

By Louise Belfield

August 14, 2023 | 5:00 PM

THE overall winner of Sheepvention’s 2023 Inventions Competition has always been a bit of an inventor.

Crop farmer Steven Hein, from Mintaro in South Australia invented a bead breaker just before pneumatic tyres came along, and even invented a triple flush toilet long before water saving became a thing. But neither gained much traction back in the day.