The video has garnered nearly 25,000 views and hundreds of likes.
Necessity is the mother of innovation. This saying has been proven true time and again when people are inventing new technologies to make life easier. From time to time, we see people making something unique and useful out of very basic features. Now, a video showing construction workers using an old Bajaj scooter as an electric winch is going viral on social media.
The video was shared on Twitter by a user named Pankaj Parekh on Saturday. The caption of the post reads, ‘Bajaj could never even imagine how this scooter could be used other than driving it on the roads.’
Watch the video below:
Bajaj also could never imagine how this scooter could be used other than driving it on the roads… pic.twitter.com/EctbS0QWvr
– Pankaj Parekh (@DhanValue) December 3, 2022
In the short clip, a man is seen sitting on an old scooter without wheels. As he twists the accelerator of the motionless scooter, a heavy white bag is pulled up above the third floor of a building under construction.
Overall, the video captured close-ups of the completely makeshift machinery. It demonstrated how workers attached a rope pulley to a rotating wheel with metal rods to lift the heavy bags to the third level of the building.
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Internet users were simply impressed with this invention as they flooded the comments section with all kinds of praises. One user even claimed that the video is from “Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh” while others posted “Makeshifter,
A user wrote, “Scooter as crane, salute to Indian ingenuity.” Another said, “Indians are born with an engineering mindset.”
A third commented, “Old idea, been around for ages in India. But it’s good to see they are being recognised.” The fourth said, “Indians have an engineering mindset by birth.”
Since being shared, the video has garnered nearly 25,000 views and hundreds of likes.
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