A student learns to drive a tractor on a computerized driving simulator at the Samjiyon Schoolchildren’s Palace, North Korea 2012.

Posted by YanniRotten@reddit | WeirdWheels | View on Reddit | 24 comments

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ScottaHemi@reddit

I see no wheels but this is weird.

as kids we're just thrown at the oldest tractor on the farm and told to go do this thing and we do it xD mine was a WD45 with a loader xD

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It'd just North Korean propaganda. I'm betting that the tractor cutaway can't even be used as an input for whatever pirated farming simulator they have on that computer, they just wanted to show that they're developed enough to be training a workforce. It's very communist.

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bandit1206@reddit

Can you imagine showing the average North Korean Farming Simulator?

Wait can they really grow that much food? Is that equipment real? Do I really have to starve and break my back for this little?

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Barbarian_818@reddit

Note that the room lights aren't on and it doesn't look like the CRT monitor is lit up.

North Korea is constantly short on energy for the electric grid. It's common to only have a few hours of power per day.

I'm willing to bet this photo is totally staged.

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Yeetstation4@reddit

Literally too little to reach the pedals when my grandpa first taught me to steer

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bandit1206@reddit

That’s the way I learned. John Deere 4230.

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Serious_Cobbler9693@reddit

Ditto, learned on a 1947 Case VA with little tricycle wheels on the front. No cab, not even a rollbar. If you rolled it you better jump.

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ScottaHemi@reddit

Steer what? give us a model name! I'm currious.

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Yeetstation4@reddit

I don't really remember what model, it was a Massey Ferguson that had arms on it, 3 point hitch in back, range select and gearshift were side by side between your legs, very stiff, wasn't strong enough to shift without help at that age.

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ScottaHemi@reddit

Nice!

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DaveB44@reddit

Mine was a David Brown 25. First job I had was to drive alongside the combine while its tank emptied into a four-wheel trailer, then back into the grain dryer loading bay to empty it.

Note that I said four-wheel trailer; I can still, all these years later, hear the flub-flub-flub sound of the trailer drawbar rubbing against the lugs on the tractor tyres!

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ScottaHemi@reddit

cool!

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Federal_Cobbler6647@reddit

I wonder how bad fuel shortage they have. Because that could explain it.

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mxosborn@reddit

Why the engine tho?

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YanniRotten@reddit (OP)

If you look closely, chunks are cut away to expose the gears and interior, so it’s obviously for other educational purposes as well

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mxosborn@reddit

makes sense

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postitpad@reddit

Seems like it would be easier to just put him on a tractor.

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MurphysRazor@reddit

This might be the most complicated machine some of these students have ever encountered and there is a lot of power there for somebody panicky about learning, etc.. This seems a safe way to test the competence of some people without weather getting in the way.

Despite the text this may also be a general repair and tuning classroom too. The screen may just contain usful machine data for learning. It may even be an engine part's development rig.

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