A group of photos capturing the ingenuity of consumers adapting or inventing technology have been circulating on the internet for the last year. Here are three of them. I don’t know their origin, but would like to. If you know where these came from, who took them, etc., please write me. In the meantime I’ll make my guess at what’s going on.

I am not sure, but I think these guys are simply moving a truck cab. I can’t think of any reason why it would be used as a vehicle.

Chinese brooms are used at an angle, rather than the western perpendicular mode. Here they are inserted into a spinning hub to make a street sweeper.

No pot or pan? We’ll you have an iron shovel, right?