Rick Vette has always been a man on a mission.

He’s an old-school jack-of-all-trades, a mechanic, welder and bulldozer contractor who’s picked up many of his skills from a lifetime of hard work in the bush.

The wet weather has forced plenty of delays in his line of work in recent years and one way he can save time is to have his lunch cooking itself while he’s on the job.

He made up this wire basket, which he’s connected to the manifold bolts on his engine so it heats up as he goes.