A garden cart with a wide, spacious box and grids for extending the sides is convenient for a wide variety of garden and homestead work. However, everyone who works with soil primarily digs, plants, and sows. It turns out that the cart can easily be adapted to perform these functions: you can assemble a combine Read more…
One of the inconveniences in the design of many cars is that the interior light immediately turns off when the doors are closed. There are, of course, special devices that delay switching off the lighting for 5–15 seconds, allowing the driver to check the dashboard, the controls, and insert the ignition key. However, such solutions Read more…
The metal detector I designed operates on the beat frequency principle, which arises from the difference in oscillations between the reference and the tunable oscillators (typically the 5th–10th harmonic, whichever is closest in frequency). This design allows the detector’s sensitivity to reach a level where it can detect, for example, a five-kopeck coin buried 10 Read more…
I won’t go into detail about how fascinating (though not always easy) hiking can be. However, after a long, and sometimes multi-day trek, fatigue builds up in your muscles, along with sweat and dirt on your body. In hot weather, you can wash and relax in a river, lake, or stream. But in cool weather, Read more…
Our magazine has already dedicated several articles to the topic of making good use of such a seemingly useless material as various bottles. And today, we are once again returning to this subject, offering our readers an article by V. B. Akimov, who shares his advice on how to repurpose many of the household items Read more…
Not so long ago, after retiring, I seriously took up beekeeping. However, our region is not rich in honey-bearing plants, so during the season, I have to move the entire apiary from one place to another six or seven times. To transport the hives, I built a trailer for my Izhevsk pickup Izh-27151-01, on which Read more…
Trailers for passenger cars that turn them into small trucks are especially popular among rural residents and owners of country houses. And that’s quite natural — they make it much easier to transport a variety of loads such as sand and peat, cement and manure, bricks and gravel. The only downside is that loading and Read more…
The tank from an old activator-type washing machine, the driven drum of the control clutch from a decommissioned T-74 tractor, and a three-phase electric motor — this is the basis for a homemade grain grinder. Its design is portable, which is very important for use on small farms and in private households. The main part Read more…
Do you know, sometimes the craziest ideas are born not from an excess of free time, but from the desire to prove to yourself that the impossible is actually quite real. Imagine this: there is a small city car, the Smart Fortwo, designed to park in the narrow streets of a metropolis, save fuel, and Read more…
Winter fishing is an activity for the most resilient. Try spending a whole day by the ice hole in freezing weather — neither a fur coat, nor a tent, nor a “forty-degree hand warmer” will save you. However, you can indulge in your favorite hobby in comfortable conditions. All you need is a special all-terrain Read more…
