Our town is located on a large “edge” of the huge West Siberian forest. The most beautiful places. Nature simply beckons to go hiking. And in the warm season, there are no problems with this, as they say. It’s just that most of the year the weather is cold and there is snow. And when Read more…
In the journal “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 2 for 1989, material by A. Baklansky from Kremenchug, Poltava region, was published about a micro mill that he designed for his household. This publication prompted me to also make a similar unit for the same purposes. However, the productivity of A. Baklansky’s device did not suit me — by Read more…
If you want to have early vegetables on your plot — then you need a greenhouse. Only in it can you create conditions for maintaining constantly high temperature and humidity of soil and air for plants both during the day and at night. There are many designs of individual greenhouses and film-covered frames, and each Read more…
This three-wheeled motorized cart was created for garden and household purposes; it is convenient for transporting bags, tools, and other small loads. The engine here is a conventional bicycle motor D-6, quite widely used in garden and vegetable garden associations for driving tillers, cultivators, pumps, and mowers. However, its design is intended for cooling from Read more…
The tiller developed by Heinrich Alekseevich Kuznetsov differs from many homemade designs by using cutters instead of a plow. Rotating on the working shaft, they simultaneously till the soil, serve as support elements and propulsion. It takes only a few minutes to replace them with wheels. Then it’s easy to attach a disc mower, bulldozer Read more…
For more than ten years I have been designing and building all-terrain vehicles. Over these years I have gained some experience, but I constantly turn to new publications in “Modelist-Konstruktor”: what if someone, having come up with something original, did better? The prototype of the proposed tricycle was a machine I made based on an Read more…
Old people humorously recall fun rides down snowy slopes on primitive sleds — bowl-shaped rounds made from frozen wet hay in old sieves. Or noisy descents “in a small heap” on ordinary sleds, from which the shafts had been removed beforehand… And today, commerce offers a wide selection of various sleds for this — both Read more…
I want to share with readers my small devices that provide additional convenience when organizing a campfire at a rest stop during a weekend hike or journey through one’s native land. One of the common “campfire” problems is finding and preparing stakes for setting up a tent and forked sticks for a crossbar, as well Read more…
Before starting to build the micromotorcycle, I spent a long time drawing various layout options, trying to anticipate on paper all possible errors and miscalculations that could arise during the work. Looking ahead, it should be noted that development on paper is one thing, and manufacturing is quite another. Many “rough spots” appeared even during Read more…
A boat with a rower moves much faster than a swimming person, even with fins, although the drag force is three or even four times greater. The efficiency of oars is higher than that of arms, and the “power” developed by a person in a boat is also higher… The strongest human muscles work — Read more…
