Velocart

Velocart

Several years ago, I made a small bicycle car for my sons (or, judging by its size or construction, it would be more accurate to call it a bicycle kart). The children liked the machine, and they, together with the neighbor kids, spent hours racing it on quiet streets. I took as a model the Read more…

“Trainee” radio

DIY Radio-Controlled Sailboat Model: Complete Build

A radio-controlled model of a racing sailboat yacht can be made from the most accessible materials. And instead of expensive branded equipment, you can use a remote control set that comes with modern toys. The model’s hull is made of packaging foam or PS-4-40 grade, reinforced with a flat wooden frame cut into the hull Read more…

HERO TRAILER

HERO TRAILER

Many builders — future homeowners or summer residents — have to solve the issue of transporting local building materials over short distances, such as soil, sand, stone. Some owners, having their own transport equipment (car, tractor, or even a walk-behind tractor), buy a trailer for it. However, the price of an industrial trailer is such Read more…

NOMAD GREENHOUSE

NOMAD GREENHOUSE

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…

D-6 WITH FAN

D-6 WITH FAN

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…

TRICYCLE PNEUMO VEHICLE

TRICYCLE PNEUMO VEHICLE

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…

Winter steed

DIY Snow Scooter: Extreme Single-Runner Winter Sled

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…