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…
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…
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…
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…
