COUNTRY AND A PRETTY GOOD

The constructor of this truck — Eugene N. Evsikov already familiar to our readers for the publication of “Plows, carries and even sawing” (see “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 5 for 2002). In the article they talked about made them little tractor. Now we present another one of his car — mini truck.

Evgeniy N. — senior designer with 40 years of experience of the famous helicopter plant. Mil. Designed and built an electric truck is under be the rotary-wing machines — reliable and practical. In addition, it reviewed the simplicity and accuracy that ensured consistency and quality of execution of each node. The first time the photo of the mini-truck was published in the “Model designer” № 6, 2002, under the category “Panorama photos of readers ‘letters”.

What cars and trucks did not create domestic designers and designers, from chic “front-away” limousines to the “ascetic” sport buggy, from heavy draught horses to the rapid “gazelles”.

 

However, machines for the farm, so to speak, prislonnyh is a small, simple, reliable and inexpensive that it is not visible. Fit the constructors for these purposes, “Jiri”, “Muscovites”, “Lada”, altering them in pikapika. But the price of cars remains the same as with cars — not everyone, and not everyone will dare to carry them in bulk sand, bricks,soil and other such goods. Yes, and they are not adapted for movement on country roads with small speed. In this position, unless the motor scooter cargo “the Ant” can help out, but it has a downside: air-cooling engine, small power, position steering wheel in the middle of the track, an open chain drive.

 

Manufacturing such machines for agriculture industry to establish cannot or does not want, considering it is a niche that apparently unpromising. But in my own experience I know that this truck would be useful not only to gardeners but also for rural residents in the backyard.

A prototype of the truck and even his “donor” was a mini-tractor, which I did even before the construction of a country house. Let me remind you, because the plot does not have electricity, this tractor was used by me not only (not so much) for cultivation or as tractor truck, how to drive various construction aggregates: rastvoromeshalke, woodworking machine, etc. To do this, the mini-tractor had a PTO shaft. Same shaft I felt it necessary to install on the truck. The new car inherited from mini-tractors (which by that time disappeared, because the power to it failed) wheel gears, wheel (sidecar FDD), the transmission (ZAZ-965) and “breaking” the frame with some alterations. It is this design provided the truck highly maneuverable — it can turn almost on the spot.

 

 

 

The greatest modernization was subjected to the front of the frame: it became longer, wider, and its cross member has now been made integral, and the rays diverged at an angle of 36° to the side members — not to interfere with enlarged (up to 20° in each direction) a “turning point” of the frame. Under engine instead of the brackets it mounted under engine area of 6-mm steel sheet, and between the axles mounted a curved I-beam of channel number 8, which greatly increased the rigidity of the structure. The spars extended offsets, each of which is made of a pair of segments steel corners No. 4, sklepu their shelves to length, thus obtaining a profile in the shape of the letter Z. Untouched in the front frame remained only its front with eyelets.

 

Rear of frame has remained virtually the same. Only replace the beam rear axle to a longer one to extend the track and put it in the transom plate for increasing the base pickup truck. The calculations showed that this beam can be made from one channel number 8 (on the mini-tractor it was made out of two such channels, without calculating). While there were still a significant margin of safety.

 

The machine size was limited to the condition that it fits together with the “Zhiguli” in one standard garage dimensions 6×3,2 m.

Although the size and design of the front half-frames are significantly changed, the layout is the same power unit and transmission — engine transmission and PTO, axles reduction gears remained similar to the one that was on a mini-tractor.