In a small utility block on my garden plot, I had a storage room measuring only 2.2×2.7 m. One hot day, the idea came to convert it into a mini sauna and also add a shower section. I installed a 100 mm thick partition wall in the center of the storage space along its entire Read more…
To live comfortably in the countryside, you don’t actually need much — electricity, plumbing, a decent toilet, and a sewage system. Electricity usually isn’t a problem — even if your summer cottage area isn’t connected to the power grid, you can always buy a portable gasoline generator and enjoy all the benefits that electricity provides. Read more…
Having a stove (wood or coal-fired) makes it quite possible to supply hot water to the kitchen sink and even a shower using a water heater — a device that utilizes the heat of hot flue gases exhausted through the stove’s chimney. The design and operating principle of the device are as follows (Fig. 1, Read more…
The young naturalists of Cherkasy Secondary School No. 3 surely still remember the rabbit Belka, who gave birth to 96 kits in a year — three to five times more than usual. Belka’s offspring yielded nearly half a ton of meat, and the pelts were enough to make five children’s fur coats. We offer three Read more…
For cultivating the land in garden plots, I consider a walk-behind tractor to be the most suitable mechanism. It has small dimensions and consumes little fuel, has the necessary maneuverability and sufficient productivity. The ability to quickly replace some soil-cultivating tools on a walk-behind tractor with others (for example, a plow with a ripper, hiller Read more…
Dear editors! I am a long-time subscriber of yours, I have used many of the practical publications for home use and I eagerly await the next magazine every time: will there be something useful for DIYers there again? In the February issue I was interested in the article about protecting country buildings from lightning. I Read more…
In issue 6 for 2010, Modelist-Konstruktor told about repair and adjustment of a trimmer – a motor or electric scythe. The article is useful . What can I say, this tool is now widely used not only by summer residents and janitors, but also by farmers. Meanwhile, on small plots, in hard-to-reach places, an ordinary Read more…
In one of the spring programs of the Central Television, “You Can Do It,” enthusiasts of technical creativity got acquainted with a universal camp stove, or rather, an entire kitchen, which was designed and manufactured by an avid and experienced tourist I. Maslov. The advantages of the development he demonstrated are compactness, ease of transportation, Read more…
The GARDEN FURNITURE, which you will get acquainted with in today’s issue of KDM, successfully combines the qualities of a barbecue grill and an elegant garden table. Kebabs, chops, grilled chicken – all at once, in the heat of the day, and even in the open air – what could be more pleasant! A convenient Read more…
A small summer house that you can build on your own is the dream of many gardeners. In this article, we introduce readers to the development of the Novovyatsky wood panel plant – a project of a prefabricated panel house for a garden plot. Maximum functionality in a small size (the house has a room, Read more…
