Having a stove in a garden house (coal or wood-fired), it’s quite possible to provide hot water for the kitchen sink and even a shower. You’ll need a water heater – a device that allows you to use the heat of hot gases exiting through the stove’s chimney. Design and operating principle. The water heater Read more…
I set myself the goal of making a nimble, reliable, and compact walk-behind tractor. So that this mechanical assistant would work in the garden, plow the vegetable garden, cut beds, plant potatoes in the home field, weed seedlings, and harvest… And most importantly, so that I could operate this equipment while sitting in a comfortable Read more…
The walk-behind tractor was built by members of the “Young Technician” club of Vocational School No. 25 from the city of Kelmency, Chernivtsi region. With its help, they cultivate potato plots, mow grass, and transport cargo. The walk-behind tractor’s layout is traditional: frame, engine, and two-wheeled running gear. As needed, the following are attached to Read more…
It’s nice to relax after working in the garden by settling comfortably in a hammock. Buying a ready-made hammock is no problem today, but a true craftsperson prefers to make everything with their own hands—especially when it doesn’t take much effort. And making a hammock is really easy. You’ll need a piece of any heavy Read more…
A garden cart with a wide, spacious box and grids for extending the sides is convenient for a wide variety of garden and homestead work. However, everyone who works with soil primarily digs, plants, and sows. It turns out that the cart can easily be adapted to perform these functions: you can assemble a combine Read more…
Our magazine has already dedicated several articles to the topic of making good use of such a seemingly useless material as various bottles. And today, we are once again returning to this subject, offering our readers an article by V. B. Akimov, who shares his advice on how to repurpose many of the household items Read more…
The idea of creating a mechanical assistant for garden cultivation came to me a long time ago. I looked through relevant issues of the “Modelist-Constructor” magazine with descriptions of soil-cultivating tools and concluded that, based on the available power unit and the control levers from the Electron motor scooter, it would be better to make Read more…
Do you know what’s the most annoying thing about a summer shower at the cottage or in a private house? Constantly running to check if there’s water in the tank. It feels like you just filled it — and after a couple of washes, the level is already at zero. And every time it’s the Read more…
Do you build small greenhouses on your countryside plot, or simply cover early seedlings in your garden beds with film? If so, it’s important to make sure such a cover is convenient to use. After all, you can’t even count how many times during the season you’ll need to open and close this transparent “tent.” Read more…
Would you like to relax and indulge in sweet idleness, lying under the sun in a comfortable lounger in a cozy corner of your country yard? Tempting, right? To make this happen, you’ll need a bit of preparatory work — but according to the Bulgarian magazine “Naprawi Sam”, it’s entirely doable for any hardworking DIY Read more…
