WOODEN GRASSHOPPER

WOOD Recumbent I’ve collected over the ten days together with their children and we called him “Grasshopper”. Rear wheels have “Grasshopper” — from Bicycle “the Schoolboy one of which is driving. The ends of their common axis attached to two spars, made from cuttings of hockey sticks with a cross-section 30×20 mm, which, in turn, are connected a nylon thread impregnated with epoxy resin. Cross two wooden slats cross-section 40×35 mm. This frame is fixed with the same glue and large screws on the pole — aspen-bar-section 70×50 mm. In the middle of the drawbar carriage mounted drive unit, and the front end connector of the steering wheel from kids bike. Control is via a lever associated with a fork. On the frame of the seat, and behind him is a small box in the trunk. Structural weight — 25 kg.
 
A. KORCHEVSKY Vitebsk

Recommend to read

  • Yak-9: FROM STALINGRAD TO BERLINYak-9: FROM STALINGRAD TO BERLIN
    For more than six months of heavy fighting on land, at sea and in the air. The Soviet warriors and the creators of the weapons - designers of tanks, guns, ships and planes - accumulated...
  • AMURCHONOK PAVES THE FURROWAMURCHONOK PAVES THE FURROW
    Our magazine has repeatedly written about Krasnodar, Stavropol, Ural tractors, motologic, milling rippers, electrocore created in the circles of young technicians. These machines — good...