What home craftsman can do without an electric drill? With a set of simple attachments, it can perform a wide variety of material processing operations. But most often, the drill is, of course, used for its intended purpose—drilling holes. How well and quickly you can do this depends on proper tool sharpening. The grinding attachment Read more…
It is designed for a relaxation corner on a country plot, by the wall of a house on the sunny or, conversely, shady side—wherever one prefers. This set includes a table and two benches, and what’s unusual about it is that all these items can be easily lifted and fixed to the wall as a 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…
Despite the ever-growing variety of breadboxes offered by industry, they still rarely meet the main requirement—keeping bread fresh: inside them it either goes stale quickly or gets moldy. Wooden designs are far more reliable in this regard, and they are easy to make yourself. Here is one such breadbox, made from 12 mm plywood. It 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…
Neither metal nor plastic bread storage boxes offered by industry can compare with wooden ones. The latter are more eco-friendly, more durable, more attractive, and they keep loaves and baguettes fresh much longer. And the wooden design proposed by the Polish magazine Młody Technik is even more versatile: it combines the functions of both a 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…
I have been subscribing to the magazine “Modelist-Constructor” for a long time, almost since its very beginning; I have gained a lot of useful knowledge from it. Responding to your call to be not only a reader but also an author, I decided to write about my experience in making chain-link mesh. The method itself Read more…
