In modern standard apartments, the hallway is usually small, so the furniture placed in it should be multifunctional. A furniture wall unit meets this requirement most fully. It may include a wardrobe for outerwear, a coat rack, a place for shoes, and mini-storage for various items, household and sports equipment. Unfortunately, wall units available for Read more…
Small tillers with a rotary cutter as the working tool fare well: biting into the soil with their rotating blades, the cutter not only loosens the ground but also helps the tiller move forward, as if pushing it along. A motor plow is another matter: the share that cuts and turns over a furrow of Read more…
When my second child was born, we once again faced the problem of washing diapers, baby undershirts, and romper suits. Wash by hand? Long and tedious. Wash in a large washing machine? That is completely uneconomical — neither in terms of detergent consumption, nor water and electricity use… And a large machine also takes quite Read more…
Any rural housewife knows how much time and effort it takes to prepare enough chopped greens and vegetables for livestock and poultry feed, or to process berries for preserving with sugar. A very simple device can make this work much easier. Just connect a meat grinder to an electric drill, and in 20–30 minutes about Read more…
The woodworking machine presented to the readers’ judgment I designed myself, fabricated with my own hands, and now successfully use when building a house on my plot. I am becoming convinced how successful the design turned out: compact, technologically sound, and, I believe, quite suitable for “replication.” The machine is so simple that an overly Read more…
For most people, mentions of a dental drill bring unpleasant feelings. But for a skilled craftsman the attitude toward this equipment is different. Perhaps only this mechanism makes it possible to machine complex surfaces and hard-to-reach places in contoured parts. That is why, among other necessary fixtures and equipment, an electric rotary tool (dental drill Read more…
The design of this portable barbecue is convenient both for camping conditions (for example, for tourists, hunters, or anglers) and for a garden plot or a country house for quickly cooking shashlik or roasting vegetables, frying sausages, frankfurters, or fish. Its advantage is that this kind of barbecue can be taken apart and folded instantly, Read more…
Two or three intense strength exercises can be more effective than prolonged unloaded gymnastics. A horizontal bar or parallel bars are good for this — equipment clearly not intended for an apartment. However, they can be successfully replaced by a simple device proposed by the Hungarian magazine “Ezermester”. It takes up little space, is versatile, Read more…
Submersible vibration electric pumps “Malysh” and “Rucheek” are a common choice for autonomous water-supply systems of small households, including farms. They are compact, convenient to operate, and reasonably priced. But there is a problem: such pumps cannot cope with subzero temperatures. When the pump is switched off in winter, water is trapped in the supply Read more…
Thrifty householders have always had a tradition of putting up various pickles and jams for the winter, and today it is especially relevant: food prices rise, while purchasing power lags behind. At the same time the country is experiencing a dacha boom, and plots are filled with plantings, greenhouses, fruit trees, and berry bushes. The Read more…
