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…
I have been passionate about DIY creativity for a very long time. My favorite magazine, “Modelist-Konstruktor,” has contributed greatly to this. I have been subscribing to it since 1972. Following the recommendations and tips from the magazine, I have made many useful household constructions. The largest of them are the Arkhipov tractor (“M-K” No. 1, 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…
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…
A home craftsman’s desire to mechanize their labor as much as possible and replace hand tools with mechanical ones is only natural. One such tool is the jigsaw, indispensable when working with plywood, thin plastic, and similar materials. There are several options for replacing a hand jigsaw with a mechanical one: an attachment for the 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…
Almost all DIYers love working with wood, and many prefer this material to all others and make practical and beautiful things from it. But to seriously engage in woodworking (even if it is a hobby), it is clear that one knife is not enough. In this case, it would be nice to have a wood-cutting 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…
