A well still has no less significance today than before, especially given the popularity of dacha and cottage construction. No tap water, even passed through modern filters, can compare to well water. Given its usefulness, a well deserves that its visible part not only performs protective functions but also serves as decoration, as a decorative Read more…
To make this light and convenient cart — an indispensable helper for gardeners and farmers — you will only need what can be found in any dacha or farm. But it will serve on any auxiliary work: move delivered cargo to the right place, bring planting material, go for water with canisters. Thanks to bicycle Read more…
A bedside table for bedding usually consists of a narrow box with a lid or a folding flap covering half of the front panel. The bedside table option proposed by the Hungarian magazine “Észermester” also looks almost no different externally. However, upon closer inspection, we’ll see that not only the upper half of the front Read more…
Whatever you say, the main and most accessible all-season propulsion system for homemade all-terrain vehicles remains the pneumatic tire — a wheel with low-pressure tires. But for many amateur designers, making wheels for pneumatic vehicles presents certain difficulties. It’s not easy to even decide on their design. Traditional wheels — two rims with beds between Read more…
The compact universal self-propelled machine MUSM-1 — that’s what the young craftsmen from the modeling and construction club of agricultural machines at Novokulinskaya Secondary School in Dagestan named their design. With the help of various attachments, it performs plowing, cultivation, sowing, harrowing; mows hay and collects dried grass into windrows and haystacks; transports various loads Read more…
«Dear editorial board! While reviewing back issues of ‘Modelist-Konstruktor’ from previous years, I became interested in materials about biogas published in issues No. 1’87, 5’88, 4’96 of the magazine. However, I didn’t dare to implement any of the proposed ideas on my farm. But I recently heard from neighbors that in Lithuania, some farmer got Read more…
In garden and dacha benches, the seats suffer most from atmospheric exposure: snow caps accumulate on their horizontal surface, which become soggy during thaws, and rain also has its destructive effect. Painting with oil paints certainly helps, but doesn’t save them. However, there is a way to make the seat as durable as the backrest. Read more…
If there is no separate children’s room in the apartment, organizing a workspace for a schoolchild is not so simple, and even more so if there are two students in the family. However, even here the design ingenuity of home craftsmen suggests a solution. Here is what solution to the problem is offered, for example, Read more…
Versatility is the main advantage of the multi-operation woodworking machine I developed. It can handle turning work, planing, material sawing, drilling and milling, and tenoning operations. Finally, you can sharpen tools on it or turn it into a woodworking bench. Lathe. It is the foundation of the “universal” machine and consists of a cabinet, bed, Read more…
Many owners have to start developing their garden, vegetable garden, or dacha plot by ensuring it has water. I began with solving this problem as well. The water on the plot lay relatively close to the surface — at a depth of about 4.5 m. A shaft well could have been dug. But water consumption Read more…
