Both during construction and during further operation or repair of an individual or country house, a special ladder is needed for work on the roof, preferably wooden, with an L-shaped end at the top so it can be hooked over the roof ridge. Often it remains there unused until the next time, due to the Read more…
Having a stove in a garden house (coal or wood-fired), it’s quite possible to provide hot water for the kitchen sink and even a shower. You’ll need a water heater – a device that allows you to use the heat of hot gases exiting through the stove’s chimney. Design and operating principle. The water heater Read more…
I set myself the goal of making a nimble, reliable, and compact walk-behind tractor. So that this mechanical assistant would work in the garden, plow the vegetable garden, cut beds, plant potatoes in the home field, weed seedlings, and harvest… And most importantly, so that I could operate this equipment while sitting in a comfortable Read more…
More than once I tried to build a simple, convenient, and compact micro-motorcycle. However, after building and testing several such machines with a D6 engine, shortcomings emerged that were stereotypically repeated in all of them: uncomfortable riding position (especially for tall riders), lack of auxiliary pedal drive, the need to start, as they say, “by Read more…
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…
Those who keep livestock and poultry in their household cannot do without grain supplies. Grain can be stored for a long time (I read in one of the magazines that an amphora with wheat was found in some pharaoh’s tomb — the seeds were such that they could be sown). But to use grain as 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…
I started designing this car a long time ago – maybe ten, maybe fifteen years ago. But this does not mean at all that I stood at the drawing board for all ten to fifteen years. No, I just bit by bit, in the mass of what had already been created and worked out, I Read more…
I made a root vegetable chopper, so necessary for providing home livestock with vitamin feed (“chopped feed”), based on a decommissioned ATD2—a disc fertilizer spreader that I managed to find among the collective farm scrap metal. Both the metal cylindrical hopper with a lid and lower band, and the working seeding organ itself (simply put, Read more…
