Not everyone is up to building a house or a large outbuilding, even if they have the desire. Some lack experience, others lack time. But some work can still be done yourself, while saving quite significant money. For example, installing a foundation plinth (otmostka) around the house. I ordered my country timber house from a Read more…
In winter, diesel fuel causes considerable trouble for farmers, as well as other owners of automotive and tractor equipment. At low temperatures, it becomes thick, and the paraffin contained in it crystallizes. This threatens rapid filter clogging and cessation of fuel supply from the tank. As a result, starting diesel engines and operating machines sometimes Read more…
A stationary gazebo on a dacha or garden plot is a great convenience: under its roof, both in the heat and in bad weather, it’s nice to sit in the fresh air, rest from daily chores, and have tea by the samovar. However, there isn’t always room for such a permanent structure; and its immobility Read more…
Most amateur constructors are constrained not only in space (usually they have only a small corner in their apartment for pursuing their favorite hobby), but also in time (they can dedicate themselves to this only late in the evening or early in the morning, when all household members are asleep). Some work can be done Read more…
The soil on our garden plots is such that during plowing with ordinary plows, clods are formed that require considerable effort and time to prepare the land for sowing. But people don’t give up. Many not only adapt but also involuntarily become innovators. One of my neighbors, for example, modified the plow body by installing Read more…
A small piece of steel cable, sheathed in a tubular plastic cover, enters a metal cylinder smaller than a hockey puck at its ends. This is a bicycle lock designed to prevent theft. It allows you to secure the bicycle to a post or something else, and in the absence of anything suitable—to lock the Read more…
A gardener, vegetable grower, or builder cannot easily do without such a vehicle as a wheelbarrow. When moving a wide variety of loads, it significantly lightens hard work—saves strength, time, and possibly health when transport volumes are substantial. Construction material markets and hardware stores sell wheelbarrows of various designs. But at prices incomparable to their Read more…
It’s useful to supplement the arsenal of metal-cutting machines in a home workshop with a pendulum saw. It can be mounted on a workbench, next to bench vises, in which the workpiece to be processed is clamped. The working tool of the saw is an abrasive disc. It can handle steel bars, angles, pipes, sheets Read more…
A mini-electro-calorifier (MEC) type heater is unlikely to surprise anyone these days. These compact and quite convenient household appliances can be purchased to suit any taste. However, it’s not at all necessary to spend money on industrial products, let alone imported ones. I, for example, have long been using a homemade MEC that, by unanimous Read more…
The times when caring for people’s health in our country was a state matter are long gone. The quality of free medical care now depends only on the doctor’s conscientiousness, while paid care depends on the amount you can “fork over,” and even that’s not always the case. Therefore, I advise taking care of your Read more…
