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…
The age of the members of the “Planeta” young technicians station varies greatly: from elementary school students to graduates. And if high school students are more interested in serious equipment (motor blocks, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, etc.), then for younger ones, light motorcycles are most attractive, so they can start it themselves and ride with the Read more…
It was named a hydrocart, although it looks more like a kind of water motorcycle. This sports micro-vessel was built at the Donetsk Regional Young Technicians’ Station in the “Small Shipbuilding” club. As the station director N. V. Vasiliev reported to the editorial office, the club is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year. At first, Read more…
The owner of a light moped (or, according to modern classification — a mo-vel, that is, a motorized bicycle), equipped with a D-8 engine, eventually notices that their two-wheeled machine doesn’t start easily enough, sometimes can’t pull uphill or poorly overcomes off-road conditions. And starting the engine with bicycle pedals, on the go, is not Read more…
