Many rural residents who previously did not keep cows on their farm are forced to get them now. After all, the cow has always helped a person survive difficult times by providing milk. But the owner also needs to take care of the animal so that the cow is well-fed both in the stall period. Read more…
Strawberry, wild strawberry… They are often confused with one another, but the best of berries, by right, are considered to be strawberries. Bright, juicy, fragrant. With sugar and cream they make an excellent dessert. Jam, jelly, and medicinal pick-ups are also wonderful—especially from strawberries. Strawberries have an almost rounded-conical shape, a whitish coloring over more Read more…
I was born and raised in a region where the ground stays under a thick snow cover for most of the year — so it’s no surprise that people consider this place the homeland of Ded Moroz. Probably, that’s why, alongside my general interest in technology, snowmobile machines have always drawn my special attention. Owning Read more…
Many owners of motorized equipment strive to use their available vehicles as effectively as possible. When building various structures, improving garden plots, and doing other household work, it becomes necessary to move various loads over short distances. In a number of cases, this task is within the power of a motorcycle with a sidecar trailer. Read more…
During the winter season, motor-sport enthusiasts experience a period of relative calm. The reason is the poor conditions in which the rider finds himself: once he rides his two-wheeled “friend” onto a snow-covered road, sometimes with ice patches. And off-road you can go only on a specially prepared motorcycle (with studded tires). Using the idea Read more…
A windsurfer, like any sailboat, needs wind. Meanwhile, on its hull-float it is possible to swim even in calm weather if necessary. In the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor” there was once a mention of using the hull in a rowing version — with a two-blade kayak oar, or with an ordinary pair of oars (though in the Read more…
Today we introduce readers to two such works, interesting above all because they address an area of home farming that is still only weakly covered by technical creativity: beekeeping. For it, club members of the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren of the Bauman District in Moscow have created a very convenient original hive for use, Read more…
Before introducing the material below, we’d like to recall a short note in issue No. 2 of our journal for 1979 — “Folding sleds.” The reason is that the author of both designs is the same — our reader from Kazan, E. Zakharov. His technical creativity was prompted by a little son who every morning Read more…
Winter in our northern parts is long. There aren’t many roads, and even those don’t manage to clear snow in time. That’s why it’s hard for people here to get by without snowmobile machines, especially when you often have to ride completely off-road (for example, into the forest for firewood) — right across piled-up snowdrifts. Read more…
At the end of winter in 1974, on snow-covered fields near the airport “Domodedovo”, an unusual machine appeared—something like the egg of a fairy bird Rukh, or like a gigantic cocoon. Leaving behind clouds of snowy dust, it slid over the plain at an impressive speed and easily overcame fairly steep climbs. Its maneuverability astonished Read more…
