Having a solid, high-performance grain crusher on a farm or personal homestead is not a whim, but rather a necessity. This is especially true when considering the high cost of ready-made “store-bought” feed mixes and the frequent mismatch between their quality and what is advertised. However, which specific design from the existing variety of crushers Read more…
«Hitch… a winch» — under this headline, material about my developed electric plowing system was published in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 8, 1995. A far from minor role in it is assigned to the towed plow, the design of which is proposed to be made as lightweight as possible (to reduce fatigue when carrying it to the 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…
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 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…
Less and less often you’ll see nimble mopeds on our roads. And this is not surprising: the main manufacturers, by the will of fate, ended up abroad — in Latvia and Ukraine. So everything that is still sold from this range in specialized stores today are foreign-made models. Accordingly, the price… Moreover, fickle motorcycle fashion Read more…
The structure I’m going to talk about could be called a potato harvester, as it consists of several relatively independent units. The potato digger is designed primarily for coupling with the mini-tractor “Osorinets”, described in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 12, 1996. But since it has an autonomous engine, it can work in tandem with any tractor regardless Read more…
In the mid-80s, television screens in many countries widely advertised small, fast, exceptionally maneuverable motorized vessels under the general name “water motorcycle”: “jet ski”, “waterbot”, “hydrocycle”. They immediately won the hearts of water sports enthusiasts, displacing windsurfers, water skiers, and representatives of some types of water-motor sports. However, reproducing a hydrocycle design at home is Read more…
Every time the season for preserving vegetables and making juices approaches, I catch myself thinking that I’ll have to go to my neighbor again to borrow his juicer. It looks unassuming and simple in design, but once I’ve worked with it, I can no longer bring myself to use my industrial electric-powered juicer with numerous Read more…
A story about all the machines and mechanisms created by amateur constructor Vasily Alekseevich SVERBIL from the village of Zelenchukskaya in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic cannot fit into one publication. It’s better to tell about them one by one. And we’ll start, perhaps, with the simplest thing the craftsman built—the “Elektronik” walk-behind tractor. They say that Read more…
