The purpose of this vessel is fishing with a small trawl and drift nets no more than 20 miles from the port of refuge. Endurance – 12 days. Main dimensions of the boat: maximum length – 12.75 m, length at waterline – 11.7 m, width – 3 m, draft – 1.3 m. Speed reaches 8 Read more…
First of all, I thank the editorial board of “Modelist-Konstruktor” for promoting the ingenuity, intelligence and talent of ordinary people, for providing the opportunity to use their rich creative experience, concentrated in the magazine. Keep it up! For my part, I would like to offer readers a description of a very practical mini-truck. Practical in Read more…
The propulsion system of this snowmobile consists of a rubber-fabric track made from a 300 mm wide conveyor belt and joined into a ring using a hinged loop. On its outer surface, cleats made of duralumin channels are installed, and on the inner surface – brackets that allow the track to be driven by the Read more…
Owners of private houses or dachas often face the need to prepare concrete solutions. Mixing water, gravel, and cement in a certain proportion is not difficult, but very labor-intensive, requiring considerable time and physical effort. And if it is necessary to perform large volumes, the process of preparing concrete or masonry mortar turns into hard Read more…
How could one not help little Katyusha see the fish swimming! During a boat trip with grandfather Viktor on the lake, she kept leaning over the side, trying to see the underwater inhabitants. Grandfather, fearing that his granddaughter might accidentally fall into the water, asked her not to lean over the water anymore. And he Read more…
“Manual labor — to the shoulders of machines!” — under this headline, materials from the All-Union Conference of VISKHOM named after V. P. Goryachkin were published in our magazine (see “M-K”, 1982, No. 8). With the speeches of its participants about the importance and necessity of developing small-scale mechanization means, the editorial board opened a Read more…
Many imported bicycles with a large number (over a dozen) of speeds have now appeared on our market. But such machines probably only fascinate young people. Experts understand that it is still impossible to use all speeds to the full extent: it is not easy even to correctly select the right gear, and frequently switching Read more…
In the taiga regions, it’s not easy to get by without an off-road vehicle. That’s why all-terrain vehicles are always held in high regard here. I, for example, drive mine both in summer and winter. And it helps not only me. Once I went winter fishing. A steep bank about two meters high on the Read more…
We continue the story about machines and mechanisms built by V.A. SVERBIL — an amateur designer from the village of Zelenchukskaya in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. In the publication “Walk-behind tractor — nothing superfluous” (“Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 2’98), his faithful garden helper “Elektronik” was described. Now we offer to familiarize yourself with the design of a cargo Read more…
A strange situation has developed in our country: those who can afford to buy a tractor don’t need it (except perhaps for amusement at a country villa), while those who need a tractor because they live off the land cannot afford to buy one. But you can’t accomplish much on the land with bare hands Read more…
