TO GROW POTATOES? IN THE SAWDUST!

TO RAISE POTATOES? IN THE SAWDUST!It is possible to invent in all spheres of human activity. And agriculture is no exception. It is known that potatoes are best grown in sandy soil: and plant it well and harvest easy to mechanize. Well, if the soil is solid clay, weather – rain, rain, revocable, and agricultural equipment available? Grow crops in this case, the farmer helps his fiction. To trace the course of thought of the inventor, as a rule, difficult. But by and large, useless. Much more important is the result of the thinking process. In the case of potatoes, in relation to my humble experience since 1991, it can be so.

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SPRAY? DISK!

For chemical protection of agricultural crops from pests and diseases, and in making micronutrients during weeding chemicals are usually converted into coarse aerosol, which is directed to plants or soil. At the same time seeking to labor costs were minimal, and spraying the preparations were used, if possible, without losses. And fractional composition of the droplets, the content of active substances try to make optimal.

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SELECT THE KRUPORUSHKA

CHOOSE THE KRUPORUSHKAHave in the farm or on a personal farmstead of a good high-performance kruporushka not a fad, but rather a vital necessity. Especially when you consider the high cost of ready to “purchase” animal feed and often inconsistent quality of the advertised. However, some specific designs of existing diversity of shredders (including home-made developments, published at different times in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”) to choose?

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A RAKE WITH WHEELS

RAKE WITH WHEELSAn ordinary hand rake for harvesting hay is a tool the ancient and familiar to every villager. As a rule, all parts of this instrument from wood, that was easy, after all, to keep his accounts at work is almost always on weight. The width of the grip hand rake is small, accordingly, the performance of the small, even the enthusiastic collector.

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CAR INCREASED LOAD CAPACITY AND FLOTATION

THE WHEELBARROW IS HEAVY DUTY AND THE CROSSGardener, gardeners, builders difficult to do without such a vehicle, like a car. When moving a wide variety of goods it greatly facilitates the hard work — saves energy, time, and possibly health when the volume of traffic is significant. In the markets of construction materials and are sold in hozmage cars of various designs. But at a price that is incomparable in their efficiency. Besides, they are made according to the type of commercial trucks with the wheel in front of the loading platform (or body).

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GARDEN CART – FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE

GARDEN CART - FROM PAST TO FUTUREOver thirty years ago fate would have it, so I went into the house of Fyodor Nikitovich, Kuhtenko. This man’s life was not easy. The dispossession of the family of the parents in the period of collectivization, war, captivity, escape, the Soviet camp, the work of a master in a munitions factory, once again the repression and return in the defense industry. In short, learn it once, and the birthplace of required full-time commitment. Helped natural diligence and, most importantly, the talent of the master on all hands.

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MOTOR BOAT “MIRAGE”

MOTOR BOAT At the time I had a chance to build and test many motor boats. The first water I came off the boat “star”, the drawings of which were published in the October issue of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” for 1966. It is known that the village of homebrew not spoiled by the wide range of structural materials. What was required for the construction of the “Stars” for a long time was not. Had to make do with what was in the moment at hand, namely, a steel sheet with a thickness of 1.8 mm. Naturally, the power set of metal profiles and strips of different cross sections, coupled with sigouney paneling gave the boat a pretty solid mass.

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IN THE AIR — “TRAIN”

IN THE AIR Specialized in aeromodelling magazines increasingly published articles about the model aircraft with electric. Today betrothe quite successfully fly and kordovye, and Svobodnaya, and RC models. The reasons are many, and one of the main can rightly be considered the appearance on the market of light and powerful power sources and motors, a compact and lightweight remote control equipment.

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“SWEET” AUTO-TRAIN

Not so long ago, with retirement, I seriously take up beekeeping. But our region is not rich in melliferous plants, so during the season we have to move with the whole apiary from one place to another six or seven times. To transport hives I to their pickup IZH-27151-01 produced a trailer which you can install eight buildings. This capacity is provided by the fact that for a passenger car trailer is quite unusual — it is biaxial. In the manufacture of many trailer parts and components used from the disused vehicles and agricultural equipment. Given the time developing designs and search of the necessary parts and materials trailer I did for two months.

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AND “THE KID” CUT.

AND I’m a longtime admirer of the magazine “modelist-Konstruktor”. In the publications of improvised technique find many useful, and most importantly — increased creativity and a desire to design your own technique. I also homebrew with the experience. In recent years, made three tillers for themselves and their relatives. For processing country of six acres, but still planted mostly fruit-berry cultures, these machines are very suitable. But if the plot is bigger, then their effectiveness is eroding. Without a tractor here not to do, even a small mini. Here I am, before you take a plot of land on the former state farm field is abandoned, decided to make and made a good assistant — a mini-tractor.

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