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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MODEL-A COPY – OF A SET OF

MODEL-COPY - SETIn the last decade popular form of modeling the guys is to build plastic models-copies of ready sets. And it is clear. No need to look for scarce materials and components – almost everything you need is in the box. A beginner, even inept Modeler-student can easily pick a few ready-made parts than to cut them from scratch, because so eager to get the toy like a real tank, ship or aircraft, that neither the exact fit of parts, nor to the fine detailing of patience is not enough. It is clear that “copy number” of such models it is possible to speak only conditionally.

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WINGED FOAM

FLYING FOAMThe emergence in recent years of powerful and light microelectrophoresis DC and bystrozamorozhennyh batteries that can withstand large load, made it possible to create flying models with electric drive. The undoubted advantage of these indoor models are ease of use; the ability to practice aerobatic maneuvers not only on the street but also in the gym all year round; low noise; no pollution of the environment.

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THE SPEED CHANGE RODS

SPEED CHANGE CRANKSETAs you know, for different road conditions: descents, climbs — many types of bikes use a block of sprockets of different diameters for changing torque to the rear driving wheel. These mechanisms are relatively complicated, high cost structure, which does not allow to use the foot brake. But torque can be adjusted by changing the length of the connecting rod! And their mess is easy to exercise at home on all road bikes.

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