Good for the classics! They go beyond the outskirts, to protected places — boundless expanses, tall grasses, fresh breeze. Everything sets a poetic mood. And so it’s born: “Mow, scythe, while the dew…”, “Spread out, shoulder, swing, arm…” But the ordinary modern “urbanized” villager (and the city dweller — owner of a small plot of Read more…
I discovered the sketch of a small motorcar-truck, which this article is about, in an old folder during a major cleanup and reorganization in my garage archive. It brought back memories of those times when enthusiasm for technical creativity—building homemade machines, boats, aircraft, and various other constructions—was, one might say, widespread. I also developed a Read more…
Aviation mechanic M.A. Masterov is one of that remarkable group of amateur designers that the Udmurt land has always been proud of. His achievements include such serious works as delta- and motorized deltaplanes, an aircraft of his own design and a restored Yak-18T, various machine tools, and much more. Today, all the craftsman’s efforts are Read more…
It seems incredible that the chrome-plated roller bike, one of the numerous exhibits at the Central Exhibition NTTM-82, was made by teenagers — it has a very “factory-made” appearance. And yet it was made by members of the Tashkent City Station of Young Technicians Abdukhamid Dekhkambayev and Khasan Nurmatov. They were supervised by designer-constructor V. Read more…
Having a plot of land for a vegetable garden in our climate zone, regular watering is necessary to get a good harvest. But in the absence of your own water well or a well, at the established water rates, watering from the public water supply is quite expensive. After all, you have to water almost Read more…
Whatever amateur designers may attempt, no better running gear for snowmobiles has yet been invented than the repeatedly tested combination of “ski plus pneumatic tire.” I became convinced of this after building and testing three variants of snowmobiles of my own design in sequence. The first machine had two skis in front and one wheel Read more…
More than once I tried to build a simple, convenient, and compact micro-motorcycle. However, after building and testing several such machines with a D6 engine, shortcomings emerged that were stereotypically repeated in all of them: uncomfortable riding position (especially for tall riders), lack of auxiliary pedal drive, the need to start, as they say, “by Read more…
Those who keep livestock and poultry in their household cannot do without grain supplies. Grain can be stored for a long time (I read in one of the magazines that an amphora with wheat was found in some pharaoh’s tomb — the seeds were such that they could be sown). But to use grain as Read more…
I started designing this car a long time ago – maybe ten, maybe fifteen years ago. But this does not mean at all that I stood at the drawing board for all ten to fifteen years. No, I just bit by bit, in the mass of what had already been created and worked out, I Read more…
I made a root vegetable chopper, so necessary for providing home livestock with vitamin feed (“chopped feed”), based on a decommissioned ATD2—a disc fertilizer spreader that I managed to find among the collective farm scrap metal. Both the metal cylindrical hopper with a lid and lower band, and the working seeding organ itself (simply put, Read more…
