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…
The age of the members of the “Planeta” young technicians station varies greatly: from elementary school students to graduates. And if high school students are more interested in serious equipment (motor blocks, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, etc.), then for younger ones, light motorcycles are most attractive, so they can start it themselves and ride with the Read more…
It was named a hydrocart, although it looks more like a kind of water motorcycle. This sports micro-vessel was built at the Donetsk Regional Young Technicians’ Station in the “Small Shipbuilding” club. As the station director N. V. Vasiliev reported to the editorial office, the club is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year. At first, Read more…
The owner of a light moped (or, according to modern classification — a mo-vel, that is, a motorized bicycle), equipped with a D-8 engine, eventually notices that their two-wheeled machine doesn’t start easily enough, sometimes can’t pull uphill or poorly overcomes off-road conditions. And starting the engine with bicycle pedals, on the go, is not Read more…
To convert the motorcycle to a batteryless setup I purchased: an AC generator 43.3701 (from Minsk or Voskhod motorcycles), two thyristor ignition modules KET-1, a BKS-261.3764 unit, an inductive pickup, plus 12 V lamps and a horn. You can also make a 12 V generator from two G427 units taken off older motorcycles: use one Read more…
In recent years, DIY snowmobile designers have somehow forgotten about ski-and-track machines whose designs have been perfected by dozens of manufacturers across hundreds of models, and instead prefer simpler, more versatile all-terrain vehicles on low-pressure tires. Nevertheless, from time to time snowmobile enthusiasts design classic motor sleds as well, creating simple and functional machines. A Read more…
For water tourism enthusiasts who live far from large bodies of water—rivers, lakes, and seas—setting out on a voyage means first getting both themselves and their craft to the “big water.” That is why the craft must be mobile by design: foldable or take-apart. I faced a challenging task: to build a capacious, reliable, stable—even Read more…
The need to have a nimble and reliable motorized assistant at my personal disposal I (like, probably, many others in a similar situation) felt with particular acuteness when I became the owner of a dacha plot. There wasn’t enough strength and funds for a mini-tractor, so I decided to limit myself to a walk-behind tractor, Read more…
