A small plot of land, where “serious” machinery has no room to work, can really only be cultivated properly with a walk-behind tractor. That is why a thrifty rural owner, having decided to get such a machine, will first choose its make and weigh its capabilities. And only then will he think about a cart, Read more…
Small cozy Latvian villages, half-hidden by the curly greenery of trees, are densely scattered across fields that are as flat as a table. They are sometimes only a few kilometers apart, like the villages of Rude and Nica in the Liepaja district, and their life is closely linked by such close neighborhood. Many schoolchildren from Read more…
I invite the magazine’s readers to get acquainted with an original design of a universal self-propelled vehicle built by my brother Alexander. As he claims (jokingly, of course), the idea of making such a machine came to him out of laziness. He really did not want to spend his whole life doing hard, low-productivity work, Read more…
When people want to emphasize that someone has done a great deal of work, searching for a fitting comparison, they involuntarily turn to the hard labor of digging the earth and say: “They’ve shoveled so much!” Then everything becomes clear at once, and memories of stubborn soil, an aching back, and blisters on the hands Read more…
For a long time, the designers of mini-cars could not decide in what position the racer should pass the course. There were even cars of the “bed” type: their advantages were a low center of gravity and low resistance to oncoming air flows. A mini-car with a simplified sample of steering control: the racer turned Read more…
When repairing and testing the electrical equipment of motoblocks not fitted with a battery, as well as Voskhod-3M motorcycles and mopeds, you have to start the engine each time to power the electrical system. It is troublesome and wastes fuel. Yet there is, in my opinion, a good solution: use the household mains as the Read more…
I have subscribed to the “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine since 1985 and have never regretted it. I read everything: from the first page to the last. It is a very useful and interesting publication. And although times are hard now and the magazine is not exactly cheap, I will continue to subscribe, because I believe the value Read more…
For my first walk-behind tractor, I used the Vyatich as a basis; its technical description and sketches of its main assemblies and parts had been published in Modelist-Konstruktor magazine. However, my capabilities and material and production resources differed from those available to the designer of the Vyatich. The result was a homemade machine that bore Read more…
A filter is an important device that helps clean the water in an aquarium and, at the same time, saturate it with oxygen. Water is passed through the filter by means of a system of communicating vessels, and the motive force for pumping water from the bottom of the filter into the aquarium is created Read more…
The quiet of a sunny spring morning was broken by the throb of an engine. A villager digging his garden with a spade straightened up and looked over the fence at the neighbor’s plot: what was that noise at the Ilyichyovs’ place? He saw a small two-wheeled machine emerge from behind the outbuilding into the Read more…
