Everyone knows how corn and sunflowers grow. But few people can picture what harvesting them looks like. On large areas, of course, combines and other machines are used, while on small ones — say, school or experimental plots — lawn shears are still used to this day. Yet such work is very tiring and, more Read more…
This simplest incubator can become a reliable helper in any household; it will spare you the annoying spring worries of buying chicks for your farm. The device is as easy to make as it is to operate. The idea for this incubator belongs to “M-K” reader V. Shopin from Belgorod region; the design work was Read more…
There is no doubt: a motor plow or a microtractor on a household plot is a jack-of-all-trades helper. But where the plot is quite small, and trees and shrubs in the garden are planted rather densely, a walk-behind tractor with an internal combustion engine simply has no room to turn around. That is where a Read more…
We continue the story of the machines and mechanisms built by V. A. SVERBL — an amateur designer from the village of Zelenchukskaya in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. In the publications “Walk-behind tractor — nothing superfluous”, “A reliable helper for the walk-behind tractor” and “A compact car with the character of an all-terrain vehicle” (“Modelist-Konstruktor” Nos. Read more…
In one of the episodes of the Central Television program “You Can Do It” (“Eto vy mozhete”), viewers met the amateur designer Oleg Andreevich Ostapenko. We have already grown used to the fact that “EVM” introduces us to people whose technical creativity invariably arouses interest and surprises us with unexpected solutions to various design problems. Read more…
Folk wisdom insistently advises counting chickens in the autumn. Without hesitation, however, let us note: in a period of total shortage that has swept the country, one cannot fail to take care of the timely acquisition of the “source material” — those same live fluffy little balls that are supposed to turn into future broody Read more…
Which exhibition exhibit is the most interesting? Obviously, the one with the most visitors, the one most often aimed at by camera lenses. That exhibit at the 1984 Moscow City Exhibition of Youth Scientific and Technical Creativity was the “Vyatka-1M” walk-behind tractor, built in the auto-design club of the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren named Read more…
In a well-known encyclopedia of the century before last, “Industry and Technology,” in the volume on the “processing of fibrous substances,” which wood also is, it is said that “in work on dividing wood … splitting is of importance.” And further: “a wedge-shaped tool bends apart the parts of the wood being separated; here the Read more…
We named our potato digger a screw-drum digger after its two main working elements. It is intended for harvesting tubers on educational and experimental plots, as well as household plots and gardens. That is why an electric motor is used as the drive, although of course an internal combustion engine of suitable power can also Read more…
For more than a decade G. Malakhov has worked as the chief mechanic of the tool shop at one of Moscow’s aviation plants. But he has spent even more time (since the age of 13) on amateur technical creativity, without which he cannot imagine his present or his future at all. His record includes aerosleds, Read more…
