The first furrow on his homestead plot was made by resident of Pavlovo-on-Neva village, Kirovsky district, Leningrad region V. I. Morozov using an electric winch in the spring of 1980. Having confirmed the reliable operation of the unit, Vasily Ivanovich sent its description to the editorial office, which was published accompanied by a comment from Read more…
Is it not tempting to build a motorized plow whose construction has almost no welded joints! That is why the article “At the wheel of a veloplow” published in “M-K” No. 3, 1985—on how to build such a mechanism using the frame of a worn-out bicycle—drew a wide response. However, many letters received by the Read more…
…The silence of a sunny spring morning was shattered by the sharp clatter of an engine. A peasant digging his garden with a shovel straightened up and looked over the fence at the neighbor’s plot: what was that noise at the old Ilyichevs’? He saw a small two-wheeled machine emerge from behind the outbuilding onto Read more…
Livestock productivity depends not least on the temperature of the water that animals drink. Warm water is also required for farm needs. That’s why it’s so important to control its heating at any time of the year. This can be entrusted to a simple automatic device. By the way, it will also take care of Read more…
Many rural amateur constructors quite rightly consider the motor winch the most promising soil‑tillage unit. It is not without drawbacks, however. The main one is the need each time to drag a fairly heavy plow from the end of the furrow back to the start, while shifting the motor winch itself by the inter‑furrow distance. Read more…
The prototype of the gasoline-powered tiller built by students of the Moscow region school of the “Gorki Leninskie” state farm was based on a machine of the same purpose produced by one of the Latvian factories. It is designed for soil preparation for sowing and planting and for tilling soil in the inter-rows of forest Read more…
More than once I had to dig through waterlogged clay soil on the plot. Soil stuck to the shovel in such amounts that working without cleaning it became simply impossible. Removing the soil from the tool was no easy task either and took more time than the digging itself. Having suffered enough with that kind Read more…
In our middle latitudes, there are years when fruit trees stand as if in construction scaffolding: they are not visible due to a palisade of supports saving branches overloaded with fruit. Gardeners know how difficult it is to grow a good harvest, but no less a problem is to preserve it, to make maximum use Read more…
The grass collector is designed to gather mowed stems; it has a cage welded from metal rods onto which the cut plants fall. There is also a control mechanism for the collector: a chain drive, a gear reducer, and a pair of rods bent at a right angle that act like a crank. Deflecting the Read more…
Perhaps this mechanism is the lightest in its family of counterparts: even a schoolchild can lift and carry it if need be. Low weight and utmost simplicity of construction—these are the qualities of the bicycle plow that drew the attention of visitors to the exhibition of young technicians’ work, participants in the All-Union rally of Read more…
