A tasty and healthy product—sauerkraut. Practical housewives prepare it in autumn both in rural areas and in the city. And the most labor-intensive operation here is shredding the heads. For this, both sharp long knives and special shredders are used. But no manual one can compare in convenience and productivity with an electric one, which Read more…
Having a solid, high-performance grain crusher on a farm or personal homestead is not a whim, but rather a necessity. This is especially true when considering the high cost of ready-made “store-bought” feed mixes and the frequent mismatch between their quality and what is advertised. However, which specific design from the existing variety of crushers Read more…
«Hitch… a winch» — under this headline, material about my developed electric plowing system was published in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 8, 1995. A far from minor role in it is assigned to the towed plow, the design of which is proposed to be made as lightweight as possible (to reduce fatigue when carrying it to the Read more…
The soil on our garden plots is such that during plowing with ordinary plows, clods are formed that require considerable effort and time to prepare the land for sowing. But people don’t give up. Many not only adapt but also involuntarily become innovators. One of my neighbors, for example, modified the plow body by installing Read more…
The structure I’m going to talk about could be called a potato harvester, as it consists of several relatively independent units. The potato digger is designed primarily for coupling with the mini-tractor “Osorinets”, described in “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 12, 1996. But since it has an autonomous engine, it can work in tandem with any tractor regardless Read more…
Every time the season for preserving vegetables and making juices approaches, I catch myself thinking that I’ll have to go to my neighbor again to borrow his juicer. It looks unassuming and simple in design, but once I’ve worked with it, I can no longer bring myself to use my industrial electric-powered juicer with numerous Read more…
A story about all the machines and mechanisms created by amateur constructor Vasily Alekseevich SVERBIL from the village of Zelenchukskaya in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic cannot fit into one publication. It’s better to tell about them one by one. And we’ll start, perhaps, with the simplest thing the craftsman built—the “Elektronik” walk-behind tractor. They say that Read more…
From the depths of centuries, the shovel has reached us, to which V. Dal, the creator of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, gave an amazingly apt definition: “a blade tool for digging and scooping loose materials.” This hand tool is well-known to owners of dachas and garden plots, not to mention Read more…
It’s nice to try fresh mushrooms in the cold January. You’ll be able to pick them at any time of year if you build a mushroom growing cabinet. Externally, it’s a two-door cabinet measuring 2290X2130X1035 mm, which can be installed, say, in a large hallway. The cabinet is constructed like a thermostat — with walls Read more…
Car enthusiasts who have dachas or homestead plots take up shovels in spring just as enthusiastically as the carless part of humanity. Meanwhile, they could quite avoid such unproductive expenditure of their own physical effort by shifting a significant portion of it onto their car. Any passenger car can become an excellent plowman—you just need Read more…
