Bolts, nuts, washers, cotter pins, and other small items are necessary in any household. Or, say, jars and bottles with spices, seeds, chemical reagents… It’s good when all of this is not in “working disorder,” but at hand, in a homemade glass storage rack, the square cells of which are quite capacious and compact. The Read more…
The proposed mini-farm is designed for breeding and keeping rabbits of any breed in both private and public subsidiary farms. Its basis is a two-tier cage-module (if necessary, there can be several of them, united by a common roof). The farm’s design and maintenance regime are thought out so that it can be used even Read more…
The proposed plow originated, one might say, from a shovel. One spring day on my garden plot, I was making furrows for planting root crops. The soil had been previously plowed, but I had to work bent low, and therefore suffered quite a bit. In the yard at that time, my first-grader grandson Igor was Read more…
This wheelbarrow was designed (if you can call it that—the process of thinking through the design and estimating dimensions) and built in a few hours after my brother and I received a message from our father in the village asking us to help him build an access road to the house. It was clear that Read more…
“Potatoes are often called the second bread. But this bread is not easy to come by. Especially without using prohibitively expensive tillers and mini-tractors, relying only on a shovel and a hoe. About a year ago, “Modelist-Konstruktor” decided to help, publishing a good development about a tracer-potato planter made from water and gas pipes. But Read more…
I am a long-time, or rather, hereditary subscriber to the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor”. At first (since 1972), my father – Galkin Grigory Petrovich (he is now 80 years old) – subscribed to the magazine, and then I did myself. Since the beginning of the “Aviatscollection” supplement, I have been subscribing to it as well. As long Read more…
The proposed machine is designed mainly for recycling dilapidated wooden structures into firewood. Due to the many nails sticking out everywhere, this waste material is beyond the capabilities of the “Druzhba” chainsaw, and therefore costs mere pennies. The cheapness, of course, is attractive. What stops you is something else: what and how to cut such Read more…
In any, even equipped with mini-“Kirovtsy”, “Kubots” and other high-class equipment, individual farm, one probably cannot do without manual agricultural tools. Having passed through the centuries, they, in essence, have changed little. And no matter how technical thought struggled, no matter how design pleased, we still have before us a “carrying container with handles and Read more…
Owners of private houses or dachas often face the need to prepare concrete solutions. Mixing water, gravel, and cement in a certain proportion is not difficult, but very labor-intensive, requiring considerable time and physical effort. And if it is necessary to perform large volumes, the process of preparing concrete or masonry mortar turns into hard Read more…
“Manual labor — to the shoulders of machines!” — under this headline, materials from the All-Union Conference of VISKHOM named after V. P. Goryachkin were published in our magazine (see “M-K”, 1982, No. 8). With the speeches of its participants about the importance and necessity of developing small-scale mechanization means, the editorial board opened a Read more…
