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…
Having become a pensioner, I took up breeding nutria (swamp beavers, or coypu) and became convinced how profitable this business is. With low costs for keeping these herbivorous and, moreover, very unpretentious animals, I get not only tasty meat (on average 2—3 kg from each animal), which is in no way inferior to rabbit meat Read more…
When building country cottages or garages on a homestead, you often need to screen bulk construction materials, soil, or garden earth. For this, a special fixture is used — a so-called vibrating screen (grizzly). Its classic version — a frame with a mesh set on trestles — is very bulky and low-productivity. I tried to Read more…
Soil cultivation with electric tillers is nothing new. Especially for owners of summer cottages, gardens and vegetable plots (see, for example, “M-K” 3’83, 11’90). And when prices keep rising, when using walk-behind tractors (not to mention scarce mini-tractors) sometimes becomes economically impractical, electric helpers on small land plots are, so to speak, beyond competition. Convenient Read more…
