When I leased three apiaries with the right to buy them out, I realized how difficult it is to maintain a large number of bee colonies. I solved some of the problems with a feeder-drinker, slightly improving designs proposed by experienced beekeepers on the pages of periodicals. Each of the bee feeder-drinkers I use consists Read more…
Blessed is the day and hour when a person first had the idea of fitting a chuck for mounting a tool onto the shaft of an electric motor. As a labor tool, the electric drill has become ubiquitous. What people do not do with a drill: they drill, cut, turn, polish, mix, mow, and now Read more…
This small cart, similar in shape and size to an ordinary wheelbarrow, differs from it in that it has two wheels and a tipping body. Its other feature is as follows: the chassis is designed using metal angle bars 30×30 and 25×25 mm (previously forming the frame of an old bed). Chassis construction The chassis Read more…
The apricot is a valuable fruit crop that came to us from Central Asia. However, not all of its varieties are suitable for drying because of the low content in them of the substance whose main component is sugar. These are, as a rule, early-ripening varieties. To obtain high-quality dried fruit, it is desirable to Read more…
With ingenuity and hard work — and contrary to the well-known saying — even a discarded pipe can turn into quite a good piece of gardening equipment. And with minimal manufacturing costs. The published material by Candidate of Agricultural Sciences S. Larkin confirms this. “THE BLADED TOOL” I took up gardening seriously about 6 years Read more…
This mini tractor was built by Y.V. Polyabin, a self-taught designer, from whatever he could find in his own garage, from acquaintances, and at a scrap yard. Nevertheless, “Krokha” (as he named his mini tractor) holds a privileged place in the craftsman’s spacious garage. Even though a “Kuzya” jeep and a “Kolibri” mini-car stand next Read more…
This is not about dancing in the garden beds, but about an original garden-and-vegetable tool that makes labor-intensive work—performed for ages with a spade (at best—with special forks)—possible even for elderly people (the author and test person of this design is already over seventy). Despite the “tortured” “formula of invention” by the patent office—“A device Read more…
The magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor” has published many thematic selections about simple but effective homemade devices that no smallholding can do without (see, for example, issues 7’92, 5’95, 6’97, 6’99). However, interest in such designs has not faded even today, as shown by the editorial mail. V. Solonin — inventor and rationalizer, one of our magazine’s active Read more…
Many rural residents who previously did not keep cows on their farm are forced to get them now. After all, the cow has always helped a person survive difficult times by providing milk. But the owner also needs to take care of the animal so that the cow is well-fed both in the stall period. Read more…
Strawberry, wild strawberry… They are often confused with one another, but the best of berries, by right, are considered to be strawberries. Bright, juicy, fragrant. With sugar and cream they make an excellent dessert. Jam, jelly, and medicinal pick-ups are also wonderful—especially from strawberries. Strawberries have an almost rounded-conical shape, a whitish coloring over more Read more…
