“Ancestor” of this machine, lawn mower GK-1 was built by students in St Michael’s training and production plant in 1978. About it has told the head of young technicians — lecturer of the criminal procedure code V. I. Popov (see “M-K” № 6, 1981). However, the possibility that the mower was still insufficient: the width was only 1 m and the actuator will bind the mechanism to a power source and thereby limiting its autonomy. This was the reason for making a new variant with high performance. The novelty was successful. Among the exhibits of the III all-Russian rally labor unions of students in urban schools, held in Rostov-on-don, she invariably attracted attention and was awarded by our magazine (see “M-K” N° 1, 1985). By the way, after this publication in the code of criminal procedure, Michael began to come from all over the country a letter asking them to send drawings of the mower. To answer each individually the authors, of course, was not. Today we provide the pages of the magazine mentor young designers of this machine.
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Grind on a hand grater even a dozen carrots – consuming affair, and if you want to prepare food for Pets to shred large quantities of vegetables, fruits? I came out with a simple electric grater. Used motor power of about 200 watts, with a rated shaft speed of 1400 rpm. (it will fit the engine from a household bench grinder; can be used three-phase asynchronous capacitor switching circuit in a single phase network.)
In one of the competitions for the creation of small agricultural machinery, announced by the Central Committee of the Dimitrov young Communist League and the newspaper “Guide yourself”, great interest was aroused by the walk-behind disc cultivator. The unit in question, universal. In the figures it is visible, what with the changeable work organs it is equipped with. With this machine you can perform the following operations tillage: plowing (with additional weight hanging from the front, chain and grousers mounted on wheels), milling, ridging, disk processing. Plus the transportation of different loads in the towed truck.
Walk-behind self-built eager to make the most versatile. This is understandable: it has to perform a variety of agricultural operations. However, to create a design that is most optimal for any work at the farm, is not easy. So, powerful, heavy duty motor-plow, as a rule, is too broad and clumsy in the aisle, and brisk the tiller can’t beat plowing the dense earth. One solution to this problem is offering our reader from Krasnodar territory Vladimir Yakovlev. Its compact one-wheeled tillers will assist in the processing of the beds, will not damage plants close together and, if necessary, in just 10 minutes will turn into two-wheeled motor-plow.
In the “M-K” No. 8 for 1984, we talked about the greenhouse arch designs made by students of the Bauman district of Moscow. Its main load-bearing elements — the half-arches — been made of gymnastic hoops. This circumstance is strictly determined size of the greenhouse. But it is tempting to build on the same principle a more spacious and convenient in maintenance construction of a greenhouse. But here’s the problem: the material for poludov frame to find easy.
To prepare starch from potatoes at home I have several years helps… washing machine “Kama”. To turn it into productive avometers needed very little improvement. From a round steel plate d 189 mm and thickness of 0.5 mm did scratch the disk, propertyreal his thick nail So that the disc is not deformed, sawal-Deval edge, and the holes are filled evenly deposited on the workpiece concentric circles. Took the car activator, secured PA the disc grater on six M3 bolts with countersunk heads and set back. From thick durable Board, cut out the partition, the spacer wedge and cover the boot compartment.
A delicious and useful product — sauerkraut. Practical housewife, harvest it in the autumn as in the countryside and in the city. And the most time-consuming operation here is to shred the cabbage. Use and sharp long knives, and a special chopping. But no manual beats the convenience and efficiency with electric that you can do with your hands, taking some parts from an old washing machine.
Artificial fertilizers are much more effective if they are applied to the soil dissolved in water. However, to achieve an even distribution but the size of the plot is not easy — because most of the pellets don’t dissolve and drop out as sediment at the bottom of the bucket or watering can.
On private land, perhaps only a decorative grass — raygrass — tracking, scattering the seeds. The vast majority of annual flowers and vegetables planted in rows: so the plants are easier to handle and feed. But since seeds are small, often the shoots are too dense. You have to spend a lot of time pulling, away, by the way, is harmless to the root system.
Getting the design of this machine, I proceeded above all from the conditions of its future work. The soil in our area is mostly heavy loam, stones… and surface plots are far from perfectly smooth. In short, the operation was not easy. This fact determined the choice of the main parameters of the mechanism.