WINDROLLER IS A SAILING TRICYCLE

WINDROLLER IS A SAILING TRICYCLESailing has always been considered a true male. And not by accident: this sailor has the necessary power and speed of reaction, physical endurance, ability to keep calm in even the most difficult circumstances. However, sailing there are two significant negative First — seasonality in our mid-latitudes means to do it can be no more than five months in a year. And second, the need fairly large areas.

PLOW: LOOK FORWARD AND MAKE OURSELVES

PLOW: LOOK FORWARD AND MAKE OURSELVES“The walk-behind paired with the transport carriage (thanks to “M-K”!) made. And now to get-to bring something on the farm for me, as they say, no problem. But good plow still on the road. Wait till the pages so my beloved journal will appear in-depth material on how this plow to calculate and do it.” Similar requests requests come to the editor a lot. Apparently, from those subscribers who failed to see the previous performances of the journal on particular topics (see, for example, “M-K” 1’88, 3’89, 9’90, 5’91, 10’91). And so — a new publication dedicated to the ancient and, as evidenced by life itself, timeless tool of the husbandman.

 

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TRACTOR “WORLD ON A STRING”

THE TRACTOR

To make myself a mini-tractor (MT) is a dream of many. But they sometimes stop because of the difficulties in acquiring scarce nowadays powertrains, gearboxes with the right gear ratio, differential gear and other parts. Other (basic this beginners homebrew) deterred by the complexity of intricate drawings and manufacturing technology design. A longtime subscriber of our magazine, the author of a number of original designs of small tools V. Boldyshev offers not to despair and peculiar to each natural nous braver to do things. How! Technology, which sometimes intuitively come to many of the homebrew, collecting in a single structure existing units and details “at the place of installation”, doing virtually no daunting drawings. A “deficit” around, taking advantage of opportunities Vtorchermet… or lowly of the landfill, which sometimes careless business executives charged fuses good.

MINI TRACTOR STUDENT

MINI - TRACTOR STUDENTNo, the headline is not a hoax. And not even the “joint work of members Kota, led by a talented teacher and organizer of technical creativity of rural children”. It is a workable mini-tractor is really created (and after extensive field testing has sent explanatory material about their design in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”) 16-year-old Sretensky guy — Andrey Bobkov.

PLOW MOTOLIBERTY

PLOW MOTOLIBERTYNow an extremely acute problem of processing individual land plots. The horse would plough the field! But where are these loshadke? Motor-block to replace? Well, if you believe the advertising avenues, such a solution seems quite reasonable. But in fact, alas, it turns out that not all can praise MB. Not to be unfounded, I will refer to the neighbors of tests of MTZ-0.5 plowing. So: we have a heavy soil (clay mostly). They advertised this walk-behind… takes 5-7 cm in depth. And this is with the suspended cargo, and special plough-wheels. Crop after such “processing” of the soil, as they say, never gonna happen.

AND BECAME “ANT” MOWER

AND BECAME Work mower… It is in our electronic age is among the most difficult, exhausting. Especially if you have to mow the grass on small plots, slopes, forest glades and other awkward places where large machinery is not to turn around. Ease up here called nimble small-sized aggregates. For example, such as developed by young technicians from Chernivtsi oblast improvised mounted mower. Tests have shown that it is equipped scooter cargo “the Ant” was in the hay a truly indispensable mechanical assistant.

BIKE: FEET AND HAND

BICYCLE: THE FEET AND HANDPEDAL PLUS LEVER. They say that reinventing the wheel is a thankless job. And yet… And yet… This structurally polished for many decades, the car never ceases to excite minds of inventors. Remember that “Bicycle” in Greek means “quick feet”. But why only nohn? Then there are the hands. Can’t force them to use more traction? At the same time it n practice for them.

PLOW JALALABADI

PLOW JALALABADIReaders of “M-K” has long been familiar with the enthusiast a homemade tilling equipment, designer, lover of Nizhny Tagil Grigory Ivanovich ODEGOVA. After all, he managed to develop one of the most effective metalbeat that performance is better than tillers, and motorize and even microstructure. And this despite the fact that the engine olegovskoy of motoliberty — only powertrain of an old “Vyatka”.

“YELLOW LEAVES OVER A CITY ARE CIRCLING…”

Among heartfelt-sincere songs many, apparently, about the memorable autumn, when the “yellow leaves over a city are turned, the quiet rustle under our feet lie…”. Really romantic, beautiful. But… Fallen leaves should be removed. In itself, the lesson is simple but laborious. To alleviate monotonous, meter by meter sweeps of areas with a rake called an interesting development innovators and inventors. About the most successful technical solutions “modelist-Konstruktor” has already told his readers (for example, No. 9’93). Regular publication of thematic collections based on the materials of the Polish magazine “Technical noviny”.

TILLER – MANUAL

TILLER - HANDCultivation, furrows, weeding between the rows, earthing up of the plants… For these and other works is a lot of mechanisms and machines. Often quite complex, scarce and expensive. Where plot sizes are small and the soil light, many prefer to settle for a commercially available hand-cultivator-Hiller ROC-35A. And here are a couple or alone, characteristic for the latter case, the method “one step forward, half step back”: moving a considerable shock, but with a small (5-10 cm) back.