CUT FRUITS AND ROOTS

CUT FRUITS AND ROOTSA rural resident with a large garden and cattle, will love shredder, made by a craftsman from the village of Bornukovo Nizhny Novgorod region Yevgeny Kulikov. With its help in the harvest of apples years, processed fruit juices and wine, and daily life facilitated the process of preparation of feed for domestic animals in those places hold a lot.

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PUMP… CYLINDER

PUMP OF THE BRAKE CYLINDER...

Ingenuity rural operators will not refuse. I had the opportunity again to be sure, when one major economy saw operating safely pumps made by local craftsmen from the brake cylinders from the truck ZIL-130. Such a cylinder could “work” in the pump, it is first disassembled. Having free access to the plate-washer, attached to it a diaphragm with two M6 bolts. After Assembly, between the cylinder housing and the diaphragm spring has left large diameter. In the cylinder cover I drilled two holes for the intake and exhaust valves.

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MECHANICAL HORSE “SCARCE”

MECHANICAL HORSE This mini-tractor, Y. V. BALABIN, Amateur designer from Moscow city Lotoshino, built from what was found in a garage at home, with friends, in a scrap yard. However, “Scarce” (as he called his mini-tractor) is in the extensive garage of craftsman privileged position. Despite the fact that next to him are still jeep “Hugo” mini-mobile “Colibri”, the mechanical horse and maintenance — first and foremost, and repair in the shortest possible time. But how else? “Baby” is in fact the breadwinner of the family of its Creator! Without him and the garden for planting potatoes treated, and the crop will not be harvested.

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A STEP WITHOUT A SKELETON!

NOT A STEP WITHOUT A SKELETON!

What a pity that in his childhood the wise advice of adults fly in one ear and immediately out at another. Remember the many comments of parents and teachers like “straighten up!” or “sit up straight!”. Admit it: you listened to these comments? Well, as today is your spine? Okay? Then at least read up written here for the rest of my skeleton healthy people. But if you do not avoid the same disease and heal or would heal, now listen to good advice: make yourself or order a skeleton he will make your life easier. I, for example, in your garden and step without it do not.

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YOUNGER BROTHER “OF VLADIMIR”

YOUNGER BROTHER Mini-tractor must admit, I’ve built without any drawings (except the sketches of parts that he had ordered Turner), so to speak, to the eye, intuitive, having all components and assemblies as compact as possible and easier for the tractor. Then, the accumulation of operating experience, many times altered it. But more on that below. Built because I needed a mechanical servant, able to perform almost all the agricultural work on the plot. Such “abilities”, in my opinion, has tractor T-25 vladimirets. He was the inspiration when building my mini. Hence the nickname — “little brother.”

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“USACOM” AND HYDRAULICS

While still a student of the 3rd class of high school (20 years ago) persuaded the parents to issue an annual subscription to “modelist-Konstruktor”. Since then, and are a regular reader, cherish all the sent mail rooms favorite edition. The desire to build their own mini-tractor (MT) caught fire when in No. 12 of the journal in 1978 read the article about “Lukovichki”.

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WATERING MACHINE

WATERING MACHINE

If your summer cottage has a garden and a vegetable garden, you-lay-nilly get to him in slavery if not for life, that the whole of spring-not-summer-autumn season. Landing require loosening, weeding, vaccination, feeding, watering… in short, every Friday gardener hurries on its six acres. A particularly hot summer, watering once a week will not do: the sun quickly dries the water leaving the green friends without life-giving water.

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THE FERTILIZER FACTORY

FERTILIZER FACTORYA good harvest in garden plots, which were allocated mainly for some reason on marginal land, with no organic matter will not succeed. Need compost! But that’s the pits to get it though recommended agricultural science, welcomed by environmentalists, but do not decorate the landscape. There is a conflict between production needs and beauty, to a resolution which is intended my proposed structure, it rightly can be called a fertilizer factory.

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