MINI-HERCULES FROM BORNUKOVO

Many years spend their holidays together with the family and the village is Big Yak-Shen Nizhny Novgorod region. Lovely place, kind and friendly people, feasible physical labor on a small kitchen garden that still need a citizen to stay? Working in the magazine and receiving letters from Amateur designers from different regions of Russia, thought: why not get e-mails from places that have become to me already native? Really there moved their Kulibin? Became interested, to make inquiries and last summer’s arrival was pleasantly pleased.

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CHICKEN “KINDERGARTEN”

CHICKEN

The materials in the yard to get the chickens, make incubator, posted a lot. A wide range of mechanical designs “hens” from cardboard boxes with obogrevatel-LEM table lamp until almost “factory incubation fuzzies” (” modelist-Konstruktor” № 2’73, 11 ’92, 4’2000). But questions about where and how to keep Chicks until they grow into adult birds, illuminated enough. Finding often the response to them, each owner is forced to do everything himself.

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FARM HORSE

FARM Log “modelist-Konstruktor” reading since 1982. Since I am an active supporter of technical creativity. Farmersto now, but before when I worked in the local newspaper, tried to the extent possible, to popularise technical creativity among the readers. First released the category “DIY” and then a thematic band “the masters Club”. I have been publishing for Amateur construction, and in other publications — in the Republican youth newspaper “Leninets” in the Moscow newspaper “Gardeners”, in the newspaper “Victory”, in the journal “Farmer”.

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SAWMILL HOME

For repair and construction works often require different, up to large-sized lumber, the lumber purchase and delivery which sometimes is not easy. Everything is easier if you have (albeit not heavy duty) sawmill at home. Especially collapsible, not occupies in storage a lot of space. For example, I am very happy with my homemade sawmill. “Circular saw” fixed on the shaft 5-kilowatt electric motor, which is mounted on telefonnoi trolley, easy moving along steel guides. From existing analogues is my sawmill is characterized primarily in that is designed for a single employee, a pensioner.

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THE FARM WILL FIT: THE WINDMILL SCARECROW

THE FARM WILL FIT

Themed collections about simple but efficient home appliances, without which no cost, private courtyard, “modelist-Konstruktor” published a lot (see for example, № 7’92, 5’95, 6’97, 6’99). However, interest in such developments is unabated to the present time, as evidenced by the editorial mail. Their technical devices designed for the use of scrap materials and home technology available to any novice, brings to the readers Solonin — the inventor and innovator, one of the active authors of our journal.

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TO REPLACE THE SHOVEL

IN PLACE OF THE SHOVEL

From time immemorial came to us a shovel, which V. Dahl, the Creator of the Explanatory dictionary of the live great Russian language, gave a surprisingly apt definition:”shell blade for digging and vygreba loose bodies”. This is a manual tool firsthand known to owners of summer cottages and garden plots, not to mention those who from infancy a peasant to stick with the earth-wet nurse. However, the most curious, knowing the pros and cons of an ancient shovel, are increasingly trying to improve or even to replace it with another more suited to perform several specialized tasks hand tools.

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MILL-THE MILL

MILL - CORN

The tank from the exhaust of a washing machine agitator type, the clutch drum of the clutch control from a scrapped tractor T-74 Yes three-phase AC motor — is the basis for a homemade mill-crusher. Its design is portable, which is important for use on small farms and in private households. The main part of the mill crushing chamber. As the drum is adapted named item from the coupling control T-74.

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