From the depths of centuries, the shovel has reached us, to which V. Dal, the creator of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, gave an amazingly apt definition: “a blade tool for digging and scooping loose materials.” This hand tool is well-known to owners of dachas and garden plots, not to mention Read more…
It’s nice to try fresh mushrooms in the cold January. You’ll be able to pick them at any time of year if you build a mushroom growing cabinet. Externally, it’s a two-door cabinet measuring 2290X2130X1035 mm, which can be installed, say, in a large hallway. The cabinet is constructed like a thermostat — with walls Read more…
Car enthusiasts who have dachas or homestead plots take up shovels in spring just as enthusiastically as the carless part of humanity. Meanwhile, they could quite avoid such unproductive expenditure of their own physical effort by shifting a significant portion of it onto their car. Any passenger car can become an excellent plowman—you just need Read more…
Viktor Dmitrievich Berezhnoy is a native of Valday. By his main profession, he is a highly qualified welder. However, in the district center it’s difficult to find well-paid work. He had to be both a tailor and a reaper. The only constant was Berezhnoy’s passion for technical creativity. It was this that helped him out Read more…
To trim and shape one or two bushes in your front garden, to shorten a rapidly grown whip that appeared out of nowhere right in front of the window during the summer, you can use ordinary garden shears. As they say, snip — and it’s gone. Well, what if the volume of “hairdressing” work is Read more…
The experience of potato growers shows: Dutch technology for growing root crops is the most effective, with minimal labor costs. The rows are clean and even, and the harvest is excellent. The foundation of everything is properly organized planting and, naturally, good equipment. I offer readers a brief account of the technology itself, as well Read more…
There’s no end to the chores on a farmstead. Some involve lifting, loading, or moving heavy objects. But when you only have two hands, such tasks can sometimes become an insurmountable problem. However, if the farm has a tractor, which is not uncommon today, heavy lifting can be “entrusted” to it by using the hydraulic Read more…
The electric tiller is designed for processing soil in garden and vegetable plots, and for hilling potatoes. Given the particularly harsh operating conditions—long continuous operation (up to 4 hours), constant overload, dirt—preference was given to a heavier and oversized three-phase motor of industrial, enclosed design, over a commutator, direct current motor. The three-phase asynchronous motor Read more…
Good for the classics! They go beyond the outskirts, to protected places — boundless expanses, tall grasses, fresh breeze. Everything sets a poetic mood. And so it’s born: “Mow, scythe, while the dew…”, “Spread out, shoulder, swing, arm…” But the ordinary modern “urbanized” villager (and the city dweller — owner of a small plot of Read more…
Aviation mechanic M.A. Masterov is one of that remarkable group of amateur designers that the Udmurt land has always been proud of. His achievements include such serious works as delta- and motorized deltaplanes, an aircraft of his own design and a restored Yak-18T, various machine tools, and much more. Today, all the craftsman’s efforts are Read more…
