We first lived in an apartment in a three-story building, and then decided to move to a house of the estate type. But it required serious repairs, and the outbuildings were subject to complete replacement. Significant concrete work lay ahead. Memories of student construction brigades involuntarily surfaced, where we had to mix mortar in significant Read more…
I have been engaged in creating various devices to facilitate work on the homestead plot for many years. However, I have not yet presented my developments to the readers’ judgment; this is my first attempt. It all started when motorcycle trailers appeared on sale — in particular for the “Voskhod”. This prompted me to build Read more…
Plowing can be done in different ways. Basically, the choice of plowing method depends on the size of the land plot and the availability of mechanization means to its owner. However, on small household plots today, various types of tillers and winches are most applicable. The former are convenient because they are productive, economical, and Read more…
Almost a decade ago, I purchased a house with a garden plot in a village. The plot needed to be cultivated, but without machinery, this work was overwhelming, and there was no money left for it. So I was forced to build a walk-behind tractor for this purpose. I already had experience in amateur construction Read more…
Garden plot owners are very fond of “Krot” (Mole) cultivators with gasoline engines. At first, I was also extremely happy with such a mechanical assistant. However, over time, I still decided to get rid of the noise and harmful exhaust of the gasoline engine and make an environmentally friendly electric cultivator, safe from electric shock. Read more…
In the journal “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 2 for 1989, material by A. Baklansky from Kremenchug, Poltava region, was published about a micro mill that he designed for his household. This publication prompted me to also make a similar unit for the same purposes. However, the productivity of A. Baklansky’s device did not suit me — by Read more…
The tiller developed by Heinrich Alekseevich Kuznetsov differs from many homemade designs by using cutters instead of a plow. Rotating on the working shaft, they simultaneously till the soil, serve as support elements and propulsion. It takes only a few minutes to replace them with wheels. Then it’s easy to attach a disc mower, bulldozer Read more…
When creating mechanical weeders, walk-behind tractors, and other small-scale mechanization equipment, DIY enthusiasts face a whole range of problems: from working out the kinematics (reliability, compactness, originality of technical solutions), acquiring components and parts for the intended machine (an inexpensive engine, for example), to assembling and debugging the entire structure. The material published below tells Read more…
Everyone who decides to engage in beekeeping must prepare themselves for many things. Including the fact that they will have to “remove” swarms alone. This task, I know from experience, is far from simple. After all, bees “graft” (land during swarming) often in places where it is not easy for a person (without appropriate training, Read more…
Many people keep chickens. And they know: for crested hens to lay diligently and gain weight quickly, they need to be fed well, and not just once a day. It’s not a problem if the farm has only one or two dozen of such voracious creatures. But how to distribute fresh feed among an entire Read more…
