Wood chips for sawing firewood

Conventional goats for sawing firewood. “You take two slats and cross it in a cross.” That’s all the wisdom! ” Wisdom, maybe all. And yet I would like to know how to make simple reliable goats that would serve as faith and truth for years, rather than falling apart from the first log. For the […]

How to harden metal

A knowledgeable person does not believe that surface hardening or carburizing of fairly large parts can be done “just like that” – in any rural workshop without special equipment, high frequency currents, bulky heating furnaces. Moscow inventors took two graphite electrodes, installed them in the holder and connected to a power source. Between the electrodes […]

Drying for fruit

Fig. 1. Traditional drying. Section, plan: 1 – pit; 2 – the furnace; 3 – frame; 4-lead; 5 – grating of hazel rods. Since ancient times in Ukraine, the basis of food production was the peasant household. The family form of work allowed to supply meat, milk, bread, vegetables, fruits and other products for sale. […]

Preservation of skins

Quality hides – raw materials for the production of household items (footwear, clothing, etc.) depends on feeding, care, keeping animals, the rules of their slaughtering, as well as removal, storage, primary processing of raw materials. It must be remembered that the wrong face reduces the quality of raw materials. Experienced workers of slaughter stations perform […]

Devices for the removal of fruits and berries

Fruits from high crowns are removed with the help of industrial harvesters. However, the industry so far can not meet the demand of amateur gardeners. Therefore, a well-known variety of self-made structures. For example, at the fruit picker, ring 1 is made from a 1 liter can. In the holes drilled in the ring, insert […]

Dressing hides

Of course, at home it is difficult to have excellent results when dressing heavy (7-20 kg) skins taken from a cow or a bull, an elk or a wild boar. Therefore, we will confine ourselves to advice on the production of small (up to 2 kg) and medium (up to 6 kg) skins. Immediately warn […]

Fighting animal parasites

Seize my dog ​​and the flea seal. And I’m glad to help poor animals, and I do not know how to deal with parasites. Let’s start with fleas. These are wingless insects, temporary ectoparasites (external) warm-blooded animals. There are about 1400 species. On human and domestic animals, most often parasitize canine and human fleas. Dangerous […]

Sewer Oval Hatch

I worked as a chief engineer of heating networks, so I know firsthand how many troubles standard pig-iron hatches of inspection wells are carried by underground engineering communications. One of the options for improving the hatch cover suggested by the inventor. I suggest another. My hatch is oval, not round, with a lid that is […]

A birdhouse in the garden

Scientists estimated that a large titmole per day flies to the nest with food for chicks more than 350 times, and a gray flycatcher and some other small insectivorous birds – over 400. For 14-16 days, when a yellow-headed baby is in the nest, a large titmouse brings in more than 2 kg of different […]

Shelf in the cellar

As a rule, in the cellars and cellars the shelves are made of boards. Therefore, sometimes you hear: “I did not finish, the rotten shelf, and all cans with canning” went “to the ground …” I propose to make shelves of reinforced concrete. This is not difficult at all. First of all, you need to […]