HAND-HANDED TINNER SNOW SHOVEL A good snow shovel never hurts. When a free winter evening turned out, I made a convenient tool of labor from the material at hand according to the proven old-fashioned method. It took: a sheet of duralumin 1 mm thick trimming a bar with a section of 5 × 40 mm trimming a board with a section of 40 × 100 mm nails. Before manufacturing, I prepared a drawing of the tool and individual ...
With my own hands - read more ... DIY snow shovel + dimensions in the diagramTHE SNOW SCRAPER WITH YOUR OWN HANDS Last winter, after removing the snow, back pain began to bother, and all because, working with a shovel or a scraper, you had to constantly bend over. I wondered how I could improve the tools to reduce the strain on my back. I found a simple idea on the Internet, tested it in practice, and was satisfied with the result. Everything turned out to be very simple: it is necessary ...
With my own hands - read more ... DIY snow scraper with a corner handleSNOW RETENTION - A MISTAKE OF GARDENERS-NEWS Gardeners with little experience, after reading tips on the Internet, do this: closer to spring, in order to prolong the snowmelt, additionally freeze blocks of ice, lay them under the trees, and cover them with straw or sawdust on top. And ... make a mistake! In fact, such cold procedures are not very useful for trees, although they help to delay the beginning of the growing season a little ...
With my own hands - read more ... Snow retention through laying ice under trees is a mistakeIS IT POSSIBLE TO SPREAD AMMONIA NITRATE ON SNOW Last year, a neighbor shared calcium nitrate. He advised to scatter a handful of 1 square meter in the snow at the very beginning of spring. I tried it. I don't know what played a role, but the harvest was good. In addition, the site was bypassed by the top rot of peppers and tomatoes. It is a pity that we have calcium on sale ...
With my own hands - read more ... Saltpeter in the snow - to scatter or not?BLADE ON A MOTOR-BLOCK FOR SNOW CLEANING One winter, swinging a shovel, clearing snow from the paths, I looked at my walk-behind tractor and thought: if it can pull the plow, then it can also push. So the idea was born to make a blade for cleaning snow. 1. Cut a piece of suitable width from a metal barrel. The length of the part turned out to be not enough, so I cut it off from the same barrel ...
With my own hands - read more ... DIY scraper on a walk-behind tractor