Hello dear friends! finally I had the opportunity to provide you with more detailed information about their experience of building and finds that complement your skills, your own experience and you build a warm, cheap and sound house. 

  By education I am an engineer. Specialist - Construction vehicles and plant chemistry of high energies and temperatures. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering in 1972 and worked in production and in various research institutes. The latter is my position, before leaving in the "free floating" - Deputy Director-General of INGOs "Resonance" , Domodedovo. 

  Before the construction I have never dealt with, except for work in student construction brigades, but the construction of the barn with a basement for storage, grown on their own garden produce. By that time, I had only scrappy theoretical knowledge gleaned from books and popular magazines. 

  Building a house up to, when they realize that a bright future for his family to build their own hands, as there is a desire and effort. 

  Sacrificing a prestigious job and career, I found a simple job near the residence. The new duties are not allowed to spend precious time on lengthy and tedious journey to Moscow, the depressing force, bureaucratic and administrative office procedures, and allowed free head, hands, for "building communism" in a single yard. 

  Everything our family wealth consisted of 2-room apartment for four persons, old "Zaporozhets, metal garages, sheds for farm products and homemade motoblock with a cart. Of savings was not absolute. 

  In the early 90's government began giving away free land wishing to build their own house, as well as loans for up to 50 years. Those wishing to wear a "collar" on her neck was a little bit. Many had hoped that the state will provide them with modern housing, and did not believe that they themselves in the existing conditions can make anything worthwhile. I believe in our strength! The site I chose myself freely. Empty land allocated for construction, it was enough. Many people took the land with the expectation - to sell it after some time. Most did not have the patience to wait for it to grow in price, and they sold it for peanuts, enterprising fraudsters, or far-sighted "uncles" with tight purse. I also offered to sell some land for the "good" money. It even threatened all sorts of "trouble" in case of failure. 

  I received the first 'tranche' of the Savings Bank in the amount of 10,000 Soviet rubles. So what? Building materials, are on sale, almost was not. , Could I buy only 250 m grid "netting", 100 sq.m. Dual asbestos-cement panels for the construction of a shed and 150 sq. m. slate on the roof! Brick, wood and many other materials could be obtained! only through personal ties, or defended a huge line in executive committee. 

  The money began to rapidly lose their value! From sin - far away, I passed a "credit" back to the savings bank, fearing that there would be indexed loans. Salaries also rose, but prices for building materials grew faster, so they began to appear in free sale. The question arose - where to get the money. We have to work! Other ways for me does not exist. 

  In the last money I bought in the "agricultural machinery" old, broken down, ready to write off truck GAZ-53. At my new job I allowed to use the machine tool (I often helped the company since mastered skills in machine tools and welding equipment). There I truck and restored. All this helped me to open a business called "Providing engineering and transportation services to the public, businesses and organizations." At the same enterprise, I redid my homemade motoblock, who had previously collected on the knee "on the balcony five floors with hacksaw, hand electric drills and home-made welding machine. Now motoblock turned into a four-wheel drive tractor with the rending of the frame. Then you'll see it in the pictures. 

 

 With this tractor and dump truck I brought to the construction site about 100 cubic meters of quarry stone, which was still a lot of abandoned quarries. Georgia, my son hand and looked at it - like morning exercises. The same pattern and sand. 

 

 We tried, we lay the groundwork for his son, and immediately realized that manual recharging it, we no longer seem. So, again, on the balcony five floors, I made a homemade gravity type concrete mixer volume of 90 liters. By the way, it serves me still, like a homemade tractor and welding machine. 

 

 Familiar Architect (many thanks to him) advised me to make a tape shallow foundations, and instead of a huge, wet and cold cellar, erected on its ground floor, which put all the technical equipment at home. Tape-reinforced concrete foundation of a good from were laid at a depth of 1 m, height 0.5 m and a width of 0.7 m. The size of 10x10. 

 

 By the beginning of construction of the basement I have already received permission to connect to the street mains. Now you can put a metal garage for his Zaporozhets "and to construct the studio 35 sqm. I also am Laid foundation for the garage size 7h4 for dump. When I realized that buying cement in bags of predatory price stroymagazinov be very ruinous, I built an 8-sided metal bin for cement capacity of 10 cubic meters Works willingly let go of cement at wholesale price, if ordered whole cement, which amounts to just - 10 cubes. Hopper is made in the form of 8-prism faces of the sheets of steel 2000h10000h1.5 mm. Hopper capacity 10 cubic meters and weighs about 350 kg. Vendors willing to fill it. This is a part of "all" cigar "cement, and they do not have to worry about who to sell the remains. I buy the cement in the spring, before the seasonal rise in prices. The surplus is not, because them with joy and gratitude bought up by the neighbors - anyone bucket, and to whom, and ton. Sutures bunker el.svarkoy boiled thoroughly, and to guarantee, within a missed bitumen mastic, so that neither rain nor damp cement are not terrible. 

 In early spring, when prices have not yet rushed up, I ordered the cement. June 24, 1994 I hired four workers who built my basement, using a wooden formwork. The thickness of the wall is 600 mm. They used my mixer. I ride them to the sand and cement, monitor progress. July 1 job was done. Paid them I 1500000 rub. In those days it was $ 750. I frankly did not expect such speed - 7 days! And I, and the workers were satisfied with the work. 

 In late August 1994 on the same technology, I built a brick garage for truck size 7h4 in the plan and 3.5 m in height. 

 At the dump, I worked on the contract and in building trust and co-op "Agropoisk", carried out orders of local residents. He and his son, we have mastered the production of metal garages, use it at the time in great demand. But the money for construction was not enough, because it was necessary to purchase equipment, tools and materials to maintain the business. We were settled in my wife's parents. Good health, they did not possess and constantly ill. I had to build up in the studio living room, an office for myself, where I put my technical library and Kuhlman. Computer time was still exotic, and I am about him not even dreamed of. 

 

 Useful to me and the old connection. To me started to ask for help in the design and manufacture of custom equipment and facilities for research work from various research institutes, as for them, I promptly and without unnecessary bureaucratic red tape, develops and manufactures some of what they needed. 

 

 In early 1996, a former Komsomol functionary, and at that moment - a merchant who sells concrete products, offered me, "on-the cheap, cut ground floor slabs. Request 3 million rubles. That kind of money I had, had to be abandoned. I had to think. Artificial, calculated, and an estimate on the overlap of the improvised keramsit. LECA I was introduced to further warming of the studio. The beams in the form of H-beams, I cooked from the corner (curved profile) 60h60h3 mm. In an abandoned sand quarry, I scored a sufficient number of valves. Two valves that had to be put in length - bought from a neighbor (he remained an extra). The beams were lightly and strong. I laid them out in increments of 1.3 m, placed on the shelves transverse otrihtovannuyu and cut the size of reinforcement, and at her - long rods. Three young boys have agreed to 1,5 million rubles. concreted overlap. I did not hurry and they faithfully and carefully done its work, carrying out profitable work, when they were treated neighbors with neighborhood. At the end of June 1996 closing was ready. By the beginning of October, I turned off the basement temporary roof, spread over the remainder of the small overlap of expanded clay layer okolo200 mm. Inside, I concreted floors and a viewing hole in the garage. Staged insulated gate and door. Windows tightened film. Fashioned metal oven (turned out very successful design). In the basement was already possible to carry out the necessary work and winter. 

 

 Live and work was possible. But on the scene did not have enough money. Little by little began to save money, hoping to accumulate the materials for walls and floors of homes. And keep the money where? Of course, in the bank! I am in financial issues was a specialist - no. Therefore, trust "a great specialist in financial matters - his son. But even he could not predict the "default" in 1998, and especially the collapse of the "Hermes", "spell", "lord", "Khoprov" and other financial rag-tag. 

 

 I had some time to freeze the construction site. But I do not sit on its hands. He brought to the future of home and workshop of the water, he built a workshop and a covered fenced from the wind area of 100 sq.m. for comfortable work in inclement weather. 

 

 My daughter entered school after the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, and although she was studying full time, had to provide her with proper maintenance. Money is once again began to melt. Gainful employment could be found not always. At Credit bondage did not want to climb. Any way I tried to solve the problem, nothing happened. All I know of building technologies do not pass through the narrow gate of my financial capabilities. 

 

 In one of the promotional magazines, I found a description of patented construction technology, the so-called Shuji. You can estimate it by clicking on the link http://www.tise.ru/, as well as http://www.homebuilding.ru/walls/tise.shtml. Take a company that sells a snap. View all in kind, calculated and analyzed all of its advantages and disadvantages, I took from it only the idea of using rigid formula for forming the wall. 

 

 After some time I thought about the mechanization of the construction process. He recalled spray concreting. It was very attractive and tempting to create three-dimensional structure of the foam, and then, using shotcrete installation conclude that the forming material in a rigid shell of concrete. 

 The keyword, began to look for information about the spray units, and immediately went to the site http://www.ivd.ru/document.xgi?id=7033. I was thrilled! So I'm not alone - so clever! 

 All right. Nowadays, good ideas underfoot not lying. All, however, something worth already picked up a huge army literate seeking talented inventors. With this phenomenon, I constantly encountered in their inventive activity. 

 

 Earlier, before the emergence and implementation of his ideas, which I recommend to you, I had the idea of using cement particle board, glued to the outer sheet of foam. Even conducting experiments in this direction. Later, I came across information about the technology "Velox» (http://www.vashdom.ru/articles/velox.htm), which are 100% was similar to this. However, when analyzing the costs of various technology options, I stopped it at a very cheap and affordable by and implemented in practice. 

 

 I will not engage in detailed analysis of the shortcomings of the above-mentioned technologies, I will mention only two: the walls are permeated through and through "bristles" valves, which, because of its high heat will literally pump the heat from the building into the street for poor developers of these technologies on the cost of purchased materials is much higher and more complex than I offer. 

 

 In my pocket I had only $ 1000. In the yard was already in September 2003 and then I got the idea - to put the boundary walls in the form of a skeleton of concrete columns and shear reinforcement between which is located 100 mm from the wall of the foam. This will require a minimum amount of material, and I can, cutting off the temporary roof space to work in comfortable conditions, the final molding of the wall, when there money. 

 

 After some testing, I stopped at this technology and equipment: 

 By marking on the ceiling or foundation (base or foundation under the foam blocks align). It saves you a lot of time to install the first series of foam blocks. Install foam blocks. Combine them together at the joints, thrusting them diagonally through the spokes (eg, peeled 4 mm welding electrodes). Prigruza foam bricks. To avoid blowing the wind. Above all, the lower edge of the blocks was exactly on the markup. Then, at the right distance arrange mold. I set them at 300 - 350 mm. Plug the holes in the pins. Put the clamps and connect all of this staple. Fill molds peskotsementnoy mixture, layer by layer ramming her. The mixture should be such that clenched, she fell apart and that the palm remains moist. At the same time make sure that the foam did not go to the target line and, with the help of a level, adjust the verticality as filling and pritrambovyvaniya mixture. 

 Elasticity of staples should be sufficient to hold the mold in a given situation and at the same time, such that the bracket could pull off a single motion, without damaging peskotsementnuyu mixture. Remove the pins and put it on a plate to form a mixture of cross blocks (less than 3 -4 mm), holding the index finger to form ears and uperevshis thumb plate, remove mold from the blocks. Everything. Styrofoam is embodied in its place. 

 

 

 Here are a couple of species: 

 

 And now see what it looks like the further procedure. 

 

 While you sformuete blocks around the perimeter, starting already seized. The next series of molds set on a short rods or clove d = 4 mm, if you do not want to lay the first row of horizontal reinforcement and molding cycle is repeated. To speed up the setting blocks you can add to the mixture a small amount of plaster or other curing accelerator, but remember that if you need to cook the mixture in small portions. 

 

 Contact blocks with each other, I'm on top of each block of foam packing reinforcing fiberglass mesh facade with a mesh 5x5 mm. Probably, to connect the foam blocks together you can use a suitable glue, but I enjoyed only spoke of unusable electrodes, which at once, pulled after molding. Of course, for connection of external and internal walls, you can use pieces of wire. For example, a metal mesh, galvanized strips 

 steel. But I put the goal - eliminating any cold bridges, which are inevitably present in the I know technology. As a form of cross bars or wire reinforcement, or, in laying foliated (with foam) blocks - in the form of solid, frozen over, masonry mortar joints. These seams are clearly visible, with rime after frost and thaw, on the background of "warm" cells are the basic blocks. 

 

 But, as it looks in nature. 

 

 The first series is ready! 

 Once you lift the walls into the designed height, you can go the following ways: to fill the space between the molding sand blocks. This is done very simply: take a flat plate, such as plywood, or better yet - lasting no longer than plastic step between blocks and a width of about 170 mm. Close the space between the blocks with the help of two crutches. They can be made of sufficiently rigid wire. For example, I used the teeth of the old forks. Fix the plate with two strikes on wooden "crutches". 

 If you do not have enough time to finish construction before the rainy or frosty days, it is possible to construct a temporary roof, put it directly on the top row of blocks (I did just that, when the frost did not let me finish the construction). But in the spring I did not hurry and do not fear rain and the sun continued to fill the walls of lightweight aggregate mixture. Why lightweight aggregate? Because, fine expanded clay is perfect for these purposes. I do not recommend using large keramzit. The quality is below average. I note only that the roof should be securely with reinforcement rods to the foundation. In 1998, the roof, installed above the ground floor and not fixed, just gone, like a feather, a terrific gust of wind. 

 

 Now look at another way of building walls. 

 

 It is used for these purposes lightweight formwork. 

 I've got it out of 1,5 mm. aluminum, 1 meter wide, working part 165 mm. The bottom flange. For rigidity, in the middle part, I riveted light profile of the details of the old cornices. In addition, this profile serves as a support for the brackets. I think that the figure is understandable how it all works. Formed "pockets" filled with expanded clay or peskobetonnoy stiff mixture compacted in layers. To save the material may be stowed in a pocket 8 usual bottles. Do the math - in one square meter of the wall you can put 48 bottles! Near my village is popular with Muscovites Recreation. So, unfortunately, or fortunately (?), This "good" enough. I, for one and a half - two hours collecting on the river "Pakhra" in his truck mini tractors - 500. Literally! So our citizens are to nature! Shame! More bottles I collected at the local stadium, the stands which local "disease" was chosen for its libations. There has to be safe even for adults, not to mention the children. All around in the grass, broken glass, cans. Particularly amusing local idiots, how to effectively bottle shatters on impact with metal construction stands and the fence ... The bottles are an excellent reinforcement for laminated block. Once again I note the dignity of hard mixture - no need to wait for concrete "grab". You can immediately "pull off" brackets and rearrange the formwork for a new location. Very good work together. One is packing and rams, and the other brings the bucket with the mixture, parses and sets the formwork. Work is progressing quickly and requires no special skills. 

 

 And then - even easier, no need to put spacers. As long as you walked along the perimeter, the initial blocks have hardened and can be relied upon shuttering straight at them. Valves? I gave up the vertical reinforcement, placing it only in the corners, door and window openings. A horizontal reinforcement putting only every second laminated block, ie, how many rows of foam, the same number of rows of horizontal reinforcement. Horizontal reinforcement I need is also part of the doorway windows. 

 Now it looks so easy and simple. And then, naturally, I was tormented by doubts, fueled by distrustful relations neighbors, friends and relatives. 

 Imagine if they were right, whom I looked! Not to mention the incurred expenses. Just a few years I did not dare to publish his "izobredei" cautiously listening to each click in their construction in the days of sharp drops in temperatures and strong winds. Constantly examining the walls and floors - do not appear to see where the cracks and subsidence, jealously watching the bees, which used to come and hide from the storm in the holes blocks. During this time I have repeatedly offered to publish articles about the new method of construction in popular magazines, which I invariably replied that I dare not publish the unaudited interim solution. 

 But since the end of construction have already passed about 7 years. I am by this time managed to learn some computer technology and found it possible to share with you my findings. 

 

 And here is the real picture of what is produced as a result. 

 

 When I did what you see in the picture, all the members of my family and some neighbors took it as a freak. The nearest neighbor, apparently offended to the depths of the soul "as a clear manifestation of idiocy" expressly stated to me that I was (to put it gently) in your right mind. It can be understood. Most of us want to live in an environment adequate, intelligent, wealthy and happy neighbors. But this man is doing something, do not fit into traditional ideas. 

 

 In this photo son holds elektrotrambovku (for old and Electric). To the right you can see, as the rain washed away the fresh, neshvatvshuyusya and closed from the rain mix. I prefer to work hand trambovochkoy and not entangled in wires with heavy and unsafe elektrotrambovkoy. In this photo you can see horizontal and vertical reinforcement grid and between blocks of foam. Overcast sky can be seen not exactly the end of September. A son, apparently remembering that my father had not shown signs of insanity, and seeing that "this is something there," came to help me, and later gave me invaluable assistance in the continuation and completion. However, when I began to erect structures of the attic, I again had to endure misunderstanding and mistrust of friends and neighbors. It seems logical effect of iron principle: "We do not believe you on the grounds that you made it all up!" 

 When I started to build, did not think that my experience can anyone want, so examples of installing formwork had to be removed later on the basis that simulates the foundation. 

 

 Here are some of the photos that give a real idea of what it looks like everything that I submitted to you in a virtual form. 

 

 Forms for the blocks are made from 1,5 mm steel from the two halves (which is easier to bend them in a vise, or specially manufactured screw clamp). Halves are welded between themselves. On the sides are welded lugs. At the bottom of the slots are made for valves and needles. The latter are used as support during the installation form at the downstream blocks. Pins are cut from 10 mm rod. To one end is welded mustache, and another - carnations, for sticking pins in the foam. Bracket bends from the rigid 10 mm valves. In the field of fold, it should be heated gazorezkoy. Ramming of the 8 mm rod. On one end - the playground, and another - a heavy handle of a steel bar. Work tamper quite tiring. But the ram should be in layers. Clamps made of 12 mm rods, but to bail was fixed in position, in mid grab two goals. 

 

 Necessary and sufficient equipment for molding blocks. 

 

 Set of 4 blocks 

 Necessary and sufficient equipment for forming solid walls 

 

 Setting a solid casing. How to easily get all! 

 

 Virtual model home at 100% correspond to the real designs. 

 

 Plan basement. 

 Ground floor plan. 

 A view from the garage. 

 Foundation 

 

 And here is the real types of homes - what we got. 

 

 You see - some poles in the center of "boxes"? This will read below. 

 The picture traces of the above building walls of various technologies. Before the height of 1650 mm was used the first technique, but it came frozen and had to put a temporary roof. 

 

 Inside I was falling asleep overlap remaining keramzit. 

 Remembering the hurricane, "tied" temporary roof to the foundation. 

 In the boiler room has put a homemade stove with oven (water and electricity have already been summarized). After the furnace set shelltube exchanger with safety valve

 (Heat exchanger I found in an abandoned sand quarry). How many there were scrap! - Excavator, the remains of cars, lots of brand-new trailer from a military unit and other "good" which has only now imagine. Once I discovered there are two lathe: DIP-500 and 1K62. Last I already had. I would have picked up and DIP, if it was where to put. 

 I have prospered the work room and put back his beloved instrument - "Kuhlman". 

 Also equipped with a toilet and bathroom. Drain I also was made. 

 What luck! It was possible to live and work in the warmth and comfort! 

 

 In the spring I went on forming the walls already on the second technology. And time and materials were already enough, and I have worked under a temporary roof, gradually raising it by 4 jacks (conventional hydraulic motor). 

 

 Detail of frame attic. 

 The section houses without walls and ceilings. 

 Putting frame attic floor. 

  The design of attic floor seems somewhat unusual, but it was made for practical reasons. Subway overhang perfectly protects the walls from rain, and the windows from the scorching afternoon sun, the most used area of overlap of the residential floors, snow, rolling down the roof peak, as a springboard discarded from the house. Moreover such a solution to create a stable rigid structure using only board-section 138h40 mm. Custom size? Yes. But cheaper than the standard material. Just once, such material is "turned up". Crates used in the first winter to cover ruberoid, I did not shoot, and placed her vapor-permeable waterproofing, kontrobreshetku to create a ventilated gap between the waterproofing and metal lathing and under the metal roofing from the bars of 40x40 mm. Unfortunately no photos. Covering attic metal tile made together with his son, using the standard proprietary instruction. To insert a nine skylights, invited the representative of the firm, he showed how it is done and the remaining 8 windows, we have established ourselves with his son. We have installed two windows in the day, saving on installation $ 640. The work was easy, because I think over each step and made easy and convenient, portable stage. 

 

 The view from the roof of the garage-studio. 

  The ladder is on the roof of the extension, which at first, as the experiment began the construction of the foam, like my kind of known technology with permanent shuttering. 

  Blocks are assembled from a flat foam thickness of 50 mm. The inner surface of the slots are made dovetail with one motion termorezaka, bent out of nichrome wire. 

 Blocks are fastened to each other by spokes (photo of 8 pcs. On the block) and plates. After the pouring of concrete and its setting, the spokes pulled out, and foam "kept" for the concrete due to "swallowtails." 

 Good technology, but the outer walls of the dwelling floor, I decided to build, hiding inside the walls of foam to securely protect it from external influences and maximize the thermal inertia of the inner layer of expanded clay wall. 

 As you can see, the wall is a reinforced concrete grid "drenched" outside foam. Once, I saw a program on television, in which he criticized the use of foam. And of harmful lead from him, and when burning it emit harmful fumes, as if we're going to live in a burning house. And when burning a wooden house that does not emit harmful smoke? But in a wooden house that no harmful emissions from decay and oxidation of biomass? EPP completely chemically inert in air, the process of polymerization of styrene in it completed during manufacture. The factory where I bought the foam, gave me a sanitary certificate proving the absolute safety of the product. Remember that the foam on the basis of EPP, even doing the dishes for the food! Just all allegations - neither more nor less than the machinations of competitive firms working on other technologies and applying their materials. 

 

 View of part of an extension from the inside. 

  On the erection of walls enclosing it took me about 16 cubic meters small clay pellets, and all I was about 20 I was upset - to the inner main wall claydite not enough. But, truly says: "There is no silver lining." We had to invent their own, cost-effective technologies. Here it is: 

  First, I form a scarce keramsit number of pillars with quick and simple formwork. To save the materials I leave in blocks of emptiness. As pustotoobrazovatelya perfect bottle for champagne. I got up this morning at 6 o'clock. Breakfast. In doing batch mixer, using 8 buckets of clay pellets. In formwork, shown below, I'm form 5 blocks of ten. 

  Note, I have only one set of formwork unit. This is because I use a mixture of hard and was producing stripping immediately after molding. Then I clean the tools and the cement mixer and go to work by 9:00. At that time I worked as an engineer-mechanic in one of the government residences. At 18:30 I return from work, and the cycle repeats. In the end - I have 10 full blocks of a total height of 2 m. 14 days of such work, job training, and 10 poles in height 2850 mm - the basis of the main wall, are ready. Yes Do not forget to erect poles main wall to place it vents and chimneys. However, I have already installed the pipe after it set a framework and covered mansard roof. 4-meter pipe I installed one with a hand winch, suspended from the attic structures. Stepped up the pipe with homemade clamps sheet 1,5 mm. steel. I as flue put asbestos pipe d = 200 mm, and for ventilation - 100 and 150. (You need to check with the experts, what section of pipe you need for a particular purpose). 

 

 For clarity, the plate showed a different color. Do not worry - not of silver and gold. In the golden plate slots (2,5 mm.) Half-written at the bottom and the "silver" from the top. I hope you understand. Pulls the first plate, and gently rolling movement, shoot second. A good idea to lubricate the surface of the plates and bottles of waste oil to reduce adhesion. 

  Specially noted that, in combination with such pillars opilkobeton - wonderful material for building interior wall. 

 Well then, all very easy: you can use a solid plate shuttering ... who that like - boards plywood, plastic. For example, I used the first, and filling carried out rigid opilkobetonnoy mix with champagne bottles, as pustotoobrazovateley. You can leave them there and if not sorry. But best of their Save your floors during construction. To the mixture is not dropping into the wound, the void, I just stuffed the previous old newspapers. 

  The wall of opilkobetona good "nail" is processed: drilled, chopped, Stroebe, sawed. And most importantly - it's very cheap, warm, quiet, fire! 

  Here are my assistants, who allowed me to avoid many difficulties encountered. 

 

  Mixer, volume 80 -90 liters. It is used already (what?) ... 16 years! With its help, I met all concrete work on the site. Foundations of a house, fence, garage, workshop, hangar, an area of 100 square meters. m wall. All concrete floors, ceilings, screed, plaster, wells sewage treatment plants and storm sewers. And I brought her out of scrap materials - scraps of sheet metal, machinery, picked up on a scrapyard. For example, a planetary gearbox has been without email. motor with broken aluminum drive-drove, the shaft. Gear mechanism overturning was picked up in the ruined factory and apparently served as a mechanism for opening the gate. The whole design, I "cooked" on 5 floor balcony with a home-made welding machine. Such welders at the time it was impossible to obtain. Circuit device prompted me one of my friends, let alone the whole technology of its manufacture, I thought of myself. The device gives a constant current, voltage can be adjusted. I used it, in addition to welding, as a trigger device for cars and diesel welding machines, as well as for plating on metal surfaces. 

 

 With a home-made mini-tractor, I am bringing the bulk materials to the mixer and the process went. Only manage to load and unload the mixer. 

 

 In this photo you can see a mini-tractor option - single-axle tractor-trolley with lifting mechanism in the form of an easily removable steel construction with manual winch. If necessary - to increase the traction ability and permeability, trolley "detachable", but instead joins the second axle that turns the design into wheel-drive tractor with the "breaks" frame, a kind of "mini-Kirovets". Engine 30-strong "Zaporozhets, transmission from the truck GAZ-53, bridges - from Lada (shortened). 4 speed - forward and one - back. As the tractor was made in times of shortages, the hub of the wheels are made so that they can put any rims - from "Zaporizhzhya", to "volgovskih. In the first case was a motor scooter from the "Vyatka", 7,5 "horses". 12-speed - forward, and 3 - back. Cruising speed - up to 60 km per hour. Pulling force is enough to plow horse plow. 

  As the trailing guns I made the original rotary hiller that substantially more efficient than conventional. Photo No, because I gave them one of the experimental farms in exchange for elite seed potatoes and strawberry seedlings. Key elements of the tractor, I also did on the balcony five floors, and then all drove to the boiler room and gathered the "agricultural", where he worked on repairing equipment. Serves me this tractor for 17 years, and I am very pleased with the successful design. It was he who helped me gather in an abandoned quarry a huge pile of stones, of which, later, I built a foundation of a garage-workshop, hangar, wells, treatment facilities, water and stormwater, as well as the walls of the ground floor of the house and a big, tall garage for the truck. 30 cubic meters of stones still remain, and they are waiting for their turn. 

  Cutting Machine - "pendulum saw.