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During the ripening season of cherries and strawberries, the garden plot begins to swarm with starlings who try to eat the entire crop. To protect your garden from them, you need to make a scarecrow that can repel pests.

To make sure your garden hose lasts longer, it needs to be stored correctly. For this, it is advisable to have a coil. It will allow you to wind it up without any creases or twists, so that in the future it can be placed under a canopy where it will not be exposed to

Today I will tell you how to make good use of the remaining fasteners, in this case they will be two anchor bolts with an M8x100 nut, which I had lying around idle.

When burying wooden poles without waterproofing, you can’t expect them to stay in the ground for more than a few years, even if it’s wood that’s quite rot-resistant. There are many methods of waterproofing, from cheap to downright expensive.

One of the most effective sprinklers in terms of area coverage and droplet size are snails. However, they are made of such poor plastic that the device often does not even survive until the end of the season. In this regard, it is much better to do

A screwdriver, when equipped with the appropriate attachment, can be used to solve a wide variety of, and even unexpected, problems. An example of such a non-standard use would be its use for pumping water. For this you only need

To organize uniform watering of the lawn, you need to use several sprinklers with a small coverage, or one with a large one. The use of the latter is preferable, since it is easier to install, and moreover, a shorter length is used for its connection

When performing large volumes of work with sewer pipes, it is good to have a pipe cutter available. It allows them to be cut quickly and immediately with a finished chamfer easily passing into the socket. To save money, you can make a pipe cutter yourself.

When assembling a wind generator from scrap materials to generate free electricity, there is a difficulty in making blades that can respond even to weak gusts of wind. Without a good impeller, even a factory generator will not work

Colored plastic bottles make very beautiful and fast garden windmills. The shape of the bottle allows the formation of wide blades that react even to light winds.

To work on a carpentry workbench with perforations, it is very convenient to use clamps in addition to ordinary clamps. The latter, if desired, can be made with your own hands from available materials. With their help, it is possible to quickly and reliably fix parts

A gas burner is usually used for tempering, hardening and casting metals, as well as installing welded roofing. This is quite bulky equipment, and in order to refill its cylinder, you need to go to a gas station. Much easier

One of the options for recycling PET bottles is to make roofing tiles from them. The peculiarity of this roof is its transparency, which makes it a good solution for technical rooms without electric lighting. It can also be used

If you need to dig or concrete columns, you must first prepare the holes. To do this you need a drill of a certain diameter. If you don’t have such a tool, you can make it yourself. It's much easier than digging holes with a drill

If you need to make a transparent rain canopy, cover an outbuilding or greenhouse, you can use homemade roofing material consisting of PET bottles. Its manufacturing technology is very simple and quite fast, so

Having little free space in the garage or a cramped workshop, it is very difficult to equip a comfortable workspace there. The workbench has to be placed under the wall, which, when working on it, forces you to turn over heavy workpieces, since you can approach them from the other

When fighting overgrown weeds, an ordinary hoe flies off from their rhizomes with a ringing sound. For such work, it is necessary to use a stronger and wider tool, capable of chopping hard roots in one movement. You can make it from ordinary

During the summer rainy season, you have to mow the growing grass in the area every couple of weeks. To do this quickly and effortlessly, you need a lawn mower. If you have a free electric motor, for example, from a washing machine, you can assemble it yourself.

When cleaning out storage bins in a garage or workshop, you often come across worn out tools that have not been used for a long time. Often, such finds can be put to good use by converting them into the necessary devices. By finding old taps you can use them to make

The steel used to make valves is highly hard but not brittle. Therefore, the old valves remaining after engine repair can be used as blanks for the manufacture of various tools.

Using ordinary PET drink bottles, you can make a fairly strong corrugated pipe that can be used for draining liquids, a protective casing for communications and other purposes. The cost of its production is extremely low,

A washbasin is simply necessary in a country house or garden. If you don’t have a house and a stationary washbasin on your property, then it’s very easy to make one from a PET bottle and a disposable syringe. Such a homemade product will serve faithfully for a long, long time. Her

A boat made of plastic pipes is no longer a know-how, but equipping it with a propeller is a fairly fresh idea. Such a boat has a shallow draft, and due to the absence of a submersible propeller, it can navigate shallows, almost puddles.

Almost always, when working with a profile pipe, connections are made using electric welding, rivets or mounting perforated angles using bolts and metal screws. However, there is another very reliable way,