Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 249 Mike Ranch

   "oh, mygod, is this the road construction team?"

  Old Mike and Li Siyuan rode side by side. From a distance, they saw a circular camp consisting of hundreds of workers, a large number of machinery, and mules, horses and carts.

   "Yes, this is one of the three road construction teams on the northern road." Li Siyuan explained in a soft voice, his cultivation is very good, he looks very aristocratic, and he has a bright future.

Old Mike regrets that his little daughter married early at the moment. Li Siyuan is obviously stronger than Lu Qiang’s three-sticker who can’t make a dull ass. There are more than two levels, and I don’t know why his beautiful daughter is attracted to it. That stuff?

  The words "the radish and green vegetables have their own love" came out inexplicably in his mind. Old Mike felt the fate of people, so he was curious!

   "Three road construction teams?"

"Yes, the roads in the north are too long, so three road construction teams equipped with the strongest road construction technology of this era are needed to build at the same time. A road construction team built from the waterfront of Cape York to the south, and a total of more than 800 kilometers to the south. Arrived in Cairns, the second road construction team built from Cairns to the south and reached the Texas town more than a thousand kilometers south. The third road construction team started from Brisbane and built it north, which is what you see now. This road-building team, the roads you came all the way were built by them, and the goal is to meet in Dezhou Town, so as to connect the entire northern road."

Speaking of this, Li Siyuan raised his horse whip and pointed to the distance and continued; "Old Mayor, do you see the telegraph pole ahead? It is the long-distance cable telegraph line of the Australian Telegraph Office. The cable telegraph will pass wherever the road is repaired. The branch offices of the Telegraph Bureau and Huitong Bank are laid there to perfect the entire northern layout."

   "Oh, that's how it is, no wonder there are so many road construction teams."

"This road is called the Seaside Boulevard. It was entirely funded and constructed by Lord Earl. This is a gift to Queensland for infrastructure construction. It will benefit as many as one million people in the future and demonstrate the broad mind and kindness of Lord Earl. We All should be treated with a pious and grateful heart."

   "Yes, may God bless Lord Earl."

"Sorry to the old mayor, I am not a Christian, but a devout Taoist believer, so I prefer to ask Sanqing Xianzun for blessing, and I firmly believe that Lord Earl is the son of destiny, and this will be confirmed in the future." Li Siyuan specifically emphasized this point.

  Old Mike couldn't help but frowned. He finally discovered Li Siyuan's fatal flaw, that is, he is a heretic. It seems that the younger daughter is still right not to marry him. Lu Qiang would be better at this point.

  There is no doubt that Lord Earl is the Son of Destiny. Old Mike hopes that God will bless him, and is willing to take up a gun to defend Lord Earl. He will follow the instructions of Lord Earl to fight on the battlefield, even if he sacrifices his life!

  But he doesn’t like Sanqing Xianzun to come and mix it up. If there is a God, his old man will be fine. As a devout Christian, he must point out this. This is the business scope of God, and there is nothing about Sanqing Xianzun.

  But switch to

  Boundary demarcation and monument erection is still in the hands of Li Siyuan, and there are also precious state councillors, and if you can't bear it, you will make big plans.

  Let's do it, put it down for the time being.

  Old Mack rode forward silently, he suddenly thought of a strange question, why should I think of the sentence "If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan"?

  Well, this is not the point of the problem.

  Old Mike’s attention was quickly attracted by the equipment of the road construction team.

   Walking in the front of the road construction team are 5 oblique tractors. Behind the tractors are dragging heavy farm plows, turning the broad road deep like working in farmland, straight and long all the way without seeing the head.

  After a few days of exposure to the deep-turned soil, it becomes dry and has no moisture, and it is easy to proceed to the next step.

There are 4 oblique rows of tractors at the rear, driving the rapidly rotating machinery to break all the soil into powder, forming a high floating soil layer, and then it is the turn to drag the road roller with solid steel rollers out of the field, and these are repeated over and over again. Compaction of floating soil.

  The road construction team will build a quarry every tens of kilometers, and use diesel generators to drive the gravel mechanism to fetch small stones and stone powder for building solid roads.

  Stone powder will be laid on the compacted soil road. After re-compaction, take a thick layer of soil from one side of the road and re-compact it.

In the next step, the tractor loaded with gravel comes out of the field, spreads a layer of gravel evenly on the road surface, and compacts it again with a road roller. Finally, a thick layer of loess is laid on it and compacted to form it. The current road.

Finally, this thick layer of loess is located on the side of the road. The soil is taken after deep turning by the tractor. After taking the soil twice, a deep gutter will be formed on the side of the road. This is to prevent An important measure of road surface water.

  Finally, put a half-foot-high monument on the road one kilometer away, so that people can clearly know where they are? How far is it from the destination? Very simple and clear.

  The road built in this way presents an obvious sandwich structure. There are three layers of loess, one layer of powdered stone, and one layer of stone. There are 5 layers in total.

The specific road construction speed depends on the mining and crushing speed of the gravel. A road construction team has dozens of tractors, and the working area is at least 30 kilometers at one time. A 30-kilometer road can be completed in just ten days, so progress is made. very fast.

  And all the workers live in mobile caravans, living facilities and so on are also in the caravan, moving forward with the construction site, so even the trouble of building camps is saved.

  This kind of mechanical road construction method greatly improves the efficiency, and the manpower saved is simply incalculable.

  Take 5 tractor deep overturns as an example; you can easily complete the task of 30 kilometers deep overturn every day, only 5 tractor drivers are needed.

  To use manpower to excavate such a long section, how many people are needed?

3000 people working hard for three days may not be able to finish the digging. This is an uncomplicated calculation problem. Each person is 10 meters long and 20 meters wide is an area of ​​200 square meters, and digging 80 cm deep is 160 cubic meters. Han needs to complete more than 50 cubic digging tasks every day. If he is so tired, he may not be able to dig out.

  3,000 hard work for three days is 9,000 manual labor, 5 tractor drivers can do it easily in one day, and the efficiency is increased by 1,800 times.

  The tractor-towed soil crushing machine and the solid road roller have almost the same magical function, and the saving effect is thousands of times. The work done is more neat and beautiful, and the quality is reliable.

  After all, it is a mechanical road construction. The rounds of deep-turning and compaction can not be faked, cut corners, and slippery like manual road construction, thus ensuring the quality of road construction.

  Seeing this, old Mike deeply admired;

  God! Lord Earl is the angel who spreads the holy light, the holy light from heaven shining on the earth, the savior of Australia's chaotic order, the descendant of the sacred and noble Eastern royal blood, will surely bring the Lord's gospel.

  In this regard, old Mike has been convinced.

  One last sentence must be emphasized; there is no such thing as Sanqing Xianzun here.

   "Buddha of immeasurable life, kindness and kindness!" Li Siyuan piously bowed his head, mashing old Mike's expectations to pieces.

  Old Mike’s pasture is about 13 kilometers southwest of Qingdao Town. The pastures of his elder son-in-law Zhao Qishan and his younger son-in-law Lu Qiang are close to each other. The combined area is more than 30,000 acres. It is a good place with abundant water and grass.

The pasture includes a mountain range with a height of about 600 meters, more than 10 large and small lakes, and seven streams running through it. Except for a small and a half are hilly areas, most of them are gentle slopes and plains. Exhausted forest. .

  This kind of terrain farmland is useless, and it is excellent for pasture.

  Old Mike discussed with everyone, simply build the Mike Ranch first, and everyone will graze together and live together. After freeing up, he will slowly build his own home.

  For more than ten days

  The cowboys are in full swing. They cut down large trees in the forest, cut off the branches with an axe, and then drag them out of the forest with a healthy horse and stack them in the lumber yard.

  Then saw the wood with an iron saw, put it layer by layer and exposed it to the sun for a few days, and finally set up a triangular pergola to block the sun and let it dry slowly.

  The cut corner wood is used to build the corral, bit by bit to build your own beautiful home.

   "Stop it, take a rest." Old Mike sat on the tree with his legs apart, put down the iron saw in his hand and took a few breaths, then wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuffs, looking too tired.

Sitting under the big tree, Zhao Qishan also let go of the iron saw, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and handed one over and said; "Papa Mike, don't do it, wait a while and go with Hudson. Build a corral. We young people can do this kind of wood sawing work."

"Huh, I'm not old yet." Old Mike retorted his mouth unconvincedly, and turned his head to look at the huge piles of wood in the lumber yard. There was not a single part of the sawn planks, and he couldn't help feeling scalp hair. numb.

He took the cigarette and thought for a while and said, "Zhao, I think we should buy a disc saw and a tractor, which can help us easily cut all the wood into the boards we need, and can also transport grass fodder. It's not just the construction of this wooden house, there is still a lot of heavy work waiting for us."

  "Does it cost a lot of money to buy a tractor?"

"I have calculated it. It costs 27 pounds to buy a disc saw and 145 pounds to buy a tractor. It is indeed very expensive, but it can help us build a wooden building at once instead of three **** small shacks. We can hire 10 fewer people and save a lot of time."

  Zhao Qishan seriously considered it, and had to admit that Mike’s words were reasonable.

  Building a wooden building not only requires a lot of planks, but also a lot of wooden slats and squares. It is the most labor-intensive work. More than 10 men can't do much for a day, and they are tired.

  If you buy a tractor and a disc saw, you only need to nail a disc saw workbench with wood and push the big wood up. The work of driving the wood is very easy.

  Whether it is a wooden square or a wooden strip, it can be easily completed on the disc saw workbench.

  The power of the disc saw comes from the tractor, as long as the connecting belt is attached, it is convenient and simple.

  And the tractor is simply the omnipotent operator of the pasture. Not only can it transport forage, wood, planted fruits and vegetables, grains and other things, but after unloading the carriage, it can immediately become the best helper in the farmland.

  Plowing, deep ploughing, turning the ground, weeding, sowing and fertilizing all kinds of skills, it is definitely a good helper for large-scale farms, and can easily plant 100 mu of fields.

  A good tractor is indeed good, everyone can see it, but the price is too expensive.

A basic tractor costs 145 pounds. It is only equipped with basic carriages. Extra money is required for extension carriages and flatbed carriages. Additional money is required to add various agricultural machinery and equipment, which is more than ten pounds. That 20 pounds, the total amount of farm machinery and tools is more than 200 pounds.

   £145, what does this mean in this day and age?

  4.5 pounds a ton of high-quality steel, this money can buy 32.2 tons of steel, you can buy a two-story bungalow with front and rear gardens, it is really too expensive.

  Zhao Qishan did not know that the reason why the price is so expensive is that the series of diesel engines have pioneered new technologies in this era. For a foreseeable long period of time, they will monopolize the market in this field and obtain excessive monopoly profits.

The Cargill Steam Machinery Company of Detroit, USA and General Machinery Company of Australia, which are controlled by Lord Earl, have gained huge profits from them. And the demand for agricultural machinery is extremely strong.

  The steam tractor appeared very early, but it was very heavy and very low-efficiency. It was trapped as soon as it entered the farmland. It was criticized in European farms, and it was hardly promoted and applied.

In today’s agricultural sector, steam hook plows are the most produced. This is a kind of steam machinery that is fixed to the head of the field. The plow head is used to pull the plow to plow the land. The number of steam hooks exported to Europe in the Detroit area of ​​the United States is about 1,500~ Around 1800 units, more for personal use.

  After the shining appearance of these old products on diesel tractors, the market fell into disarray, and sales today are close to zero.

at the same time

The    series diesel generator sets have a very wide range of applications. They are not only the power foundation of small and medium-sized enterprises, but also one of the auxiliary powers of large-scale enterprise equipment, which almost defeats the heavy and impractical steam machinery.

   "Papa Mike, have you decided?"

   "Yes, we need a tractor and even a disc saw. It can save us 10 workers and save 50 pounds."

"Okay, I'm fine." Zhao Qishan took a hard smoke, turned his head and looked around, and saw that everyone was sweating at work, with an inexplicable smile in the corner of his eyes, and said; "I think other people too. There will be no objection. Brother Limin will raise his hands in agreement. The past few days have exhausted everyone. Thinking about working hard for 10 months or even more than a year, it really makes people break down!"

   "Hahahaha..." Old Mike burst out laughing.

  His eyes are looking around this beautiful hill, which is backed by a tall mountain, a clear stream not far from one side is gurgling by, and there is a large flat **** in front of it, which can be cultivated for growing vegetables and fruits in the future.

  A pig pen can be built next to the lake, and the manure of the fat pig can be thrown into the lake along the manure trough, which is easy to clean.

  On the other side of the lake, you can build a cowshed and raise some chickens, ducks and geese. In a few years, this place will surely become a beautiful and rich pasture.

   Thinking of this, old Mike’s heart is already drunk...

  (End of this chapter)