Originally, there were several ponds used for irrigation in the tea garden. The smallest one was less than an acre in size, and most of them were two or three acres in size. However, they are all dry and deserted now.

Many of them cannot be seen as ponds that were used to store water. The ones with spring water are okay. There is still a little spring water flowing out, but it disappears not far after it flows out. The larger spring water flows in.

The stream in the mountains finally merges into the reservoir.

The largest pond is the one in the middle of the tea garden. It still looks like a pond, but it is also full of weeds and the silt is very deep.

However, I heard from Brother Ermeng that there are many bastards in the pond. Anyway, he has caught a few in it, both big and small.

In fact, before the tea gardens were abandoned, in addition to being used to fight droughts, these ponds were also used to raise fish. They were all contracted to individuals.

We usually raise fish, but when there is a drought that year, the water in the pond can be used to fight the drought.

Of course, a little water will also be left for fish farmers. When the water reaches a certain level, it will no longer be released.

But later, as the tea gardens were abandoned, no one took care of those mountain ponds. This tea garden with an area of ​​more than 200 acres turned into a barren mountain in less than a few years, and became a good place for people to herd sheep and cattle.

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Nowadays, there are even fewer people grazing cattle. Because no one has gone out for activities for a long time, the way to the mountains has gradually disappeared, and it has been a long-standing problem to go in.

The last time Wu Fei went in, he and his brother-in-law Zhang Yibin walked for an hour to get to the pond in the middle of the tea garden. The straight-line distance was less than a mile. The entire path was cut with a knife.

However, I discovered along the way that there are still many old tea trees in the tea garden, and the big ones are three or four meters high. However, most of the tea trees are dead, and some were cut back when they were just abandoned.

The firewood is burned.

You know, when Wu Fei was at home, he often did such things. Cutting down a tea tree can be used as several loads of firewood.

Half of the tea trees next to the courtyard were cut down and used as firewood by the people who used to live in the courtyard.

However, Wu Fei also found signs of human activity in the mountains. He saw several traps for trapping rabbits and pheasants. They should have been set by villagers, maybe by Er Meng.

Wu Fei plans to clean up the previous ponds on the mountain so that they can not only store water, but also be used to raise fish, shrimp, turtles, etc.

Because those ponds originally had their own spring water, but because no one took care of it, after they were abandoned, the spring water flowed away from the ground. However, as long as the top is dug, most of the spring water will emerge.

However, such a project is not small. It takes a lot of time to clean the pond one by one, dig out the mud that has accumulated in the pond for so many years, and then transport it away.

But when the forklift is paired with an excavator, it should be much faster, but it will really cost a lot of money for the excavator. Now, hiring an excavator and bulldozer for a day will cost a lot of money.

"Brother Quan, do you know anyone who drives a bulldozer or a road roller? Find one for me in the next two days. When the weather is good, I will repair the road. It will be easy to do other things later."

It is better to build the road first, and then other construction machinery can go up the mountain. In the future, all the work on fruit trees, saplings, fertilizers, buried pipelines, etc. will need to be pulled up the mountain.

"Who else are you looking for? I have all those things. The construction site I'm working on now is finished, and I don't know where the next construction site is yet. If you want to build a road, just bring those things back. Bulldoze your brother-in-law

We know how to drive it, and when the time comes, the three of us will be able to do it. Don’t ask the master I hired to drive the bulldozer, we can do it ourselves. Then you can drive the roller."

"Brother Quan, when did you buy a bulldozer and a road roller? Isn't it just a forklift?"

I bought an excavator when I first started. The last time I dug a fish pond for Wu Fei, I had never heard of a bulldozer.

"I have been buying it for a year or two. I bought it second-hand and it was cheap. Since I need to use it a lot now, I bought it because the price was right. Then I got too busy, so I hired a driver to help me drive. It made me feel more relaxed.

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"Now what price do you charge for excavators? Is it calculated by day or by hour?" I remember that when I first bought the excavator, I dug the foundation for Wu Fei's house. At that time, it seemed to be two to three hundred.

Yuan an hour.

"They are all there. Nowadays, excavators and bulldozers charge 300 yuan an hour. If calculated on a daily basis, they charge 2,000 yuan a day, and road rollers charge 1,500 yuan a day. But now there are less things to do, and sometimes they can be done in a month.

Things will happen in a few days.”

"It's quite profitable. If we all go out, we'll have 10,000 in two days."

I didn’t expect that excavators are quite profitable. No wonder the advertisements for excavators on TV in the past few years were all on CCTV.

"Tomorrow I will teach you how to drive the excavator and install the hammer for you. Let's see if you still say this."

After hearing what Wu Fei said, Wu Quan did not refute, but looked at Wu Fei and said with a half-smile.

"It's better not to do that. If you are an experienced driver, it's better for you to do it."

Although Wu Fei has never driven an excavator, he has experienced it with an excavator equipped with a cannon hammer.

When the family was digging the foundation for their new house, Wu Fei sat on the excavator with him for less than an hour, and he was so shaken that his lower body no longer belonged to him. After climbing off the excavator, he could no longer stand firm.

However, although the road roller has never been driven, it is just a big roller, rolling back and forth on the road, so it is not difficult to imagine.

"Then I'll trouble Brother Quan. If nothing goes wrong tomorrow, let's start tomorrow. I can roughly estimate how many days it will take to repair the big pond on the top of the tea garden."

"This is going to be quick. There used to be a dirt road, but it got lost in the past few years. Tomorrow we will just widen the old road a little bit. In fact, we don't need an excavator, we can just use a bulldozer to push it. Then it will be directly on the dirt road.

Just lay a layer of cinders and press it with a road roller."

"There are big rocks in some places, and the bulldozer can't move them, right?"

Wu Fei remembered the rough road in the past. The narrow part was less than one meter and there were several big rocks.

"When the excavator comes tomorrow, it will just hammer a few rocks. If we start early tomorrow and dig a rough road, it should be about the same in one day."

"As long as the rough road is dug out, ask your brother-in-law to go to the brickyard to pull a few loads of cinder and lay it on the ground, and then use a road roller to compact it. Anyway, there won't be many cars on it, so just do it casually.
Chapter completed!