Chapter 382 Push the cart (don't think about it, no old man)
"Okay, okay, stop playing and turn the car over!"
Xu Chen rushed aside a group of bored guys who were fighting to turn the wheel, and asked a few carpenters to turn the car over.
"Sigh!"
Looking at the overturned wheelbarrow, the onlookers exclaimed, and some thought they understood.
"Wow, it's tack tack!"
After the car turned over, the support legs had not been installed, so the wheelbarrow was not stable at all. Several carpenters were about to fall over as soon as they let go, and some couldn't help but scream.
"Hold on to both sides and don't let go!"
Xu Chen greeted several carpenters while he rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to grab the handlebar.
He used to push a unicycle when he was a child. Although he hasn't pushed a unicycle in more than ten years, he believes that it is the same as riding a bicycle. Once you know how to do it, you can do it no matter how long you don't ride it, as long as you get a little familiar with it.
"Get out of the way, be careful!"
Xu Chen shouted loudly, and the crowd of onlookers immediately dispersed. Xu Chen pushed the independent wheel forward. As the thick wooden wheel turned, the wheelbarrow moved forward crookedly.
"Wow!"
The onlookers exclaimed excitedly again.
Because there is a children's carriage in front of them, the Ba people are no strangers to wheels. However, the wheels of the children's carriage are made of wooden cakes cut from a piece of log, which is far less big and complicated than this wheel.
Although Xu Chen hadn't pushed a wheelbarrow for a long time, after slowly pushing it around the yard for more than half a circle to get familiar with it, he was basically able to control it, so he ordered the two carpenters to let go of their hands and pushed the strange cart alone.
The yard started to wander crookedly.
Seeing the way the unicycle could tip over at any time and Xu Chen's clumsy movements, the men, women and children watching kept exclaiming in surprise.
However, as time went by, Xu Chen became more and more familiar with it, and his movements became smoother and smoother. The unicycle ran faster and faster, and a cheerful smile slowly appeared on his face. Wulu adults and children all followed suit.
Cheered and jumped.
Xu Chen is happy, which means that this car building has been completely successful.
After Xu Chen pushed it for two or three laps, he started to sweat.
This wheelbarrow does have no problem pushing it, but the wheels are very heavy, causing a lot of friction between the axles, making it very laborious to push.
The resistance generated by direct friction of this metal is much greater than that of ball bearings.
Of course, although it is not satisfactory, this is the first real mechanical product he has made, and it is completely worthy of pride.
Seeing Xu Chen come to a halt, a group of men swarmed over to stabilize the car. Some people threw themselves in front of Xu Chen and said with excited and flattering faces: "Chen Ga, let me push Ga!"
"Gah, gah!"
A large group of people started shouting almost at the same time.
Xu Chen gave the handlebar to a guy with a smile and said, "Come and try, whoever learned to learn today will be rewarded with bacon and sauerkraut. If he still can't push well by night, he will be punished with fifty push-ups!"
"I'll eat bacon!"
One guy rolled up his sleeves, imitated Fang Yun and grabbed the handle of the car, shouting at the group of people to disperse. As a result, before he could move forward, the car went up crookedly.
"Quack, quack, quack..."
The onlookers burst into laughter, and the guy pushing the cart turned red. He finally relied on his strong arm strength to lift the wheelbarrow from the ground. But as soon as he took a step forward, it immediately tilted to the side.
"Quack, quack, quack..."
Men, women, and children burst into loud laughter again.
The guy became even more anxious and tried hard to straighten the bike again. His red-faced arms firmly held the handlebars firmly, and he staggered forward three steps. The unicycle tilted again.
"Get out of the way, do push-ups, come to me!"
A hunter stepped forward and pushed the guy pushing the cart away. He grabbed the handlebars with both hands and straightened the wheelbarrow with his arms. However, as soon as he relaxed his strength, the cart immediately fell to the other side. He quickly tightened his grip on the handlebars.
I straightened the car again and took just one step forward. The car immediately tilted again.
"Benga, let me come!"
Another guy who didn't believe in evil rolled up his sleeves and went up to squeeze the hunter pushing the cart. However, the situation remained the same. The cart with one wheel couldn't be supported at all. It kept falling to both sides and it was impossible to push it forward. It was impossible to push it forward stably.
Their shelter is supported by their brutal arm strength, but they cannot move, as they will fall over if they move.
Now the onlookers could no longer laugh.
The remaining guys who were eager to give it a try also began to shrink back and did not dare to step forward to push the cart.
Even if you don’t push, you won’t be able to eat bacon and sauerkraut, but at least you won’t have to do push-ups, and you won’t be embarrassed.
Many people have noticed that it is not easy to push this car and run like Xu Chen.
"Chen Ga, it's hard to push a wheel!"
The last guy in the experiment tried to push for two steps again. After the car tilted, he simply let go with a face of shame.
It’s not that I can’t push it away, it’s that I really can’t push it away.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, doesn't Moga make four wheels?" The little witch stood next to Xu Chen and asked in a low voice with a puzzled face.
"Yes, it has four wheels, just like a stroller, so it's easy to push!"
Many men and women nodded in agreement, indicating that what the great witch said was correct.
Xu Chen smiled dryly and said: "Four wheels are okay, but it is more troublesome to make, and the other four wheels are not convenient for use outside!"
"Moxi quack? Four wheels are the best!"
Everyone was confused and confused.
"The outside is not flat and there are no roads. There are rocks everywhere on the river beach, and it is even harder to push a four-wheeled vehicle!"
Xu Chen's explanation was naturally unconvincing. The four wheels can be easily flattened and can be moved with just a push. How can it be more difficult to use than a wheelbarrow? This explanation is completely unreasonable.
Xu Chen also knew that it was difficult to convince these stubborn savages, so he said with a smile: "Let's take the car outside to the river beach and push the rocks and mud. You will know. This kind of car with one wheel is more convenient."
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Seeing is believing, and hearing is believing. Xu Chen decided to quote it from the actual situation and use the actual situation to convince these guys.
So he took the wheelbarrow outside the yard in front of a group of people.
The courtyard dam is being raised and built in front of the compound. A large group of people are moving rocks and earth every day. The amount of work is relatively large. In the winter and spring months, only a section of several dozen meters of dam has been built. As for the filling project, it is even more continuous.
Not even a fifth of it was completed.
The soil was dug out from the foot of the mountain and near the pond. The distance was still quite far, so it was very time-consuming and labor-intensive to carry the soil back and forth.
If there were no more convenient and labor-saving tools than rattan baskets, this project would have taken at least two years to complete. Because there was too much rain in the summer, it would be impossible to do it. Grain and mountain products had to be harvested in the fall, and only winter and spring would have time. And
It is not yet possible to mobilize the whole clan, most people still need to hunt, fish, farm, make pottery, go out and trade and other activities.
Therefore, all clan members feel that this project needs to be repaired as soon as possible, but the progress is very slow.
At this time, there were more than a dozen men picking up soil to fill the foundation. Seeing a group of hunters, old and young, surrounding Xu Chen pushing a strange thing over, they all dropped their poles, rattan baskets and hoes and swarmed around to watch the fun.
"Che!" Someone shouted in surprise from a distance.
Xu Chen's car-building is nothing new for the Ba people. After all, he has been building it for several months, but it has never been successful due to various reasons.
It seems to have been successful now, and everyone is happy for Xu Chen, but why bring the car to a place full of rocks and mud?
In everyone's impression, cars are like children's cars and can only be run in yards or flat places.
When they arrived at the place, Xu Chen didn't hesitate. He rolled up his sleeves again to stabilize the car, and then pushed it precariously on the muddy river beach. Although it looked like it might tip over at any time, it just wouldn't.
Every time he was about to fall over, Xu Chen would quickly adjust his posture and direction, so that the unicycle could still move forward stubbornly even though it was crooked.
So the group of people watching could no longer laugh this time.
No matter how ugly Xu Chen's movements of pushing the cart are, just being able to push the cart without falling over and still running around is his real skill.
Because the guys who have pushed it all know very well that this wheelbarrow looks simple, but it is really difficult to push it around like Xu Chen, especially in a place full of potholes and mud, it is even more difficult.
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After Xu Chen pushed the construction site back and forth to get familiar with it, he called two men digging and carrying soil to go to the place where the soil was collected at the foot of the mountain.
This place is about fifty meters from the side of the third-phase compound. It is not far or close, but a load of soil weighs dozens of kilograms at least. You have to rest for a while every two or three times. In half a day, one person
I only went back and forth a dozen times, and I couldn't even finish a single earthwork.
There is a wooden bucket on top of this wheelbarrow. Although it is not big, the capacity is still much larger than the rattan basket carried on the shoulder.
Xu Chen asked people to load soil into the wooden bucket until the wheel sank slightly, then he stopped, and then asked two people to hold the wheel on the left and right, and slowly pushed the wheelbarrow back.
It happened to be a downhill slope from the foot of the mountain to the front of the compound. Although the unicycle was very heavy, as the speed increased, the body became faster and more stable, so he asked two people to let go, and one person pushed the unicycle in a hurry.
I rushed all the way to the filling position at the foot of the mountain, and then rushed to the latest filling position with all my strength. As soon as I let go of the wheelbarrow and stood up, all the soil in the wheelbarrow was dumped to the ground.
"Wow~"
"So fast quack!"
This time, not only a group of men, women and children who came to watch the excitement exclaimed, but a group of men moving rocks and dirt were even more surprised. Their mouths were wide enough to fit a large duck egg in.
Especially the two men who were helping to load the soil. They knew that the amount of this car would require at least three trips by one person.
The most important thing is not the quantity of soil transported, but the speed, labor saving and ease.
Xu Chen's physical strength is not very strong in the tribe, and he has just grown up, which is far inferior to adult men in their twenties. It can be said that among the adult men in the tribe, Xu Chen has the weakest physical strength.
But he used his weakest physical strength to do the strongest work.
Not only they, but also the strongest hunters such as Feng couldn't lift this cart of dirt. And even if someone could barely lift it, it would be extremely difficult to walk, let alone
He said he ran all the way from the foot of the mountain like flying.