I just bought an excavator and I want to dig a shovel wherever I see it.
Ye Ma has made several phone calls.
It was already dark, and Ye Mo didn't stop what he was doing until Ye Ran drove over.
"We've finished eating. Hurry up, call it a day and go back." Ye Ran shouted.
Ye Mo drove the tractor to the warehouse and left the excavator here. He sat in the car and asked, "How much work does dad have left?"
"It's more." Ye Ran said, "Micro-digging costs 110 yuan per hour, which feels good."
If I can work eight or nine hours a day, I can earn about 1,000 yuan a day.
After deducting gas expenses, the net income is more than 800 per day.
If there is work every day, the micro-excavator can pay back its investment in one year.
My father now digs puddles, deep ditches and orchard roads for people every day. These are very remote places that can only be accessed by micro-digging.
"The durian orchard needs to be renovated." Ye Mo said: "It is inconvenient for a small excavator to enter the durian orchard, so you have to dig in slightly. Clean up the durian orchard and sow grass seeds before October."
"Well, let's go back and tell dad about it."
After returning home, Ye's father was watching TV in the living room. Ye Ran and his father talked about cleaning up the durian garden.
Father Ye walked over and said, "Are you still going to keep the durian garden?"
"The durians are starting to bear fruit. If we manage them, they might start to bear fruit in large numbers next year," Ye Mo said.
"Is there any fruit?" Ye's father looked at Ye Ran.
"There are so many of them, they are quite big." Ye Ran said.
"Then manage it well. In the past, your grandpa planted durians and was laughed at a lot... If the planting is really successful, he will be proud." Dad Ye said: "I asked today about digging a well on the high soil slope to provide water.
, more than three hundred thousand. If calculated by meter, there is no guarantee that water can be produced."
"So expensive?" Ye Ran said.
"Okay, take a bite." Ye Mo said.
When drilling a motor-driven well with a depth of more than 300 meters, the water output is more than 20 tons per hour...
The high soil slope is the mountain with the highest altitude in their area.
This well is mainly used for irrigation.
It is by no means a simple matter to open more than 100 acres of orchards in high mountains and in dry and hot valley areas.
The motor shaft is in reserve.
On the high soil slopes, several large ponds and some small ponds for water storage are dug.
"Dad, is that micro-excavator okay to use?" Ye Mo asked.
"Okay." Dad Ye said with a smile: "It's strong and fast. Compared with your second uncle's micro-excavator, it's as good as in the sky or on the ground."
My second uncle’s micro-excavator is a miscellaneous brand and weighs less than 1 ton.
"That machine is expensive, so you should be careful when using it." Ye Ran said, "If it's broken, repairing it costs at least several thousand yuan."
"How many thousand does it cost to repair it once?"
"It's not that expensive. There are wearing parts on the excavator, which can be bought and replaced on Taobao. Wearing parts usually only cost a few hundred yuan. But you still have to be careful when using them. Don't use all your hard-earned money for repairs.
The excavator is here." Ye Mo said.
"I will pay attention. Qian Laosan of the third team wants to open up wasteland and is looking for an excavator. Can your excavator be used to open up wasteland?" Dad Ye asked.
"Of course." Ye Mo said: "My small excavator is mainly used for clearing land. But I have to clear out my and Ye Ran's orchard first, and then start planting trees when the weather gets cooler. Dad, you will
After finishing the work at hand, don’t go out to pick up the work. Let’s finish our own affairs first.”
"I have been working hard all year long in the orchard, but it feels like going out to drive an excavator."
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High soil slope, with a total area of 220 acres.
The next day, Ye Mo drove the excavator and started the formal land reclamation work.
Ye Mo drove the excavator to the hilly area and cleared the bushes on the hill first.
The small excavator is equipped with air conditioning, so it's cool to work inside.
If you want to save money, do as much work as you can do yourself.
Today's rural labor costs are not worse than those in cities.
Hiring a male labor force costs more than 300 a day. Female labor is cheaper, more than 200 and closer to 300.
Dad went out to make money by driving a micro digger.
Ye Ma and Ye Ran had nothing to do, so every evening they would come to the top of the mountain to help Ye Mo clear the bushes on the mountain.
The second aunt and the third aunt, they occasionally come over to help.
Within ten days, Ye Mo cleared the shrubs on the top of the mountain, replaced it with a 0.33-square-meter bucket, and began to level the land.
It's October.
All the Kate mangoes at the bottom of the mountain have been picked.
Mangoes in the mountains mature later.
Ye Mo stopped what he was doing and went home to help pick mangoes.
The mangoes at home are well managed and the fruits have been sorted out several times. The mangoes on the tree now have beautiful fruit shapes and large sizes.
The average weight of Ye Mo's mangoes is about 630 grams, which is close to 3 taels per pound.
The mango tree is more than ten years old and has a high yield.
The first day of mango picking.
Before dawn, the second uncle and the third uncle came over to help.
In October, the morning in the mountains is much cooler.
Ye Mo also got up early, took the scissors, and carried the bamboo pole on his back... and went down to the orchard.
The mango branches are lush and leafy, and the hanging mangoes are still green. They are very big and look very appetizing.
Mango picking should be handled with care.
Although these mangoes are not ripe yet and are very hard, you still need to pay special attention when picking them so as not to damage the peel.
In the cool morning, Ye Mo went to the hillside to carry several baskets of mangoes and came back, sweating profusely.
Mangoes cost 3.5 yuan per catty, and a basket weighs fifty or sixty catties, which is about two hundred yuan.
All their mangoes are grown on the hillside, and picking mangoes is the hardest time.
One acre of mango weighs about 4,000 kilograms.
Ye Mo thought about how tiring it would be to cultivate all the high soil slopes into fruit orchards and harvest them in the future.
Although Ye Mo plans to hire workers, he still has to do many things himself.
"High soil slopes need to be planned carefully. You can't plant too many mangoes..." Ye Mo thought about what he should plant, which would be easy, not tiring, and make a lot of money.
After eight o'clock, the sun came out.
Ye Mo sat in the shade of a tree drinking tea and resting...
"Brother Ye Mo." Chen Chen came over on a motorcycle and called.
"Hey." Ye Mo responded.
"My mother said you were picking mangoes here, so she asked me to come over and help." Chen Chen said.
"Then sit down and rest for a while." Ye Mo said.
The sun is out and the temperature is rising quickly.
Ye Mo just sat here and smoked a cigarette before taking Chen Chen into the orchard...
After that, Ye Mo, Ye Ran, Chen Chen, and Ye Wen also came to help. They were responsible for cutting and carrying the fruits, and Dad, the second uncle, and the third uncle did the work.
It took until after eleven o'clock to finish more than four acres of mangoes.
Ye Mo and the others stayed outside to load the car, while mom went back to get lunch.
"Go home, take a shower, and ask your third uncle and your third aunt to come over for lunch." Ye Mo said to Chen Chen.
"We will do the loading of the car ourselves," said Dad Ye.
"Okay, I'll go back and take a shower."
Every year when they pick mangoes here, everyone works together and picks them all quickly.
Chen Chen went back.
Ye Mo said to his father: "Dad, we need to build some roads in the mango orchard on the hillside, and we can buy a small tractor..."
"It's very troublesome to build roads on the hillside." The second uncle said: "Before, technicians were promoting orchard trains. The single-track train cost more than 100 yuan per meter of track. I went to the orchard at the foot of the mountain to see it, and it seemed pretty good. I
I want to wait until after this year’s mango picking to lay some tracks in the orchard, which will be used to pull fertilizers and transport fruits in the future..."
The orchard train is also available.
"Dad, we are also laying a small train in the orchard. It is too tiring to pick mangoes on such a steep hillside." Ye Ran said.
"Okay, let's lay some tracks too."
In fact, both digging and laying tracks will work.
To dig a road, some fruit trees will have to be dug up. It will be much more convenient to lay tracks.
The orchard train is no stranger to the local area.
Local orchards are all on hillsides, with few flat orchards. To pick fruits, some have to carry them manually. Others have built cables to transport fruits and fertilizers.
There are more than ten acres of orchards, and ten acres are on the hillside.
Ten acres is actually not a big area for an orchard. But in terms of mango production, 10 acres of mangoes produce 20 tons of mangoes per year.
Carrying it up the mountain was so tiring.
Ye Mo had only carried it a dozen times in the morning, and now his shoulders were sore and his legs were unsteady.