Chapter five hundred and seventy seventh: little train
The small train used in the experiment at Dadong Bamboo Farm worked overtime to build.
The root system of bamboo is very developed.
The small train track in the bamboo forest is laid about one meter above the ground, and the pillars used to support the track are several meters deep underground.
This is more laborious to build, and the track construction site is in a bamboo forest on a hillside.
It took a lot of time to design the track route map before.
The actual construction started only in the past few days.
Time passed by and the main track and auxiliary track of the first small train were laid.
The main track length is 3.7 kilometers, the auxiliary track length is 11 kilometers, covering an area of 2,400 acres.
The track laying was completed, and the locomotive of the small train was also transported. The carriages are all iron frame carriages...
Ye Mo heard about this and went to pick up Li Xuebin early the next morning and went straight to Dadong Bamboo Farm.
It was past eight o'clock when we arrived at Dadong Bamboo Farm. There was a bamboo cutting team at the bamboo farm.
There are 70 bamboo cutters at Dadong Bamboo Farm, divided into 7 teams.
Today, 6 teams of people drove into the area covered by the small train, that is, 60 people...
When Ye Mo and the others came over, they could already hear the sound of the chain saw.
The small chain saw is not particularly loud, and it is very easy to use for cutting bamboo. It can easily cut the bamboo, then split it and bundle it...
A bundle of bamboo weighs more than 100 kilograms and can be carried by two people.
There are people who are responsible for sawing bamboo, and there are people who are responsible for knocking down and dividing the sawed parts... There are people who are responsible for tying bamboo and transporting bamboo.
The tracks of the small train are on the roadside.
The small train on the main track has a relatively large front. There are three carriages in total, and the length of one carriage is 5 meters...
The track has a designed load-bearing capacity. The three carriages on the main track can theoretically bear more than 30 tons. If additional carriages are added, more can be transported.
There is also a lifting device at the front and parking space of the small train, which can lift 500-700 kilograms.
Having these things can save a lot of manpower on boarding the truck. When loading the truck, there is no need for a crane to come over. It can be hoisted directly to the transport vehicle on the small train. Or unloaded on the ground...
"Mr. Ye, Mr. Li..." Wang Hao was debugging a small train in a stainless steel shed. When he saw Ye Mo and the others coming over, he shouted.
Ye Mo said 'hmm'.
Li Xuebin smiled and nodded...
"Dad." Li Shanbei shouted: "Brother Ye."
Ye Mo responded with a smile and said, "Has the small train been tested?"
"I tested it yesterday afternoon," Li Shanbei said.
"What are you doing?" Ye Mo looked at Wang Hao.
"Apply butter and maintain it." Wang Hao said: "Hua Steel has made the car frame and sent it directly to me. I will apply butter and maintain it."
Huagang is also called a vehicle manufacturer and it manufactures trains. In recent years, it has also been producing parts for cars and large trucks.
If you can build a train, building a small train is definitely not a problem.
Ye Mo looked at the front of the car, the compartment... Good guy, the materials used are really solid.
This is a small train on the main track.
There are two cars running on the auxiliary track on the left and right sides. Each car has only one carriage. The front of the car is small, and the materials for the body are relatively light...
After Wang Hao finished it, Ye Mo and the others got into the carriage and asked, "What's the fastest speed of the car?"
"The fastest...20 kilometers." Wang Hao said: "The speed limit is, you can't run too fast."
"20 kilometers... is okay," Ye Mo said.
The length of the main track is only 3.7 kilometers, and it can be completed in 11 or 2 minutes. The speed is not fast, but it is much stronger than human power.
Wang Hao started the small train and the car ran out in reverse and followed the track into the mountains.
The width of the track is 1.4 meters and the width of the carriage is 2 meters.
There are steel pipe guardrails on both sides of the carriage...
There are airtight bamboo leaves on the top of the head, and dense bamboos on both sides.
Workers were cutting bamboo on the hillside, and a lot of bundled bamboo was already left on both sides of the track.
The main track runs along the hillside and circles the mountainside. There are auxiliary tracks on both sides...
The track here can be changed, just like a train. But the track is different from the track of the train. The maximum climbing gradient of the rail car used on the hillside can reach an angle of forty degrees. The bottom of the track is a gear structure...
There is an eye-catching sign at the end of the track. Going further inside is a steep slope... Even if the track can be built over it, the bamboo on the steep slope is not worth cutting down.
The air in the bamboo forest has a slightly earthy smell.
It was also very hot in Xiahe Town during this time. The bamboo cutting team went out at six o'clock every day and worked until ten o'clock... They had dinner at six o'clock in the afternoon before going out and working until dark.
Cutting bamboo is very hard work.
This early in the morning, the bamboo cutters were sweating profusely.
Returning to the bamboo felling area, Li Shanbei directed the workers to hoist the bamboo onto the vehicle.
The shipment of bamboo was still very fast. Ye Mo looked at the time and found that three carriages were filled in less than twenty minutes.
This efficiency is not bad.
How to say the cost of the small train is a matter of opinion.
The mini train is indeed quite expensive. But there are a lot of bamboos in their bamboo forest, and they are all old bamboos...
Cutting down the 10,000 acres of bamboo forest here will probably not be worth the investment of the small train. But next year's bamboo will definitely be able to make back the investment.
It facilitates manpower, cuts bamboo faster, and saves a lot of labor costs.
These are equipment investments that can be used for twenty years, or even longer.
The small train in the first area has been built, and then we will calculate how much labor costs can be saved. If it is cost-effective, we can invest...
Ye Mo and the others stayed at Dadong Bamboo Farm until noon before going back.
At noon, the small train made a total of five trips and brought back an estimated 170 tons of green bamboo.
Cutting bamboo is still very fast, but the slowest thing is transportation. Even with small trains, the speed of transportation is still not as fast as the speed of cutting.
A small train requires 5 people.
Once you become proficient, and if the felling team can keep up, transporting 500 tons a day should not be a big problem.
This is just the most ideal situation...
But I have to admit that with a small train, the cutting speed can indeed be much faster.
Calculated at a price of 400 yuan per ton.
If 300 tons can be transported a day, that's 120,000.
There are 75 people working today, and the average output per person per day is 1,600 yuan.
500 tons per day may not be achieved.
But 300 tons per day should not be difficult.
The diesel consumption of the small train is not very high. At the end of the day... more than a thousand yuan is worth the sky. The fuel consumption of the bamboo cutting team's chain saw is not very high either...
If most bamboo forests are covered by small trains, covering a maximum distance of about fifty meters, then it will be easier to cut bamboo in the future. The bamboo cutting team can earn higher wages despite their hard work.
2,400 acres of bamboo forest, a total of 14.7 kilometers of track laid...
The track covers both left and right sides, which means you can encounter the track at a maximum distance of about 50 meters.
Bamboo cutters here in Xiahe Town get more for their hard work. Depending on the location of the bamboo forest, one ton of bamboo costs 100 yuan to 300 yuan. If there is a track, it should be around 150 yuan per ton, and the bamboo cutting efficiency is also