Timber production in forest farms is divided into five processes: logging, pruning, lumber, loading, and forest clearing.
In the first step of logging, lumberjacks use axes, saws and other tools to cut down the wood growing in the forest.
In the past, logging was purely manual, and sawmen used very sharp curved handle saws or big belly saws with very sharp files.
In the mid-1960s, the overall situation began to promote the use of chain saws, and the domestically produced 051 type chain saw was generally used.
Sheng Xiping once heard his father mention that when he first started using chain saws, the old saw hands were not used to it.
So while logging, I started the chain saw and tied the saw's throttle tie-bar with a thin rope to fix it.
Let the chain saw scream in a moderate voice, and then the saw hand continues to use the curved handle to cut down the big tree.
Later, when the leaders went on-site to inspect the promotion of new technologies, they discovered the secret.
After that, the leader demanded that a chain saw must be used and someone was arranged to inspect it.
In desperation, these old saw hands began to accept new technologies.
Those old saw hands were almost the same age as Sheng Liancheng now.
Some have been promoted and have become work captains, production dispatchers, and production managers, while others have already engaged in less demanding jobs.
For example, you can look after the tractor warehouse, burn stoves and kangs for the work team, etc. Otherwise, you will retire early.
Today, most of the lumberjacks in forest farms are young people in their twenties and thirties.
Qianchuan Forest Farm currently has four skidding tractors and two winches.
If each work team is equipped with two skidder tractors and one winch, the current four work teams are simply not enough.
Therefore, only part of it can be done through flow operations, and part of it can be done through batch operations.
The educated youth team does not belong to the official establishment and can only be supplementary personnel.
In previous years, there were few educated youths, so they were mixed into other work teams and were led by veterans to work.
This year is different. There are too many people in the educated youth team, so we can only set up a separate work team. Just like the previous outsourcing contracting, we have independent accounting. The more we do, the more we earn.
The official work teams don't have enough machinery, so the educated youth team naturally has no turn.
The forest farm only equipped the educated youth team with a chain saw to cut wood, and the rest of the felling, harvesting, etc. were all done manually.
Loggers, also known as chainsaw operators, need to undergo training and assessment.
Only qualified people can start working after obtaining corresponding qualifications.
Although Sheng Xiping and others can operate a chain saw, they are not formal employees of the forest farm and have not obtained relevant qualifications. They are not allowed to operate the chain saw to cut wood. The forest farm must be equipped with a saw hand.
But Sheng Xiping never expected that the saw hand assigned to the educated youth team by the forest farm would actually be Li Dazhuang.
This man works like his father, and he is also known to be a good grinder.
According to normal production procedures, loggers must proceed step by step along the designated main logging road according to the logging operation diagram provided by the production unit, and must maintain a safe distance of 70 meters from other processes.
This requires loggers to enter the mountain site three days earlier than other processes in order to leave a sufficient safety distance.
But Li Dazhuang is really not very good at work.
After working for a while, I would sit down and smoke, or else just chat with others.
In three days, the working area has just been logged and cleared. If he works like this, how will the educated youth team make money this year?
"Xiping, what should we do?
Li Dazhuang works hard as a foreigner. If he does this, it will be good if he can keep a safe distance for three days.
The progress of this work is too slow and we can't make any money."
Wang Jianshe, Chen Weiguo and others found Sheng Xiping to discuss countermeasures.
"I feel like he did it on purpose, deliberately slowing down the work so that we couldn't move on to the next process quickly."
Wang Jianshe glanced at Li Dazhuang who was sitting down to smoke again in the distance, and whispered in Sheng Xiping's ear.
Of course Sheng Xiping understood that Li Dazhuang was deliberately looking for trouble.
Li Dazhuang probably guessed who was responsible for the damage to his home's kang, but he had no evidence.
So I used this method to create obstacles for the educated youth team so that they could not make any money.
In fact, sawing is more dangerous than other types of work, and the wages earned are actually not higher than other types of work.
But the sawman has one advantage, which is free time.
Some saw hands will harvest all the harvest for several days, and then free up time to rest or do other things, such as hunting.
In the work team, the people who are most likely to have conflicts are the saw hands and tractor drivers.
Many times, sawmen cut too much wood and saw enough wood to last the tractor for several days.
Then the sawman left, either hunting, or going to the forest to tie a cannon to the pine trees and crack pine nuts, which was to make money on the side.
As for the tractor, it has to pull out all the trees felled by the saw hand.
If there is a heavy snowfall during this period, it will snow heavily in the mountains. After a snowfall, the ditches will be full and the trenches will be flat. It will be impossible to see where the felled wood is and it will be easily missed.
Once the wood is missed, if the inspection fails next year when the snow melts, the tractor driver's salary will be deducted.
Therefore, tractor drivers and saw hands often have conflicts or even fights over these issues.
It can be seen from here that the saw hand works very quickly.
Li Dazhuang's ability to pass the sawing hand test proves that his skills are passable. However, it is obvious that he is working so slowly at this moment on purpose.
"This is just the beginning, it's not easy to make trouble with him.
In this way, you and Junzi will both serve as Li Dazhuang's assistants.
You try to urge him to work and make him work faster.
If he continues to work hard like this, I will go to the production dispatcher and ask him to replace him."
Sheng Xiping couldn't think of a better way for the time being. The key is that none of them are qualified as saw hands. The farm will not let them cut wood, so they can only serve as assistants to the saw hands.
Wang Jianshe had no choice but to do as Sheng Xiping said.
Therefore, Wang Jianshe and Zhang Zhijun worked together as assistants to Li Dazhuang.
Generally, logging is done by a sawman and an assistant.
When the lumberjack cut down the "welcoming tree", the assistant should first use an ax to cut two three-meter-long and one-meter-wide logs at 45-degree angles on both sides in the opposite direction of the "tree to be felled" according to the direction in which the tree fell.
Safe way.
In case the tree starts to bark, the two of them can evacuate to a safe distance in time.
At the same time, the assistant of the saw hand is also responsible for carrying the chain saw, mixing gasoline, and parts when going into the mountains.
After the tree is brought down, the assistant will also perform branching operations according to the tree species.
After the heavy snowfall in winter does not cover anyone's thighs, the work team will arrange for a "tree root picker" to be assigned to the saw operator.
That is, someone specially circles under each tree to clear a one-meter-wide snow path, so that the loggers can work quickly and conveniently by setting up a chain saw.
Sheng Xipingyuan originally thought that in February and March of the next year, the snow would begin to harden.
The sawman has a hard time trudging through the snow with the chain saw on his back. At that time, the sawman is equipped with an assistant who can "gather up tree roots".
But now that Li Dazhuang was deliberately trying to bury and trap people, Sheng Xiping had no choice but to pair up this assistant with him, and the two of them worked with the saw hand.
Zhang Zhijun was young and tender-skinned, so he was embarrassed to rush Li Dazhuang.
Wang Jianshe didn't care about that. After cutting out the safe road, he urged Li Dazhuang to work.
When Li Dazhuang wanted to quit, Wang Jianshe retorted with all kinds of words, leaving Li Dazhuang with no choice but to work faster.