The harvested wood has to be transported to the loading yard. Even if it is returned to the mill, it must be transported to a mill yard relatively close to the railway line.
However, the logging areas are generally in the mountains, and the distances in between are quite long.
If a tractor comes to collect wood, it's easy to say, just drag the wood directly to the loading dock.
But manual gathering of wood is not possible. People carry large logs for a long distance, and they are exhausted before they reach the destination.
Therefore, we have to find some clever ways to gather materials manually.
Because the transportation of aggregates must be done according to the drawings, ditch by ditch.
Therefore, when it first freezes, ice ditches are repaired in advance along the ditches and ponds in the mountains.
In some corners, abandoned wood should be used as retaining walls.
After the ground freezes, pound all the snow at the bottom of the ditch and pour water into the ditch to make the entire ditch a smooth ice surface.
Generally, around New Year's Day, the ice ditch is completely frozen, so the wood can be slid to the vicinity of the corrugation field and returned to the corrugation field.
This method is called Chuanbinggou in some places, and in other places it's called Linzi, or putting a car there.
The winter harvesting and transportation has just started now, and it’s not time to slide and release yet.
Sheng Xiping arranged for several young educated youths to repair the ice ditch, and at the same time led people to transport the wood to the mouth of Goutangzi.
Arrange the wood into a fishbone shape to save the most effort when waiting to slide it down.
Eight people carried the big log to the mouth of the ditch.
Sheng Xiping shouted a slogan, and the eight of them bent down together and unloaded the wood on the ground.
Then remove the pinch hook, use a pole to pry the small end of the wood a few times, and place the wood diagonally near the ditch mouth.
The wood was finally put down, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Some people took off their wicker helmets and wiped the sweat from their heads.
Forestry helmets can be used in both winter and summer.
The upper part of the helmet is made of wicker, and is worn on the head like this in the summer to prevent dead branches from falling from the trees and hitting the head, or being scratched by stretched branches when going up the mountain.
There are zippers on both sides of the wicker hat, and in winter two ear hats made of long-haired dog skin are installed to keep out the cold.
The educated youth team was not provided with labor insurance in the summer, but during the winter mining and transportation period, among other things, they had to be issued safety helmets.
This helmet doesn't look good when worn. Some people saw it and said it looked like the little stove maker in Outsmarting the Tiger Mountain. It was a bit funny.
But don't underestimate that hat. In the twelfth lunar month of winter, it's freezing cold on the mountain. This furry hat protects your ears and won't freeze your ears.
"Xiping, look at the current progress, we plan to start skating and placing wood after New Year's Day. Do you want to make a quick trip?"
Chen Weiguo gasped and asked Sheng Xiping.
"It shouldn't be a problem. Our logging area is small, and the task assigned to us by the superiors isn't too big.
If you guys just pay more attention, I think we can finish it before the end of the year."
Sheng Xiping had done a lot of work on a forestry farm in his previous life, so he had experience here, so he was very confident.
"Actually, I would say that there is no need for any of us to come to the mountain and suffer like this.
This thing is exhausting all winter long, and the few hundred dollars I earn can’t catch up with following you to the mountains to hunt.
This winter, we must not fight too many things?
Selling a few more black blind man's guts, lynx skins, and everything else will come out, but it's no better than suffering like this in the mountains."
Chen Weiguo couldn't help but muttered.
"Weiguo, that's not what you said. We are free to hunt, but we have no future.
We are educated youths who came to the mountains to receive training. Our performance in the forest farm is directly related to our future future.
In the future, whether you are recruiting workers or serving as soldiers, we will not be responsible for poor performance."
Sheng Xiping laughed when he heard this.
What can I say, if it were back to the 1980s, he would definitely smash the rake and not serve the monkey.
Who has nothing to do and runs up the mountain to show off his energy? He is exhausted day by day. After this season, he doesn’t have much money.
But it can't be done now. Business is not allowed in these days, and household contracting has not started yet. Nothing can be done.
Sheng Xiping knows how to hunt, but he cannot hunt forever.
Whether it's hunting, digging ginseng, or collecting pine seeds and harvesting cow hair, these are all called side jobs.
No matter how much you get, it will only be a partial fortune and cannot be your main business.
Especially these little buddies, they are all used to following him.
If Sheng Xiping said he wouldn't come to work in the mountains, those others would definitely not be able to follow him.
How can this be done? In the eyes of parents and elders, isn't it like Sheng Xiping inciting these young brothers to not do their jobs properly?
What will happen to the Forestry Bureau in the future will be at least twenty years away.
At the moment, I still have to take a few brothers with me to work steadily and hire as many workers as possible. This is a serious way out.
After hiring a job, receiving wages, you can still do your side job, and then you will have two incomes. How great is this?
When Chen Weiguo heard this, he realized the same thing.
"Yeah, that's right. No matter what, we still have to recruit workers to find a way out."
"Let's go back to work. We'll talk about the future later. Focus on the present first."
Sheng Xiping greeted those people and walked back together.
There are currently about thirty male educated youths in the forest farm. Wang Jianshe and Zhang Zhijun work as chain saw assistants for Li Dazhuang. Pan Fusheng leads the two younger ones to repair ice ditches, and Gao Haining leads two people to make timber.
The rest of the people were roughly divided into three groups, all carrying wood.
Right now, we are going to carry out the first half of the process first and try to seize the time to cut down the wood.
After New Year's Day, the wood is slid down to the lagging field below, and only after it passes the ruler's inspection can the output be called.
The educated youth team has independent accounting and is of a contract nature. The more you work, the more you will get, so no one among these educated youth dares to slack off.
Not only educated youth, but formal workers as well. The slogan of winter mining and transportation is to race against time to achieve high yields.
Qianchuan Forestry Farm ranked first in overall output for two consecutive years and was rated as an advanced unit.
This honor is taken very seriously by the entire forest farm, and no one can let it slip at this time.
On the mountain, the workers were full of energy and worked hard.
Yamashita, whether in the bureau or in the field, also adopt various means to mobilize the enthusiasm of workers for work.
The bureau's cultural troupe specializes in going to the grassroots to perform in various mountain fields. They combine the characteristics of the forest area and compile their own literary and artistic programs.
The Songjianghe Forestry Bureau Art Troupe is full of capable people, including several actors and singers who have worked at the grassroots level.
The bureau's cultural troupe toured various mountain fields to express condolences to the employees stationed on the mountain fields.
When the news came, the whole forest farm was in a sensation. Many students were anxious to watch the show and simply followed the car up the mountain together.
"Dad, big brother."
Sheng Xian and Sheng Xikang came up in the car without their younger siblings, and brought some food to Sheng Liancheng and his son.
"Hey, why did you come up here? Why are you running all the way up the mountain?"
Sheng Liancheng was very happy when he saw his two sons coming. "Didn't Fang'er and the others follow?"
"No, they wanted to come, but my mother heard that it was quite a long walk inside after getting off the car, so she wouldn't let them come," Sheng Xikang explained.
"Yeah, that's right. There aren't that many places to live in the mountains, so they will cause trouble when they come." Sheng Liancheng nodded.
Those few are too young, and they have to take care of them when they come to the mountain. It would be best not to come.