"Why do you still have to rub it with your hands in the end?"
Polu, who was standing by the dock, sighed.
"Forget it, it is an experimental ship after all, so rubbing your hands is unavoidable."
"One hand-kneading belongs to traditional production, and a group of people hand-kneading belongs to small workshop traditional production. Relying on machine kneading belongs to industrial production. When can we rely entirely on machine kneading!"
"In other words, according to general rules, the current situation has reached the stage of small workshop production."
Bolu tried his best to comfort himself in his heart.
"At least it's gone from me doing it alone to a group of people doing it here."
Thanks to the completion of the blast furnace cluster, a large amount of high-quality annealed low-carbon steel plates and structural steel are being continuously transported from the steel plant to the shipyard. Even because they cannot be digested and transported out, it has caused a certain degree of confusion in the steel plant.
Due to the backlog, it is a rare sight that steel warehouses are full and can only be piled in the open air.
For this reason, only one blast furnace in the blast furnace group composed of four blast furnaces is in continuous production.
After all, there is only one continuous casting machine and one plate rolling mill. Facts have proved that they can operate at full capacity to cope with the iron output of one blast furnace.
Today's blast furnaces are larger and more efficient than before. The output of one blast furnace alone is beyond the digestion capacity of the continuous casting machine, and the overflowing molten steel output is enough for casting needs.
Geola's troubled speech resurfaced: "Little manager, I really didn't expect that one day I would actually be worried about too much molten steel to use! Now we can only run one blast furnace at full capacity, which is a pity.
.”
After all, Goola's continuous production of castings cannot consume the output of a blast furnace - the speed of making sand molds cannot keep up. But Polu has already thought about how to squander the steel:
"Why can't it be used? There is only one continuous casting machine now, which can absorb the output of a blast furnace. But we can make a few more continuous casting machines. For the extra ones now, you might as well build more
There are not too many boilers. Don’t worry, I’ll wait until I finish the things at hand and then expand the production capacity of profiles.”
He thought about it in his mind: "Now we only have square blanks. When the bars are cast and the slabs are cast, these four blast furnaces will be just enough, right?"
Woo! Woo!
The sharp whistle sounded, interrupting Polu's thoughts.
Polu turned around and saw that on the multiple rows of tracks connecting the factory buildings, a large, thick and wide flatbed truck with several rows of densely packed wheels under it was slowly moving towards him under the roar of several tractors.
On this flatbed truck, there is a huge steel structure supported by brackets.
This strange hollow cage-like steel structure looks like some giant creature with only skeletons left. In the center is an inverted triangular hollow steel column welded by steel beams, with slightly curved sides on both sides.
ribs.
This dauntingly large component is what Boruxin came up with - building the keel in sections.
After all, the requirements for building a ship in sections are too high to be seen, and it is impossible to build a ship without a keel. It becomes very reasonable to try building a ship in sections.
Supporting Polu's ambition are a dozen apprentices who are busy in the shipyard and workshop. These apprentices are drawn from precision manufacturing plants. They themselves are young people selected from among the workers. After such a long period of training,
, it's always possible to get some basic work done - like welding aligned steel beams together.
At first, Polu was not at ease, so he welded a few ribs himself, and then asked his apprentice to weld a few more. After the completion of the inspection, he could only sigh in his heart.
"The magic is still awesome. The quality of the welds, tsk tsk, is simply integrated. These apprentices have only been practicing for half a year, right? Although they can only weld three to five welds in one day, but as long as they can complete it, this minimum limit
Quite high!”
In fact, it really is integrated into one.
In the face of the shaping spell, as long as you pay attention to replenishing the filler, the soft steel beam as soft as dough will only have a smooth weld after the shaping is completed, and even polishing is omitted! The only thing that limits the number of apprentices' connections per day is their poor
Mental power!
And outstanding apprentice representatives like Alfonso can even complete the connection of nearly twenty steel beams in one day!
"Please stop for a moment and let's redistribute the work."
Bolu walked to the apprentices who were surrounding the segmented keel that had just been lifted into the dock by the gantry, and began to explain the optimization program he had just thought of.
"Those with less than 10 connecting steel beams will come forward."
The worker apprentices moved with unconvinced expressions on their faces, and Polu had to comfort them first.
"You have made great progress. From having no foundation to being able to use shaping spells to connect such steel beams, it is beyond my expectation! I can see your efforts. The current adjustments are just to make your
Ability utilization is more efficient. I have work to assign to you that is more suitable for you."
"Practice that can last for a day will simultaneously improve the total amount of mental power and skills. But if you drain all the mental power in a few minutes, it is really not effective training. Do you understand? Practice hard and progress will be faster!"
"you……"
Polu, who was assigning tasks, did not notice that Landau and Zhu Yiwei were observing his work through the gap on the roof of the dock.
Landau seemed to be able to hear Polu's plan for allocating work, and showed a somewhat gratified smile:
"The little guy did a good job. There's no need to worry. It seems there's no need for me to take action."
"I said before that he doesn't have to worry about this."
“Seeing is always believing.”
"Xingdao sent me another message yesterday, asking when we can repair the golem. I feel like this time I may not be able to deal with it."
"Then you reply to them. Once the cargo ship makes its maiden voyage, we will transport a batch of pure iron to Star Island to solve this problem."
"clear."
"Let's go back and continue our experiment. What were the results of your experiment yesterday?"
"The purity is still..."
When Landau left, he looked back at Polu, who was still in the dock.
Next to Polu, lying side by side in the dock, were two huge structures made of steel!
Polu didn't know what was happening above his head. After arranging the work here, he hurriedly climbed up the long ladder next to the dock, got on the pickup truck, and drove towards the town.
Along the widened road, the small truck drove into Case's tractor factory.
Here, Case and Smith were looking sadly through a stack of drawings that Polu had given them not long ago.
Smith scratched his face:
"This pipe is both forged and bored. Why is it so complicated every time?"
Case was looking at a ring that looked like a ring full of gears in a daze, and he replied smoothly:
"What's the point of not being complicated? Why, didn't we bring the equipment to make 100 cannons?"
"Yes, but we need to make a new set of this clamp. What...what is your expression?"
"I might be dying."
Smith came over to take a look and showed a sympathetic smile.