Polu was driving on the road to the mine site. The withered yellow grass outside the car window was now covered with a faint green color, swaying slightly in the gentle wind, giving it an air of early spring.
He tilted his head and looked out the side window, wishing he could stick his head out the car window and blend in with nature: "Spring is here."
"Pit! There is a pit ahead! Watch the road!"
Little Irene's shout rang in his ears, and Bolu hurriedly turned his head and turned the steering wheel, but the wheel still pressed into the mud puddle, and the muddy water suddenly splashed out.
"Why are you just looking outside? Look at the road!"
The violent bumps along the way made little Irene a little irritable: "Those big machines you built are not afraid of mud pits, but they always make the road like this. The workers have complained to me many times. It is impossible to walk on this road!"
"Just be patient. In a few days, after all the minecarts are on track, I will renovate the roads. If the border armor business I just mentioned comes to fruition, I will give you the numbers and you can place all the orders."
Sent down to prepare for delivery. By the way, how is Constance doing on the island? Hmm... Just pretend I didn't ask, what quality of life can he have if he can only sit around? Speaking of which, I seem to be confused after he comes back.
I’ve never seen him, where did he move to?”
"He's on your range now."
"The shooting range? The one in the woods?"
"Yes, he said he wanted to sit in the woods, and he hadn't seen a tree for a long time. The shooting range happened to be an open space in the woods, and there weren't any experimental projects recently, so we sent it to him. And he told us not to disturb him if he had nothing to do.
The story you told about him before was so tragic, I thought about it and agreed."
"It's quite difficult. It's so humid outside, won't he get rusty if he just sits in the woods like this? No one knows if it gets dark, and he's been locked up for how many days?"
While Polu was pondering the strange question, he controlled the vehicle to bypass the hill-like ore piles outside the ore yard, passing through the path between two particularly tall ore piles.
Suddenly, a fiery picture unfolded in front of you:
In a small open space between the ore piles, the experimental track protruding from the ground like an earth embankment attracted all of Polu's attention. Now on the arched roadbed, a large train of four carriages is parked on it.
.A group of workers were shouting slogans and pushing the belt conveyor away from the brand new mine car car, which exposed the true color of iron plate metal.
After parking the car, Polu came to the crowd, and at a glance he found that the three giants of metalworking - Case, Goola and Smith were all here waiting for the experiment to begin. By the way, after Polu said this title smoothly,
, they forcefully reconciled themselves, but now the workers have begun to call them bosses.
"Hey, why are you all here?"
"Everyone of us has a part in this thing, so of course we have to come and take a look."
"Admit it, you just came to see the excitement of the experiment! Is the stuff ready?"
Bolu looked at the three of them with a smile, watching their expressions change with pleasure.
When Geola saw Bolu staring at him, he could only answer bravely:
"Hey, little manager, the Precision Institute gave me the blueprints for several large cars! The boxes with the blueprints are all piled up. I haven't finished reading this blueprint yet. I work a lot every day and don't have much time to look at it.
"
"Then hurry up, I'll have to wait and use it soon. Can you at least make a model?"
"Then you have to read the drawings."
"Smith, don't laugh. You'll have to start making spikes on the track soon. A big batch of 35,000 pieces! Just make 40,000 pieces. Are you surprised or surprised?"
A few people who hadn't seen each other for a long time chatted - in fact, it could only be regarded as unilaterally scaring the three giants for a while. Seeing that they all looked frightened and wanted to escape to the island immediately, Bolu comforted them: "It's okay, I will temporarily
I’m not going out anymore, let’s make progress together.”
The faces of the Big Three, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, turned even paler.
At this moment, a worker came over and said: "Little manager, bosses, the experiment is ready."
"Have you checked it?"
"Checked!"
"Okay, then sound the alarm and get into the bunker!"
The tractor's sharp whistle sounded three times, reminding everyone to leave the experimental equipment.
Polu waited for a while and saw the flag in charge of safety inspection raised. He turned his head and said to Case on the side: "Let's start the experiment. You are familiar with the centrifugal force orbital pressure experiment. You can perform the next process."
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When he heard the name of the experiment created by Bolu, Keith was stunned for a moment, and then a look of excitement appeared on his face. He quickly picked up the horn, called out, and ran towards the earthen wall in front. Bolu and Ge
Ola, Smith and little Irene hid behind the ore pile together.
Case, who was holding a horn, shouted at the tractor a few times, and then a loud chug sounded. White steam shot out into the sky, and one of the two tractors specially designed for mining cars parked side by side
It started to move. The chain dragging on the ground gradually lifted up from the ground, and then stretched straight in the air.
Case's shout floated from the air: "Add side pull! Single plane!"
The chains hanging on the carriage became tighter and tighter, making a creaking groan.
But that's all.
The huge driving wheels of the tractor have begun to slip on the ground. Such a pulling force can only make the carriage filled with ore tilt slightly vertically!
Bolu's heart dropped from his throat: "It looks like it's quite stable. At least it won't tip over because of the slight unevenness in the road surface."
"Two planes! Pull together!"
The other tractor, which had been impatient for a long time, also started running. It immediately started accelerating, and the iron chain tied to the wheel behind it straightened, making a crisp impact sound of the chain link as it straightened.
Watching this scene, the corners of Bolu's mouth curled up slightly, and he excitedly hugged the necks of Geola and Smith: "Well done! I finally withstood it this time!"
After all, this is not the first time a vehicle pulling force test has been conducted.
How can heavy-duty orbits be achieved without experimentation?
Just for the seemingly simple sleepers, I had to experiment at least twenty times to figure out a suitable way to fix the rails to the sleepers, but it had never been such a big event before.
After many terrible experimental failures such as pulling the nails out of the sleepers, dragging the track and sleepers from the road bed during braking, etc., the improved rail system finally withstood the test of lateral tension and could
Try to drive at a less slow speed.
The two tractors roared, and the grooved steel wheels had dug a hole in the mud. When the pulling force was increased to this level, if there was any problem with any link in the entire system, it would have overturned long ago!
But their efforts were not able to shake the entire carriage filled with ore. They only caused the rigidly suspended carriage to deviate slightly from the vertical line.
After waiting for a while, Polu suddenly shouted to Case: "Keith, the experiment is done, now we are going to destroy the experiment! Everyone leaves the site! Increase the front of the car until it overturns!"
"good!"
Case's excited roar came back.
Soon, another steam engine brought in from outside the site also joined in the roar, and even the chains on the wheels groaned under the load. The wheels on the other side began to lift and release from the track, making a sound like
It’s a clanging sound!
"Stop! Add more nose!"
The four tractors were digging the ground together, and the wheels on the other side finally left the track! But they still maintained their center of gravity, and the number of iron chains trapped on the middle beam of the carriage had been added to four. They seemed to have deformed the carriage!
"Last try! Pressure on!"
The tractors were like bulls with their heads lowered, paving the ground and arching forward with their heads lowered. The terrible crunching sound of the metal echoed over the field. Polu was not afraid of the chain breaking - all the experimenters who had not left the field were afraid.
The death-proof amulet he temporarily issued has pretty good physical protection, so this level of seeking death is not a problem.
"It's good if you can make it yourself. I'll make some more later and sell them. Wait, with the size of the giant, how big should this amulet be? At this size, even if it is activated for them, it can only be used as a helmet, right?"
Just as I was thinking about it, the middle part of the car, which was tied with four iron chains, suddenly seemed to be knotted in a long inflated balloon. It became like the direct joints of two sausages, and suddenly collapsed!
Like soup spilling from a broken can, the ore made a gurgling sound, splashing out from every gap like raindrops. The mine car that collapsed from the middle was lightened, and the roaring tractor was immediately heard.
It was dragged down from the track. With this breakthrough, several other carriages were also dragged down together!
Seeing the fierce scene of the carriage rolling all over the floor and ore flying everywhere, all the men present cheered enthusiastically - except for little Irene with a dark face.
"Yes! Hahahahaha! This tension is enough, and the track doesn't look broken, okay, okay!"