Naturally, the first step was to get the furnace running. Because the furnace was a great success, and Polu, who had gained the approval of Svito and Leah, could finally confidently mobilize the resources of Red Mountain to move ore to the furnace.
Polu found Eileen arrogantly: "Irene, tomorrow we will allocate half of the furnace workers to work on a big project. We will gather at the entrance of their own factory at 9 o'clock in the morning. I will send someone to take them to their own place. Get ready.
Use your own tools, the kind that dig into the ground."
"Half the furnace workers? Close to 1,200? With hoes and shovels? Okay, so how many days does it take?"
"Three days? Okay, then I will notify the foremen of each smelting plant now." If there are only three days, there should be no need to pay more wages. It will not affect normal production even if it is barely enough. Okay. Irene thought about it in her mind and accepted her fate.
He nodded and turned around and went out.
Polu nodded with satisfaction and continued to work on his saw machine. As far as Polu knew, automatic saws have not yet appeared in wood processing in this world. Maybe it is because carpenters are particularly strong? After all, Stallone
He might not really feel tired if he sawed wood and made something small.
But asking Stallone to saw 8,000 meters of wood in a few days is an impossible task, and even 10 Stallones may not be able to do it! Two days ago, Polu came to the carpenters to saw out suitable wooden rails. The local carpenter heard that Polu
After this 8,000-meter demand, I almost knelt down to beg.
Rao, I thought it was the lord who came to think of ways to beat them. After Bolu figured out why, he thought about it and drew something on their wooden board and asked them to do it according to the picture. Today Bolu
Lu came to the carpentry factory again with several circular saw blades he had processed. Carpenter
We have worked overtime to finish what Bolu drew. It is actually very simple. It is just a big piece of wood, with one long and one short root slot dug out in the middle. First, install the steel axis slot, and then cut it into a square shape.
The wooden shaft passes through the saw blade. There is a hole in the middle of the saw blade, and a steel sleeve is attached to prevent carving.
Bad wooden axis. The two ends of the sleeve are pinned with nails to prevent the saw blade from sliding at both ends. The steel-clad axis head is stuck in the same steel axis groove, and there is another one with a steel sleeve next to it.
There is a small flywheel with a slot. Next to the large piece of wood are two seats, which are used in conjunction with the pedal crank in front of it.
That's right, it's similar to a bicycle. As long as you pedal it, the flywheel will naturally spin. When you encounter difficulties, just stand up and pedal. Anyway, the local carpenters are so strong that they are not tired even if they work in shifts. Weight
It will automatically drive the crank to rotate. The flywheel next to the crank is smaller, and the flywheel next to the saw blade is smaller.
It is larger, which can save some effort. Although the rotation speed is not very high, at least the saw blade will not suddenly get stuck and become unable to step on. Several thick leather ropes have been stretched between the two grooved flywheels. The joints of the leather ropes
Bolu has already used shaping magic to fix it, which is really convenient. Otherwise, this joint would be really difficult to connect.
Soon, the carpenters fell in love with this thing. After all, as long as two people stepped on it, the saw blade turned, and the wood was pushed in the direction, it would be sawed for you. It was much easier than pulling up a big saw before.
Seeing the carpenters having fun on the sawing machine, Polu told them to hurry up and deliver a batch tomorrow, and then left.
Today, 1,200 strong laborers mobilized by Polu were digging grooves for laying the track. After Polu left the carpentry factory, he quickly came to the construction site of the track. Looking around, he couldn't see anyone he knew.
"Hi! Little manager! Hello!" The workers' greetings came from far away on the construction site.
"Hey! Hello!" Ever since Boru performed the feat of producing more than 700 ingots of iron from a furnace, everyone in the town knew this young black man who always wore a knight's coat and ran around.
The hair alchemist is in charge. He can
Ironmaking! This is the first impression of Polu in this blacksmith town. This commonality quickly dilutes the distance between the blacksmith and Polu, just like the conversation between Goora and Peter's father: "Little Steward"
If he can smelt iron, then he is one of our own!"
Polu just talked to people and walked along the track while checking the grooves. Regardless of his past life, he has never had the opportunity to see a real wooden track carriage. But now he really does not have the strength to build a real railway track, whether it is a track or a carriage.
We can’t even get enough of the sleepers by selling iron. Things like ballast
There was no hope for the West. Bolu had to design a track system by himself. If you have played on the super long slide in the water park, you can imagine what this track looks like. The day before, Bolu took Geola and a few
The workers, who started the exploration on foot from the mine, could not touch the flood unless they entered the town and then followed the river.
We walked forward on the platform until we reached the route to the predetermined ore area. We laid countless wooden sticks. After the workers came today, they first dug a 1.5-meter-wide groove on the ground and laid it underneath.
The slag because Polu really didn’t have the manpower to make sleepers and gravel, and then after leveling it with a spirit level,
I began to pray that the carpenters could deliver the goods quickly. After all, more people have greater power, and the track is close to 4 kilometers long. Because only 20 centimeters deep is enough, the digging is very fast. 1,200 people can dig four meters each.
Including the drainage ditch dug in the middle, it was dug in less than a day.
According to Polu's design, wait until the carpenters deliver the goods, lay the planks at intervals in the leveled grooves, lay the wooden rails, and then align the inner edges of the wooden rails. It doesn't matter if the outer edges are uneven, as long as they don't differ too much.
.Then put a wooden board on it and nail it firmly with big nails. Then fill the outer edge directly with soil.
Just step on it flat and solid. Because the inner edge cam will be used directly, there is actually no problem with the center. During the planning, the track was simply allowed to go around the city, so the track can be built straight and go directly from the mine to the planned construction dump.
At the mine, Geola led someone with a level ruler.
According to the road survey, it is a gentle downhill slope from the mine where the mine is located to the expected grinding plant, so just fill the carriage with ore and give it a little power to roll it up. Instead of worrying about not being able to run, it is better to worry about
The simple iron plate friction brake can't stop it. Then let the carriage drive
He took the empty carriage in a large circle along the track and ran back to the mine with the empty carriage. Originally, he thought it would be more economical to use the current carriage on the spot, but after some inspection, Bolu found that the existing carriages were available in all sizes.
If you have to rely on modification, it would be easier to build a new batch.
Polu simply went directly to find Peter and asked him to make a batch of new mine wheel wheels.
"Mr. Peter! I have something that I need your help arranging for production! Here, this is the drawing."
"Ha, what is this? Is it just an iron plate?" Father Peter took the drawing and looked at it from front to back. No matter how he looked at it, it didn't feel quite right.
"The wheel for transporting ore. This round thing needs to be cast, and this job will be left to you." Bolu clicked on the wheel. He handed the wooden model of the wheel made by the carpenter to Old Man Peter: "This thing
I've made the model, you can see how to sand it."
"..." Father Peter was stunned. What kind of strange wheel is this?
Polu's new minecart is so simple that it has an iron frame, four iron wheels and an axle installed underneath, and the rest is made of wooden boards. The load-bearing capacity must be very bad, but there are rings at the front and back that can be connected, and the minecarts can be strung together.
It is much better than the previous trolley. Bolu also made a super punk, full of green leather-style braking system. The tail trolley does not load any cargo, but directly hangs a large wooden frame with a hanger.
When you need to brake, put one down
The smooth surface looks like a large wooden frame of a sled, with one leg on each side dragging on the ground, slowing down by friction. After all, it is a crudely made wooden track, and Polu doesn't dare to brake directly on it. He really has to rely on horses to stop it.
Bolu also felt that it was unrealistic. Anyway, the wood of the wooden rails was not a product that could be used for a long time, so Bolu expected that the lifespan of these mine cars would only be more than half a year before slightly normal products could be released.
After finishing the work, Bolu, who had a rare leisure time, returned to the laboratory. Since Hongshan Town started the construction plan of Bolu, Bolu has been busy every day, which makes him very bored. The slow progress of construction and the mining of ore
The speed makes Bolu feel anxious, and the lack of reliable power also makes Bolu miss electric cars.
Tools. However, for Bolu, the technological level of power tools is almost a black box. Apart from knowing that electricity generates magnetism and magnetism generates electricity, it is almost the same as the locals. There is no way to verify it. "If it doesn't work, then use more rivets."
Steam the steel." Bolu gritted his teeth. At least the properties of the water vapor don't seem to have changed much.
Finally, Polu felt that he still needed to struggle to see if he could directly convert magic power into kinetic energy. Polu searched in the library on the second floor and in his mind for a long time, and there was a similar effect, but he couldn't figure it out!
Bolu scratched his head in pain and looked out the window at the dark night sky. Was the teacher being detained on the island? Why didn't he come back yet?
"If I continue like this, will I become bald?"
In the distance, where Polu couldn't see, a group of unspeakable creatures were flying east along the Atlas Mountains, flapping their bat-like wings and holding some jelly-like bags with their sharp claws.
From time to time, a piece of jelly slides silently into the dark night sky.