Chapter 129 Second Senior Brother's Rake (for Su Mohanwan
"Pah, pah, pah..."
The sound of wooden sticks flying through the air was followed by the sound of wooden forks hitting rapeseed, which was also mixed with the sound of rapeseed pods exploding and rapeseed seeds bursting out.
Mumu and several other people in the tribe were beating the rapeseed hard.
This is not an easy job. If it were easy, in future generations, people would not use oxen and horses to do this work.
Starting from noon, until the sun sets halfway, the rapeseed drying in the wheat field is completely beaten.
Under the guidance of Han Cheng, Mu Mu and others picked up the battered, bruised and empty rapeseed stalks with wooden forks and piled them on the edge of the threshing field.
There is a small detail that requires special attention when doing this, that is, you need to use a wooden fork to shake the rapeseed stems for a few times before shoveling them away completely. This is to shake out the rapeseeds contained in the empty rapeseed stems.
come out.
After picking out the rapeseed stems, a layer of finely chopped rapeseed pods and tiny, dark-brown rapeseeds were left on the ground.
Han Cheng stepped on it with his bare feet. It was slippery and itchy under his feet.
Mu Mu and others began to use a tool to gather the rapeseeds scattered all over the field to the middle of the threshing field.
This kind of tool is the common ‘rake’ in later generations.
The so-called rake is generally made of wood, and its specific structure is similar to the nine-tooth nail rake of the second senior brother.
They are all sticks over one meter long, with a rake head attached to the front.
The difference is that Zhu Ganghye's nine-tooth nail rake can not only ward off demons, but also be used to dig the ground in Gaolaozhuang. This kind of wooden rake can only be used on the 'fighting ground'.
Using a wooden fork can only roughly clean out the empty rapeseed stems, and there will still be a lot of fine pieces left behind.
Because the wooden fork has few teeth, only three, and it is an old and sparse tooth. The distance between each fork is nearly twenty centimeters. It is difficult to remove these teeth.
At this time, it is the rake's turn to come into play. This rake has many teeth and is dense, so it is a good tool to deal with them.
The rake has a simple structure and is not difficult to make.
You only need to cut a piece of wood about five centimeters in diameter and half a meter long, and then use a stone ax to cut out as many four sides as possible, and then drill out a piece of wood with a diameter of about five centimeters every four to five centimeters on one of the sides.
About nine and a half centimeter holes can be drilled.
Because the Qingque Tribe already has a hand drill, and when he was studying wooden ladders, Han Cheng came up with a way to use fire to enlarge the mao eyes. Now this drilling matter is not a problem for the Qingque Tribe.
The calculation is too difficult, it just takes a little time.
These holes need to be drilled through.
After completing this, I found some wet barked tree sticks with a harder texture and about two and a half centimeters in thickness.
First take a tree stick and put it into the fire, grill about ten centimeters of one end. After waiting for a while, take it out from the fire, and then insert it into the crack of the big stone while it is still hot.
Bend inside.
It needs to be bent into an arc that is not too curved, and then loosened after it cools down. The tree stick will basically maintain this position and will not go back.
Xunzi said in "Encouragement to Learning" that "the wood is straight and the rope is used as a wheel, and its tune is regular. Although it is violent and no longer straight, the wood makes it so." This is what is used to make wooden wheels.
method.
Cut off the bent section, and then repeat the previous action until you have nine wooden sections with similar lengths and curvatures.
Of course, because the technology was not mature enough, when Han Cheng led Lai to do this before, he made fourteen of them before he got these nine wooden sticks with similar arcs and basically the same length.
This wooden stick is the tooth on the rake.
Of course, such teeth cannot be used directly yet and require further processing.
After peeling off the blackened skin on the outside, make one end tapered.
This was difficult to do in the past.
At least Lame, who often deals with wood, felt that it would take at least two days to polish one end of these nine bent pieces of wood to the specifications mentioned by Shen Zi.
However, what Han Cheng did next was completely unexpected.
Because Han Cheng did not use stone tools or other tools to polish the stick as Lame had expected, but instead put the stick into the fire nearby and let the flames burn the end of the stick that needed to be polished.
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Lai was a little worried and looked on with unblinking eyes, hoping to see another miracle and learn something new from the Son of God.
The temperature of the flame quickly turned the white tree stick into black and then burned.
After waiting like this for a while, Han Cheng took it out and quickly polished the blackened area on the stone.
After hard wood is burned by fire, the layer of charcoal left on the outside is easy to bully and will fall off with a little polishing.
Seeing the Son of God polishing the stick that originally took a lot of effort to sharpen in a short period of time, my lame eyes brightened up again.
This method is not complicated, but why can’t I think of it?
Lame thought with some distress, and joined in this novel grinding process.
Pass the ground rake teeth one by one through the wooden post that drilled the hole previously, and pass through the finely ground small end first. In this case, the big end will be stuck in the hole and will be more secure.
After the rake teeth are threaded and solidified with stones, the entire rake head is ready.
However, because a wooden handle needs to be installed, the middle side of the nine rake teeth is also needed, and an oblate-shaped eye is made with a stone chisel and charcoal.
These days, Lame, who is addicted to making wooden ladders and can't help himself, has already mastered the skill of drilling holes. For him, digging such a hole is no longer a problem.
The thicker end of the chopped wooden handle was rested and polished, inserted into the hole, and wedged firmly with a wooden 'split'. It was probably the world's first 'grabber' specially used for agricultural production.
The rake appeared.
Because making a rake is quite complicated, and the rapeseed was about to mature when Han Cheng remembered this, the Qingque tribe currently only has one rake.
Fortunately, the Qingque tribe currently has little land for farming, and a rake is enough to cope with the current situation.
After Han Cheng took the rake and demonstrated how to use it himself, this brand new farm tool fell into the hands of 'Balloon'.
The balloon is not a real balloon, but a person.
He turned out to be a member of the Pig Tribe. The reason why he got such a name was not because he was particularly fat, but because he gained weight quickly.
When he first joined the Qingque Tribe, he was skinny and skinny, without any flesh. Now, only a few months later, the flesh on his body had grown like a balloon. In response to his situation, Han Cheng
So he was given such a name.
Qiao Qiao once asked Han Cheng what kind of balloon he was. Han Cheng resisted the urge to tell him that it was something like a urine bubble, but he just said that it was a very good thing.
Balloon was very happy after hearing that the great Son of God said that Balloon was a good thing.
Looking at the cheerful balloons, Han Cheng's face suddenly twitched because he suddenly remembered that something that was not meant for blowing seemed to be called a balloon...
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Taking this opportunity, let me tell my book friends about the plot of the past two days.
The plots in these two days are relatively light. Many book friends want to watch the climax, but the climax of this kind of text is not easy to get up. I am originally a writer who writes about farming in a relaxed way. I can't force the plot to fight with others or something like that.
This book fell apart if I couldn't read it, and it became easy to turn over after driving a lot.
I admit that I have written a lot about rapeseed, and I have included too many things in it for a reason. If we remove the wooden forks, silkworms, and rakes, there will be a lot less about rapeseed. It is written in such detail, and I
I also have my own considerations. Over time, the number of crops will gradually increase, and a lot of crops will need to be processed using similar methods in the wheat field. When the time comes, I can abbreviate it.
I know that everyone also wants to make this book more exciting, and I am also trying my best to write it. As the performance of the book gradually improves, I become more and more worried about gains and losses. I am always worried that I will not write well or that I will fail.
To be honest, I often can't sleep well these days because I have been struggling with this matter. I have been reading this book for so long, and I finally see some hope. Unconsciously, I take it too seriously, and my worries have become
More and more...
Regarding rapeseed, I will finish it as soon as possible.)
