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Gan dedication cart unloading coal was almost killed, and the stone dam burst

As soon as the Spring Festival of 95 years passed, the leaders of the workshops of the coking plant changed greatly, and the new chief soldier of the storage and distribution station was born and had a tough style. In the first half of the year, the whole factory entered the stage of tackling tough problems, but that was the matter of hiring external engineering teams, and the workers of the factory were still mainly doing odd jobs. The flat place in the factory area has long been leveled, and the one-third of an acre of land in the storage and distribution station has already been cleaned up, but the days that should be idle have been broken by the new director. The cement road in front of the station is cleaned every day, grass and trees are planted in the open space outside the wall, and the slope is protected and weeded in the north of the station...... The new director is looking for work in a different way, just like a recruit, honing his will, exercising his physique, and preparing to charge into battle at any time.

Soon after Ling Feng's birthday, the coke oven of the unit was completed and the next step of the work began to be baked one by one. It was at this time that the coking plant began to import a large amount of coal. Under the normal process, the train wagons loaded with coal are thrown into the railway line of the coking plant, and the locomotives used by the plant are dragged into the plant and weighed by the rail scale, and then dragged to the coal unloading site. The coal unloading disposal is underground, ground and air, and the underground is the coal receiving pit, which has a belt conveyor system, which can transport coal to the coal storage bunker or open-air coal storage yard on the ground. The ground corridor is equipped with coal unloading machinery, which can unload coal into the coal receiving pit. In the air, there is a coke screening building, and the coke produced is transported by belt into different coke silos according to size, and the railway under the coke silo and the coal unloading corridor are parallel and connected.

The perfect conveying system is no longer perfect due to the lag of the locomotive and the coal unloader. From the first day that the unit began to enter the coal, the workers of the storage and distribution station were incorporated into the trolley team. As the saying goes, "cowhide is not blown, and trains are not pushed", but Ling Feng and his co-workers are subverting this sentence. As soon as the wagons entered the factory railroad crossing, fifty or sixty people surrounded them, the thick ropes in front fixed everyone to pull, the people on both sides of the carriage pushed forward vigorously, and several strong men behind the car struggled to press the two crowbars and shouted to pry the wheels. As long as the wheels move, it will save a lot of effort, as long as it does not relax, the wagon will slowly move forward to reach the destination.

Pushing a train is easy to say, but it is difficult to do, and the skills are gradually explored, but fortunately, it didn't take long for the factory locomotive to be in service. The replaced workers were then incorporated into the coal unloading team, and one workshop was responsible for one wagon, working one day and one night, and one day off. It is said that it is 24 hours, and it is not a non-stop work, it depends on when the wagon arrives, and the wagon rests before it arrives. Outside the coke screening building of the coking plant is a small railway station, and the goods in and out of the coking plant must first stop at the small station, and then be uniformly dispatched and shipped, while the locomotive in the station usually does not throw the wagons to the coking plant in the middle of the night.

Although it is not necessary to be responsible for a wagon every day like a workshop with many people, there is no one to replace when there are few people, and several laborers always have to keep an eye on the post, and there are only eight male laborers left in the storage and distribution station at this time. Zhixian, who was the second in line, was transferred to the Mudanjiang Liquor Factory shortly after May Day. Kei was working on the cart, so he lowered his head and kicked on a steel rail next to the railway, and went home to recuperate with a cracked toe bone. As for Xiuying, Ruiying and several eldest sisters in the station, they can only do some logistical work such as delivering water and helping to wash work clothes.

There are two railway lines before and after the coal unloading corridor, which are connected outside the corridor to form a loop, and each railway line has four parking spaces under the coal unloading corridor, in other words, it can accommodate up to eight wagons to unload coal at the same time, but the conveying device in the coal pit under a line next to the coke screening building is not in place, and is only used for transporting back empty wagons.

After the locomotive is put into use, the efficiency of transporting wagons is greatly improved, and after the unloading personnel unload the coal, four wagons can be in place in less than five minutes, and so on until a wagon is completely unloaded.

The so-called coal receiving pit is actually similar to an underground air-raid shelter, with a belt in the same direction and position as the ground fire line, and the coal is transferred to another belt perpendicular to it during work, and then transported to the ground. Above the belt of the coal pit are eight large square funnels with the mouth of the funnel below the railway, and a large mesh of sieves welded by vertical steel plates.

When the wagons are in place, the coal unloader needs to step on the iron fence that is level with the bottom of the wagon, step on the protruding part of the wagon one meter away, and then lean down to open the cargo compartment door with his hands, and then he can sweat like rain.

Ling Feng and his brothers divided the wagon door and used a shovel to quickly push the coal, not to win the first place, but not to fall behind. After unloading a wagon, it takes less than ten minutes to unload the next section, and the sweat on the body keeps coming, and the cold water poured into the stomach is like going through the body, and then leaching out in the sweat pores. At night, the upper body of ** sweats against the light, and swarms of mosquitoes retreat because they have doubted "life".

In the midst of heavy work, mistakes are inevitable. When Ling Feng was driving the leather compartment door once, his right foot had just stepped on the wagon, his foot slipped, and his right foot fell down. Ling Feng reacted quickly, and grabbed the convex channel steel on the carriage with his right hand. With such a block, the falling momentum has slowed down, and the shirtless upper body has been attached to the channel steel. Ling Feng didn't dare to slack off, and quickly looked at the funnel screen under his feet, and let his right foot step on the intersection of the steel plates of the screen.

Ling Feng climbed up from the screen and looked down to see a half-wide and long-haired abrasion mark on the right rib cage. When the coal dust is washed away, there are traces of blood on the red skin. Minor injuries are not in the line of fire, and there is no one to replace them, but the sweat-soaked wound is a rustling pain. The flesh wound will be over by gritting your teeth, but you must not let your parents find out when you get home from work, otherwise your parents will be distressed.

On a hot August night, the clouds were low and the heat wave was churning. After Ling Feng and his brothers finished unloading the last load of coal, it was almost midnight, and on the cement road that ran through the factory, the brothers walked silently to the storage and distribution station. It's too hot today, and the brothers have too much physical strength, and the ten minutes away in the past have taken fifteen minutes today. Back at the storage and distribution station, everyone took towels and soap to take a shower together.

The storage and distribution station is good for everything, with its own independent piece of world, an independent two-story office building, and the only drawback is that it does not have its own bathroom. If you have to go to the public bathroom next to the laboratory building to take a bath, it is extremely inconvenient, but fortunately, there is a natural "bathroom" under the bluestone dam not far from the storage and distribution station. In the hot summer, standing in an arc-shaped gully more than one meter wide and more than ten meters long, seven or eight people are not crowded at all. The cool empty landscape can relieve the tired body, and the misty moonlight can also lightly support the dreams of youth.

Ling Feng and his brothers had just walked a short distance out of the office building when a bolt of lightning suddenly streaked across the sky, followed by a rumbling thunder.

"It's going to rain, are you still going?"

"Take a few quick steps, and when you get to the ditch, you won't be afraid of rain. ”

"Then how do you come back after washing?"

"Just go back, just hold on tight, it's almost finished washing now. ”

When Ling Feng and his brothers were hesitating and complaining, the raindrops the size of beans had already dropped.

The summer rain came quickly, driving Ling Feng's brothers back to the office building. Looking at the increasingly fierce pouring rain outside the window, everyone had to line up to receive water and wash up briefly.

Although the office building of the storage and distribution station is two-storey, the first floor is the coal press control room, so only the second floor is the office, and it is also the resting place for Ling Feng and his brothers.

Ling Feng hurriedly washed up, found the bench where he was sleeping and just lay down, and there was a loud "boom", which resounded in the night sky.

"What's going on?" "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Ling Feng and the brothers walked out of the various offices, you look at me, I look at you, all with questions on their faces.

"Look, what's down there?" Yulin shouted in an office.

Ling Feng and the other brothers hurried to Yulin's side and rushed downstairs to look down, and saw that something was surging downstairs in the dark.

"Take a flashlight and see what it is. "I don't know who reminded everyone.

Illuminated by a flashlight, a curtain of rain washed over the office building with something resembling fine sand.

"Mudslide? No, without that surging momentum, what would it be?"

"Fly ash, the stone dam is bursting. Ling Feng and Yu Lin spoke almost in unison.

After worrying about it for a long night, the tired Ling Feng fell asleep in a daze at some point.

When Ling Feng woke up, it was already dawn and the rain had stopped. Walking out of the office building, fly ash stains all over the floor. Riding home across the factory area to the factory gate, there is fly ash everywhere, and most places can be a meter deep.

The next day at work, as soon as Ling Feng arrived at the storage and distribution station, the first task he received was to clean up the fly ash in the station. At ten o'clock in the morning, the dispatch phone in the factory notified the arrival of the wagon, and Ling Feng and the brothers hurriedly went to the coal unloading corridor. At noon, when he returned to the storage and distribution station for lunch, Ling Feng asked the boss if he wanted to go to Qingshiba to have a look, and the boss agreed.

After lunch, Ling Feng and his brothers went to the bluestone dam together, and as soon as they climbed the slope, they were frightened by the flood ditch filled with fly ash. Across the flood gully, the path leading to the bluestone dam has long been unrecognizable, and Ling Feng and his brothers follow the messy footprints on the fly ash to the bluestone dam, the wall of the factory no longer exists, and the ditch culvert is full of fly ash and has been buried with fly ash. Ling Feng couldn't help but stop, the cool empty landscape in the ditch, the hearty laughter of the brothers, and the fresh life running towards the office building in the pouring rain, one by one, passed in front of him......

Ling Feng and the brothers stood silently at the ditch culvert for a long time, no one spoke, each sighing, reminiscing, and pondering.

"Let's go, we'll have to unload the coal in a while. The boss's voice was deep.

Half of the slope of the gravel road to the bluestone dam has been washed away, and the half of the remnants of the road sticking to the roots of the mountain are walking back and forth with curious workers of the coking plant. At this time, Ling Feng realized that the breach of the embankment was at the junction of the bluestone dam and the mountain, and a group of infrastructure workers were repairing the gap more than 20 meters long. On the top of the dam, Ling Feng appeared in front of a shocking scene, the ash storage pond behind the bluestone dam is full of thousands of peaks and ravines, criss-crossed, the scales and sparkles of the past have disappeared, many more than 20 meters high, the steep and steep fly ash body stands there in no order, like the Loess Plateau valley seen in the extreme movie and television, but the mountains here are gray.

"It's beautiful, it's shocking. ”

"If any director were to make a film here, it would definitely be a blockbuster. ”

From time to time, some of the onlookers sighed and discussed.

The failure of the Qingshi dam did not cause any injuries and the economic losses caused to the coking plant were not very large, and Ling Feng later heard that the No. 3 thermal power plant had exempted the coking plant from heating fees for several years. Hearsay can't tell the truth from the false, but the changes from the surroundings are very real. After the embankment burst, the mentality of the brothers in the storage and distribution station has undergone a subtle change, and it is unknown what others think, but Ling Feng feels that he cherishes everything around him more, and he is more willing to dedicate without regrets.