Chapter Twenty-Three: Lan Xiang-level master
Zhang Feng also noticed that the rain in the pasture did not seem to be very sufficient. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
There were five, six, seven, or eight rains in other places, and there were only one or two in the pastures. And the rainfall is not very great. In other places, there can be one, two, three or four rains a day, and one is a downpour of one, two, three or four hours. And even if the pasture can fall, it will only be once a day, and it may spread from the surrounding area, and the rain will be much lighter.
After all, even if the clouds want to spread, they have to run for an hour or two to cover 70 kilometers. Running so far, the sweat is all gone.
He was worried about this, but found that there was no way to deal with it, so he had to resign himself to fate.
Li Sheng was not nervous at all. The grass can carry the water of those small lakes to every grass, and the water in the small lakes will not dry up at all. This kind of weather, on the contrary, is more in line with his requirements.
The farm machinery roared, and the land was turned over. The planting agriculture of the pasture was opened. Precipitation was not as high as expected, and farmers did not have to worry about delaying their farming. If the weather on the ranch is the same as around. Then their productivity is unbearable.
Elsewhere, it may rain for hours a day during the day. It's not easy to work even if you're hiding in a farm machine in that kind of weather. And now, with a maximum of one hour or two of rain a day, you can work for hours a day.
Li Sheng is also very satisfied with the weather. He didn't want to grow mushrooms in the house every day. It's not raining too much right now, but the air is humid. If there is more rain, then the mushrooms can really be drenched.
But just because it doesn't rain much here doesn't mean there are no changes. The most obvious change is that the surrounding river is very turbulent. The once clear water of the river became muddy, and the water floated down the river with a large number of leaves, branches, insects, and even animal carcasses. Originally, the shore was seven or eight meters above the water, but now it is less than two or three meters left. Li Sheng was worried that if it rained for a few more days, the water would not flood.
On this day, Anthony told him that the embankment near the pier had collapsed. If you don't block the current, the dock side may be impacted.
When Li Sheng heard it, this was terrible. Although it is possible to travel by plane. But now the main supply of the pasture is by water. Now the food in the ranch can only be bought from outside. And the only ones with the right carrying capacity are, of course, ships. If you have to use a plane, the plane has to fly out once or twice a day to meet the needs of the ranch: "Let's go, call Thomas, let's go and see!"
The trio drove a covered jeep all the way to the pier.
Li Sheng got out of the car and went to the upstream side of the dock to take a look. Blocked by the rocks of the pier, the current whirls and washes over the mud bank. Before, he remembered that the upstream side of the pier only protruded one or two meters, but now it had protruded to five meters. In other words, as much as three meters of embankment has been washed away. The shoreline, which used to be relatively straight, is deeply recessed here.
He looked around, and if it continued to be washed out, it might wash up on the dirt behind the dock. Eventually, the entire pier will be separated from the land, forming a small island in the river. The river may even wash away the mud beneath the pier and sink the entire pier. This pier is only about 60 meters long. All built of stone and cement. If the bottom is hollowed out a little, its own gravity can destroy itself.
If the dock is destroyed, it doesn't matter, he still has the money to repair a dock. But he didn't have the time. If you want to build a dock, you have to wait until the dry season. Even if the repair is started, the construction will not be completed in a few months. Wouldn't it take half a year to not use the dock?
But he also wondered if this would be the case this year, or if it would be in previous years: "Anthony. Has this happened before?"
"It needs to be renovated every year. It's just that this year seems to be particularly serious. Anthony said with a frown. "The sandbags underneath seem to have been washed away. ”
Li Sheng sensed it. Aren't they? Those sandbags have slipped to the bottom of the river. He'll figure it out. This may have something to do with the fact that he got all the silt in the river ashore.
The river deepened. The bottom of the sandbag rises above the bottom of the river, and now that the current has increased, the mud below cannot support it and slides down to the bottom of the river. It's no surprise that whirlpools at the waterfront end of the pier carry the dirt away, and it is no surprise that it finally forms such a cove.
I didn't expect that I was still the culprit.
Li Sheng touched his nose, this thing can't be said. He thought for a moment and said, "Thomas." You see, if you get some stakes here and throw some sandbags into them, you can't do it. ”
He called Thomas over because Thomas was an expert in the jungle and could handle these things better than him.
"This Anthony is more adept. Thomas said. "But I think it's doable. But I think it might take a long piece of wood. ”
Li Sheng also knew that it was indeed a long piece of wood. The water on the riverside here is also seven or eight meters deep. Coupled with the soft mud below, there is really no way to do it without more than ten meters of wood.
"Anthony. What do you think is going to do it?"
"We also thought about using wood to fix the embankment here. But it was because the wood needed was too long to drive the pile, so in the end it was not done. Anthony said with a shrug.
Li Sheng took a closer look and found that although the silt at the bottom of the river had been removed, the river bank had also become steeper. Ooze though there is none. But in order to hold the wood, the stakes must be driven into the soil for at least two or three meters. Otherwise, the clay on the steep slope of the river will be squeezed away by the wooden piles, and it will be easily washed away by the river, so that the wooden piles will lose their stress points. Only by penetrating the stakes into the deeper layers of clay at the bottom of the river can the stakes not be washed away.
However, the wooden stakes, which are more than ten meters long, should be erected at least three meters above the pier. I'm afraid there aren't that many people in this world who can go up and knock on it. No wonder Anthony said there was no way to drive piles.
Anthony called someone over the walkie-talkie. Zhang Feng is now in charge of grazing on the ranch, and does not need to personally watch the cattle. This will be his coming, too.
It turned out that he was also anxious when he heard that the dock was about to be washed away. Most of the workers in the ranch are Chinese. Something happened at the dock, which also means that this supply may not be able to keep up. Many of these workers were called by him, if he can't even eat enough, how can he live up to others?
Seeing the situation here, he also proposed piling. However, Li Sheng also told him about the problem.
But Zhang Feng blinked and said, "People can't do it, you can use machinery! Don't we have an excavator?"
Li Sheng thought of an excavator digging bucket with a bucket held high, and it hit the wooden stake with a bang, and then banged accurately...... Li Sheng would be tempted to ask him if he graduated from Lan Xiang.
Anthony's eyes lit up, as if he had suddenly brightened up, and said with a smile: "Zhang, you are really a genius." ”
Li Sheng saw that Anthony also recognized Zhang Feng's suggestion, and hurriedly asked someone to drag the wood over, if he didn't hurry up, this place would be washed away.
Soon, not caring about the destruction of the pastures, several trucks carrying timber brought some small pieces of timber over. Each one is eleven or twelve meters long. The truck came up and down, and when the timber was brought down and one was sharpened with an axe, the Lan Xiang artifact also arrived.
Anthony won't dare to act as an expert: "Zhang, what do you think should happen next?"
Zhang Feng was not polite, walked to the edge of the dock facing the water, and said: "Let's explore the situation below first, and we have to find a suitable place to drive piles." ”
So a worker found a steel pipe that was long enough, and after getting on the boat, the steel pipe was lowered down. Find a place with a small slope. Anthony looked at the mud from the steel pipe and said, "There's already clay down here." I guess this place can be. However, it is several meters away from the shore, and it is more dangerous to use human power to support the wooden stakes. ”
Zhang Feng looked at the whirlpool in the water, thought for a while, and said, "You don't need to be supported directly." We tied two logs to one end and then pressed against the opposite side, sandwiching the log in between. ”
Li Sheng had to say that the solution was thought of. Everyone tried, as long as the two logs were tied tightly at one end to the opposite bank, and then the stake was clamped in the right place, and then tied with a rope, but not too tightly, only the log was pressed against the opposite bank, so that the stake would not be too crooked, and it would not be clamped because of friction.
After the first stake is ready. Babur, who used to do logging, personally went out and drove the excavator up to the dock, and after adjusting the position, he didn't know that he had manipulated the place, and the digging arm hit the stake with a "bang". The stake sank half a foot deep. However, the stakes are also quite slanted. Babur pulls with a bucket to get the stake back into position as much as possible. And then again.
In the end, the stakes were driven to the level of the pier.
Li Sheng gave a thumbs up to Babur, who was playing cool in the excavator, and almost praised him: it is definitely comparable to Lanxiang's graduates.
On this day, about 20 people were busy working into the night. It's piling and sandbagging. Finally, the area of more than 30 square meters was filled. The dock is finally safe.