So everyone lived a period of work and rest, and in a blink of an eye, the time came to the beginning of February, although the projects everywhere stopped and stopped, but finally completed some of the workload.

The first to complete the scheduled workload were the production tasks of the cement plant and the brick and tile plant.

By the beginning of February, all the prefabricated bricks and cement needed for the construction of the Sydney Island pier and ranch were almost complete.

According to Hou Xianglin's wharf construction plan, bamboo cement is the main building material of the wharf, so even if only a few people participated, Hou Xianglin has always insisted on letting the cement plant start production, the factory more or less produced cement and cement prefabricated parts every day, these prefabricated parts are poured in the cement plant, and then carried on the train wagon by manpower, for this reason, under the auspices of Wang Xueluo's boss, two manual pulley cranes in the cave were unsealed, one of which was installed in the cement plant, and the other was installed in the red wharf.

The cement prefabricated parts were transported by train to the Red Wharf for unloading, and then the group rowed the small boat to transport these bamboo reinforced cement columns one by one to the wharf construction site on Sydney Island.

On February 3, the wharf construction site finally completed all the on-site material preparation procedures and began to enter the construction stage.

At this time, the weather is also starting to gradually improve, and people who are active in the field in the field these days are feeling the increasingly obvious dry season weather characteristics---- cool and dry, and fewer mosquitoes.

Now is the time to work outdoors, the previous leisurely in the rainy season has been swept away, everyone began to hurry up early and work in the dark, everyone is silently doing their part.

At noon on the same day, a construction team of 20 people under the command of Hou Xianglin, landed at the Sydney Island wharf site by small boat, Lao Zhu also rushed from the farm to the construction site almost every day to discuss the construction plan with Hou Xianglin, the whole picture of this small island of less than 10 square kilometers has been fully grasped, Zhu and Hou put forward a detailed ranch construction plan a week ago and passed the plenary meeting.

In the next three to five years, Lao Zhu plans to build Sydney Island into a comprehensive experimental base integrating scientific research, field animal husbandry and meat and milk production, and it is permanent, and Lao Zhu is determined to turn this place into a scientific research city with exclusive attributes of animal husbandry.

Therefore, the initial construction project was much more than the humble farm outside the cave gate, including not only various houses, animal husbandry facilities, but also living facilities and simple cement roads.

One of the larger projects is the freshwater collection and storage system, in the first stage of construction, to transform a small swamp in the north of the island into a reservoir, but also to dig a few shallow ponds and ditches, the island is rich in underground freshwater resources, the water level is very high, digging a meter deep to produce fresh water, Lao Zhu according to the hydrological mapping data estimate, after the completion of these projects, the whole dry season is basically not short of fresh water. Although the vegetation on the island is sparser than on the main island, as long as the water source problem is solved, pasture grass can be easily cultivated.

Moreover, this island is not big or small, and there is an independent ecological circle, plus the terrain is flat, the wetland area is not small, the water conservancy construction is convenient, and it is easy to be blocked by the customs on all sides, so Lao Zhu believes that this is a unique experimental grazing base.

As for the Saifu Island that was explored before the crossing, although it also has the above advantages, the area is too large and can be developed in the future, but it is more realistic to be smaller in scale for now.

In addition, the farm's other living and productive facilities consist of rows of improvised bamboo-made houses and greenhouses, including a stilted bamboo building for a makeshift lounge--studio.

The use of high-rise houses is a must, the surface of this place is quite humid and hot, and it is inevitable that there are snakes, insects, rats and ants or something, not indigenous, and the ground is usually uninhabitable.

Lao Zhu himself originally wanted to live on the island for a long time, he liked the scenery here, but after the field investigation, he had to dispel the idea of living on the island for a long time, of course, this is a temporary dispelling, and the conditions are good in the future, and it is completely possible to live here.

A few years later, Sydney Island finally became the scientific research base and company headquarters of "Australian Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd.", and the entire 10-square-kilometer island was all "Australian Animal Husbandry" industry, and Lao Zhu was the chairman and president of this giant business empire until his retirement at an advanced age......

The construction of the Sydney Island Ranch continued until the Spring Festival in early February, and by February 10, it was finally completed.

During this period, the most difficult project was the pier for the cement prefabrication, which was a groundbreaking undertaking for Hou Xianglin.

He believes that the use of cement prefabricated parts to repair the dock is of great significance in the future, in this era, almost all the docks are wood or stone, once this project is built, it means that we can use the materials of the new world to build cement docks with Australian characteristics in almost all places.

What's more, the future foreign trade activities will definitely greatly increase the input of various raw materials, so it will soon be necessary to build a wharf at the mouth of the Xiliu River and several small islands, according to the exploration report, a variety of ore raw materials on several nearby islands are an indispensable resource for our recent industrial construction, in the current situation of a very short of wood, it is a perfect solution to repair the wharf with cement components, so the construction of the ranch wharf on Sydney Island has the nature of training and experimentation.

The pier is built in a backwater bay in the southwest of the island with an average water depth of more than three meters, and the pier pier pier extends from the beach to the water 60 meters away, and the precast cement plank is six meters wide and supported by three rows of cement columns.

However, although this wharf is not too big, but when the construction really began, everyone found that things are not simple, the most difficult of which is to locate the pile in the water, for which we specially selected a few sailing students with good water to put on diving suits and go down to the seabed to explore the terrain and pile position, fortunately, the visibility of the unpolluted sea water in the day is not bad, after some tossing, the pile position is finally determined.

Then there is the pile and piling from shallow to deep, everyone at the beginning, is to use a big mallet to drive the cement piles of different lengths into the sand of the seabed one by one, shallow water all this is easy to do, but in order to try to let the big ship dock, cement piles should be extended to deeper waters as much as possible.

The most difficult thing was, of course, the last few concrete pillars that were stuck on the bottom of the sea at a depth of nearly three meters, for which a dozen people on the eight lifeboats and eight divers worked together to locate the pillars, and it took a lot of effort to put the pillars in place.

The next thing is piling, but everyone found that the boat shook so badly that it could not be used as a piling platform at all, just when everyone scratched their ears and cheeks, the Pride returned to sail, so with the assistance of the Pride and the cargo boom on the ship, the problem of positioning and piling was finally solved.

In order to facilitate the drive into the seabed, one end of the cement pillar is pre-made into a pointed shape, and the last few cement pillars are four meters six long pillars, which are very thick and heavy.

It seems that the repair of deep-water wharves is not only a technical work, but also a heavy physical work, and is also limited by various technical conditions, so that everyone finally understands why there are few artificial deep-water wharves of more than three meters in this era.

In the end, with the help of various machinery, the problem was solved, the cement pile was only 80 centimeters above the water surface, and the last few pillars, each of which was hammered by everyone for a whole day before it was in place, when Hou Xianglin announced that the last cement pile was in place, the builders present were all relieved, and there were bursts of cheers---- all this is not easy!