Volume 1 Chapter 73 Ordinary Days Next
The passing of a plane didn't raise my high interest, but more just brought back memories of the past in my heart, and when it flew away, it returned to normal!
Last time, I was not satisfied with the small number of iron tools that were removed from the ship, and today I am going to go to the ship again to continue searching for the parts that were not dismantled last time.
The smell of the boat has been very light after more than half a year, and it can basically be the same as normal breathing outside, but remembering the original situation, it is still fresh in people's memories.
The ship's ironwork was subjected to the sea breeze and high salt and humidity day and night, and it rusted very quickly, and if I had expected such a situation, I should have dismantled it all by the second time I arrived on the ship last year!
A few months of delay will waste a few catties of iron, and it will be more troublesome to remove rust from the iron that can be used.
Rather than wasting it in vain, it is better for me to take it home and make it into a tool to play its due role, and then after my proper storage, it can be used for at least dozens of years, which is more meaningful than being thrown on a ship to corrode and rust!
I have to scold myself for being stupid here, in fact, many iron tools can be removed with tools, and the wrenches and screwdrivers and other tools I found from the stern last time can be used completely, but I didn't react at the time, and I thought they were basically useless.
Today's dismantling with tools is not a star and a half compared to the last time the efficiency is improved, at least an hour can top three hours of work, only a small part of the rust can not be dismantled will be completed by violence.
Originally, I had planned to take three days to move home everything that could be removed from the ship, but it only took a day and a half to remove all the iron tools with tools.
I can't dismantle the rest, and the metal-hulled hull is not something I can covet, and if it is a pure wooden fishing boat, even the hull can be dismantled into wood and used!
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It's a pleasure to get a lot of gains, but it's also really uncomfortable to work in a stuffy cabin, and sweat drips from your body after only ten minutes of entering.
The process of carrying back and forth was not easy, but at this time, the iron objects of various shapes were piled up in front of the house, and the small mountain made this hard work seem unimportant.
A large number of things were unimaginable wealth when I first arrived on the island, and in the early days I could only use wooden sticks to clear the wasteland.
And not only do they look spectacular, but they also give me a great deal of confidence that with them, there will be very few situations that can threaten me in the future, except for natural disasters.
It is conservatively estimated that there are at least 200 catties of iron tools recovered, in addition to various machines that cannot be done by large consumables, almost all kinds of metal tools needed at home can be done one by one, and the tools with large demand can even be backed up by many pieces.
Just do it, so many iron tools are too wasteful to rust again, and in order to clear the space occupied by this pile.
Now I don't care about the cruelty of the sun, I want to re-refine this pile of iron tools into usable products as soon as possible, and contribute to my production and life!
After connecting the bellows and charcoal stoves that had been idle for a long time and placing them in the open space of the house, the Great Ironmaking Project was ready to begin in earnest.
The completely dry pure clay bellows already has a lot of cracks, and I estimate that it will be scrapped when I take it out next time after this use, but fortunately, I won't be making ironware for a long time after this use!
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There are a lot of things that are needed, and I would like to make everything I can with iron, but that's not possible, and I'm still focusing on making tools.
While thinking about the tools you need in your mind, you also have to dig a lot of clay from a distance to make a mold, and you also have to make a model with other materials one to one, so you can use this time to think slowly.
The first tools to be made were a long knife, two needles, a chisel and a few pounds of nails.
One of the most difficult is to count the needles, which looks very simple when it looks small, but when it is poured into molten iron, it is found that it is very difficult, and finally I have to increase the size.
As a result, the diameter of the final needle reached two or three millimeters, and the length was more than five centimeters, which was enough to be used as a weapon!
It took a lot of time to look at a few inconspicuous things, and it took three days to melt and polish them all before they were ready for use.
This is also the disadvantage of the existing mold, which has to be remade every time, unlike the mold of modern technology, which can be reused countless times.
Fortunately, the sharpened models can still be reused, and most of them can be stored for at least a year or two!
The hard work of the days was not in vain, and several tools were extremely successful, although the size of the needle did not meet my expectations, at least it solved the problem.
There was a lot of iron left, and I didn't even use a fifth of all of them, and it was difficult for me to dispose of them, because on the one hand, most of the tools that were urgently needed were already available, and on the other hand, so much iron was idle and wasteful!
It is not very suitable to make the container with iron, and most of them cannot be made because of the high difficulty, especially for the pot type, so it is difficult to have the confidence to succeed.
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After thinking about it, in the second batch, I remade a few pieces of kitchen knives, daggers, hoes and other major tools, and there were some differences in size.
In addition, an iron rod more than one meter long and a large saw were made, and dozens of catties of iron were consumed here.
The last hundred pounds of iron really didn't have much to go, and I was going to sit idle, but after an idea came to me, there was a solution--- making weapons.
Whether it is an ancient cold weapon or a modern hot weapon, most men may like it in their hearts, psychologically speaking, everyone has a beast nature in their hearts, and when this side is activated, they will fight around like a beast!
For me it's only a small factor, but it's more about increasing the sense of security.
It is difficult for a person to maintain a dangerous situation in such an environment, and no one can say what will happen in the future, and at the same time, it can also help me dispose of this pile of scrap iron, killing two birds with one stone!
Of course, the idea is very good, this batch of mold production problems are much more troublesome, not only will be a lot bigger, but the difficulty of mold modification has also risen several levels.
It took five days for the model and mold to be completed, and the last batch of molten iron took more than two days, and it was a problem to pull the bellows in the right hand of the chopsticks in two days!
The finished product is quite numerous, including: a safety helmet, several iron rods more than a meter long, the spearhead of two spears, dozens of arrows with bows and arrows, a thick iron plate that can be placed on the chest, and a sword.
After all, all the iron was consumed, and there were about 20 catties of wrought iron left, and I could only throw them into a corner like garbage, and they were of no use to me!
It also takes a lot of time to polish all kinds of weapons, and it takes a lot of time to turn them into real weapons......
Although the environment on the island is very safe, there are some weapons in hand that do make people more confident, just like many people like to bring a little weapon to defend themselves, not to take the initiative to harm others, but there is something to deal with when there is a situation that endangers safety.
Of course, don't worry about using up all the iron tools for the time being, when you need to melt down some useless weapons and make them into the tools you want, although it is troublesome, but the impact is very small!
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In July, the four lambs are also growing up day by day, at this time they are larger than the size of normal cats, and they are also the most naughty time.
However, there is also bad news that all the lamb slaughtered for the Chinese New Year was eaten as early as last month, although fish was used as a substitute during this period.
And there are often abalone and sea cucumber as supplements, but after not eating mutton for a while, I began to miss it again, and even suddenly felt that the smell of mutton was not bad.
I don't know what kind of psychology I have, I wonder if my psychology is starting to distort, but the real demand is that I want to eat mutton!
It turns out that you can't have the slightest idea about something, and when you have a little idea, it will slowly be amplified and evolve into a lot of thoughts, and then it will become a day and night thought, until finally you stop fantasizing and acting.
The day after the idea of eating mutton came to me, I couldn't sleep well at night, and on the third day, I couldn't resist killing a last year's lamb that had grown into a ewe.
It's a pity, but only the lamb in front of me can stop my desire!
Compared with the ram killed during the New Year, this one is obviously thinner, and only gets more than 30 catties of mutton, but fortunately, the meat of this sheep can be managed for three or five months, even until the New Year.
After a pound or two of mutton was eaten, my greed was finally stopped, but I found out afterwards that it was indeed impulsive.
The temperature is too high now, and the preservation of mutton is a huge challenge, and the slightest carelessness may kill this sheep in vain, and it is really not wise to eat mutton for one or two meals!
For this reason, I can only smoke and roast the mutton that has been marinated for more than half a day on the night of the sheep killing, so as not to spoil and stink, as long as there is a slight smell, the taste will affect the taste very much, and it is even inferior to fresh fish in comparison.
However, through this incident, I figured out the problem of bacon, and the fact that bacon in the country is made in winter proves that bacon is a product of winter, and meat is too easy to spoil in summer!
At this time, the smoked meat can no longer be called bacon, and it is still drying while roasting, which can only be regarded as jerky.
Compared with the bacon made in the winter before, the taste is much worse, of course, this is now that the conditions are good, there will be picky actions, where to pick the taste in the past, it is good to eat!
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I think that when the number of sheep reaches more than ten in the future, it is completely possible to kill two sheep at one time to make bacon in winter, anyway, no matter when you kill it, you can only eat fresh meat for a day or two, and finally you have to make it into bacon to preserve!
Rather than this, it is better to make it all at once in winter, and the smoked bacon tastes not bad, and even the stewed mutton soup is more delicious.
The mutton has not yet been smoked, in the process of smoking, I am preparing to squeeze a new batch of peanut oil, after a few months of edible peanut oil is not much left, taking advantage of the recent nothing, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, first squeeze some out.
This time, the amount of oil is more, and nearly ten catties of peanut oil are pressed in two days, at least to ensure that there is no shortage of oil before the Chinese New Year, and the price is that the stock of peanuts is reduced by nearly half, and there are only thirty or forty catties left!