Chapter 47 Making a Wooden Wheeled Car

With the saber-toothed tiger guarding, everyone set off early and walked to the top of the mountain.

After looking at it for a long time, I didn't find a big tree that could make wheels, and when everyone was discouraged, the younger son found a few stumps in the grass that were so withered that they were only half a person high, and the stumps were so thick that they required three or four people to hug them.

Everyone didn't say a word, they went up and cut it directly with an axe, and at the same time cut a few trees nearby that could be used as axles. After cutting down the stump, everyone rolled the stump directly down the mountain, and in some places it couldn't be rolled, so they rolled it again, anyway, it didn't take much effort to get the stump to the bottom of the mountain, just carrying a few trees that made axles.

Why there are tree stumps on the top of the mountain, mainly because the top of the mountain is perennially windy, the cold is heavy, the trees are not tall, even if they grow tall, they will be blown down by the wind, and after many years, the trees on the top of the mountain only grow thick and not tall, and they become stumps, the roots are very large, the treetops are small, and even only some small branches. This is done to make a wheel car.

Making a wheel car was a delicate job, and it took the father half a day to cut eight wheels with an axe, while the children made the axles, tie rods, car plates, and pull ropes according to their father's arrangement.

The method of making a wheel car is as follows: first use an axe to chop the stump into a cylindrical shape, and then use a saw to see the cylindrical stump into a wheel.

But this time they didn't think of making a wheeled car, and of course they didn't bring a saw, so they had to think of other ways.

What can be used as a saw, which has both mouth and hard enough. After thinking about it, I really can't make a trick, only to use other methods.

As soon as my father grabbed the axe, he cut it down.

It is convenient to use a saw, no wood and labor-saving, with an ax there is only an axe to chop, it is a waste of wood, the saw only needs half a finger wide saw seam, and the axe needs to cut a very wide gap, but at this time there is no way to do this, fortunately, the stump is more than one person high, enough to cut out four wheels.

Everyone continued to cut one axe at a time, and there were two axes in total, and one person was tired of chopping and the other came after, but it was not very slow, and the resting people were not idle, but they started a big fire, and the steel brazing was burned red.

Half an hour later, the first wheel already had a shape, the size of two buckets, as thick as a fist, and it was cut round and not slippery, although it was not very good-looking, but it was basically usable.

Then the second, third, and fourth wheels were made, and my father simply rounded them one by one with an axe, and the four wheels looked like that.

The living father who burned the axle hole with a steel brazing did not let the children come, but personally took the hand and slowly burned a triangular hole with the steel brazing, and at the same time asked the children to use axes and knives to cut the axle, not only to straighten the axle to the same length, but also to cut the two ends of the axle into the same shape as the wheel triangle hole. After the axle is done, a red-hot steel drill is used to burn out small holes in the outermost part of the axle, which is the bolt to prevent the wheel position from shifting.

After doing this, you can't rush to assemble it, and you can't install it until all the parts are ready.

It's not enough to have wheels and axles, you have to do a lot of small things.

The father cut the remaining stumps into sixteen rectangular planks, cut the top of each plank into a small rectangular latch, and burned the bottom of the plank with steel brazing to make a round hole slightly larger than the axle, through which the axle was to be pierced when it was installed.

The remaining part is to prepare eight pieces of wood with the thickness of the lower legs, align the small square latches cut out above the square wooden blocks, and use steel drills to burn the holes in the front and back of the latches that match the shape of the square wooden blocks. After making these preparations, you can install it.

The installation process is very simple, that is, the two axles each pass through four square wooden blocks, the front axle wears two wheels, the back axle wears two wheels, the prepared wood with jacks is loaded on the square latch, and then the four pieces of wood are tied and fixed with straw ropes, and finally the bolt is fixed on the outside of the axle, and a simple and practical wheel car is done.

In order to prevent the wheels and axles from being bumped on the road, my father installed the wheel car and then worked with everyone to sharpen a wheel and an axle with the remaining materials just in case.

By the time it got dark, a wheeled car that didn't look very beautiful was almost usable, and it didn't matter if it looked good or not, as long as it worked.

Early the next morning, everyone put the prey in the car, and the injured wolf was numb with an arrow, and the man and the dog worked hard to pull and go home.

Although I made a car, after all, it was not very easy to use, and the road was not easy to walk, and when I got home, it was already the sun in the west and it was almost dark.

Mother and Sister heard the creaking sound outside, pinching the days and thinking that it was time for these men to come back, so they opened the heavy stone door, and saw that after only a few days, they pulled a cart of things back, and couldn't help but sigh that the men were so good.

When he got home, the first thing my father did was to make a barn for the four reindeer and the four wild sheep, which had to be strong, because they were very strong, and domestication was not a smooth task, and they should be prevented from escaping at any time. It took a lot of time for the father and son to complete this livestock shed, and on the day of completion, it happened to be the time when the cattle woke up after the anesthetic expired, which was really lucky.

At the same time, a separate wooden cage was made for the wolf to prevent it from coming out and hurting people.

Originally, he wanted to separate the reindeer fence from the sheep's sheepfold, but my father remembered that they used to graze and play together, and knew that the two kinds of livestock could be kept together, which would save trouble.

They also thought of finding a place to fence it up in the upper reaches of the river, and then they thought that the animals they had just caught were wild and untamable, and it would take a process to keep them in captivity, so they built a sheepfold next to the pigsty in the yard, and locked four reindeer and four wild sheep together.

The sheepsty is different from the pigsty, which is built directly on the ground, surrounded by a fence, with a door on one side for feeding, and a roof.

After closing the pig, throw some hay into the pigsty every three or five days to make a nest for the pig, and the pig can not directly sleep on the muddy ground, so that the temperature in the pig nest is higher, which is conducive to the warmth of the pig nest and the pig grows fat, otherwise it is not easy to grow some meat will also be consumed because of the low body temperature when sleeping, and at the same time the pig's feces and urine are a lot, and the pig manure and urine are also directly pulled on the hay, and the hay is soaked into a good fertilizer for a long time.

When the pig manure is released, the pigs can be driven out of the pigsty first, and the pigsty can be pulled out of the pigsty by hooking the grass with a hitch. When it is cleaned up, it is replaced with new hay and the pigs can be driven into the pigsty.

The sheepfold can not be repaired directly on the ground, the fertilizer efficiency and amount of sheep manure are not as much as that of pigs, and the heat is not as hot as pig manure, and it does not need to be diluted by soaking hay, and the sheep manure can be directly put into the ground to fertilize the crops, so the practice of the sheepfold is different from the pigsty, the body of the sheep is heavy, and there is no need to put hay for the sheepfold, you need to make a cage-like thing first, the bottom should be made of logs, and the distance between the wood and the wood should be slightly smaller than that of the leg of the lamb, so as to prevent the leg of lamb from falling into the gap, and the second is to let the ball of sheep dung fall from the gap to keep the sheepfold dry, so the bottom should be kept one step high or so from the ground, leaving enough space for the sheep manure layer, can also play a role in ventilation, reduce the effect of sheep manure and urine.