Fast forward to December.

The weather is getting colder day by day, and the snow is up to two feet thick, and in some places it is a meter deep.

The snow on the ice of the Sanfenchang reservoir is deeper.

Lu Changhua has been busy pulling a few carts of firewood these days to prepare for the New Year.

This year, the snow is heavy, and the snow on the side road to Erlongshan Forest Farm is too deep for rubber-tyred vehicles to walk.

For this reason, he had to go to Master Lin to restart the Dongfanghong 54 tractor, and it towed the trailer to run the forest farm a few times.

Hu Dagui also came to help.

To say that it is difficult to start a tractor in winter.

First of all, there should be -35 diesel in the oil depot. This type of diesel is the only way to maintain fluidity at this time.

Like the country opposite HLJ, they must use more than -40 diesel in winter, otherwise they will freeze on the road.

Since there is still some work on the farm in November and December, some diesel fuel of -35 will be prepared.

This is also a prerequisite.

Then there is the need to change the oil and tooth oil of the tractor.

The oil used by tractors in summer and winter is different.

In summer, the fuel is No. 0 diesel, and the engine oil and tooth oil are all oils with high viscosity, and the oil will become hot and thin in the hot weather in summer, so as to ensure lubrication.

As soon as it enters October, the fuel has to be replaced with -10 diesel, November -20, December -35, if the new year enters January and February, the locomotive will basically not move, if you have to move, there is no -40 fuel is no way.

After entering November, the engine oil and gearbox, rear axle tooth oil will be replaced with less viscous oil, the winter weather is cold, the oil will solidify and become viscous, so it must be replaced, otherwise the tractor will be less powerful no matter how large the horsepower will be, slow action.

In addition to this, it is troublesome to start a tractor in winter.

First of all, boil a large pot of boiling water.

While boiling water, a brazier should be lit under the oil pan of the engine to bake the solidified oil in the oil pan and increase its fluidity. Of course, the gearbox and rear axle also have to be baked, and three braziers are placed under the tractor when leaving the car in winter.

The water in the pot is boiled and added to the tractor's tank. The key here is to check that the drain valve of the tank is closed.

Otherwise, you will add water here and stream underground, won't it be in vain!

Add boiling water, and the fire at the bottom is almost baked.

The next step is to start the engine.

This kind of large tractor is not a "small four-wheeler" with small horsepower, and it is used to shake it by itself, which has to use the tractor's own gasoline starter to engine the car.

First drink gasoline to the starter, then wrap it around the starting flywheel with hemp rope a few times, and pull it hard with your hand, and the gasoline engine will "flutter" and rotate.

When the gasoline engine is on fire, quickly control the damper of the carburetor of the gasoline engine, increase the air intake, and make the gasoline engine run at high speed.

Then open the pressure reducing valve of the starter to make the entire diesel engine in a depressurized state. Close the starter in first gear.

The gasoline engine will drive the starter, and the crankshaft of the diesel engine will rotate slowly.

After the rev is increased, the second gear of the starter is immediately closed.

At this time, the diesel engine has begun to rotate at high speed, and when the speed reaches a certain speed, the pressure reducing valve is quickly closed.

At this time, the tractor's engine immediately enters the normal pressure state.

High pressure is quickly generated in the combustion chamber of a diesel engine, which compresses the diesel fuel and the engine enters a state of fire.

Master Lin took his apprentice to operate and finally started the tractor.

Then I went to refuel, hung up the trailer, and there were Hu Dagui and a few people standing on the carriage, roaring all the way towards the Erlongshan Forest Farm.

After more than ten miles, heavy snow blocked the road, and the tractor forcibly opened the road, crushing the snow, leaving two snow ditches more than a foot deep behind him.

With the tractor opening the way, it is possible for the family members of the branch to use other means of transportation to go to the forest farm to pull firewood, otherwise they don't even think about it.

You can only use wheat straw and bean straw for cooking.

It's impossible to drive fast in winter.

At a speed of more than ten kilometers per hour, he drove slowly in the snow.

Xiong Bao was held in Lu Changhua's arms and sat in the passenger seat of the tractor, but the roar of the locomotive was too loud, Xiong Bao jumped out of the car and jogged behind the tractor.

Seeing from the exterior rearview mirror that Xiong Bao always followed, he did not fall behind, and Lu Changhua no longer wondered whether it was in the car.

When they came to the outside of the forest farm, the car stopped, and Lu Changhua got out of the car and pulled Xiong Bao up with a rope.

There are a lot of dogs in the field, and if an out-of-town dog comes in, it is very likely to be attacked.

Xiong Bao also smelled a lot of other dogs, and seemed a little nervous, but the owner took himself by his side, and it immediately became angry again, with its tail upturned and curled, like a blooming flower.

There are many kinds of firewood sold by forest farms.

The most expensive are birch and pine. Birch bark has a high oil content, is easy to ignite, has strong firepower, has a bad smell, and chokes. In addition to the oil, pine wood smells good.

But the disadvantage of these two kinds of wood is that it is not burned, and it is too fast to overshoot. Generally, people use it to start a fire, and this kind of wood can't be burned for heating.

Oak wood and elm wood belong to hard miscellaneous woods, which are burned, but they are not good to ignite, and other wood needs to be burned first to ignite it.

Generally, when buying firewood, you will buy half a car and make up a car, which is the most economical way.

Lu Changhua bought firewood according to this combination.

This time, he bought two truckloads of firewood, went through the purchase procedures at the forest farm office, and gave two small receipts.

When they arrived at the firewood pile, there was a small ticket to use, and the caretaker asked everyone to load the cart.

There are many people and great strength, and soon a cart of firewood is loaded and I go home.

Rumbling tractors returning.

The return of a fully loaded tractor was even more difficult, with smoke belching from the chimney and sonic boom miles away.

Xiong Bao ran all the way, so tired that he stuck out his tongue and panted. It's much more honest when it goes back, and it no longer dislikes the noise of the tractor, and follows Lu Changhua in the cab.

Without much effort, he squinted his eyes and fell into a false sleep.

When I got home, the car of firewood was unloaded on the side of the road, and Hu Dagui went to load the car with a small ticket, and Lu Changhua stayed to sort out the firewood.

Lao Lu was prepared, and with a chainsaw borrowed from someone else's house, the two of them began to cut wood on the side of the road. Xiong Bao returned to his territory, jumping up and down, circling the two of them.

The firewood is not a log of twenty or thirty centimeters.

The two of them carried the firewood to a flat place, Lao Lu held down the wood, Lu Changhua pulled the starting rope of the chainsaw, and the booming chainsaw burst out with strong power, the saw blade rotated rapidly with the size of the throttle, and the tail sprayed pungent green smoke.

"Slow down."

Lao Lu was not worried about his son's work, and admonished.

"It's fine."

Lu Changhua intercepted the wood according to the two specifications of the stove and the pot table.

Each piece of wood used to burn the stove is about 30 centimeters, and it can't be put in when it grows.

The wood of the pot can be long, between 40 and 50 centimeters.

"Woo!"

"Woo!"

It took more than two hours for the two of them to finish the firewood.

All that's left is to stack the cut wood and wait until it is used to split it into a wooden stumbling block with an axe.

Why don't you split now? It's because the wood is not frozen yet, there is still moisture in it, it is not easy to split, and before the Spring Festival, the wooden stumbling block is frozen, and the moisture in the wood is frozen into ice.

Yards of wood should be classified.

Birch and pine are stacked together, and oak and elm are stacked together, so that when you burn the fire, you know which side is the one that starts the fire and which side is the one that carries the fire.

Lu Changhua picked up the wood and came to the east side of the courtyard. This is where the firewood is stacked, next to the pigsty.

Before the freeze, two truckloads of wheat straw and soybean straw had been pulled, which were used as fire-starting things for backup, and also for keeping the pigsty warm, and they were piled directly on top of the pigsty.

The cut wood is piled on the edge of the straw stack.

Lu's mother also came out to help with the wood.

An hour later, the three of them put the wood away and went back to the house to rest.

Xiong Bao also followed into the house and lay at Lu Changhua's feet.

After resting for half an hour, Lao Lu saw that the time was almost up, and got up to beckon his wife to prepare a meal together.

Lu Changhua also helped wash vegetables and peel potatoes.

While they were busy working, the roar of tractors could be heard outside the house.

Lu Changhua took the chainsaw and led Xiong Bao out.

Hu Dagui and the others have already returned, and their faces are red from the cold.

"Let's go, go to the reservoir."

Lu Changhua and Xiong Bao walked in front, and the tractor followed.

When they came to the duty room, everyone jumped out of the car, moved their hands and feet, and then began to unload the car.

Master Lin went first to the duty room to take shelter from the wind, and the others followed Lu Changhua to cut wood.

The roar of a chainsaw resounded in the reservoir.

There are many people with great strength, and they are hugged to the wall of the duty room and put them away.

The chainsaw was in the hands of the crowd.

The chain saw looks at sawing wood and saves effort, but the person who uses the chain saw still consumes physical strength, and his hands and arms will be numb in ten or twenty minutes. I can't stand it if I don't change it, not to mention that Lu Changhua has sawed a car.

Hu Dagui doesn't work secretly and treacherously, he is willing to exert his strength, Lu Changhua asked him to take it easy, don't flash his waist.

Master Lin saw that the cart had finished picking up the wood and walked out of the duty room.

A group of people got into the car and returned to Lu's house.

It was agreed that tomorrow the Hu family would also buy a car to burn firewood, and Master Lin himself would also buy a car, and the tractor would not return to the maintenance team, and it would be parked directly on the side of the road outside the door of Lu's house.

When they entered the house, they took turns washing their hands with hot water, and then they sat around the dinner table.

Lao Lu's appetizers are already out of the pot.

The main dish is chicken stewed with mushrooms, which has been stewed for a long time.

It was placed in the middle of the dining table with a washbasin.

In front of each person is a transparent glass, which is used for drinking water, and is now used to drink, and it is said to hold two taels.

"Full, full. Today brothers have worked hard, drink some warmth and warmth. ”

Lu Changhua took the white plastic pot brought by his mother, which contained bulk liquor.

It's good to be able to drink this this year, drink bottled every day? I can't afford to drink it, but a bottle is a few pieces.

The transparent glasses were filled with liquor, and they were poured in a hurry, and foam swirled in the glasses.

"Drink at Changhua's house today, come to my house tomorrow, everyone come!"

Hu Dagui picked up his wine glass, put the words out first, and saved these lazy guys from releasing his pigeons tomorrow.

"Okay, your home is your home."

The big guys are all eighteen or nineteen years old, and it is the time when they are in high spirits, and they can't stop the vitality.

"Drink slowly, don't do it!"

"What? You're out of alcohol? ”

Hu Dagui has a stiff neck, a red face and a thick neck.

"There's no wine, I'm afraid you're in a hurry, choking!"

It's okay if you don't say this, as soon as you mention this, Hu Dagui becomes anxious.

He raised his glass of "tons and tons" and drank the wine in a few sips, holding the empty glass with a red face, and signaling to everyone one by one.

Lu Changhua immediately shut up, who made himself "Lu Cup".