Chapter 16 Safety Measures for Coal Shafts
If you want to dig a coal mine, it is a huge project.
The work of digging coal mines is even harder, but in order to live, everyone gritted their teeth, bitter and tired, and the enduring passed.
In addition to the old, weak, sick and disabled, the villagers of Nanshan Village have all taken action.
The whole team consisted of two or three hundred people.
In terms of numbers, there are quite a few, but compared to the mountains and forests, they are really small.
Fortunately, the tigers in the mountains have been hunted.
As the saying goes, there are no two tigers in one mountain, and where there are tigers, there will be no other beasts.
Tigers are territorial-minded, and in the territory under their jurisdiction, they will never allow the existence of threats to their status.
Thus, a mountain forest where tigers have been hunted is minimized.
Two or three hundred villagers carried their tools and food.
There are not many tools, even if Pei Yun does his best, there are so many things that can be built.
Gong has a limit, and there are not too many people who dig coal mines, and more people are mainly responsible for transportation.
In the absence of high-tech mechanization, transportation is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
If there is not a stream that wants to bring the coal down from the mountain, it will be a torturous obstruction.
I also brought some living materials, and from this moment on, some people will live in the mountains and forests for a long time.
The villagers brought food, but not much, because they didn't have much food left.
There was not much food, but there was meat in it, such as wild boar's, and other wild beasts that could be hunted.
Normally, you can't even eat food, and you should exchange something as valuable as meat for food.
But Pei Yun had a request to keep the hunting prey for himself to eat.
There is a saying that if you want a horse to run, you have to give it grass.
The same is true for coal mining.
Coal mining is heavy physical work, and the environment is not good, so it is necessary to face the factors of exhaustion and exhaustion, and it is not enough for a person to eat food, but also to eat meat to supplement nutrition.
Only when the body is better, the work will be more efficient, and some things are either saving or good.
Meat should be eaten, and eating it is the most cost-effective.
Not all hunted prey is kept for its own consumption, among which the dead tiger has another role.
This is a tiger, full of treasures, and even more valuable.
Even if you want to eat meat, you shouldn't make up your mind about the tiger.
The plan was to take the tiger to the city and sell it, including tiger skins and the like.
But the time is not now.
It is necessary to wait until the coal mine is officially dug up and honeycomb coal is made, and then they will be brought to the city together.
At that time, the honeycomb coal will be sold by selling tigers, which can be regarded as making the best use of things.
Again to the place where the coal mine was found.
The exposed open-pit coal mines have been mined, and this part of the mine is the easiest to mine, and after mining, the well is dug into the ground, which is what is being done now.
Not far away, there are many wooden sheds, which are where the villagers lived in the future.
Although it is a little simple, all the facilities that should be there are there.
The people who built the wooden shed were the old and the young who had built crossbows with Pei Yun before.
One of them is called Mo Dachuan, and the other is called Xiao Stunned, Xiao Stunned is not his real name, but everyone is used to calling it like this, and over time, everyone has forgotten his real name.
will be called a little stunned, because he has been like a stunned wood since he was a child.
Xiao Xiaozi's parents died early, he grew up eating hundreds of family meals, everyone thinks he is a pity, he is a good person, but his head is the same as wood.
is such a person who is not favored by everyone, after meeting Pei Yun, he is shining.
It was Pei Yun who discovered his carpenter talent and taught him the skill of carpenter.
Before, it was Mo Dachuan who was working with him, but after a while, Mo Dachuan gave him a hand instead.
Mo Dachuan and Xiao Zhizi were doing things at the side of the mine, and the work they were doing was to erect a winch for the coal mine shaft.
The winch is developed from the wheel, which can be operated by several people at the same time, and the lifting capacity is greatly enhanced.
Roller, a lifting device for extracting well water.
Erect a derrick on the well, install a shaft that can be shaken by a handle, a rope is wound on the shaft, a bucket is tied at one end of the rope, and the handle is rotated, so that the bucket falls together and the well water is extracted.
Whether it is a winch or a wheel, the principle of leverage is used.
Before this, Nanshan Village had not been exposed to these two things.
Nanshan Village to dig well water, all of which are extracted by manpower, tied with ropes on wooden barrels, and rely on buckets of well water to drill wells.
Not to mention the winch, the wheel made the villagers amazed, and they didn't expect that there was such a ingenious thing.
Regarding the production of the winch, it was Pei Yun who drew the drawings and handed them to Mo Dachuan and Xiao Stunned.
From here, the gap between Mo Dachuan and Xiao Stunned is reflected.
Although Mo Dachuan is a master, his ability to accept new things is not good, he will know some old-fashioned things, more precisely, what carpenter skills he learned when he was learning art, until now, he still only knows what carpenter skills.
The little stunned man is the opposite, he is a blank sheet of paper for the carpenter, but after seeing the drawings, he can understand it himself, and even read it.
Therefore, when building the wooden shed, it was Mo Dachuan who was taking the little stunned, and when he arrived at the winch, it was Mo Dachuan who was helping the little stunned.
The existence of the winch is the link between the ground and the underground, and the importance is extraordinary.
Whether or not the coal mine can be transported from underground to the surface depends on the winch.
The winch made by Mo Dachuan and Xiao Stunned is only the last step, and the last step is to wait for Pei Yun to accept it.
"Childe, you're here." Mo Dachuan Road.
On the other side, the little stunned man didn't say anything, but showed a respectful appearance.
Pei Yun has the grace of knowing him, and it was Pei Yun who told him that you can, you have to have confidence in yourself.
And when he began to learn the knowledge that Pei Yun had given him, his world opened a door.
And Pei Yun's image in his heart has another layer of color.
Only academics can know the vastness of scholarship and give birth to awe.
In his heart, Pei Yun is the vast academic, which is awe-inspiring.
Having said so much, if there is a simple word to describe it, it is that today's little stunned person is Pei Yun's little fan brother.
"You're doing a great job." Pei Yundao said and corrected the problem on the winch.
The previous sentence is still praising people, and then finding fault with the fruits of other people's labor.
But there's nothing wrong with that.
It is really good to be able to make a winch just by relying on the drawings, but there are still problems.
After Pei Yun's modification, the winch was officially put into use.
Through the bamboo baskets on the winch, the villagers can go down to the mines, and the bamboo baskets can be used to transport the coal mines back to the surface.
"Let me be the first to try this thing." Pei Yundao.
It is a responsible attitude to make something yourself, and to take the lead in using it.
"Childe ......," Qin Qi'er on the side said with concern.
"It's okay, it's safe, only when I go down to the bottom of the well, I can also survey."
In the sight of the villagers, Pei Yun sank into the well.
After a trip to the coal mine, Pei Yun, who returned to the ground, didn't care about the darkness on his body, so he buried his head in thought.
No one dared to disturb him at this time, so only Qin Qi'er was by his side.
There are words in Pei Yun's mouth, "Everything is too simple, and the safety is poor, but there is no time and no conditions, so you can only start in a hurry, there are many things, and you can only come one by one." ”
After talking to himself, Pei Yun said to Qin Qi'er, "I need pen and paper...... Planks will do the same. ”
The pen is not difficult to find, Pei Yun specially asked people to sharpen coal as charcoal, and the paper is expensive, so the second best thing is to settle for the wooden board.
"Also, call Mo Dachuan and Xiao Stunned over, and the master who took the lead in the construction will also be invited."
Soon, Pei Yun gathered around him, and the one who took the lead in the construction was an old man named Yu Haozhong, who was a little short, and the muscles of his whole body were the same as stones.
Everyone gathered around Pei Yun and watched Pei Yun write on the wooden board.
There are few of them who know how to write, but fortunately, Pei Yun not only writes words, but also draws patterns.
Of course, these patterns are difficult for them to understand, and if there are parts that they can understand, they are shocked.
Pei Yunxian said to Mo Dachuan and Xiao Stunned: "I need you to consolidate the well wall, and also, to prepare for the next consolidation of the roadway, this is the mortise and tenon support technology, hurry up to learn, if you don't understand, come and ask me." ”
Pei Yun handed over a wooden board with words and patterns to Mo Dachuan and Xiao Stunned, and explained the content on the wooden board again during the process.
The reaction he got was diametrically opposite, Mo Dachuan was confused when he listened, and his eyes lit up when he listened.
After explaining to Mo Dachuan and Xiao Stunned, Pei Yun said to Yu Hao: "The weather looks good now, but it must be prevented from raining, and the well must ensure that no water can enter, and you can prepare kraft bags and the like to transport the water from the well to the outside, and if you have a chance in the future, you will have to dig a sink and ditch to drain it." ”
"Also, the ventilation problem of the well must be done well, this thing can not be joked, the simple way is to complete the natural ventilation according to the mountain with the high and low air pressure difference, and when it is cloudy, you can ignite the bamboo chips, create a high and low air pressure difference to complete the ventilation, so that the air in the well floats out, so as to exchange with the outside air."
"In the same way, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can make windmills and ventilate them manually."
Yu Haozhong is the leader of the construction, and he is responsible for the deployment of manpower, and who should do what work is arranged by him.
He thought he still understood something, but what Pei Yun said made him unable to understand.
I understood what I said about preventing water ingress into the well, but I have never heard of high and low air pressure, air exchange, and windmills.
Pei Yun didn't explain to him about this, he just told him how to do it.
He doesn't need to understand the principle, he just needs to get things done.
From the reinforcement of the shaft wall roadway, to the ventilation of the water intake, it is all for the sake of safety.
At the moment, digging coal mines is risking your life, but who makes Nanshan Village have no choice.