Alpine Orchard

Chapter 24 Picking Mangoes
I just bought an excavator, and I want to dig a shovel everywhere I see it.

Mama Ye made several phone calls.

It was already dark, and Ye Mo didn't stop working until Ye Ran drove over.

"We've finished our meal. Hurry up, let's call it a day and go back." Ye Ran shouted.

Ye Mo drove the tractor to the warehouse, and the excavator stayed here, and sat in the car: "Dad, how much work is there?"

"More." Ye Ran said, "Micro digging, 110 yuan per hour, feels good."

I can work eight or nine hours a day, and earn about 1000 yuan a day.

After deducting the gas fee, the net income is more than 800 a day.

If there is work every day, that micro-excavator can pay back its capital in one year.

Dad now digs water holes for people every day, opens deep ditches in orchards, and orchard roads.They are all very remote places that can only be reached by digging a little.

"The durian garden needs to be rectified." Ye Mo said, "It's not convenient to get in the durian garden with a small excavator, so we have to dig it in slightly. Clean up the durian garden and sow grass seeds before October."

"Well, go back and tell Dad."

Back home, Dad Ye was watching TV in the living room, Ye Ran and Dad talked about cleaning up the durian garden.

Papa Ye walked over: "The durian garden, are you going to keep it?"

"The durians are beginning to bear fruit. With management, they may begin to bear fruit in large quantities next year." Ye Mo said.

"Is there any fruit?" Father Ye looked at Ye Ran.

"There are a few of them, and they are all quite big." Ye Ran said.

"Then manage it well. In the past, when your grandfather planted durians, he was laughed at by many people... If the planting is successful, he will be proud." Papa Ye said, "I asked about it today. Gaotupo built a motor-driven well to supply water. , three 10,000+. If it is calculated by the meter, there is no guarantee that the water will come out."

"So expensive?" Ye Ran said.

"Okay, take a bite." Ye Mo said.

Drill wells with a depth of more than 300 meters.Water output, more than 20 tons per hour...

High soil slope, the highest mountain bag in their local area.

This well is mainly used for irrigation.

It is by no means an easy task to open up more than 100 acres of orchards on high mountains and in dry and hot valleys.

The machine well is spare.

On the high soil slope, several large ponds and some small ponds were dug for water storage.

"Dad, is that micro digger okay to use?" Ye Mo asked.

"Yes." Papa Ye smiled and said, "It has great strength and quick movements. Compared with your second uncle's micro-digger, it is like a sky and an underground."

The second uncle's micro-dig is a miscellaneous brand, and it weighs less than 1 ton.

"That machine is expensive, so be careful when you use it." Ye Ran said, "If it's broken, it will cost at least a few thousand dollars to repair."

"How many thousand per repair?"

"It's not that expensive. There are wearing parts on the excavator, which can be bought and replaced on Taobao. The wearing parts usually cost a few hundred yuan. But you still have to be careful when you use them. Don't work hard to earn some money and use it all for repairs." The excavator is gone," Ye Mo said.

"I will pay attention to it. Qian Laosan of the third team wants to open up wasteland and is looking for an excavator. Can your excavator be used to open up wasteland?" Papa Ye asked.

"Of course." Ye Mo said: "My small excavator is mainly used to open up wasteland. But I have to get out of my own and Ye Ran's orchard first, and start planting trees when the weather cools down. Dad, you will Don't go out to pick up the work after the work at hand is done, let's finish our own business first and then talk about it."

"It's been a whole year of hard work in an orchard, but I feel better going out and driving an excavator."

……

High soil slope, with a total area of ​​220 mu.

The next day, Ye Mo drove the excavator and started the formal land reclamation work.

Ye Mo drove the excavator to the hilly area and cleared away the bushes on the hill first.

The small excavator is equipped with an air conditioner, so it is cool to work inside.

If you want to save money, do what you can do by yourself.

In the current rural areas, labor costs are not worse than those in cities.

Hiring a male laborer costs more than 300 yuan a day.Female labor is cheaper, more than 200 is close to [-].

Dad drove the micro-dig out to make money.

Ye Ma and Ye Ran had nothing to do. Every evening, they would come to the top of the mountain to help Ye Mo clean up the shrubs on the mountain.

Second aunt and third aunt, they will occasionally come to help.

In more than ten days, Ye Mo cleaned up the shrubs on the top of the mountain, and then replaced it with a 0.33 square bucket to start leveling the land.

It's October.

The Kate mangoes at the bottom of the mountain have all been picked.

The mangoes on the mountain ripen later.

Ye Mo stopped working and went home to help pick mangoes.

The mangoes at home are managed well, and the mangoes have been combed several times. Now the mangoes on the tree are beautiful in shape and big in size.

The average weight of the mangoes in Ye Mojia is about 630 grams, which is close to one catty and three taels.

The mango tree has been grown for more than ten years, and the yield is very high.

First day of mango picking.

Before dawn, the second and third uncles came to help.

In October, the mornings in the mountains are much cooler.

Ye Mo also got up early, took the scissors, carried the backpack... went down to the orchard.

The mango trees are lush with branches and leaves, and the hanging mangoes are still blue.He is big and looks like he has a lot of appetite.

Mango picking should be handled with care.

Although these mangoes are not ripe yet, they are firm.But when picking, special care should be taken not to damage the peel.

In the cool morning, Ye Mo went to the hillside and carried a few mangoes on his back, sweating profusely.

Mango is 3.5 yuan per catty, and a bag of 1 or [-] catties costs about two hundred yuan.

All the mangoes in their family are planted on the hillside, and picking mangoes is the hardest time.

An acre of mangoes weighs about 4000 catties.

Ye Mo thought about how tiring it would be to turn all his high soil slopes into fruit orchards and harvest them in the future.

Although Ye Mo planned to hire workers, he had to do many things by himself.

'The high soil slope needs to be carefully planned.Can't grow too many mangoes..." Ye Mo thought about what to plant, relaxed, not tired, and able to make a lot of money.

After eight o'clock, the sun came out.

Ye Mo sat in the shade drinking tea, resting...

"Brother Ye Mo." Chen Chen came over on his motorcycle and shouted.

"Hey." Ye Mo responded.

"My mother said that you guys are picking mangoes here, so she called me to come over and help." Chen Chen said.

"Then sit down and rest for a while." Ye Mo said.

The sun came out and the temperature rose rapidly.

Ye Mo just sat here for a cigarette, and led Chen Chen into the orchard...

Afterwards, Ye Mo, Ye Ran, Chen Chen, and Ye Wen also came to help.They are responsible for the work of cutting and carrying fruits. Dad, second uncle and third uncle will do it.

It was not until after eleven o'clock that more than four acres of mangoes were finished.

Ye Mo and the others stayed outside to load the car, while Mom went back to make lunch.

"Go home and take a shower, and ask third uncle and third aunt to come over for lunch." Ye Mo said to Chen Chen.

"We'll do the job of loading the trucks ourselves," Papa Ye said.

"Okay, I'll go back and take a shower."

Every year when they pick mangoes here, everyone works together to finish picking the mangoes quickly.

Chen Chen went back.

Ye Mo said to his father: "Dad, the mango orchard on the hillside should also make some roads, so we can buy a small tractor..."

"It's very troublesome to build roads on the hillside." The second uncle said: "A technician was promoting the small train in the orchard before. The small monorail train costs more than 100 yuan per meter of track. I went to the orchard at the foot of the mountain to see it, and it feels good. I think After this year's mangoes are picked, some tracks will be laid in the orchard, which will be used to pull fertilizer and transport fruits in the future..."

The orchard train is also available.

"Dad, we are also laying a small train in the orchard. It is too tiring to pick mangoes on such a steep hillside." Ye Ran said.

"Okay, let's lay some tracks too."

In fact, digging roads and laying tracks will do.

To dig the road, it is necessary to dig up some fruit trees.It is much easier to lay the track.

Orchard Train is no stranger to the local area.

The local orchards are all hillsides, and there are few flat orchards.Picking fruits, some are carried by manpower.Some also built cables to transport fruits and fertilizers.

There are more than ten acres of orchards, and the area of ​​ten acres is on the hillside.

Ten acres is actually not that big for an orchard.But in terms of mango production, 10 acres of mangoes can yield 20 tons per year.

Carrying up the mountain is too tiring.

Ye Mo only carried it a dozen times in the morning, and now his shoulders are sore, and his legs are not stable.

　Heavy rain last night, strong wind...the power went out, and I didn't call until after eight o'clock.

　　The state has not been very good for the past two days, so I will update it today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)