Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

Chapter 161 Overlord Tree

The scene of sliding wood is very spectacular, but also very dangerous.

Before the popularization of mechanized skidding, eight out of ten work-related accidents in forest farms occurred at this time.

The ice ditch is too slippery, or the route design is too straight, and the inertia generated by the sliding wood will run faster and faster after entering the ice channel.

Sliding halfway up the mountain is likely to deviate from the original track and fly in the sky, flying straight towards the opposite rock or tree.

The wood that is full of water, half a meter or one meter in diameter, four to six meters long, and weighs tons.

In the severe cold of minus [-] degrees, it is actually a huge popsicle, and the wood will become extremely hard and brittle.

If it hits the opposite cliff, there will be a loud noise, and the wood will turn into countless tiny slats.

They spread out in the air, and then fell down the mountain like rain, becoming a stack of wooden slats.

If it crashes into the woods, the huge impact will break and knock down all the trees, causing huge losses.

And once the flying wood hits a person, the person is crushed to a pulp almost instantly.

So when the wood was sliding down, Sheng Xiping was not the only one watching.

The security officers and production dispatchers of the forest farm are all on site, so they are afraid of any danger.

Fortunately, Sheng Xiping chose a good valley, and the slope itself is not that steep.

There are several not particularly sharp turns in the middle, which can reduce the speed of the wood sliding, but will not let the wood directly rush out of the ice road.

The giant trees slid down the mountain valleys and rushed to the Lengchang below the mountain.

Over there, there is a group of people who are in charge of "grasping" and stacking the slipped logs into wooden stacks according to the length and grade, so that they can be transported and loaded into trucks in the future.

The ruler inspector will also come forward to inspect the ruler at this time. Only the wood that has been inspected by the ruler inspector can be regarded as the output of the construction team.

When skimming, according to the requirements of the drawings, the collection is carried out one by one, and the principle of proximity is adopted, and the timber is piled up near several ice roads.

When sliding, it is also sliding one groove after another.

The wood saved for more than two months took nearly half a month just to slide it.

There are also several tall stacks piled up in the Lengchang at the foot of the mountain.

When all the wood in the last valley was slid down to the Lengchang, Sheng Xiping could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Most of the felling area assigned by the forest farm has been cut.

According to the current progress, before the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, everyone can go down the mountain to prepare for the New Year.

Go up the mountain on the eighth day of the new year, cut down the remaining wood, and then clear the forest. This year's logging task will be considered complete.

"Xi Ping, come on, hurry up and take a look, Li Dazhuang encountered a problem at the logging end."

Just as Sheng Xiping breathed a sigh of relief, Zhang Zhijun hurried over and shouted loudly.

"What's wrong? What's the problem?"

Sheng Xiping's heart shuddered, Li Dazhuang wouldn't do anything wrong again, could he?
"I met a Ha Dayang over there, it's too thick." Zhang Zhijun said out of breath.

As soon as Sheng Xiping heard it, he knew what was going on.

Almost every lumberjack will encounter a kind of tree called "overlord tree" in his logging career.

This tree is actually the king tree.

In the Changbai Mountain area, there are mostly "Hadayan poplars", which are very thick big poplars.

The diameter of this kind of tree is too thick, generally more than two meters in diameter, and the guide plate of the chain saw is not long enough, so one cut cannot cut through it at all.

Of course, this kind of tree is not a problem for clever and experienced lumberjacks.

After cutting on one side of the tree, they will turn the direction of the "Camu Ruler" to connect with the previous saw cut on the other side of the tree.

If they still can't see through, they will cut a few more holes in the top and bottom of the tree to pull out the wood chips.

Sit the chain saw directly into the tree and cut progressively.

Sometimes, this tree has to be felled for a day.

This kind of tree is very troublesome and requires a very experienced logger.

It has only been two years since Li Dazhuang turned from an apprentice to a full-time logger. He had never encountered this kind of tree before, because he watched his master deal with it.

He sawed it according to the master's method. The upper hawthorn of the tree had been sawed through, but the tree just wouldn't fall.

This made Li Dazhuang and Wang Jianshe very worried, so Wang Jianshe sent Zhang Zhijun to discuss with Sheng Xiping.

If it doesn't work, you have to find a security officer or someone else to deal with it.

When Sheng Xiping arrived, Li Dazhuang was looking at the Ha Dayang tree that had been sawed through, but was still standing, helpless.

"Xi Ping, what do you think we should do? How about we try throwing a coat? Or, let's worship the mountain god?"

Among the loggers, there will be such a saying.

If you encounter a situation where the hawthorn has been sawed through, but the tree refuses to fall, you can throw a cotton hat or coat in the direction where the tree is about to fall.

The wind driven by the thrown things will cause the wood to fall down.

If it doesn't work, you have to burn incense to worship the mountain god.

But these days, those bad habits are being broken, who dares to burn incense to worship the mountain god?
"Stop messing around, how can this thing need to worship the mountain god?"

Sheng Xiping glanced at Li Dazhuang, and said very speechlessly.

"Construction, where's the saw wedge? Here."

The saw wedge mentioned by Sheng Xiping, commonly known as the saw thorn, is generally used when the tree "reverses the thorn" or falls in the wrong direction.

For example, when a tree is about to fall, a sudden gust of wind changes the direction of the tree's fall. At this time, the saw wedge will come in handy.

Put the saw wedge into the saw kerf, use a steel ingot ax to aim at the tail of the saw wedge, and push it forward.

The root of the tree has been upturned by an inch, and the body of the tree has been tilted by almost one meter.

After all the saw wedges are smashed into the saw, the felled wood will make a sound of hawthorn, and it will fall to the ground creaking.

"Xiping, will sawing wedges work?"

Wang Jianshe and the others were inexperienced in this matter, so they were a little worried, for fear that something might happen if they didn't pay attention.

For such a thick tree, the force of falling down is too great. If it is really injured, my life will be over on the spot, right?
"It's all right, don't worry. Just give me the saw wedge."

Sheng Xiping shook his head, and took all the saw wedges in Wang Jianshe's back pocket.

From the upper hawthorn mouth of this tree, stuff it in several places, then swing the steel ingot ax and hit the saw wedge to make it enter the hawthorn mouth.

Logically speaking, as the saw wedge was smashed into the kerf, the tree should gradually tilt, slowly making crackling and creaking movements.

When the saw wedges are all smashed in, the tree will slowly topple over.

But Sheng Xiping had smashed more than half of the saw wedge in. Although the tree body was tilted, it was not tilted as much as expected.

"Li Dazhuang, are you sure you have sawed through? That's not right, you clearly haven't sawed through the hawthorn."

Sheng Xiping frowned, something was wrong, if it was really sawed through, there should be some movement by now.

"I, I saw through."

When Li Dazhuang was asked this question, he choked up. In fact, he was not sure whether he saw through the saw or not.

The key is that he has never cut down such a thick tree, and he was not sure, so he stopped sawing when he saw that it was almost the same.

(End of this chapter)