Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 52 Port Construction ([-])

"All personnel from U.C0079, U.C0083, U.C0093, and A.C0197 gathered at Green Beach to prepare to unload vehicles."

Following the call from the walkie-talkie, several professional groups who had just come off the trestle lazily climbed up from the beach—the code name was Red Beach, and Red Beach was the landing point from Pier 1, while Yellow Beach was the small beach. The green beach is the landing point for barges and landing craft——after sitting on the boat for a day, my legs and feet are a little fluttering.I unloaded the big backpacks at the rest point, and sat on the rocks to pant. They said it was a rest point for personnel, but in fact there was nothing else except a small foldable table with computers and ledgers and a wooden sign with large characters on it. nothing else.On the beach full of large and small boulders, there are several signs: toilets, drinking water points, etc., indicating that there will be these things in the future.

Of these four groups, UC has a license to drive large vehicles, and AC has a construction machinery license.Although Qian Shuixie of the North American branch has repeatedly expressed his intention to go to the military team to defend the crossing regime with guns, but his professional skills-driving large container trucks made him finally fall into UC.0079.It was a bit boring to work with a group of people he didn't know at all, but he immediately found someone more depressed than himself: Bai Yu, a military talent who graduated from armor command, weapon design and engineering design, was sent to drive a crawler tractor.

In order to start the infrastructure project as soon as possible after landing, Mond and the executive committee sorted out the materials before loading, and loaded the materials that will be used immediately after landing on the 1500-ton self-propelled barge , including various vehicles, construction machinery and infrastructure materials.

The full-load draft of the flat-deck self-propelled barge is only 1.83 meters. Although it is not as good as the landing craft that can directly go ashore, it is also closer to the shore than a large cargo ship.Of course, vehicles with such water depth cannot be directly launched into the water, so a floating dock is also installed here, called No. 2 floating dock.

Self-propelling refutation does not have a vehicle springboard, and it does not have a boom itself.Fortunately, the engineering team was well prepared for this matter, and a set of springboards for vehicles was installed on the No. 2 pontoon.

"Ready to unload the car! Everyone pay attention to safety, wear life jackets, get out of the car immediately if there is a possibility of falling into the water, don't be afraid, haven't you all driven on the ferry before, the same..." Bai Yu, as the four The temporary head of the group cheered up while conducting safety education.

These dozens of people look at each other and look at you, wondering if this can be the same?Start the car from this wobbly deck, drive up the narrow springboard, and then go down to that dangling floating pier-is this thing too difficult?

Seeing that everyone was hesitating, Bai Yu knew that someone had to set an example first.At any rate, I used to drive tanks in the army back then, and with a sigh of relief, I yelled, "Help me watch!" He was the first to climb onto the Dongfanghong 1202 general-purpose crawler tractor.

The roar of the tractor starting up reassured Bai Yu a little. The viewing angle of the cab was very good, and the 24V battery started up quickly and steadily.Bai Yu has driven tanks and armored vehicles in the army, and also driven various military engineering vehicles. Getting on and off the pontoon or barge is a piece of cake, but the current floating dock and vehicle springboard are purely handmade knockoffs , How much strength and bearing capacity is only God knows.

Looking hesitantly at the rickety gangplank on the blue water and the undulating pier below the gangplank, he started the engine, and the boat visibly fluttered.He didn't care too much, his eyes were fixed on Qian Shuixie, who was waving a small flag and commanding, the track was spinning on the steel plate, making a grinding sound like grinning, and rubbing against the springboard step by step.As soon as the track was pressed onto the springboard, the floating pier below floated up, and the springboard was displaced, and everyone around was stunned. At this time, Zhuo Tianmin, the engineering team directing the work at the pier, ran over after seeing this scene:

"Why are you so dazed! Quickly pull the wire rope!"

The engineering team installed 4 steel wire ropes on the barge long ago, so that they can be tightened manually during unloading, so as to reduce the drift of the ship and the wharf as much as possible.

"Quick pull, quick pull!" Amidst his constant yelling, the people around hurriedly grabbed the steel wire rope, yanking their bodies backwards, and it was not easy for the tractor to drive onto the floating pier.

With the first successful experience, the next thing will be much easier. After two hours, all the construction machinery owned by the crossing people went ashore and parked neatly on the beach:

Two Dongfanghong 1202 general-purpose crawler tractors, with dredger buckets and bulldozing blades

Four Dongfanghong 404Z1W front loading (installation) rear digging (earth) tractors (medium wheel tractors)

Four Dongfanghong 170V wheeled tractors (small wheeled tractors)

Ten Changchai Power Single Cylinder Diesel Dump Trucks

An 18-ton Dongfanghong wheeled roller.

A 25 ton steam crane

Two traction concrete mixers

Four air compressors

In order to reduce the complexity of maintenance, most of the construction machinery has chosen the Dongfanghong series of Luoyang No. [-] Tractor Factory.

With so much equipment, not to mention a small temporary base, it is not a problem to build a new city.

But Mei Wan and Bingfeng, who were in charge of the infrastructure work, still felt helpless.Mechanical equipment, fuel, electricity are all there... The problem is that there are no raw materials for building materials.

The barge was loaded with a lot of steel bars and cement, but the engineering team had neither yellow sand nor gravel, and could not use the most common and convenient concrete in modern buildings. Traditional bricks and tiles were of course also an option, but this deserted beach Where did the bricks come from?Needless to say, there must be brick kilns in Lingao County of Ming Dynasty, and people need to scout out where they are.

Of course, some basic construction does not require any raw materials, and it can be done simply.Icewind's task is to repair the cargo yard in Red Beach.This is just a temporary cargo yard and there is no need for ground hardening.Simple ground stacking and compaction, supplemented by a certain drainage system will suffice.Based on Bingfeng’s experience in construction companies in the past, a 20-person labor team for such a large-scale project can be completed in a morning with hand tools such as shovels, picks, and trolleys. Now they have a full set of mechanized construction, and they have to perform better. just work.

In this way, the transportation team became a freight yard construction team. The machines roared all over the Red Beach, and the vehicles bumped back and forth. The dust raised was as high as half a day. Everyone knew that the Red Beach freight yard had already started construction.The fiery atmosphere attracted the ubiquitous Tintin and his wife.Babes are fierce. The temperature on the beach is only 27 degrees. She wears a tight vest and denim hot pants to climb up and down to take pictures. Her two bare white thighs are dangling in front of everyone. His ass steals the scene, and everyone on the construction site, old and young, is full of energy and blood, and their physiological changes are obvious.After the dump truck almost hit people and the excavator dug in the wrong direction several times, Bingfeng had no choice but to reluctantly drive the two away.

The ground of the storage yard has a certain slope from south to north. After measurement, it is found that the slope is less than 1:10. Generally, it is not necessary to remove the topsoil for such a slope, and simply remove the large stones and miscellaneous trees on the surface. Heap ramming was carried out, but after taking soil samples, it was found that the surface layer was almost all loose sand and small gravel, and the adhesion was not strong.Finally, the sandy soil and large and small gravels on the surface were completely removed with bulldozers.

The storage yard is on a slope, so the foundation of the entire storage yard is half-filled and half-dug.Firstly, an excavator is used to excavate intercepting ditches at the highest slope in the south of the storage yard to collect the rainwater slanted down from the slope, and then excavate drainage ditches from the east and west sides to discharge directly into the bay, and the excavated soil is used as foundation filling earth.

After removing the surface gravel, the soil sample below is sandy soil, which has good water permeability and is stable after compaction.Bingfeng took all of this soil as the foundation soil.Filled soil transported by a small dump truck was poured on the foundation, and the road roller was used to roll back and forth 20 times for every 3 cm of landfill height, and then filled with soil and rolled again.After two consecutive times, it is basically completed.Bingfeng originally planned to spread a layer of gravel on the entire site, but they did not have a gravel machine, and the stones on the beach were large and small, with irregular shapes, so it was not very easy to use.This step is omitted.After completion, the entire storage yard is slightly higher than the ground, and it looks rectangular when viewed from above. There are slopes on three sides, and drainage ditches under the slope. On the side facing the bay, a simple road is built to connect to the wharf according to the standard of temporary roads.

"If there are enough steel beams, we can build a shed for this freight yard." Bingfeng felt a little regretful, "Now we can only cover it with rain cloth."

"There is no asbestos tile roof." Mei Wan said.

"It doesn't matter, just cover it with wooden boards. Temporary buildings don't need to be so particular. I'm mainly afraid that the cement from the barges will be used as earthwork to fill the foundation if it rains. If there is no cement, many things It will be difficult."

"Wooden boards? Speaking of which, where is the wood? The towers of the camp, as well as the toilets, all need wood."

"We are organizing manpower to unload the rain cloth on the cargo ship, and strive to send it down as quickly as possible to cover the fragile goods." Dai Xie is an administrator assigned by the Planning Commission to Hongtan. "There is no statistical data for timber... ..."

Wood is the earliest and most widely used natural material used by humans.Of course, the traversers will not give up this kind of material that is easy to obtain and easy to process.From the beginning, the manpower group allocated a considerable amount of labor to logging.

In the impression of many people, since Hainan is an island in the tropics and subtropics, it must be a place with whirling coconut trees and dense forests. Some people even think that Hainan is full of tropical rainforests. Due to the destruction of development, the vegetation condition in Hainan is quite complicated.By the 50s, Hainan's forest coverage rate was only 12.8%.They are basically concentrated in Diaoluo Mountain, Jianfengling and Bawangling in the middle of the island. Although the forest coverage rate in Hainan in the 21st century has reached 51.8%, it is basically dominated by artificial forests and secondary forests.

Lingao has a typical tropical monsoon climate, with distinct dry and wet seasons. The natural vegetation is dominated by tropical savanna, and there has never been a vast forest.Moreover, due to the long history of development here, the slightly larger natural forests have been cut down long ago, and the quality of the secondary forests is not high.When the cross-travelers were going to ask for wood from Lingao in the 17th century, they faced such a scarce environment.

(End of this chapter)