Chapter 78 Making a Solid Wooden Cart

The population of the Black Deer tribe continues to grow, with at least a thousand new faces joining every day.

Building houses is a complex and physically demanding task. Especially for large tribes like the Black Deer Tribe, which often has tens of thousands of members, building houses is an even more lengthy and complex undertaking.

The Black Deer tribe raises many wild animals that can replace human labor, such as cattle, donkeys, and horses.

These wild animals are simply tied to the edge of the trough and left unused because they lack suitable tools.

Xu Que felt that this was a huge waste of resources. Moreover, he watched the primitive people of the Black Deer tribe carrying timber from the primeval forest to the tribe every day using the most primitive human strength, which was too tiring! Although the primitive people of the tribe were used to doing physical labor, they had no choice but to do it because of their mortal bodies.

If they had the option of not doing it, these primitive people of the Black Deer tribe would definitely choose not to do it!

As Xu Que watched the primitive people carrying timber to the Black Deer tribe, drenched in sweat, he suddenly remembered himself working as a laborer carrying bricks on construction sites back in the day.

So he decided to make a cart out of wood so that the cattle and horses kept in the tribal pens could be put to use. What's the point of keeping livestock if they don't help people with work!

Xu Que acted immediately, taking out all the necessary tools from the system repository and placing them on the open ground in front of him.

He was holding a logging saw and circling around a log that was as thick as a person's circumference in front of the tribe.

Xu Que was wondering where to start sawing when Hou, with his sharp eyes, noticed him hesitating and ran over to him, nudging him: "Brother Xu Que, what's wrong? Are you going to saw this piece of wood? Do you need help?"

"Hehehe! We need them! Have Hua and the deputy leader come over together! We're short-handed if it's just the two of us!" Xu Que said with a smile, gently pinching Hou's cheek.

"Good!" Hou whistled a roguish whistle at Hua and the deputy leader of the Black Deer tribe, then waved towards where she and Xu Que were.

When the Flower and Black Deer tribe's deputy chieftain saw Hou calling them, she excitedly ran over.

Xu Que waited for Hua and the deputy leader of the Black Deer tribe to arrive before picking up the lumber saw to cut the wood.

"You and Hua just need to hold this piece down for me! Mainly to prevent it from rolling away down this slope when I cut it down." After assigning tasks to the group, Xu Que picked up the logging saw and started sawing.

Xu Que took a deep breath and sawed out four cylindrical pieces that were just the right size to make the frame wheels. After sawing them, he placed them on the open ground around him.

Then, among the logs brought back by the Black Deer tribe's logging team, they selected two logs of suitable thickness and length to use as cart handles.

Xu Que placed the two pieces of wood for the carriage poles side by side on the ground, picked up the multi-functional automatic drill he had prepared beforehand, drilled three rows of holes in the poles, and used slightly narrower wooden strips to fix the two poles together.

Then drill three rows of holes vertically on each pole.

Connect the carriage frame and a crossbeam with suitable wooden strips, and the carriage is basically finished!

Xu Que, along with Hou, Hua, and the deputy leader of the Black Deer tribe, flipped the completed carriage over. Using mortise and tenon joints, they installed a device at the bottom of the carriage to hold the central axle of each wheel.

The animal wagons for hauling timber are ready, and Xu Que is now prepared to devote himself to the production of wooden wheels.

Xu Que used the remaining half of the white hardwood in the tribe to carve the shape of a bearing ball with a multi-functional power drill. He then used the same multi-functional power drill to carve a row of grooves with the same diameter as the wooden ball where the wooden axle passes through the cylindrical wheel.

Place the white sturdy wood beads one by one into the groove, spread animal butter in the groove, then install the circular wooden baffle, and then pass a sturdy central axle through the two wheels. Secure the pins to the outside of the wheels, and a set of wooden wheels is completely finished!

Xu Que, along with Hou, Hua, and the deputy chief of the Black Deer tribe, worked together to lift the sturdy, heavy wooden carriage and place it on the wooden wheelbarrow. Then, they used two thick logs, about the thickness of an arm, to tie the logs together with leather ropes at both ends.

And just like that, the wooden cart is finished!

Knowing the Black Deer Tribe's dire need for vehicles, Xu Que quickly assembled all the wheels that had been sawn off, and then fitted each wooden wheel with a corresponding carriage, so that goods could be transported.

"Come on! The three of you sit on the wooden cart. I'll pull you along and see if there's anything that's not right. I'm ready to fix it anytime!" Xu Que said, pulling the wooden cart and the three of them along a stretch of land in front of the tribal cave. They drove around quite comfortably inside.

After circling around a few times, Xu Que felt that this wooden cart was quite good in every way! It was a great helper for logging in the primeval forest.

When almost all the logging members of the Black Deer Primitive Tribe had arrived, Xu Que introduced the wooden cart to Ha Gang and Ping Yao.

After looking at the labor-saving cart that Xu Que introduced to him, Ha Gang looked at him with surprise and said, "What's going on? This cart is for carrying wood! It seems that manual labor is increasingly being replaced by certain powerful forces and advanced technology!"

Pingyao waited for Ha Gang to finish experiencing the wooden cart, then took the cart from him and pulled it back and forth on the spot to see if it was smooth and easy to pull.

Xu Que then dispatched two strongmen, Ha Gang and Ping Yao, to lead out the two strongest black bulls from the enclosure where the Black Deer tribe kept wild animals.

The Black Deer tribe members saw Hagang leading a large black ox in circles and couldn't help but ask, puzzled, "Why are you leading a black ox in circles?"

"Because without leading the ox, there's simply no way to cultivate a bond between the person and the ox! Without that bond, let alone suddenly getting the ox to pull timber or grind grain, even just letting it sit quietly will make it restless!"

"The Black Deer Tribe's brand-new all-wood timber carts have completed testing. From now on, all timber transported from the primeval forest to our area will be replaced by all-wood oxcarts!"

“This truck is obviously a heavy-duty truck! The boom is so thick, it could probably haul several tons on a flat road! No problem at all!” Pingyao stroked his beard and said to Hagang.

"Do you even need to tell me? I knew all along that this cart the gods made was specifically for our Black Deer tribe to haul timber! How else could it haul timber if it wasn't capable of carrying a load?"

Ha Gang harnessed the big black ox, which he had just led out of the pen, to the wooden cart, and shouted a few times behind it, telling it to walk a few steps and see if it could pull timber.