Chapter 82 The Birth of the Wooden Cart
The polishing and production of key parts of wooden carts can be mastered slowly through a lot of practice.
But the time required would probably be far beyond Zhou Xu's expectations.
As a large tribe with more than a hundred members, the burden on their equipment department is not light.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the daily wear and tear of various stone tools.
Especially for the logging team, after their leader gave the order, the rate at which the stone axes would be worn out would definitely increase significantly.
Correspondingly, the workload of their equipment department in polishing and manufacturing stone axes will inevitably increase accordingly.
In this case, asking the equipment department to transfer personnel and spend a lot of time learning how to polish and make key parts of wooden carts from Zhuang Mengdie? That would inevitably have an impact on the entire tribe.
In the final analysis, there are still not enough people. If the tribe can increase the number of people, he can easily mobilize a team of five people to follow Zhuang Mengdie to be responsible for the polishing and production of wooden carts.
And now...
After some thought, Zhou Xu said...
"How about this, you pick two newbies from the department to be your apprentices and learn how to polish the key parts of the wooden cart."
He will definitely have more things in the future that require Zhuang Mengdie to develop and produce. It is impossible for her to concentrate on polishing the parts of the wooden cart.
This action surprised many people in the equipment department, except Zhuang Mengdie who remained calm.
After she thought about it carefully, she quickly understood their leader's intention.
Polishing the key parts of the wooden cart can be said to be the most difficult project in their equipment department at present.
Under this premise, even if we find the veterans in the department, their improvement speed will probably not be much higher than that of the newcomers.
However, transferring the veterans away will have an impact that cannot be ignored on the polishing and manufacturing of other equipment in the equipment department.
In this case, it would be better to transfer newcomers who have less impact on the department's work efficiency.
After arranging this matter, Zhou Xu quickly turned his attention back to the completed wooden cart.
Then he personally wrapped a bark rope as wide as his wrists around the two handles of the wooden cart.
Everyone in the tribe looked at this operation with surprise on their faces.
Only Zhuang Mengdie, who was standing aside, had his eyes light up after realizing something.
The logging team just needed to move the wood at this moment, so Zhou Xu directly signaled them to pile the wood on the wooden cart and then secure it with bark ropes.
"It's you. You pull the cart."
The member of the logging team who was called by Zhou Xu became excited and ran out quickly as if something good had happened.
Following the instructions of their leader, the member of the logging team held the handles with one hand each and, with the help of the wheel structure, lifted the handles relatively easily and pushed the wooden cart to move amid the exclamations of the crowd.
Zhou Xu had expected the shock of the logging team members.
You know, the weight of a big tree trunk is still extremely heavy even if it is divided into two or three parts.
Depending on the specific situation, the logging team needs two people to carry it back to the camp.
At this moment, there were eight tree trunks like that loaded on the wooden cart!
What does this mean? This means that the team member has now accomplished what would have taken sixteen people to accomplish!
How could they not be shocked?
And for Zhou Xu, this test was undoubtedly just the beginning.
Since we are going to test it, let’s just test it to the end.
"Now, just pull this load of wood back to the camp."
"yes!"
After receiving the response, the team member started moving with the cart of wood without saying anything else.
The woods where the logging team usually worked was still some distance away from the Black Moon Camp. Halfway through the journey, the team members' breathing became noticeably rapid.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu signaled the other party to put down the wooden cart and take a breath.
When the other party had caught his breath and was ready to start working again, Zhou Xu took two steps forward, picked up the bark rope tied to the handle, and asked the team member to carry it on his shoulders.
After that, he started pulling the wooden cart forward as he did before, and that moment completely stunned him.
"How, how is it possible?"
As he said this, the team member's pace began to quicken, and in the end, he even entered a jogging state.
Everyone who came along, including Zhuang Mengdie who built the wooden cart, was stunned on the spot.
Not to mention them, even the team member involved was stunned. After stopping, although he took a few breaths, he had hardly recovered much of his strength.
At the same time, let alone now, even at the beginning, he couldn't bear to run so fast while pulling this wooden cart!
Only Zhou Xu smiled throughout the whole process, and it was obvious that he had anticipated this situation.
Without the previous experience of pulling the cart with both hands, the feeling now would not be so obvious.
In the past, wooden carts were moved by pushing and pulling with two arms holding two handles.
Although the presence of wheels has made the transportation work much easier, in Zhou Xu's opinion, it is still not labor-saving enough.
But once the bark rope is wrapped around it, the situation is different.
While pulling the two handles with both hands, the bark rope carried on their shoulders also allows them to fully utilize the strength of their shoulders and even the strength of their entire body to pull the wooden cart more easily.
However, this situation did not last too long. It was not that the team member was completely exhausted after running a few steps, but because the land in the wild was uneven after all, the car body was bumped, and the team member who was pulling the cart in front was soon knocked to the ground.
But this fall did not affect the player's excitement at all. After getting up from the ground, he still looked excited.
It was totally unimaginable that I could achieve this.
In the next few days, the wooden cart was temporarily handed over to the logging team for use.
To ensure safety, two people were arranged for each transportation of wood, one pulling in the front and one pushing in the back. This not only further increased the transportation efficiency, but also improved the stability of transportation.
Because the efficiency of timber transportation has been greatly improved, the logging team can invest more manpower and time in felling trees, which also greatly improves the efficiency of timber acquisition.
The benefits that just a wooden cart brings to them are visible to the naked eye.
At the same time, during these few days, in order to make barricades, the equipment department also stopped part of the work and allocated enough manpower to help them process the wood. All work was proceeding in full swing.
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(End of this chapter)
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