Chapter 129: Brother 2's Rake

"Crack, crack, crack..."

After the cracking sound of the wooden stick passing through the air, there was the sound of the wooden fork beating on the rapeseed, which was also mixed with the fine scorching sound of the rapeseed pods exploding and the rapeseed bursting out.

Mu Mu and several other people in the tribe were beating the rape hard.

This is not an easy task. If it were easy, people in later generations would not use oxen and horses to do this work.

From noon until the sun has slanted halfway to the west, the rapeseed in the threshing field is not completely beaten.

Under Han Cheng's guidance, Mu Mu and others picked up the battered, bruised, and empty rape stalks with a wooden fork, and piled them up on the edge of the threshing floor.

When doing this, there is a small detail that needs special attention, that is, you need to shake the rape stalks with a wooden fork before completely shoveling them away. This is to shake the rapeseed in the empty rape stalks come out.

After the rape stalks are picked, a layer of fine rape pods and small, dark brown rapeseeds are left on the ground.

Han Cheng stepped on it with bare feet, slippery and itchy.

The wood and the others started to use a tool to gather the scattered rapeseed to the middle of the threshing field.

This tool is the common "grabbing rake" in later generations

The so-called rakes are generally made of wood, and their specific structure is similar to that of the second brother's nine-toothed rake.

They are all sticks more than one meter long, with a rake head attached to the front.

The difference is that the nine-toothed rake of Zhu Gangguan can not only slay demons and demons, but also can be used to plan the land in Gaolaozhuang. This kind of wooden rake can only be used on the 'fighting field'.

Using a wooden fork can only roughly clean out the empty rape stalks, and there will be many fine pieces falling down.

Because the wooden fork has only three teeth, and it is still an old one, the distance between each fork is nearly 20 centimeters. It seems impossible to remove them.

At this time, it is the turn of the rake to play. This house has many teeth and is dense, which is a good tool to deal with these.

The rake is simple in structure and not too difficult to make.

You only need to cut a piece of wood with a diameter of about five centimeters and a length of half a meter, and then use a stone ax to cut out four sides as much as possible. About one and a half centimeters of holes can be drilled.

Because the Qingque Tribe already has a hand-pressed drill, and when studying wooden ladders, Han Cheng came up with a method of using fire to expand the mortise. Now this drilling is not a problem for the Qingque Tribe It's too difficult, it just takes a little time.

These holes need to be drilled through.

After completing these, they found some harder, wet sticks with skins about two and a half centimeters in thickness.

First take a tree stick and put it into the fire, grill the part of one end about ten centimeters, wait for a while, then pull it out from the fire, and insert it into the gap between the big rocks while it is hot Bend in.

It needs to be bent into an arc that is not too curved, and then released after it cools down, the stick will basically maintain this posture and will not go back.

Xunzi said in "Encouraging Learning" that "the rope is straight in the wood, the wheel is like a wheel, and the rules are in the song." Although there are violent ones, those who will no longer stand up, and the wooden wheels are made in this way.

Cut off the curved section, and then repeat the previous action until nine wooden sections with similar lengths and arcs are produced before stopping.

Of course, because the technology was not mature enough, when Han Cheng led the lame to do these things before, he made a total of fourteen sticks before he got these nine wooden sticks with similar arcs and basically the same length.

This wooden stick is the teeth on the 'raking rake'.

Of course, such teeth cannot be used directly now.

Further processing is required.

After peeling off the burnt black skin on the outside, one of the ends was tapered.

This was difficult to do before.

At least Lame, who often works with wood, felt that it would take at least two days to polish one end of the nine bent wood to the specification that Shenzi said.

However, what Han Cheng did next was far beyond Lame's expectations.

Because Han Cheng did not use stone tools or other tools to polish the stick as lame had expected, but put the stick into the fire next to him, and let the flame burn the end of the stick that needs to be polished .

Lame was a little worried and looked at the side without blinking with some anticipation, hoping to see the miracle again from Shenzi and learn new things.

The temperature of the flame quickly turned the white stick black, and then it burned.

After waiting like this for a while, Han Cheng took it out, and quickly polished the blackened place on the stone.

After the hard wood is burned by fire, the layer of charcoal left on the outside is easy to bully, and it will fall off after a little sanding.

Seeing Shenzi finish the stick that took a lot of effort to sharpen in a short period of time, his lame eyes lit up again.

This method is not complicated, but why can't I think of it?

Lame thought with some distress, and then joined this novel grinding.

The ground rake teeth are passed through the wooden pillars that have been drilled before, and the small heads that have been ground are first pierced. In this way, the big ends will be stuck in the holes and will be more secure.

After the teeth of the rake are threaded and firmly pounded with stones, the whole rake head is also ready.

However, because a wooden handle needs to be installed, it is necessary to use a stone chisel and charcoal to make an oblate-shaped mortise on the side of the middle of the nine rake teeth.

These days, the lame who is obsessed with making wooden ladders has already mastered the skill of digging holes to the point of proficiency, and digging such a hole is no longer a problem for him.

After resting and polishing the thicker end of the cut wooden handle, inserting it into the mortise, and using a wooden "splitter" to wedge it firmly, it is likely to be the world's first "grab" specially used for agricultural production. Rake' appeared.

Because the manufacture of the rake is quite complicated, and when Han Cheng thought of it, the rapeseed was about to mature, so the Qingque tribe currently only has one rake.

Fortunately, the current Qingque tribe has little land, and a rake is enough to deal with the current situation.

After Han Cheng took the rake and demonstrated how to use it himself, this brand new agricultural tool fell into the hands of 'Balloon'.

The balloon is not really a balloon, but a person.

He was originally a member of the pig tribe, and the reason why he got such a name was not because he was particularly fat, but because he became fat fast.

When he first joined the Qingque Tribe, he was skinny and skinny, with no flesh. Now it has only been a few months, and the flesh on his body has grown like a balloon. In view of his situation, Han Cheng So he was given such a name.

The balloon once asked Han Cheng what time the balloon was, and Han Cheng resisted the urge to tell him that it was something like a urine bubble, and just reasoned that it was a very good thing.

Balloon was very happy to hear that the great son of God said that balloons are a good thing.

Looking at the joyful balloon, Han Cheng's face suddenly twitched, because he suddenly remembered that something that is not for blowing, seems to be called a balloon...

(Thank you book friends for your support, thank you book friends for your rewards and recommendation tickets, thank you.

Taking this opportunity, tell book friends about the plot of these two days.

The plot of the past two days is relatively light, and many book lovers want to watch the climax, but this kind of Tianwen climax is not easy to start, and it is originally for easy farming, and I can’t force the plot to fight with others or something, that way This book will collapse if it is not handled properly, and it will be easy to flip through if you drive too much.

I admit that there are a lot of rapeseeds written, and there are too many things I inserted into it for a reason. If you remove wooden forks, silkworms, and rakes, there will be a lot less things about rapeseed. I have written in such detail, I also have my own considerations, when the time comes, the crops will gradually increase, and there will be a lot of crops that need to be treated with similar methods in the threshing field, so I can abbreviate when the time comes.

I know that everyone also wants to make this book more exciting, and I am also trying my best to write it. As the grades of the book gradually improve, I become more and more concerned about gains and losses. To tell you the truth, I often have trouble sleeping because I have been struggling with this matter for the past few days. After rushing on the street for so long, I finally saw some hope in this book, and I unconsciously took it too seriously, and my worries became more and more...

Regarding rapeseed, I will end it as soon as possible. )