Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 354: Timber Arrives, White Wolf Is Born
There is actually a lot of knowledge involved in felling trees, and it’s the same even if you’re using a chainsaw to fell trees.

For example, before placing a tree, you have to “open the door” first.

"Opening the door" means making a big gap in the tree by either cutting or sawing, and the gap must be big and deep enough.

The direction of this "opening" is basically the direction in which the tree will fall.

But there is a science to "opening the door". You cannot open it towards big trees or dense trees.

This will result in the big tree leaning on another tree and not falling down after it is cut down. In this way, the tree will be useless and the tree has been cut down in vain.

If you still want this tree, you have to cut down the tree it is leaning against, and this behavior is called "picking the hanging".

Unless you are very skilled at tree-breaking, you wouldn't even dare to do this job, because at this point, "opening the door" is no longer effective.

This "leaned tree" will most likely fall along with the tree that leans on it.

However, the person who places this "leaning tree" will inevitably be hit by the previous tree.

Moreover, in the process of placing this "dependent tree", there is no idea when the tree will fall.

These are just some of the “opening” aspects of knowledge.

Of course, in addition to not being able to "open the door" towards other big trees, things like piles of rocks, big ditches, and water bubbles are also not allowed.

As for the art of releasing trees, one must try to "follow human will" and "follow God's will"; also, before "calling the hawthorn tree", one must shout out the slogan, etc.

Anyway, for people living in this mountain area, these are basically common sense.

Wang Dazhu is indeed an experienced tree cutter. Whether he is observing the falling direction of the tree before cutting it and then "cutting the tree", or putting the chain saw on the tree and sawing it down, his speed is always very fast.

The key is that every felled tree falls steadily where it should fall, which neither hurts anyone nor makes things much easier for Wang An and his team who are trimming the branches.

The place where Wang An and his team placed the trees was on the outskirts of the mountain, which was also around the village, about 5 miles away from Kaoshan Village.

This area is relatively safe. Besides, the sound of the chainsaw is quite harsh. Even if there are wild animals nearby, they will basically be scared away.

Soon, Wang Dazhu knocked down more than ten trees. These trees were of varying thicknesses. The thickest one had a diameter of about 40 centimeters, nearly half a meter, while the thinnest one had a diameter of more than 20 centimeters.

Then Wang Shun took a chainsaw and started to repair the tree trunks, mainly sawing off the branches that were too thick. The thinner branches and twigs were chopped down by others with axes.

In fact, when making beams and rafters, elm wood is the best, as it is thin and strong.

However, although the Manchurian elm is good, it grows very slowly. Even in this mountain, it is difficult to grow enough beams to build three tiled houses.

There is no need to mention the Phellodendron chinense and Juglans mandshurica trees. You have to search all over the mountains and fields to find them, which is too much effort.

It is the same to use other trees to make beams, but in comparison, red pine is still the best.

Because this thing is also very strong, and the thickness is relatively uniform from top to bottom.

The most important thing is that there are a lot of these things.

After all the branches of these dozen or so red pines were trimmed, Wang Dazhu started to release the trees again, while others began to pull the ropes.

By pulling the harness, the horse is removed from the sled and the repaired tree trunk is dragged to a place where the sled can be loaded.

If it is a thick tree trunk, just pull it home.

If the trunk is thin, you need to use a sledge.
Several trees were loaded together and pulled back with a sled.

However, the thickest tree trunks used to build the house had a diameter of less than half a meter, so these repaired tree trunks were basically equipped with sleds.

Always, when there was no chain saw, tree felling was the most time-consuming.

Normally, it takes quite a while to fell a tree with a large panel saw, but with a chainsaw, felling a tree is actually the most time-saving method.

When everyone drove the sleds away, there were only three people left in the woods, Wang Dazhu, Wang An and Wang Shun. Wang Dazhu and Wang Shun took turns to release the tree and shout slogans, while Wang An was responsible for repairing the branches and observing whether there was any danger nearby.

After each person pulled three sleds of tree trunks, it was noon.

Wang Dazhu and his two companions, who had been staying in the woods to plant trees, went home and had a hot meal during their free time.

In fact, the reason why it was only pulled three times was mainly because the speed was very slow when pulling the tree trunk back, and people were not sitting on the sled, but leading the horse.

By nightfall, the forest was filled with scattered tree trunks.

Wang An and his two companions, who had been releasing trees, also followed the others and went home on the sled, pulling the tree trunks.

In this way, everyone worked for 4 days, and finally all the wood needed by Wang An's family was completed.

There was also a large pile of tree trunks on the west side of Wang An's yard.

This thing won't get lost if you leave it outside the yard, mainly because no one will steal it. Even if someone wants to steal it, they need at least four people to get together, otherwise the tree trunk cannot be taken away.

Even if it was taken away, if someone traced it and found it, although the trunk was not valuable, the person who stole it would still be in big trouble.

Everyone worked together for another four days before Mu Xueli and Wang Li's family finally prepared all the wood.

However, the wood that Mu Xue brought with him was cut from the mountains near Sujiatun. Otherwise, it would be a small matter if the sleigh driver couldn't bear it, but the horses and mules pulling the sleigh would really not be able to bear it.

I have to say that these people were really exhausted during these 8 days.

But no matter what, the problem of bricks, tiles and wood has been completely resolved so far.

During this period, that is, on the second day after everyone cut down trees, the female wolf in Wang An's family finally gave birth to cubs. Moreover, this female wolf was quite fertile and gave birth to four cubs in one litter.

What made Wang An happy was that there was indeed a white wolf among them, but unfortunately, there was only one.

Moreover, this white wolf is very thin, which makes one know at a glance that it is born with deficiencies.

However, the mother wolf did not show favoritism and always cared about her youngest child.

What surprised Wang An the most was, when did the white wolf come into being, what kind of violent storm and snowstorm came from?
On the ninth day, Wang An stayed at home for the entire morning.

The reason why it was not one day was because the two little sisters, Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaoli, wanted to eat sparrows and squirrels.

Just when Wang An finished his lunch and wanted to lie on the kang and take a nap.

The younger sister Wang Xiaoli pinched Wang An's nose and said, "Big pot, big pot, I want to eat sparrows."

Then the eldest sister Wang Xiaomei rode directly on Wang An, swaying and saying:

"Brother, don't sleep any more. You'll turn into a pig if you continue to sleep."

Wang An continued to pretend to be asleep and ignored his two sisters.

Then Wang Xiaoli also climbed onto the kang and, together with her sister, tortured her older brother Wang An.
Unable to resist the nagging of his two sisters, after lunch, Wang An took his slingshot and wandered around the village.

After Wang An killed more than 50 sparrows and a dozen squirrels, he strolled towards Shen Wei's house.

I have to say, it’s good to be young. No matter how tired you are from work, as long as you have a good night’s sleep, all your fatigue will disappear the next day and you will become full of energy again.

It’s mainly the demand for shell girls, which never decreases.

This is true for men, and the same is true for women.

Otherwise, why do they say like repels like, while opposites attract each other?

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