wild trail

Chapter 108 Everything is ready
I didn't find a suitable tree today. Although it was a bit frustrating, Wang Lang still didn't intend to give up just like that. He planned to search for another two days.

The remaining two wheels have been processed, and many wooden boards used to make the carriage have been sawn, and they are neatly stacked together.

Now there is only the last axle left to be solved. As long as there is an axle, the first real car in the world can be made. He secretly prayed to God, hoping that he can go smoothly in the next few days. Find the tree you want.

I don't know if his prayers had an effect, or if the heavens paid off. After searching for two consecutive days without any results, on the third day, Wang Lang finally found a relatively hard tree at a place one kilometer away from the tribe.

The tree in front of him had a dark gray bark. Wang Lang didn't know what the name of this tree was. Cut it down, leaving only shallow marks.

Seeing this effect, Wang Lang knew that his good luck had come. He let people remember the appearance of this tree, and began to look for other similar trees nearby.

It didn't take long to find dozens of such trees not far away, but they were all of different thicknesses. The thickest one even reached fifty centimeters in diameter, while the thinnest one was only about ten centimeters.

The ones that are too thick are difficult to process. Wang Lang selected a few trees with a diameter of more than ten centimeters for people to cut down. There was even a gap.

When cleaning the branches, Wang Lang discovered that the fruit of this tree is quite strange. The fruits mixed in the leaves grow together in clusters, which look a bit like lentils. For such unknown things, I dare not try it casually.

People found this kind of tree at noon, and now it is close to dusk. In five or six hours, only three trees were cut down, and two axes were broken. One can imagine how hard this kind of tree is.

For the sake of safety, Wang Lang decided to return to the tribe while the sky was still dark. These three trees were enough to make four or five axles.
The trunk was seven or eight meters long, and it was very heavy. Three or four people carried a tree and moved slowly towards the tribe. It took a long time to finish the one-kilometer journey. When they returned to the tribe, it was completely dark.

The people who stayed in the tribe saw that Wang Lang and the others had gone out and hadn't come back. Everyone was very worried. They lit many torches and looked at the direction in which they left.

It was not until seeing a few familiar figures appearing in the night that people were completely relieved.

After returning to the tribe, the people who fought against the logs all the way were already tired and sweating profusely. They drank a few bowls of water before they recovered a little.

"Patriarch, why did you come back so late? If Kong Er hadn't stopped me, I would have gone out to look for you on a deer." Bark said with some complaints.

Wang Lang smiled awkwardly and said, "Kong Er was right to stop you. It's too dangerous in the dark night. This time it's because of me. The tree is too hard. It took a lot of time and made you worry."

The tree bark pouted and said, "If something happens to the patriarch, if the fire comes back, he must beat me to death."

Wang Lang chuckled lightly and said, "What can happen to me? I'm not made of mud. Even wild animals with our abilities can't do anything to me."

The tree bark still wanted to refute a few words, Wang Lang waved his hand and said, "Let's eat first, the clansmen have been tired for a day, and they are already hungry."

The tree bark sighed, he didn't want Wang Lang to put himself in danger, but Wang Lang's stubborn character made him helpless, he shook his head, and walked over to let the women prepare the food.

After a night's rest, Wang Lang started to make vehicles the next day.

All the materials for making the vehicle have been prepared, and the only thing left is to splice these parts together.

The carriage is undoubtedly simple. Considering the bearing capacity of the wheels, Wang Lang did not make the carriage particularly wide, only about 1.5 meters wide. This is the kind of carriage. He was very worried about whether the wheels could bear the load, but If it is small, it has no practical value.

In order not to repeat useless work, Wang Lang planned to make a test case first, and arranged some people to make the carriage, and he was responsible for leading some people to process the axle part.

After peeling off the bark of the extremely hard wood, cut off a length slightly wider than the carriage with a saw, and asked everyone to use a chisel to make a shape about the size of the hole in the wheel.

Due to the hard wood, the machining process was extremely slow. It took half a day for the hand holding the chisel to be numb before completing a single axle.

Wang Lang asked people to install the wheels on the axles. Due to the limitations of technology and tools, the wheels vibrated a little. This is unavoidable. This problem is also easy to solve. Just find some wood chips to fasten the exposed gaps. up.

Because the running wheels are easy to fall off, after installing the axle, Wang Lang found a piece of charcoal and drew a line at the intersection of the outside of the wheel and the axle. He planned to fix a wedge at this place to prevent the wheel from falling off.

After finishing this, everyone unloaded the wheel and began to chisel on the position drawn by Wang Lang with charcoal.

The machining of the axle was about to be completed, Wang Lang handed over the rest of the work to others, and walked aside to check the progress of the carriage.

The carriage was made smoothly, and the pieces of wood were connected by wooden blocks and copper nails, which looked like a wooden box without a cover.

The wood for the shaft has been selected, and two pieces of wood more than two meters long have been processed into a rectangular parallelepiped that is thicker at the back and thinner at the front, and placed quietly on the side.

Seeing that the carriage is basically completed, Wang Lang smiled with satisfaction. The last part is the parts connecting the carriage and the axle. Since it is made of wood and wood, ordinary wood may break after a few times of grinding. In order to increase the service life of the vehicle, choose Of course, the harder the material, the better. Wang Lang intends to use the kind of wood used for axles to make this thing.

However, the trees that were cut back were relatively thin and could not meet the requirements. We had to wait until tomorrow to cut another tree and come back.

Not long after, Kong Yi came over and told Wang Lang that the axle had been processed. Wang Lang's eyes lit up, and he followed Kong Yi to check.

He checked the holes where the chocks were fixed, nodded in satisfaction, and asked everyone to install the wheels. The gaps were fixed with wood chips, and then the chocks to prevent the wheels from falling off were fixed to the axles.

After the assembly was completed, it looked like a much enlarged barbell. Wang Lang called a few people to push the two wheels forward, and the heavy wooden wheel slowly rolled forward for a certain distance under the action of inertia. Two shallow marks were left on the ground.

(End of this chapter)