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Chapter 25 Human-powered wheat harvester [Please collect and read]

After listening to it, Dai Hongtao smiled and said, "I think this design is pretty good."

"Then let's hurry up and organize manpower for trial production to see how it goes."

So, under the leadership of Wang Haoran, the workshop began to try to make a human-powered wheat harvester.

This type of wheat harvester is actually similar to a tractor-mounted wheat harvester.

The manual wheat harvester has been added with two long push handles, and the harvester's cutting table has been appropriately reduced to harvest three passes of wheat at a time.

Soon, the first human-powered wheat harvester was manufactured.

In fact, this also utilizes the principle of leverage.

In addition to the push handle, a crossbar welded to the push handle is also designed.

In this way, the person pushing the manual wheat harvester can use all of his body's strength, speed up the harvesting process, and allocate physical energy more reasonably.

After this hand-pushed wheat harvester was built, Li Gang pushed it and tried it out in the open space of the Mafang Machinery Factory.

There is some tall wormwood growing near the wall of the Mafang Machinery Factory.

Li Gang discovered that this manual wheat harvester was very light to push, and the blade at the front was very sharp, which could quickly cut down the weeds and push them aside in an orderly manner.

This shows that it is very useful.

Li Gang was overjoyed. He quickly loaded the manual wheat harvester on his bicycle and brought it back to the Licai Brigade.

He took it directly to a wheat field that had not yet been harvested.

Li Gang tried it again in the wheat field himself.

The test results were very good.

This hand-pushed wheat harvester is very efficient, saves a lot of manpower, and does not require bending over.

It took him less than 20 minutes to finish harvesting an acre of wheat in one go.

At Mafang Machinery Factory, after Wang Haoran received the feedback, he discussed with Dai Hongtao and immediately decided to increase the manufacturing speed of hand-pushed wheat harvesters.

At this time, the commune's supply and marketing cooperative had also received the news and began to place orders with the Mafang Machinery Factory.

Zhu Feng, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, happened to be interviewing in Mafang Commune on that day.

He came for the interview after hearing that Wang Haoran had invented a device that could be mounted on the head of a tractor to greatly improve the efficiency of wheat harvesting.

He saw tractors roaring and shuttling through the wheat fields in Mafang Commune.

Wherever these tractors went, the wheat was cut down and laid out in neat rows.

He was shocked by the situation.

Zhu Feng thought, this is the real large-scale mechanized agricultural production, right?

This scene is so spectacular.

He interviewed members who were busy bundling wheat for transportation in the fields.

Members told Zhu Feng that originally it would take at least seven or eight days just to harvest the wheat, but with a mounted harvester, this time could be shortened to three or four days at most.

The reason why it takes three or four days is because there are not enough equipment and many brigades' wheat fields need to wait in line.

The members also said that thanks to Comrade Wang Haoran’s invention, wheat harvesting has become much easier.

After Zhu Feng finished his interview in the wheat field, he rushed to the Licai Brigade.

This is where Wang Haoran cut in line.

He wanted to see what the situation was like here.

When Zhu Feng arrived at the Licai Brigade, he saw that most of the farmland here had been harvested.

The members he interviewed were full of praise for Wang Haoran.

The members also told Zhu Feng that Wang Haoran had invented a hand-pushed wheat harvester.

This hand-pushed wheat harvester is also quite efficient.

Using a hand-pushed manual wheat harvester, one person can harvest 20 to 30 acres of wheat a day.

Zhu Feng immediately became interested.

A member of the cooperative took him to the place where Li Gang was sweating profusely, pushing a hand-powered wheat harvester to harvest wheat.

Zhu Feng saw that Li Gang, who was as strong as an ox, pushed the manual wheat harvester quickly, just like a tank charging forward. The wheat was harvested row by row in front of him and neatly pushed to the right side and spread on the ground.

Zhu Feng felt his blood boiling after seeing this.

This labor scene is so spectacular!
The amount of wheat harvested by this manual harvester in a day is equivalent to that of thirty or forty strong laborers!

This young man, Wang Haoran, has a very flexible brain.

Li Gang pushed the manual wheat harvester to the field again.

At this time, he was already sweating profusely and gasping for breath.

His clothes were completely soaked with sweat.

"Whoops——"

"Whoops——"

Li Gang gasped for breath, his chest heaving like a bellows.

Immediately, a strong man came over and took over Li Gang's job to continue harvesting.

Li Gang had been working for more than an hour in a row.

He was indeed a little tired.

Zhu Feng smiled and poured a bowl of water and handed it over, saying, "Comrade Li Gang, do you still remember me?"

Li Gang drank a bowl of water in one breath, wiped his mouth and said, "You are Comrade Zhu Feng from Youth Daily!"

Zhu Feng smiled and said, "So you still remember me. Do you think this manual wheat harvester is useful?"

Li Gang nodded and took out his pipe to take a couple of puffs.

Zhu Feng quickly handed over his Daqianmen.

Zhu Feng actually doesn’t smoke.

However, in order to get closer to the interviewee, he still had cigarettes in his pocket.

Li Gang took a cigarette from Zhu Feng and said, "I have to say, Comrade Haoran has helped us a lot!"

"You also know that the meteorological department has predicted that there may be heavy rain in the next two days."

"If he hadn't invented two types of harvesters, I don't know how much the team would have lost in harvest."

"According to our estimate, all the wheat in our village can be harvested and transported back to the drying yard before 6 p.m. today."

"As long as we can get it back to the drying yard, we can cover it with plastic sheets even if it rains. We don't have to worry anymore..."

Zhu Feng stayed in the Licai Brigade until about 4 p.m. that day.

He discovered that about ten of those hand-pushed wheat harvesters were delivered one after another.

As a result, the members of Li Cai Brigade no longer used sickles to harvest wheat.

Only twenty or thirty strong laborers were allowed to harvest the wheat using hand-pushed reapers.

Everyone else started to bundle the wheat, and then transported it to the brigade's drying yard using flatbed trucks or even carrying it on their shoulders or by hand.

The elderly and children were picking up fallen ears of wheat and wheat in the fields, trying to harvest every grain.

What a busy working scene.

By around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the wheat of Li Cai Brigade had almost been harvested and all had been transported to the drying yard.

Zhu Feng originally wanted to interview Wang Haoran at Mafang Machinery Factory.

However, he felt that he was too late.

In addition, the actual effect of the wheat harvester developed by Wang Haoran is there for all to see.

There is no need for him to personally testify!

Zhu Feng rode his bicycle back to the newspaper office.

There was a fire burning in his heart.

After returning to the newspaper, he wrote a report specifically about how the two wheat harvesters invented by Wang Haoran greatly improved rural labor efficiency.

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