Agriculture Idol

Chapter 17 Dovetails

"These woods are not good!"

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After finishing the live broadcast task assigned by the village committee, Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong returned to their day-to-day life of moving bricks.A week later, the foundation of the first floor of the houseboat was finally completed, and then they started to build the brackets of the houseboat.

During the time of building the foundation and moving bricks, Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong also collected a lot of waste planks and logs, and piled them up in a temporary shed.Next to the small shed, there is a smaller shed half the height of a person, which is the temporary residence of Guapi.

Before building the boathouse bracket, Uncle Zhengwen came to check the progress and review the building materials by the way.Unfortunately, the wood collected by Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong has almost no materials that can be used as the overall support of the boat house.

"What's the matter? I thought it was good to move back..." Xiao Yong complained, "It seems that we still have to go to the town to buy wood."

"Brother, do you think the wood from the elementary school can be used?" Uncle Zhengwu said suddenly.

"Those logs, let's go and have a look together?" Uncle Wen thought thoughtfully.

Hongming Village Primary School has been closed for many years due to lack of students.The cement house built back then is still in good condition, but there are no students.To the villagers, this school is just a common warehouse in the village.

Everyone followed Uncle Zhengwen into the completely unlocked front hall of the primary school. There were messy things piled up in the large space, including agricultural machinery and tools, tables, chairs and benches, plastic sheets for greenhouses, and a pile of wood in the corner.

"This is wood saved more than [-] years ago. It was originally placed in the warehouse of the village committee to build the auditorium. As a result, the auditorium was also replaced with cement. These logs have been piled up... It seems that they are still well preserved. Yes, it can be used as the beams and pillars of the boat house. Xiaoyong, let the girl Lin Yiyi go and ask the village committee later if she wants these woods, if not, I can sell them cheap."

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The next day, Lin Yiyi sent a message to Brother Xiaoyong, and the village committee said they didn't want money.Seeing that Brother Xiaoyong and Li Chengxin helped the farmers in the village sell so many vegetables, the wood should just be used.

Immediately afterwards, Uncle Zhengwu sent a few more pieces of wood, which were left over from the house he and Uncle Zhengwen were building in the town.The homeowner said that he didn't need it anymore, and let them dispose of it at will.

In a blink of an eye, wood from everywhere was piled up near the new site of Li Chengxin's houseboat.After counting several times, Brother Xiaoyong finally felt that there was no problem. He picked a day with good weather and prepared to start building the structural support of the houseboat with Li Chengxin.

After opening the live broadcast software, Brother Xiaoyong greeted the netizens, introduced the progress of the houseboat, and began to draw pictures with pen and paper to explain the structure of the houseboat.

"We need six 6-meter-long pillars as the main vertical support. Now, we only have five pieces of wood that can meet this requirement. There is another pillar, which is this one," Xiaoyong pointed to one and the other five pieces of wood The wood side by side said, "This length is 5 meters, which is 5cm short of the length we need. In this case, we can use another piece of wood to connect with this one using the mortise and tenon structure." together, let it be reborn as a new log."

Although it was Li Chengxin's house that was built, Brother Xiaoyong was the absolute protagonist in building the house.

"Because it is a column, we have to use dovetails and mortises. This is known as the strongest mortise and tenon structure. The strength of the dovetail tenons in the vertical, horizontal and torsional directions is very strong, but the processing is very complicated. In the two The mortise and tenon structure corresponding to the concave and convex is processed at the end of the same shape of wood, and there will still be gaps when they are joined together, so pegs must be driven into the gap to make the two pieces of wood tightly bite..."

[Liberal arts students already want to cry when they see the structure diagram]

[This structure is like a Luban lock]

[mortise and tenon joint is really a skill...]

[This is the wisdom of the ancients in our country! 】

"...With limited tools, Xin Wa'er and I had to process the mortise and tenon structure by hand. The wood we chose to make the pillars is vertebral wood, which is thick and hard, and it is very difficult to process."

[I like to watch the black-skinned little brother process wood]

[The white-skinned little brother who feels that his cooking skills are outstanding will kneel this time]

[Carpenter Xiaoyong, boyfriend MAX! 】

As expected, Li Chengxin was completely unable to intervene in the next carpentry work. At most, he handed Brother Xiaoyong a tool.

Then after working for about 5 hours, Li Chengxin has been photographing the blue sea and the circling seagulls for a long time, Xiaoyong finally completed the production of the mortise and tenon structure.

【Mom, I really do it by hand bit by bit】

[The structure makes me dizzy]

【Want to marry! ! ! 】

"The final step of the wedge tenoning is to drive the peg into the specially created hole in the center. The wood will be squeezed to the left and right. The gaps in the wood will gradually disappear and bite together tightly. Let's see if we can successfully do it. Enter the bolt."

Brother Xiaoyong inserted one end of the wooden peg into the hole, put a piece of wood on the other end of the peg, and slowly drove the peg into the tenon joint with a hammer until the peg was fully inserted.

【Amazing! 】

[I have taken carpentry classes, but I only know how to saw wood chips, I am in a complicated mood]

[Obsessive-compulsive disorder means that it is very cool at the moment of biting! 】

"It's done!" Li Chengxin shouted excitedly, "In this way, all six pillars will be assembled!"

The next step is to fix the three sets of columns and beams together and stand them up.Unfortunately, this is not something two people can do.

Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong ran to find Uncle Donghai again, and asked the villagers who had helped move the stones together to push up the beams and pillars with manpower.

They first buried a piece of wood for positioning in the gravel of the foundation, processed a mortise on the surface of the wood, and processed a tenon at the bottom of the pillar.

While erecting the beam-column structure, they also needed to adjust the position of the columns so that the tenons could be inserted into the mortises.

When the villagers all came, Li Chengxin was in charge of issuing the command.Arrange the tall villagers to stand behind the pillars to lift up the beams little by little, arrange the strong villagers in front to pull with ropes, and Li Chengxin and Uncle Donghai are responsible for guiding the position of the pillars.

[This is really heavy physical work] Netizens in the live broadcast room watched the beams and pillars that failed to be erected after several adjustments, and were anxious for them on the screen.

[I was so nervous watching, the left side was aligned before, but the right side slid away. 】

[This is too difficult!In the city, this matter can be lifted by a crane. 】

[In the front, when building a house in the city, the beams and columns are all poured with cement, and there is no such thing as a pillar. 】

After nearly an hour, the first set of beams and columns was finally erected. For safety, a wooden nail was added to the beams and columns at an angle.

"That's great, this doorway looks very impressive."

"That slightly bent door beam seems to be a tree I cut down more than [-] years ago."

The villagers who came to help and come to watch were talking about the new buildings in the village.

With the first set of the heaviest beams erected, the remaining two sets were finally completed before dinner time.

"It's done! It's done! We can start building the scaffolding and building the roof tomorrow!" Brother Xiaoyong fell to the ground exhaustedly.

Li Chengxin walked over, stretched out his hand to Brother Xiaoyong, and pulled him up: "Thanks, brother! I'll make a big meal for you and everyone tonight!"

　Agriculture knowledge reference av3202402.The dovetail tenon structure animation is at 42 minutes and 18 seconds.

　　
　
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