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Chapter 18 Magically modified logging saw, the efficiency of wood has increased dramatically!

According to the production plan, the sawmill and steel mill are the next buildings to be constructed.Coal reserves can still be squandered for three days. The resources produced by the buildings in the first two days are just enough to complete the upgrade of the first-level drawing board technology and reserve the resources for manufacturing coal shearers.

Calculating the time, the reconnaissance team should also encounter the steel bridge, send the repaired robot back, and then continue to the coal mine, and then bring back the coal reserves there.

Calculated in this way, the supply of coal resources can just be completed.When the plot officially started, the development of New London, which has a full set of primary resource collection buildings, can be described as easy and enjoyable in the early stage.

It’s a strategy building game. Once the early stage is smooth and the thunder is avoided, the later development only needs to be done step by step.Li Jianghao drew a table for himself, recorded the time of temperature changes in his memory, and reminded himself all the time.

After doing all this, people arranged for Bernard to solve his physical problems before being tied back to the control room according to the usual practice. Li Jianghao went out with the blueprints and walked all the way to the lumberyard under construction.

The Lumber Camp is built near the Frozen Forest.During the construction of the energy tower before, these trees have been cut down, but they have not had time to be made into standard wood resources, so it is necessary to build corresponding buildings for cutting and processing.

Andrew watched Li Jianghao approaching, and frowned. He had already rushed to the construction site of the sawmill. At this time, Li Jianghao should be "hanging out" in the children's shelter or workstation, so how could he think of this place.

What disturbed him was that the mayor had a roll of drawings in his arms.Now that he saw the mayor coming with the drawings, he felt that his head was about to be bombarded by Mr. Mayor's magical brain circuit again.But after being bombed, he came back to think about it. In a sense, he felt that the mayor's drawings were really meaningful, but they were generally very unscientific.

"Morning Andrew, I didn't expect you to be so concerned about the construction of the sawmill. I thought you would go to check the construction of the rail station platform. The first steam hub will be built there, and safety issues need to be paid attention to." Li Jianghao greeted , the latter bowed his head politely, without any gesture of seeing himself as a belief last night.

Andrew shook his mouth muscles with a half-smile, and said: "Mayor, these architectural designs have been closely reviewed by the Academy of Sciences to ensure that workers can assemble them safely and effectively with sufficient resources. ...so I'm not worried about building the steam hub at all, instead resource acquisition is what I care about. After the timber supply is restored, the steel mills and coal shearers can be established. In just a few days we are restored The self-sufficiency of resources is all thanks to you, Mr. Mayor."

Li Jianghao could only express hehe, and said that you, a stubborn guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, has started to flatter you.

"Okay, Mr. Mayor, you must have something to do here in your busy schedule, and you shouldn't be able to come to me." Andrew asked the real reason why Li Jianghao came here, and he was even more afraid of the blueprint in Li Jianghao's arms After unfolding, what was the strange thing that shocked his scientific concept.

Li Jianghao didn't answer immediately, and walked all the way to the main saw blade in the center of the sawmill, folded the blueprint in his arms and stuffed it into his arms.Andrew breathed a sigh of relief, and saw Li Jianghao take out new blueprints and pens from the other pocket. The momentum of letting go of his heart suddenly blocked his throat, and his face turned pale.

"I plan to improve the saw blade in the sawmill. You know, it is easy to cut these frozen trees after the saw blade is activated, but the cut trees need subsequent workers to process and cut them into standard wood, which will waste a lot of time. If we install a small felling saw directly behind the main saw blade, we can process the cut wood into a suitable size and save a lot of energy when making standard wood later."

Li Jianghao found a table, and while gesticulating, he talked about his ideas.It took him a while to study the few basic buildings that were still lit in the imperial building templates from the Warhammer world rewarded by the system.Although it can't be done yet, the design in it tells the engineers here that it may have miraculous effects.

Andrew was puzzled by this: "Isn't that superfluous? The wood blocks that have just been cut need to be processed. Although one more process increases the efficiency of the workers in processing wood blocks, it also prolongs the time of the entire process. We even need someone to To specifically manipulate these new saw blades to control the range of cutting, in this way, the overall efficiency may still decrease.”

Li Jianghao pointed to the huge main blade being installed, connected many lines with fixed positions on the rotating shaft part on the drawing, and said:
"It's much more convenient to let the machine determine the position than the workers themselves. The main blade is driven by the steam of the steam pipe. In theory, it can be opened around the clock after daily maintenance. We set up a A conveyor belt, equipped with a small blade at a fixed position, driven by the cutting power of the main blade, without wasting steam power. In this way, rough processed wood can be continuously produced after starting up, and sent to the processing place through the conveyor belt. But Because workers can only work during the day, the main blade will be shut down at night, which is a huge waste.”

Li Jianghao was heartbroken. Although in Andrew's eyes, it was just a few impulses on the mayor's face, but Andrew realized the great potential contained in the mayor's opinion.

In fact, no matter what level the sawmill is upgraded to, at the beginning of the design, the speed of workers processing wood can always keep up with the speed of cutting wood blocks with the main blade, and there is even a lot of surplus.However, because the wood blocks cut by the main blade will have different shapes, the processing speed of the workers will be somewhat delayed.

Now according to the mayor's design, the wood blocks sent to the workers are already secondary wood blocks that are extremely easy to process. In addition to the calculation of the time when the sawmill is open around the clock, the wood output efficiency of the sawmill will reach a terrifying level. efficiency, even surpassing the next stage of the Steam Sawmill upgrade!

The reason for all this is just to install a limiter in the open space behind the main blade shaft to install a fixed size blade.

As an engineer, Andrew felt that he was a little too attached to the standard construction guidelines of the Academy of Sciences and built the energy tower according to the designs.Perhaps, the exploration of the endless possibilities of science that I dreamed of becoming an engineer when I joined the Academy of Sciences was lost in this step-by-step compliance with the rules.

Li Jianghao looked at Andrew standing still, and asked tentatively, "What? Is it not feasible to do this?"

"No, no, it can be done according to your design. This will bring us a huge wood production capacity." Andrew took a deep breath and looked at Li Jianghao, "But, excuse me, I really want to install the blade It's time to cut your head open and see what treasures are inside."

(End of this chapter)