Chapter 123 - Chapter 123: Chapter 123: Combine Harvester Efficiency (First Update) (1/2)

Chapter 123: Chapter 123: Combine Harvester Efficiency (First Update)

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Everyone saw the efficiency of the Xiao Family’s combine harvester when harvesting rice, and aside from a few families with cattle who needed straw, many people chose to use the combine harvester for harvesting.

However, since this harvester was quite large, it would always damage some crops when passing through fields. For this, Xiao Wanshan would always offer some compensation. Although villagers would refuse, Xiao Wanshan insisted on giving, so they accepted it.

Xiao Wanshan went to the fields and saw that several villagers had nearly ripened rice, he discussed with them, “Uncle, all your rice is almost ripe, so let’s cut it all together when it’s time. This way, it’ll be more convenient for the machine to move and for everyone. Otherwise, it would be difficult to deal with one family at a time!”

Seeing such a large harvester, of course, everyone considered this issue and said, “Um, no problem. When the time comes, let’s harvest together.”

Xiao Wanshan reminded them, “You all need to prepare more snake skin bags for storing the grain. For one mu, you’ll need at least fifteen bags. When loading the grain, if there are more people helping, it’ll be faster.”

The villagers laughed, “Haha, Wanshan, we’ve all seen how your combine harvester harvests rice. Don’t worry, we’ll prepare more bags. If we don’t, the grains might end up in someone else’s house.”

For the first joint rice harvest, there were more than ten households, totaling forty mu of land.

That day, when the harvest started, people from these families and others in the village all came to see the rare sight, making it even busier than when Xiao Wanshan harvested his own rice.

“This machine is convenient for harvesting rice, but it’s not so easy to get it into the fields. The narrow ridges make it difficult for the machine to move. It can only pass through people’s fields, which can cause damage.”

“There’s no way around it. If the machine was like a thresher, we could lift it and take it there with some extra effort. But for such a large machine, even with twenty or thirty people, we don’t know if we could lift it. Also, people would still need to go down and damage the crops anyway.”

“Everything has its pros and cons. Today, we’re harvesting for ten families, forty or fifty mu of land. I don’t know if we can finish in one day.”

“We should be able to. Xiao Wanshan said that this combine harvester could harvest over a hundred mu in a day.”

“That’s true. But that’s only possible if all the land is connected. Look at our land, your piece is here, and mine is over there. The combine harvester needs time to move between them.”

“You’ve got a point. But even if it can harvest forty or fifty mu in a day, it’s already quite impressive. If we were to harvest all this land manually, it would take who knows how long. Now with the combine harvester, once it starts cutting the rice, it can be immediately taken to the grain drying field to dry. It’s so much more convenient.”

The combine harvester went down to the field early in the morning, and the villagers got up before dawn.

In autumn, the weather wasn’t hot, so everyone wasn’t in a hurry to finish the work early.

Those who wanted to harvest rice had already prepared snake skin bags and ropes for tyingoff the mouths of the bags.

Since not all fields were close to each other, the harvester started with the closest house, which happened to be the Village Chief’s land.

This field was 1.5 mu.

As soon as the combine harvester entered the field, it circled the area in just a few minutes, moved to the ridge, and then poured out the rice grains from the funnel. The Village Chief and others immediately opened the snake skin bags and filled them with the grains, bag after bag.

In less than half an hour, the entire 1.5 mu was harvested, with the Village Chief filling more than twenty bags. Then, several young and strong men carried them to the tricycle, which transported the bags to the grain drying field.

Then the combine harvester moved on to the next house.

“Earlier, when Wanshan was harvesting his own rice, it didn’t seem this fast. Now it’s much faster.”