American Hunting: Starting with Solitary Life in the Wilderness

Chapter 119 "A Vegetable Greenhouse Built in Three Days"

Back in the Wood Forest, a construction routine that belonged only to him officially began.

He first filled the professional seedling trays with substrate soil, then carefully opened several seed packaging bags and sowed the cucumber and tomato seeds one by one into the holes of the seedling trays.

After sowing, he thoroughly wetted the substrate with a spray bottle, then covered it with a transparent plastic lid, creating a mini greenhouse, and waited for life to sprout.

Then, while regularly spraying water to maintain the concrete piles, he devoted most of his energy to the rapid construction of the greenhouse.

He adopted a "high-passage cold arched shed" solution that is popular in North America and has a very fast construction speed.

Lin Yu'an started the XCMG XC760K loader and first cleared and leveled a site of about 60 square meters (10 meters long x 6 meters wide) in the southeast corner of the camp.

Then, he took out a new tool and showed it to the camera: "This is a T-pillar driver, usually used to drive piles for farm fences, but today I'm going to use it to drive anchors into the greenhouse."

Lin Yu-an used a measuring tape and lime powder to make a precise mark every 1.2 meters along the two 10-meter-long sides of the field.

He explained, “This spacing is important because it determines the structural strength of our greenhouse. In Alaska, the weight of heavy snow must be taken into account, so it cannot be too sparse.”

Next, he aligned a heavy-duty galvanized steel pipe anchor with an outer diameter of 50 mm, a wall thickness of 2.5 mm, and a length of 1.5 meters with the first marked point.

Then the pile driver was started, boom! boom! boom! ...

With a dull but powerful impact, the hard steel pipe was driven inch by inch into the thawing ground.

Lin Yu-an used a level with a magnetic function to constantly calibrate the verticality of the ground anchor.

He finally stopped when the anchor was driven a full meter into the ground, leaving only half a meter above the surface.

In just two hours, 20 ground anchors, like a line of soldiers, were precisely erected on both sides of the field.

After the local anchor was installed, Lin Yu'an took out 10 pre-made galvanized steel arch pipes, bent into perfect semi-circles, from the pile of supplies.

“These arched tubes are slightly smaller in diameter than the ground anchors, at 45 millimeters, so that they can fit in perfectly.”

"However, I cannot complete this step by myself; I need to find someone to help me."

As he spoke, he called Stan, who quickly arrived on his all-terrain motorcycle.

The total arc length of this arch is nearly 9.5 meters, it spans a width of 6 meters, and reaches a center height of about 3 meters.

They aligned the two ends of the arch with the ground anchors on both sides and pushed them downwards with force.

With a click, the arched pipe was securely fitted onto the ground anchor.

In just half a day, a modern greenhouse frame composed of 10 huge arches was erected!
Lin Yu'an took out more connectors and straight pipes. He then used the connectors to mark the center line at the top of the arch frame and the positions of the shoulders on both sides.

Three longitudinal purlins, each 10.8 meters long, were installed to connect all the arch pipes into an extremely stable whole.

After the skeleton was completed, Lin Yu'an quickly made the end wall frames on the north and south sides of the greenhouse using wood.

It also includes provisions for an exit and two manually openable ventilation windows.

Finally, the most crucial step was sealing the film. He took out a huge roll of agricultural greenhouse plastic film, 14 meters wide and 15 meters long.

With Stan's help, a huge thin film was completely covered over the entire metal skeleton.

Then, using a professional film pressing groove and film pressing spring, the film was laid out, tightened, and then a wavy steel wire spring was used to clamp the film into the groove.

Using this method, the membrane is stretched very tightly, like a drum, and can withstand strong winds of over 80 kilometers per hour.

Moreover, in winter, it is very convenient to add another layer of film to form a double-layer insulation structure.

In just three days, a modern greenhouse was miraculously erected on this wasteland!
Lin Yu'an spent another day perfecting the elevated seedbeds and drip irrigation system inside the greenhouse, and transplanted all the previously cultivated seedlings into it.

Looking at the vegetable garden that had just come to life, Lin Yu'an didn't linger for long.

His gaze shifted to the even larger challenge on the other side of the camp, the "White Wood Mountain" made up of one hundred and twenty huge logs.

With sixteen or seventeen days left in the concrete curing period, he had to use this time to begin preliminary pretreatment of the timber.

After completing the routine water spraying maintenance of the concrete piles, Lin Yu'an walked towards the portable band saw that had already been assembled.

His first task was to move a log, about 35 centimeters in diameter and 8 meters long, from the huge pile of timber to the track of the band saw.

The XCMG XC760K loader, equipped with a grab hook attachment, easily lifted the log weighing hundreds of kilograms and placed it steadily in the waiting area of ​​the band saw.

Next, the logs are rolled onto the band saw's track and secured firmly with the machine's built-in clamps.

He gestured with his hand across the cross-section of the log: "My goal is to flatten the top and bottom of it, so that it has two perfectly parallel contact surfaces, in preparation for the subsequent stacking of the walls."

"The most important purpose of doing this is to increase the surface area for moisture evaporation from the wood, thereby accelerating its drying process."

He carefully calibrated the cutting scale and set the first cut thickness to approximately 5 centimeters. Then he pulled the starter rope of the Honda engine on the band saw.

"Om - hum -"

With a steady and powerful roar, the long band saw blade began to spin at high speed.

Lin Yu'an put on goggles and earmuffs, held the saw head steadily with both hands, and slowly moved forward.

"hiss--"

The sharp saw blade cuts into the wood with a smooth and linear sound, and a large amount of wood chips with the scent of pine resin are brought out like golden fireworks, flying everywhere in the polar day sunlight!
In just over a minute, as the saw head pushed from one end of the log to the other, a long, thick, and evenly sized plank was completely cut off from the top of the log.

At the top of the log, a smooth, flat cross-section appeared instantly, as if it had been planed by a giant plane.

"Good job!"

Lin Yu'an praised himself to himself, and then he didn't stop.

He used a loader again to lift the log with one side flattened, rotated it 180 degrees so that the flat side was facing down, and fixed it back onto the track.

Using this perfect plane as a reference, he cut again.

Soon, both the top and bottom surfaces of the log were processed into two perfectly parallel planes.

He used a loader to transport the processed, first standardized building material to an open space.

Instead of placing it directly on the ground, he first used several wooden blocks to elevate it, ensuring that its bottom could also be ventilated.

One stick, two sticks, three sticks...

In the following days, Lin Yu'an's life entered an extremely regular but incredibly arduous cycle.

Every morning, he first waters and maintains the concrete piles, then inspects his beloved vegetable garden.

Then he would start his one-man sawmill and begin his day's work.

The roar of loaders and the cutting sounds of band saws became the only noises on this land.

He single-handedly took on multiple roles: a crane operator who loaded materials onto a loader, a technician who calibrated cutting dimensions, and a warehouse manager who neatly stacked finished building materials.

His main job was to process the more than seventy standard logs used for the walls, which had been peeled by his brothers-in-law, as well as some of the timber used for the interior floor beams, into standard-sized pieces with flat top and bottom surfaces.

The dozen or so top-quality giant trees that he had piled up separately did not need to be processed by the band saw.

All that is needed is to refine the mortise and tenon joints at both ends during subsequent construction.

These massive timbers will be used as porch pillars and roof ridge beams, and they need to be in their most primitive, rounded form to support the style of the entire house.

Lin Yu'an estimated the workload.

Processing a standard wall log (8 meters long and 30 centimeters in diameter), from loading the material and cutting it twice to finally stacking it, takes about 30-40 minutes once you are skilled.

Therefore, with the enhancement of his physique by the golden finger, Lin Yu'an can guarantee more than 15 hours of high-intensity work time every day under the polar day conditions.

On average, he can process about 12 to 15 logs for the wall every day, so he can process more than 200 logs in 16 days.

This number far exceeds the amount of timber that needs to be processed in his overall target.

This means that he not only completes the task, but also has extra time to do more detailed preparation work, which is an extremely amazing and completely unimaginable efficiency!

Thus, during the concrete curing period, Lin Yu'an's life entered an extremely regular cycle.

During this time, he was both a carpenter and a farmer, processing logs into standardized building materials that could be used to build homes, while also taking care of his vibrant greenhouse vegetable garden.

Just as Lin Yu'an was immersed in his busy and fulfilling dual work, an unexpected visitor arrived one afternoon.

A tall figure emerged from the woods. She looked to be in her thirties, with long, golden-brown hair neatly tied into a high ponytail, revealing her smooth, full forehead.

She wore a well-tailored outdoor jacket and cargo pants, which accentuated the powerful and healthy curves of her body, the result of years of outdoor sports.

Her features were sharp and defined, and her bright blue eyes were now scrutinizing the construction site that had suddenly appeared in the wilderness with a hint of wariness and intense curiosity.

His eyes were bright, but his face showed a hint of fatigue and helplessness.

This must be Emily, the only veterinarian in town that Stan and old George mentioned before.

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(The first female supporting character has appeared! Let me reiterate, there was no betrayal of readers who only have one female lead; I've mentioned more than once that it's not a single-female-lead story.)
(However, I believe that shareholders who have read this far are no longer willing to be pure-hearted. I'm asking for your monthly votes again~)

(End of this chapter)