Chapter 69 Agricultural Machinery Maintenance
At the seed production base in Hekou Village, Zhang Wei and Cai Bin are driving a Fendt 930 to cultivate the land.

Since they were both in Jinta County, Guo Yang transferred them over to help.

There have been several snowfalls recently, and the soil surface is covered with snow.

But the Fendt 930 still drove smoothly on the land, and the sharp plowshare easily cut into the soil, turning it over, and pulling out long yellow dragons on the snow-white ground.

There were also many villagers watching and talking about it.

The children, in particular, followed the tractor intently and were completely immersed in it.

They had seen many tractors, but this was the first time they had seen a machine with such a handsome appearance and such high operating efficiency.

"This machine works really fast. It looks like it will be finished in just a few days."

"Watch the kids closely, the blades look scary."

“I heard that this machine comes to plow the land for free?”

"Village head, will Tianhe really not deduct our seed fee when they send agricultural machinery to plow the land?"

"No." Lu Zhaoqiang had no idea how many times he had answered this question today, but he still patiently explained to the villagers.

The more Tianhe does, the more it proves that the village committee's decisions are wise.

Tianhe’s production staff were also on site, mainly responsible for safety and preventing people from approaching the farm machinery.

"I heard that these two farm machines were imported from abroad by the boss."

"Yes, it has already shown its prowess at Alfalfa Farming and Animal Husbandry. It can plow 200 acres of land in an hour, and up to to acres a day!"

"Such an exaggeration!"

"Yes, our boss, although young, has many connections."

Since there was no unified planning for agricultural planting in Hekou Village before, a variety of crops were planted in the previous crop.

Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, onions... there are so many varieties, which will make it difficult to prevent and control pests and diseases next year.

This is true whether it is nethouse cultivation or open field cultivation.

Especially in the north, the damage caused by the 'southern root-knot nematode disease' is very serious.

Southern root-knot nematodes are a very important type of parasitic nematode with a wide host range, and can harm hundreds of plant species.

It mainly invades and harms plants when their roots are sprouting in the spring, causing the absorbing roots and secondary roots to swell and form root knots.

After the disease occurs, the plants will form weak seedlings, affecting the yield. In severe cases, flowers and fruits will fall off, and the fruits will be small and deformed. Some plants may even die completely.

However, the temperature in the north is low in winter. In most areas of the northwest, the average daily temperature is below 11℃ from November to March of the following year.

Generally speaking, root-knot nematodes will all die after being treated at -1°C for 7 days.

Therefore, Tianhe’s technical department proposed to use the winter leisure period to control root-knot nematodes using low-temperature freezing method.

However, root-knot nematodes can overwinter in the soil in the form of eggs or other insect stages, so ordinary methods are useless. The soil must be turned over, the root-knot nematodes must be turned to the surface, and then frozen for the winter.

But at this season, Hekou Village has neither large-scale farming machinery nor the willingness to spend money, let alone manual tillage in the middle of winter.

At this time, Guo Yang thought of the Fendt 930 of Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and transferred it over.

As for the expenses, Tianhe will have to bear them.

But it's worth it to reduce pests and diseases next year.

Unlike the open saline-alkali beach, the cultivated land in Hekou Village is not so continuous.

Therefore, this time the Fendt 930 is not equipped with a giant hydraulic flip plow with 40 plowshares, but with a normal 12 plowshares.

However, the land in Hekou Village is fertile arable soil, so the efficiency of farming is also very fast.

In less than a week, the two of them finished the work.

During this week, Zhang Wei and Cai Bin were the most popular among the children in the village. Some extroverted children even tried all kinds of ways to please them just to get a chance to ride on the tractor and take a look.

Even the adults were happy to chat with the two and brag a little.

When the two men drove away on the tractor, many villagers watched them from afar.

Seeing the snow being turned into the soil, and the soil being slowly frozen, the village chief Lu Zhaoqiang could not help but sigh: "Auspicious snow means a good harvest!"

Zhang Wei and Cai Bin drove the machines back to Alfalfa's forage factory. These two Fendt 930s have done great work for Alfalfa this year.

In addition to plowing the land, these two tractors can also tow other farm tools to operate in alfalfa pastures, such as tillage and weeding, spraying pesticides and fertilizing, etc.

The forage processing factory of Alfalfa has been built, but the production line has not been assembled yet. Apart from offices and living quarters, there are mostly empty warehouses.

Zhang Wei stuck his head out of the cab and said to Cai Bin, "First, wipe off the straw, mud and dust on the machinery outside, and then give all the machinery a thorough maintenance!"

"Okay. You've been talking for so long, why is there still no movement from the agricultural machinery factory that Mr. Guo mentioned?"

"Hey, kid, stop asking about the boss's business."

"I am anxious to expand our agricultural machinery team. I wonder how the two stone pickers are doing in Qing Province with Professor Weng."

"I asked last time, and the work has been stopped a long time ago. Professor Weng has also returned to school."

The two men drove the cleaned Fendt 930 into the newly built ventilated and dry agricultural machinery warehouse.

Here, a complete set of Claas silage harvesting machinery is neatly arranged.

Mowers, rakes, pick-up balers, self-propelled forage harvesters, hay cutters, choppers, briquette presses and pelletizers.

Zhang Wei jumped down from the cab and said to Cai Bin, "The boss called and said he's at the ranch and will be here soon."

"Ah? So sudden. Mr. Guo hasn't been here for a long time."

"Maybe Mr. Xiang went back to his hometown for vacation, and Mr. Guo was worried about this place, so he came to take a look."

"Is Mr. Xiang's hometown in Beijing?"

"It's just that he used to work near Beijing. I heard that his hometown is GZ Prefecture, Sichuan Province."

While chatting, he did not relax his hands.

During this period, the two have already mastered the use and maintenance of relevant agricultural machinery.

Clean all filters and heat sinks skillfully, then carefully check the transmission oil, running clutch and main clutch friction plates, release bearings, etc., and replace those that need to be replaced.

After a while, Guo Yang came in. "Are you taking care of it?"

"boss."

"Mr. Guo."

The two greeted each other, and Zhang Wei said, "The weather is getting colder, and these machines will have to be parked for a month or two, so I thought about doing a major maintenance."

Guo Yang watched Zhang Wei remove the spherical bearings and add lubricating oil from the small holes on the outer circle.

On the other side, Cai Bin was also removing the battery power cord, removing the battery, pouring out the electrolyte, and fully lubricating all moving parts.

It seems that these two people have been studying hard during this period.

"What about the Claas machinery? Does it also need maintenance?" Guo Yang thought that this set of Claas silage machinery had not been analyzed yet and the technical data had not been obtained yet.

In the subsequent production of agricultural machinery, silage machines will definitely be the focus, after all, there are 200,000 acres of pasture here.

"Yes, we will have to wipe it down later and then cover it with a tarp to prevent dust from getting in."

"Well done!"

Guo Yang praised, and then said: "After the maintenance is completed, the two of you will go to Shandong Province to participate in training and conduct local inspections."

"Are you planning to build an agricultural machinery factory in Shandong Province?"

"What are you thinking? The factory must be built in the northwest. Tianhe Company is planning to purchase a batch of agricultural machinery. Next year, you two will transfer one person to Tianhe."

The two were stunned for a moment before Zhang Wei asked, "Tianhe doesn't have many links for using agricultural machinery. They can be directly handed over to Muhe's agricultural machinery team. There's no need to separate them."

"At present, vegetable planting and seed production machinery is relatively backward, and there is no suitable planting model, so the degree of mechanization is not high."

"The purpose of transferring you here is to discover problems with the existing machinery, propose requirements, facilitate subsequent factory research and development, and train the team at the same time."

"Once the agricultural machinery teams of Tianhe and Muhe are mature, they can be separated and set up as a special agricultural machinery social service company."

After listening to Guo Yang's explanation, the two nodded to show that they understood.

Guo Yang continued to watch the two of them busying themselves, and found this scene particularly relaxing.

As he watched, Guo Yang couldn't help but go forward and start manipulating it.

I don't know how long it was before a sound was heard from outside.

"It's snowing again!"

(End of this chapter)