Chapter 232 Forklift Test

"It's snowing~Brother."

Who~~who is bleeding down there.

Luo Cheng woke up suddenly and found that it was already dawn. He looked at his watch and saw that it was still early. However, light snow is falling outside the window. Such snow is basically impossible to retain. Once it falls on the ground, it has already melted. If the snow does not fall heavily or lasts for a long time, it is just a scenery.

"I never tire of seeing the flowers and snow blowing in the wind, and even more are willing to be lost in the forest. The sad person is under the book window, and one is flying and the other is cold."

Just when Luo Cheng thought there was something beautiful about the snow and continued to fall asleep, poetry was recited outside the window. Not bad, a literary youth, but it’s a pity that we don’t need such people in this era. They all became beggars who almost starved to death. After only one day, they became wet and had something wrong with them.

Hungry~hungry~~.

Hey, the geese raised in the yard faced the crackdown and protested directly. They even recited poems when they were hungry, and they asked you directly if you were hungry.

"Brother, get up quickly, we are going to work. Brother, I want to eat baked eggs today."

"It's so late after just squinting for a while. Okay, you guys go to work quickly. I'll get up right now."

"Well, brother, let me tell you something. I feel that Sister Zheng may have a problem here. She honestly likes to talk alone. She was reading something alone in the yard just now. Brother, do you think it could be her? The problem is, she became a beggar because her family didn’t want her, and everything she said before was all lies to us.”

Luo Shishi kept pointing to her head as she spoke, which meant clearly that she was talking about mental illness. But people in this era don't really understand what mental illness is. Anyway, people with mental problems are collectively called crazy.

Yo, this idea is interesting. Luo Cheng also nodded cooperatively. This young man, as a young man, has some mental problems. Luo Cheng told Shishi that Zheng Xue's problems were not big. At most, she just liked to think about problems randomly, and it would be like this if no one communicated with her. If other problems arise, what does the elder brother have to worry about? He will send her directly to his room and suppress her on the spot.

Shishi thinks about it, what should she be afraid of if she has a big brother? When talking to Zheng Xue, there seems to be no problem. It's not like someone with a brain problem. Just talk to someone if you like. As for the suppression that the eldest brother mentioned, she didn't understand what this literary word meant, but the eldest brother was the head of the family and the director of the factory outside, so no one could suppress him.

Shishi went to work happily, but now the weather is cold and it's snowing again. This is actually a good thing for Shishi and Xiaoyu. The chickens, ducks and pigs in the breeding house are no longer noisy. They like to huddle up in corners, which makes their job of feeding easier. In addition, there are fewer chicken and duck eggs, so the work of collecting eggs is easier, but they still hope to have more eggs. There is a sense of joy in collecting eggs.

It only takes about ten minutes to wash up and have breakfast here in Luo Cheng. If you like to sleep in, you have no choice but to get up and catch up.

After dinner, Luo Cheng came to the factory. The factory entrance was still the same as yesterday, with many new people coming to join the company. Because it was snowing lightly, many people did not have rain gear and their shoulders were wet.

It's cold now, and Luo Cheng feels that he has developed a bad habit. He likes to go to the cafeteria to carry a hot water bottle to the office as soon as he comes. The last time the local finance department came to deliver tickets, there were tea tickets. Luo Cheng asked the logistics department to take the tickets and purchase them. Then each department distributed some, which is known as tea for hospitality. But basically every department is secretly drinking some.

Luo Cheng doesn't know how to taste tea, but he just drinks one that tastes different from plain water. Of those who come for meetings, many of them have recently come with enamel cups filled with boiling water. No one taught them this, and they formed a tacit understanding during the meeting. Even Xu Haitang and Li Xiaotong were like this, and they pretended to drink boiled water.

The meeting started again, and Luo Cheng also reported on the work he was responsible for. Firstly, he wanted everyone to know what the factory might do in the future. Secondly, he wanted everyone to understand that as the director of the factory, he worked hard for the factory. Don't look at it often. Lying in the office to sleep, he is a mental worker and needs more rest to relax his brain.

Luo Cheng is currently responsible for the design of the variable, and Director Zhao will cooperate with him to create what he designed. The other one is the 2.0 version of the cube car, which is a true ‘high-end’ car. The model is larger than the square car, and the shape is no longer a simple iron pipe and iron frame. Instead, it will have an integrated body like a car. This will be the responsibility of Director Zhao in the future.

Anyway, the newly designed transmission cannot be mass-produced, and the 2.0 body of the box car cannot be mass-produced. At most, it is easier to knock out than the car body. It is really difficult to stamp out the entire body from existing materials.

Everyone is used to Luo Cheng's craziness. Other car manufacturers have been producing the same car for several years. If other departments don't put forward demands, they won't take the initiative to produce and research other types of cars. So it is normal for one factory to have only one car these days.

Those who make jeeps basically only make jeeps, and those who make trucks only make trucks. A brand means a style of car, but if you look at the Ngee Ann Automobile Factory, when people ask what they produce, they will see a lot of them. The motorcycle factory in Hongcheng was just a bicycle factory for many years.

Luo Cheng has finished talking about what he has to do now. Anyway, as long as he is not seeking personal gain, the factory director still has great autonomy. Others started to report if they had any problems, and the reporting work began to be regular, with senior people speaking first. Director Zhang reported on a lot of purchasing situations. In addition, the new workshops are now in good condition. This time there are eight of them, which can greatly relieve the pressure.

The engine is being produced, but most of the parts are produced by ourselves. There are too many parts to an engine. And because it is an assembly line production, many employees can only assemble but do not understand the structure and principles. The current situation is that workers know that they should assemble this way, but they don’t know why they should assemble it this way.

But assembly line production is like this. If every employee is taught why, there will be no need to start work, and expansion will not be possible. If there are not enough skilled workers, development will be blocked.

It is necessary to set up a separate workshop to serve as a warehouse for engine parts, and then each part is numbered. Otherwise, it is impossible. Otherwise, some workers will even take the wrong screws. The assembly line is like this. The factory does not need them to have thinking, as long as they have standards.

Pallet welding and manual forklift frames also need to be welded. Now that they are measured, there are more welders. A separate workshop is also required to carry out the work.

The other is the mechanical operation workshop. One workshop is no longer enough, and many of the machines brought from the military factory have been transferred to the operation workshop. The people Director Zhao brings here are either engineers or skilled workers. They can focus on difficult and difficult things. The machines can be operated by the people below. They can provide guidance on what needs to be produced in the factory.

But now the people brought by Director Zhao will not be able to relax for many days. When the first motorized forklift was produced, the functions were tested and orders for accessories and materials were immediately placed. In a few days, Director Zhao will leave the workshop to knock out steel plates again. In addition, they also need to make the gears of the transmission, and today Luo Cheng said that he will make a body of a cube car 2.0 or something.

Therefore, those people in the military factory will not be able to stop for a long time after everyone arrives. To hammer or polish things by hand, a group of people will be required to do it.

Anyway, there are eight newly built workshops, but at most they are reserved. Forklifts also need workshops after they are officially produced, and the demand for shock absorbers is not low now. In addition to self-produced ones, many vehicles need to be retrofitted. Nearby cities also need this, and nearby repair shops purchase it. Although it is not planned for production, the demand will come down after the previous cars are retrofitted.

But I think that as long as there are vehicles in the future, this thing will be needed, and even motorcycles can be retrofitted. Therefore, Luo Cheng plans to add another production line for shock absorbers, and then use a dedicated workshop to be responsible for processing and assembly.

In addition, carpentry now also needs a workshop. For the production and assembly of three-wheel truck carriages and the construction of furniture for the office canteen, the previous few carpenters are simply not enough. Recently, two more masters have been recruited. Carpentry masters are relatively easy to recruit, mainly because the requirements for carpentry masters in automobile factories are not very high, and they don’t want to have to carve some furniture.

Anyway, Luo Cheng no longer messes around. The newly built workshop is barely enough, including the 2.0 version of the cube car that Luo Cheng wants to build. Now for faster production, the vehicle chassis can be produced in advance before other accessories arrive. A chassis frame is not small and requires a workshop.

The new workshops were divided up as soon as they were built. Luo Cheng asked Director Zhang to arrange the construction of another batch of workshops. This time we will not build a small workshop, but a large comprehensive workshop with two floors.

Now a product only occupies a workshop, and the output is not high. But go and see a textile factory, a match factory, that sort of thing. There are not many varieties, but one variety requires many workshops to produce because of its large output.

It also means that it costs nothing to declare and use land these days. Otherwise, these single-story workshops of several hundred square meters each will be demolished by Luo Cheng in the future, and they will be built into regular factory buildings for later generations.

But there is no need to demolish it now, as the land is not enough. And where are we now? Not to mention that there are still many things to be built on the planned site, and there is also a large piece of land reserved to the west.

Even the various employee dormitories under construction are all additional land that was applied for and approved later. Just a little past the north gate, because they are all under construction, the foundations must be laid firmly, and now they are laying foundations in large areas. Except for the courtyard room where the leaders live, the staff buildings are all three-story buildings. The ordinary staff rooms and cadre rooms are only slightly different in structure and size, but the rest are pretty much the same.

There are 60 units in a general employee building, with double and single structures. There are only 45 cadre houses in one building, with one more room and a larger area. Now more than a dozen buildings have been built at once. Although it is not enough to give each employee one set, it is enough for each formal worker to get one set.

The construction of a staff building will cost a lot once the measurements are taken. This is also the reason why Luo Cheng has temporarily given up importing and producing high-precision gear machines. Even if the forklifts and engines can bring in some profits this month, money is still tight.

What I have to mention is that (book friends questioned that in the era of planned production, capitalists were still looking for shares), banks in this era did not have any corporate loan function, because the companies were all state-owned, and whatever they needed money for, they had to turn to local finance. Whether it can be approved or not depends on the financial assessment.

Another thing is the starting point of the subsequent major activities, which is working classism now. But after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was indeed a shortage of money everywhere, so we had to rely on the power of some capital, and the capitalists who could exist in this era basically contributed to the founding of the People's Republic of China.

But just because the planned economy was so stable, many capitalists originally invested in it to acquire shares, perhaps with the primary purpose of providing support. But later on, the dividends and so on were so huge that some people thought it was an exploitative idea. Taking away the labor success of workers without doing anything.

Therefore, the starting point of the subsequent major activities is to prevent the restoration of capital.

This is why many companies now think of looking for capital instead of local finance if their foundation is insufficient. Because it is much easier to find capital to invest in than to apply for approval, and the factory director only gets a salary of a hundred yuan a month. The director of a big factory can only get a salary of two to three hundred yuan, which is very large. They don't care who's money, as long as the scale goes up, everyone's level will go up.

Those leaders who are related to capital will be involved later even if you are really just trying to develop the factory.

If you are not looking for capital, it is indeed a good idea to find a place to declare. But it is not suitable for automobile manufacturers. These days, it is no joke to say that cattle and horses are slow, mail is slow, everything is slow, and the pace of life is also slow. If you want to apply for a piece of land, it will be easily approved because it costs nothing.

But you have to apply for hundreds of thousands or even millions for development. That’s not to say that you don’t support it, but you need to investigate and go to local units to explain how to do it. If you can get the money in a month or two, it’s good. If it's slow, the car factory will slow down on its own and won't need to declare it.

After the meeting, Luo Cheng made a call to the steel rolling mill and arranged the work before returning to the office to continue working on the drawings. Team Leader Jiang and the others had left, and the office was now empty, making it easier to sign in. Director Zhao has set up two offices in the workshop, one in each workshop, and the ones here are not used at the moment.

(To explain the loophole mentioned by a reader friend, what you get when you sign in at other places are physical objects, but what you sign in here are drawings. As I said before, this is a design institute, not a laboratory. The laboratory may have models and physical objects. , but the design office is a drawing and design department. At most, there is no strict sign-in to obtain blank paper, drawing tools, etc. in the design and research room.)

In the morning, four forklifts and one block truck drove away from the automobile factory. The forks of each forklift were stacked with steel pallets. The block truck took the lead and drove directly to the steel rolling mill.

These four forklifts are considered samples, but they can also be used directly. Because it was snowing lightly, the car was temporarily covered with a green leather rain sheet. Although this forklift is currently not available for takeout, it can still demonstrate the strength of the automobile factory. There are many companies that want forklifts. When the production volume increases in the future, there will be opportunities for cooperation.

When it is shipped to the rolling mill, the price negotiated is 30,000 yuan if it is exported, and 50,000 yuan if it is not exported and sold domestically. And if there is no exit, the steel rolling mill cannot fool this side. Because companies that export have priority for imported products. If the steel rolling mill has no exports, it will be exported, and it will only give some grain and a price of 30,000 yuan. From now on, if the automobile factory wants to import anything, it will just ask the steel rolling mill directly.

The steel rolling mill had helped Luo Cheng so much, and Luo Cheng felt that the other party would not deceive him in this regard.

The forklift transports it to the steel rolling mill and wants to export it, but it still doesn't work. You have to go to Tianhu or Shijiucheng, where there are diplomatic, Haikou, and foreign service personnel.

The automobile factory does not have to worry about the long wait for the forklift to be transported to other places for export, because the car is signed for by the steel rolling mill. If it is not exported by the 25th, it will take several months to get through. Exit route. But once the settlement day comes, the settlement money still has to be paid, and it will be calculated according to the domestic sales price. If this is not the case, if there is a backlog of forklifts, the capital chain of the automobile factory will be broken.

After the people at the steel rolling mill received the forklift, they immediately arranged for someone to test its performance. The weight of the body is less than 2.5 tons, and it can fork up to 2 tons of goods. Anyone who has come into contact with a balanced forklift will understand what this concept is.

The so-called balanced forklift means that according to the lever theory, if the weight of the truck is greater than the weight of the goods, it will not be overturned. But the forks and shelves actually have to be factored into the weight of the goods, so it will never be possible to theoretically realize that a 2T truck can fork 2T of goods.

The weight is less than 2.5 tons. This is considered as insurance. A few tenths of a ton of weight are added just in case. Then add water to the water tank and oil to the fuel tank. The overall weight of the car body is several hundred kilograms heavier than the goods.

At the steel rolling mill, Director Chen also paid great attention to the forklift. If the performance is really as Luo Cheng said, even if it does not export, the country can reduce the amount of imports, and saving foreign exchange is equivalent to earning foreign exchange.

However, Liancheng is already producing forklifts. Although the data ratio is much worse than that here, it is fine as long as it can be used. Therefore, if export is possible, the higher authorities will still choose to export. Moreover, the export price here is not cheap. If it were cheap, I would not choose to export. Now it is time to try to lead in performance. Will foreign countries accept the high price?

Many of the things currently imported in China are obsolete products. Some are not sold by others, and some are sold by others, but they feel that the price-performance ratio is not good. One high-end thing is like many low-end ones. And when domestic labor wages are nothing at all, as long as a single machine is efficient and multiple inefficient machines can surpass a single machine, you must choose a cost-effective machine. rather than advanced machines.

But the country is also envious of those advanced machines, which can be easily sold at high prices, and many countries actually buy them.

The 2T weight of goods was easily forked under the operation of the forklift driver. And the forklift is also very powerful, so it can be transported wherever it needs to be transported. In terms of styling, Luo Cheng also did not use green paint. But the colors are black and yellow. This is what Luo Cheng suggested. Just because people in China like green does not mean that people abroad also like it. And pure green is too monotonous.

"Add another five hundred kilograms of goods."

"Director Chen~~, this can't be done."

"I just tested the maximum fork lift capacity of this forklift, and I also added 500 kilograms of stuff to the body."

Director Chen said that he already knew Luo Cheng to some extent and knew that the quantity he ordered might not be the maximum for whatever this kid was doing. Just say that if the engine were replaced by another manufacturer, the performance would be overstated by at least 20%. Because its load capacity has exceeded Luo Cheng's own label of 70%.

The performance data marked by Luo Cheng are all data within the optimal power consumption, which is somewhat the same as that of many rigorous industrial countries abroad. But in China, to put it bluntly, people are as simple as they can be, but they all have the habit of being overly enthusiastic about success, and they tend to exaggerate whatever they create.

With an extra five hundred kilograms, the operator found that it didn't take much effort to lift the fork, and reported to Director Chen with a surprised smile. Director Chen was standing on the sidelines watching, and it made no difference whether he reported or not.

"Another five hundred pounds."

"Okay, I'll join you right away."

After waiting for a while, as required, five hundred kilograms of weight was added to the car body first. There were many iron ingots in the steel rolling mill, and each one had an approximate weight. It was easy to add this.

Still the same as before, he lifted the fork easily. Director Chen even asked the driver to start moving, but there was no big problem.

If you continue to add more, a thousand kilograms is only half a ton, which is nothing. After adding it twice in a row, the originally set 2T forklift has been able to lift a weight of 3T, and it still feels effortless. This is just like overloading trucks. Later generations will check this and that, and there will be a few truck drivers who do not overload. Overloading is not a matter of care.

Just when everyone thought Director Chen would continue the test, he stopped going any further.

The forks were produced by the steel rolling mill. He knew the strength. It had already been tested to 3T, so there was no need to test it again. Moreover, the quality of a forklift is not originally tested through such data. This can only test the current forklift power and lifting capacity. But if you really operate according to the 3T quantity, it is easy to cause problems.

For example, the forks are also loosened, but if you add weight, they will definitely not break, but you are afraid of adding more weight. And now on the surface, it seems to be fine. But gears, wheels, chains and other things are all designed. It's okay if you overload them once or twice, but if you use them under load all the time, it's hard to say.

This is the same as the transmission currently produced by Luo Cheng. The thickness of the gears is different from the current one. Because this is a transmission of the later era, a variable speed variable device that can withstand speeds that add up to two hundred yards. If you use the current transducer, even if you can drive the car up to 200 yards, it is definitely prone to problems.

So it’s almost enough to measure 3T, which is already very powerful. Two forklifts were left in reserve, and Director Chen immediately arranged for people to transport the remaining two, one to Sijiu City and the other to Tianhu.

After making the arrangements, Director Chen thought about it and arranged for someone to send another one to a certain port. There is currently a shortage of forklifts in the country, especially in places like ports. Just leave one unit in the steel rolling mill first. This will solve as much burden as it can on the port. Of course, money has to be given to the receiving unit at the port, and his steel rolling mill also has to give it to Luo Cheng's automobile factory. It costs 50,000 yuan, and they are selling it at the damn import price. At this price, Luo Cheng also said that he was only selling their steel rolling mill, and others were more expensive.

However, although the price is not low, the performance is really unmatched by those imported forklifts.

(Some things are not easy to discuss, and I dare not use random words in my replies. Especially about some background topics of this era. Last time, the chapter was blocked just because of a marginal remark. But there are some issues that cannot be explained without explanation)