Chapter 68 Ship-breaking materials
Zhao Dahai was sweating profusely and his clothes were soaked. After finishing the last place, he stopped and took a few breaths. The work looked simple but it was really laborious. One was that the wood of the ship planks was hard. In addition, the holes that have been eaten away or rotten must be cut out and the holes must be made as small as possible so that they can be repaired easily and have little impact on the fishing boat.
Zhao Shi carefully checked one by one. There was no problem and he was very satisfied. The work was done quickly and carefully. This was not easy. There was no fuss about a twenty-year-old boy at all.
Zhao Shi sighed. The last person like this was Zhao Dahai's father. He could learn any job and did it well, but it was a pity that he left early.
Zhao Shi took out a ruler and began to measure the place where the ship plank was knocked off. While measuring, he used a pencil to write and draw on a piece of paper.
Zhao Dahai looked carefully at the side. This matter is not simple. The fishing boats are curved, plus some corners. How many boards are needed and what kind of boards are needed? Which board is bigger and which board is smaller? Especially when repairing fishing boats now, it is not about building a new fishing boat. It is even more important to be precise. This saves trouble and money during installation. You will definitely have to deal with fishing boats in the future. Maybe one day you will need one. If you want to repair a fishing boat yourself, you must learn more if you have the opportunity. Fishermen who cannot repair fishing boats are not good fishermen.
Zhao Dahai waited for Zhao Shi to finish taking the measurements, and then asked what he didn't understand. After buying the board and repairing it, he almost understood everything.
It was almost noon after Zhao Dahai and Zhao Shi had measured and calculated the size of the boat planks they needed. Zhong Cuihua cooked rice and stuffed her neck briefly before riding her motorcycle to the town to buy the boat planks.
Hongqi Shipyard.
As Zhao Dahai walked in, he looked at the large and small fishing boats parked on both sides of the road. Some were made of iron and more of wood. They were so dilapidated that some only had their keels left, and some had only their keels left. Some boards were all crowded together, exuding a smell of sea and rust. These fishing boats once ran in the sea, catching countless fish and making a lot of money. Now they can only wait here to rot.
Zhao Dahai and Zhao Shi walked all the way to the innermost part and saw a large work shed with the keel frame of a wooden fishing boat on a shelf. It looked like it was built to be 16 or 7 meters long.
"Old Zhou!"
"Old Zhou!"
Zhao Shi shouted at the top of his lungs when he saw that no one was there.
“What are you doing?”
"How could you, an old man like you, come to my place?"
Zhao Dahai looked back and saw an old man about the same age as Zhao Shi. He was pushing a tricycle in his hand and holding a lot of wooden boards. He walked over, took over and pushed him into the work shed.
“Where did this kid come from?”
Zhou Fucheng wiped his sweat with a towel and then wiped his hands. He glanced at Zhao Dahai and nodded, taking the initiative to help with the work without saying a word. That’s good. .
"Zhao Dahai."
"My eldest brother's house."
Zhao Shi said as he walked around the fishing boat being built in the work shed and looked at it.
Zhou Fucheng was silent for a while and sighed. The town and village were not big, and some things were known to everyone. He and Zhao Shi had been friends for many years, so he knew the situation immediately when he heard about it.
Zhao Shi reached out and patted the keel of the fishing boat under construction. It was made of solid materials and was a good boat. He looked away and said that he would buy the boat planks today.
Zhou Fucheng was stunned for a moment. Zhao Shi was the same age as himself. He couldn't do anything, and he definitely couldn't go to sea. Also, he came here to buy ship planks and must be repairing fishing boats. He immediately thought of what was going on and couldn't help but He turned and looked at Zhao Dahai.
"Buy some boat planks to repair the boat left by my father and mother and go fishing."
Zhao Dahai nodded, Zhou Fucheng knew his own affairs.
"That boat was built by you. You are very familiar with it. Hurry up and get me some good materials."
Zhao Shi held the paper with the dimensions in his hand and placed it on the table. superior.
“These boards are not cheap, they cost 23,000 yuan in total, and the better ones are estimated to cost 25,000 yuan.”
Zhou Fucheng picked up the paper and looked at it carefully and calculated with the abacus for a while, then he looked up at Zhao Dahai and Zhao Shi.
"Huh?"
"Is it so expensive?"
Zhao Shi was stunned for a moment, this was three to five thousand yuan higher than he estimated. "The main reason is that wood is expensive. The price has increased by almost 30% compared with previous years."
"I remember that it was a boat that was 10.08 meters long and 2.48 meters wide. The several main boards on the bottom of the boat are durable only if they are connected to each other. The boards are not wide but cannot be supported long. More than half of the money was spent on this. Plus other The price of the board suddenly reached 20,000 yuan.”
“Other scrap materials and other materials cost two to three thousand yuan.”
Zhou Fucheng pocketed it. I flicked a cigarette and gave it to Zhao Shi. In recent years, there have been few people making wooden fishing boats. Instead of being cheap, they are more expensive. Wood is expensive and labor is expensive. It’s really a hell.
“How can there be any reason for such an increase?”
“Cheaper!”
......
“Hey!”
“When did I make an extra fortune?”
“This price is only hard-earned money!”
“No matter how cheap it is, it’s only two to three hundred yuan, so you can’t wipe out two or three thousand yuan, right?”
...
Zhao Dahai had a headache listening to Zhao Shi and Zhou Fucheng bargaining. He had earned 20,000 yuan and rushed over happily to buy wood to repair the ship. He did not expect that the price would increase, and not even a little bit.
What to do?
Continue to make some money?
While Zhao Dahai was thinking about it, he looked outside the work shed. What he saw were dilapidated fishing boats, and he suddenly had an idea.
"Boss Zhou."
"The price you mentioned is for newly purchased wood, right?"
Zhao Dahai asked Zhou Fucheng.
Zhou Fucheng immediately said that this must be the price of new wood.
Zhao Dahai pointed to the old ships piled outside and asked if there was any material for dismantling the ships. If so, he would not buy new wood but only materials for dismantling the ships.
"You want to buy ship-breaking materials? How could it not be possible? But are you sure you want to buy such materials?"
Zhou Fucheng did not expect Zhao Dahai to have this idea.
“Just buy ship-breaking materials.”
Zhao Dahai made up his mind. Ship-breaking materials refer to materials removed from old fishing boats. New wood is expensive, while used ship-breaking materials are cheap. They have the same meaning as second-hand car parts. I thought it would be appropriate to repair the fishing boat and go to sea as soon as possible.
Zhou Fucheng did not speak immediately and turned to look at Zhao Shi.
"Dahai."
"Did you just think about it? Why don't you think of ways to make some money?"
Zhao Shi frowned, not wanting Zhao Dahai to buy ship-breaking materials.
"Second Grandpa."
"We are repairing a fishing boat, and what we want is to save money and time. When we go out to sea to fish, our heads are tied to our belts. We don’t have so many worries. .”
Zhao Dahai spoke directly. Ship scrapping materials are dismantled materials. Most fishing boats are abandoned after accidents. Zhao Shi felt that it was unlucky. He really didn't care about this matter and insisted on saying that the boat being repaired was also an accident ship. If you have money, just buy a new one or a bigger one. Isn’t it just that you want to repair it if you don’t have money? Where do you come from so many ideas and attention to detail?
Zhao Shi was silent for a while and nodded. What Zhao Dahai said makes sense, but there really isn’t much to emphasize.
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