In the sixties and seventies, there were three dredgers, one big ship was operated by two people, and two small boat production teams were operated by one person. Around our village, there are more than a dozen ponds, large and small. Dredging starts in March every year and ends at the end of late autumn 1 1.
Mud is recycled in more than a dozen reservoirs, with large reservoirs for three to five days at a time and small reservoirs for two to three days. Mud must be a male first-class labor force, that is, the labor force with a division of labor of 10 every working day. Generally speaking, no matter how strong a woman is, she can only get a nine-point division of labor. She is a second-class labor force and can't take part in dredging operations. More than 40 first-class workers in the production team, including more than 30 crew members, take turns to board the ship every few days. Because the boatmen's technical requirements are high, all four boatmen are old farmers around 50 years old. The difference between a small boat and a big boat is that the small boat is six points skill and four points physical strength, while the big boat is six points physical strength and four points skill. A big boat and a small boat can complement each other in the same pond. The boat can work in deep water area and slope ditch area-the hanging basket of the boat is clip-shaped, the thick ends of two bamboo poles are inserted into two concave bamboo poles respectively, and the two bamboo poles are separated on them, so that the opening of the underwater hanging basket is opened, and the ditch mud can be clamped by shoveling down the slope of the ditch. Large ships can operate in deep water and shallow water. The boat's basket is semi-circular, with an iron blade at its mouth and a small bamboo pole with a small head down and a thick head up. During the operation of the big ship, the two boatmen worked closely together. One person walks slowly with a bamboo pole, and the other person sinks the head of the bamboo pole into the bottom of the pool. When the basket mouth sinks into the river mud, the boatman holds the boat vigorously, and the other person holds the upper part of the bamboo pole with both hands, leans against the support point sinking along the boat to bend the bamboo pole to nearly 90 degrees, and then bends it forcefully. Because of the heavy physical consumption of hands, the support hand and the big boatman exchange homework every two hours.
1970 I 17 years old, became a first-class worker, joined the mud team, and later created a miracle. /kloc-at the age of 0/8, I partnered with my neighbor who was one year older than me to dig mud in a big pond in the west of the village under the extremely bad conditions of strong wind and heavy rain. This pond is called Daxigou, with a water surface of more than ten acres. The bigger the water surface, the bigger the wind and waves. When it was stormy, we couldn't open our eyes, but we both persisted in the rainstorm for a day and filled up a big grass pond for storing ditch mud. On this day, more than 80 members of the whole production team stayed at home because of the strong wind and heavy rain. We were the only boys who went to work. This task is not to show off, but to get work points. At that time, every five cubic meters was designated as a worksite. On that day, each of us got 1.60 working points, 0.30 more than the highest point on a sunny day.
Dredging silt is a heavy work that consumes a lot of energy. It doesn't matter if you work hard. The key is to work hungry, and you will faint every half morning. Although we are hungry, whenever the cabin is full of mud and the ship slowly sails to the shore, we are all in a happy mood and forget fatigue and hunger. The happiest thing is that during the operation, penny sometimes collides with silver carp underwater, and silver carp will jump out of the water or even just jump into the cabin.
Mud is an important farming method in rural areas under specific historical conditions, which played an important role in grain harvest during the period of serious shortage of agricultural fertilizers.