Chapter 114

After making the oil cake, the next step is to squeeze it.

Now at the far left end of the oil cake tank, that is, the other end of the oil cake tank, a round skid is placed. This kind of cushion wood is the key to oil extraction. Its diameter is a little smaller than the iron ring used to make the oil cake. It is at both ends of the oil cake compartment. When extracting oil, it is pointing to these two cushion wood to squeeze the oil cake.

After the skids were put in place, twelve well-made oil cakes and iron rings were put into the oil cake cabin one by one. They squeezed each other tightly, just enough to fill the whole oil cake cabin.

Each oil cake is about 30 jin, and these 12 oil cakes are 360 Jin of broken peanuts.

Finally, put a piece of skid in the right end of the oil cake tank again, and the work of the oil cake tank is complete.

The next step is to put square pieces of wood into the extrusion chamber. Eight square pieces of wood were packed into the rectangular extrusion chamber one by one, and the extrusion chamber was full. The leftmost piece of wood contacted with the thick pad at the rightmost end of the oil cake chamber.

At this time, all the pressing work is finished, and then the final process of oil pressing is to smash a triangular wedge into the gap of eight square blocks in the extrusion chamber.

In front of the oil press, the old wood set up a shelf, which was more than three meters high. Two ropes hung down from the upper beam. At the end of the rope were tied two thigh thick and thin logs about one and a half meters long.

These two logs are the tools to break the wedge.

If the triangle wedge wants to break into the square block which is already very tight, it must use great strength. Although it's OK to smash it with a sledgehammer, it's a very laborious thing. After all, the wooden wedge needs to be smashed into the square block horizontally instead of downward. Therefore, it's a very laborious thing to smash the wooden wedge with a sledgehammer.

The most important thing is that this kind of work is easy to miss even if it's not done well.

So Shi Xiong made such a wooden frame in accordance with the method of the fourth grandfather's oil press workshop. Two logs were hung at two different positions of the cross beam of the wooden frame, and the principle adopted was like a hammer for ringing a bell.

As long as the height of the card is good, then when the log swings up, it will hit the triangle wedge accurately every time, and there is no need to worry about the deviation.

Moreover, each log weighs more than 200 Jin. Once it swings up, the force of hitting the triangle wedge is even greater than that of swinging a sledgehammer. The most important thing is that using this method, the operator only needs a little effort to swing up the log, which is much easier than swinging a sledgehammer.

Stone bear himself stood in front of the log on the far right, then pushed the hanging log, and the log swung up quickly.

"Bang", accompanied by a dull knock, the triangular wedge was smashed into a bar, and then after a second or two, the same sound came out again, and the wedge was smashed into a bar again.

All the clansmen were stunned to see all this. They found that the squeeze bed, which had been so crowded that they could not put anything any more, was smashed in with the wedge. No matter it was the wood or the oil cake, they began to move, and the squeeze was even tighter than before.

But the problem is, can you squeeze out the peanut oil just like this?

People of all ethnic groups don't believe it very much.

But after the stone bear smashed the wedge into the extrusion chamber, the sharp eyed rabbit pointed to the earthenware basin under the oil press and cried out: "look, look, there is oil dripping at the bottom..."

People's eyes were attracted by the rabbit's mouth, and suddenly, the sound of "coax" broke out.

These people are very surprised. They have all seen peanut kernels. They also admit that this kind of small round beans is more delicious than that kind of yellow soybean. But they can't imagine that this kind of small round beans can squeeze oil in this way after being fried and crushed

The stone bear is naturally full of confidence. In his previous life, four grandfathers could extract oil from rapeseed, not to mention peanut kernels with higher oil content. If they could not extract oil, they would be damned.

Clapping his hands, the stone bear let go of the log and waved to the fast horse. The fast horse, who had been waiting for a long time, ran to the second log under the envious gaze of a group of people.

The stone bear smashed the first wooden wedge in to give the clan a demonstration. He won't finish all the work. In his last life, he pressed oil a lot in his fourth grandfather's family. He had done enough for a long time. He didn't want to continue to work as an oil presser after this age.

The following work will be done by kuaimai.

Looking at Kuaima pushing the log to smash the second wedge into the extrusion cabin, at this moment, Shi Xiong's mind not only drifted back to the time when he helped to squeeze oil at his fourth grandfather's house in his previous life.

Old Shijia's oil mill was very famous in all the villages. Not only the people in the village pressed oil here, but also the people in the nearby villages came to press oil with ox carts or donkey carts.

The fourth grandfather told the stone bear a lot about the past when he was free. The fourth grandfather said that before liberation, there was an oil press. But at that time, the fourth grandfather and his brothers worked together with Shixiong's grandfather. At that time, the countryside was relatively poor, and no one was willing to use peanuts to extract oil. Most of them used rapeseed to extract oil.

Later, after liberation and land reform, the oil press was confiscated. But at that time, no one could squeeze oil. Finally, the old man of stone bear exchanged twenty-five loads of grain for this oil press. Then, when my grandfather passed away, my fourth grandfather took over the oil press.

When the fourth grandfather took over the oil press workshop, it was still in the period of large collective production team. At that time, the rapeseed production team had to contact the fourth grandfather in advance to press oil, so as to avoid being emptied.

And when it's the turn of which brigade to extract oil, the captain will choose four or five people to help the fourth grandfather. It's very orderly.

However, after the production responsibility system in the 1980s, the situation of oil extraction returned to the pattern before liberation. The fourth grandfather had to extract oil every year until after the Double Ninth Festival in September of the lunar calendar.

In the fourth grandfather's oil press, a kilo of rapeseed can be exchanged for three or three dollars of oil. If there is little oil for the folks who come to pour it, they will work together to squeeze it. If a certain family has a lot of oil, it's OK for them to squeeze it alone.

At that time, although there was no new oil press, the business of fourth grandfather's oil press shop was very prosperous. Villagers who were more than ten miles away would pull oil to line up in the early morning, even in the 1990s.