Chapter 16 How to Play Sandbox Games
In Linghu Wetland Park, next to the abandoned sanatorium, stood wooden stakes of varying thickness and size.
"I heard that newly cut wood can crack and warp if it's not treated," said Old White, frowning as he leaned on his axe, looking at the logs piled up haphazardly against the wall.
Fang Chang asked,
"How is it usually treated?"
Old White said,
"Dry out the moisture from the wood by baking it or let it naturally air dry after painting both ends. You could also soak it in water, but that makes it harder to manage... I just hope it doesn't rain in the next few days."
Old White roughly estimated that, taking into account yesterday's labor, they would have more than enough to cut all these logs into 3 to 4-meter lengths, sharpen both ends, and stake them into the ground to repair the walls on the north and west sides of the sanatorium.
The problem was that these were untreated logs, whose durability was hard to ensure. A few rains might just rot them away.
So he discussed it with Fang Chang, and they decided to shift their approach and use cement as building material.
There was a substantial amount of concrete waste on the wasteland, and even the sanatorium had quite a bit.
Weathered by time, expansion and contraction from heat and cold, and worn by wind and rain, most of these concrete chunks, stripped from reinforcing bars, had already become rubble.