User:Mehrane/StoneCrushing

Gravel-making improvement.

We, Citizens of Egypt, think our current way of making gravel is tedious and inefficient, be it through the use of a sledgehammer or explosives.

Thus, we turn ourselves to our researchers and suggest they come up with a new technology, Stone Crushing, that would allow us to build and operate a Stone Crusher.

This building would be composed of (with suggested materials):

• a solid base for stability (concrete and cut stones),
• a very sturdy (with upgradeable holding size) hopper made of an enduring metal or alloy (sheetings, bars, bolts and straps),
• a towering structure above the hopper to hold the crusher itself (bars, boards, bolts)
• a crusher, basically a sturdy, metallic container (sheetings, straps), filled with heavy filling (cut stone or lead)
• a lifting mechanism of pulleys and wires/cables to lift the crusher, lock it in place and release it down for crushing (pulleys, wires/cables and gears),
• gearbox(es) to ease the lifting.

The suggested operation would be to :

• Lift the crusher to a certain height, based on Strength (lifting distance) and Endurance (lifting frequency), the lifting mechanism taking care of not letting the crusher fall,
• Empty the hopper of all but one type of stone and/or add more stones. The crusher must be at a minimum height for this.
• Release the crusher, smashing the stones and producing smaller stones and gravel, in a similar way to hammering stones.
• Note: If the stones are mixed, only one type of stone, the biggest available, will be crushed.

- Repeat.

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A few explanations :

• Why ?, may you be asking. Well, because running after rolling stones stops being fun past the first minute, and explosives are seriously time-consuming (not to mention, in my mind, a really strange idea to make gravel).
• The building is intended to be moderately difficult to attain, and upgradeable; its operation, derived from aqueduct pumping and flax processing, benefits both from eliminating all the running around, but mainly from introducing food boost to improve the process itself.