Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, railway people are busy "poking mountains"
Workers are removing loose rocks.
The workers drove in steel hooks for fixing safety ropes at the top of the mountain.
In April, spring blossoms. Taihang Mountain is covered with green clothes, apricot and peach flowers are everywhere, full of vitality. With the pace of spring, in the mountains on both sides of the Taijiao and Houyue railway, people can see a group of railway people in yellow overalls hanging on the cliff, carrying steel canes moving on the cliff. From afar, the Yellow figure in the white apricot flowers, pink peach flowers against the formation of a beautiful landscape. Houyue and Taijiao railways in Yueshan section of China Railway Zhengzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd. are located in the deep mountains of Taihang, which are important channels for Shanxi coal transportation. Due to the serious weathering of the rocks on both sides of the railway, it is easy to fall down and threaten the safety of the train under the rain wash in the flood season. As the temperature rises and the permafrost melts, the loosened rocks are ready to move. In order to protect the safety of trains in flood season, it has become an important task for railway workers to make close contact with Shanhua and climb up the cliff to search for loose rocks in this spring. The railway calls this work "mountain stabbing". In charge of "Tungshan" are 82 bridge and tunnel workers in the bridge and tunnel workshop of Yueshan Public Works section. They, who are mainly responsible for the maintenance of bridges and tunnels, take on the task of removing dangerous rocks in the spring. They are going to walk into the deep mountains, swing on the 40-50-meter-high cliff, and have a regular "date" with spring. Zhao zuoqian is a bridge and tunnel worker in Yangcheng bridge and tunnel workshop of Yueshan Public Works section. At the age of 48, he has been in the job for 22 years. "This' date 'is not easy." Zhao zuoqian said. On the working day, they need to get up at 4 o'clock and climb on the mountain road for several hours to get to the working place. After finding the place to fix the rope, they still have to "tie up" themselves to work from the top of the mountain, which is very dangerous. The time of "poke mountain" is generally arranged from 7:00 to 9:00. "It's not easy to go to the deep mountain. Getting up early is the normal way for us to work." Zhao zuoqian said. Every "poke mountain" is a "Climbing". On March 25, Zhao zuoqian carried four bundles of nylon ropes with big thumbs and four 1.5-meter-long steel canes, climbing from the hillside without roads to the top of the mountain more than 50 meters high with hands and feet. At this time, he was panting and the flowers were blooming. When they got to the top of the mountain, they couldn't find any trees to fix the rope, so they put four 1.5-meter-long steel hooks into the gap between the rocks to fix the rope. "For one person to work, two workers should pull two ropes for protection." Zhao zuoqian said that there is a problem with one rope, and another one can ensure safety. "I've done a lot, I'm used to it. Besides, I'm not worried about the protection of my friends." Zhao zuoqian told us that the operation should be carried out in the "skylight" without train operation, and time is precious. Fasten the safety rope and wear the safety helmet. Zhao zuoqian began to descend from the straight cliff. Soon, his figure disappeared under the cliff. There are many thorns on the cliff. If you miss them, you will be scratched by them. Every time "stabbing the mountain", it is a psychological and physical challenge for "stabbing the mountain people". Down to the bottom of the mountain, looking up, I saw Zhao zuoqian holding the safety rope tightly, carefully looking for the place where he could settle down, and at the same time, he shouted to the employees at the top of the mountain: "let go, let go..." He pedals on the mountain with his feet, taps the mountain with a steel hook, moves back and forth, and searches for the rocks around him. "Bang, bang, bang." From time to time, the sound of the steel dog hitting the rock is heard in the mountain. At 9:10, Zhao zuoqian returned to the top of the mountain. On that day, he eliminated more than 20 dangerous rocks. "Du..." A freight train loaded with coal came through the mountain and went through the mountain after showing a face in the area where Zhao zuoqian "stabbed the mountain". The train moved away. Zhao zuoqian unties the rope on his body and looks at the train going far away, smiling brightly on his face. "From 1998 to now, the most dangerous rock I have eliminated from" stabbing mountain "is more than 400 kg." Zhao zuoqian introduced that from March 1 to March 25, they had carried out 9 times of concentrated "mountain digging" and found and cleaned more than 10 cubic meters of loose rock. All the pictures in this article were taken by Wang Zhanjun