Then he hammered all the nails in place.
He felt distressed again; altogether, those nails used up enough iron to make an arrowhead.
Now all iron is very precious, as production is too low.
Besides, he was also troubled by his plane, which was too dull, taking too long to plane a wooden board.
He had two more things to make.
Both were very important.
One was a weaving loom.
The other was a wheelbarrow.
He had been thinking about them when there were no metal tools.
With a wheelbarrow, trading would become much easier.
Pushing a load of over a hundred pounds is much easier than carrying it on the back.
He walked all the way from the Redstone Plain to here, with almost all roads suitable for wheelbarrow passage.
At that time, due to the lack of saw blades, chisels, planes, and other metal tools, he couldn't make them.
The five-man trade caravan he led always carried goods weighing dozens of pounds in baskets on their backs.
