| 3. Summer visit: new departments |
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Uauthorized access, or even car driving to this industrial area is not forbidden. It's just something to be done at ones own risk. |
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Level crossing and the smoke stack. |
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In summer we learned that there are still some secondary tracks here, they just weren't open in winter. |
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We skipped the sawmill on summer visit, because it had been checked rather thoroughly during the first visit and there was more to see. |
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Parked to the yard of sawmill, this bus came from Helsinki. The owner said it would be the only one of this type that's still drivable today. |
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Someone likes signs. |
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Stacking plant is probably from 1970's. For some reason it's located quite far from both the sawmill and the drying chambers. This means there must have been quite remarkable, constant traffic between these departments during the later active years of sawmill. |
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The machinery was produced by Plan-Sell in Heinola. |
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Sawing has been quite slow here for last years, so whoever spent time at the stacking plant has concentrated in more relaxing activities. |
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Yellow army. |
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Other end of the drying process in bright sunlight. |
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Chains. |
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Neat wood structures seem to be in good shape. The roof's not leaking, at least not much. But doubtlessly this building will never again be used, for it seems unlikely sawmilling would return to the area. |
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This was the last firm performing actual sawing at the area. Later, the planing mill has been used solo for planing russian timber. |
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Only a few can tell what this means. |
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Pause room is in a state where it was left in 1990's. That means also the refrigerator. Opening its door caused a less pleasant effect. |
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Computer. |
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Figure, one of the few that are painted on the walls. |
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Hmm, no, that's not correct.. |
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The light (and log watering?) tower would have been just a perfect target for a climbing exercise, but the beighbor (from a summer cottage) stared too long from the field. Skipped. |
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From the stacking plant we proceed to the other side of the area, log debarking and sorting. The house is small and modest, but the windows are barred for some reason. |
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Operator's booth. |
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Working ergonomy. |
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Log sorting buttons and debarking control. |
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To the debarker. |