| Sawmill in Sahanniemi/Sahanlahti, Jaala |
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Little is known about this target. To the world wide web it is unknown. When visiting, we only found ruins. It seems that the industrial facility in Sahanlahti or Sahanniemi (which ever way you want it), not far from the central of tiny municipality of Jaala in the heart of our wood industry main region, was a smallish, basic two-framesaw trade sawmill. Rest is up to guessing.
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Concrete foundations of something next to the late sawmill. It was hard to determine anything more accurate. |
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There was this one buiding which wasn't ruined. Most probably having served as a garage for the sawmill's trucks, this building is now a support center of local fishermen. The sauna wing had also accommodation stuff like beds and blankets, who used them remains unknown. |
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Surprisingly new year marking was found cast in the foundations. If this is when the last construction phase was finished, the sawmill can't have operated very long before being destroyed. Probable cause for such total and quick disappearance is fire. |
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Foundations for sawing machines. They seem to have been small framesaws. |
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Behind, a nice view to the lake. The place is quite idyllic and surprisingly silent. |
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What was founded on these three narrow blocks in also very unclear. |
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Next morning and one more shot. |
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There is an asphalted area in the middle of bush that must have been log storaging and transportation area. |
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The area has been cleaned exceptionally well. There very very few items that didn't belong there by nature and this rusty thing was one those few. |
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It was surprising to find also a good conditioned two-family house totally unused. It was summer and holiday time at it's best, but no-one was there, nor seemed to have been for a while. |
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Since the door was open we entered, and it turned out the interior kept what exterior promised. It was in good condition but unused for some reason. |
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One thing that the visit revealed was read in this article. It teels that the sawmill area has been a camping place where they have held atleast midsummer parties. After sawmilling ended, I would presume. A shame the article didn't have a year marking in the date. |
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