We don't have any information about this, but most likely something connected to wood manufacturing has been on this place. Since the foundations are left, it's possible that the building was taken away by fire, not trucks and excavators.
Now, there's nothing left but foundations and green thoughts. Check the pro-natura tags.
More tags crying for animal rights.
Looking south from the ruins, the anchoring grounds and at the oppsite shore a pumphouse. Without having to look very hard you can also notice the mill complex of Melia OY in the background, here just a few weeks ago decommissioned.
The pumphouse is disused aswell.
Entrance yard grows with wild flora.
Interior of the pumphouse doesn't surprise. The valuable items, ie. pumps, have been removed. Switchboxes are ripped and left open. The floor has gaps and holes you should avoid, pipes hang loosely from the ceiling.
There's a scrap log raft with hydraulic log loader anchored near the ruins.
The operating booth is equipped only with the required: a couple of levers connected straight to valves, ignition lock, and a car stereo.
Here we have another barren yard. It's only building is this tiny transformer booth. We don't have any definite evidence since the transformer really is the only thing left, but it's probable that the sawmill itself was here.
The wood yards. It's been a long time they last contained timber, but until very recently they were used for storing something else. Now in 2001, they're really disused. The leftmost one is missing most of the metal sheets that used to cover it. It's even a bit dangerous to walk there, especially on a weather as windy as it was when this was shot. You could be hit by a 1500x3000x1.25 mm corrugated, galvanized piece of steel falling from the roof or walls.
The skeleton wood yard seen from ruins. First appearance of The Tower.
Same subject seem from the pumphouse.
Same again, looking from the yard we suspect was the sawmill.
Stormy years (tm) view from the production plants. Now, you've seen the wood yards from all directions ;)
Okay. Here we have one of the four towers. They stand in line aside the wood yards and were too weak to climb up safely. Some were missing most of the ladders.
On top. The question remains: What is the rifle thing?
Behind the production plants, next to the fence limiting the area you encounter some parts ripped from the sawmill. Parts of conveyor lines.
More of the same subject.
This one contains a funny detail hidden in the center. A crazy gull has put up it's nest at the end of a conveyor, a few meters from a road that goes to the gate and which is used for driving through the area to some more important places.
A short rock throw-away from the gull's residence is the gate and a nostalgic gatekeeper's booth.
It still says Sotka, but the logo looks old. The one they use nowadays, and have been using for quite a while, is a bit different. Weird thing is that this whole gate is at the side which seems to be more like backyard, for example we didn't even notice the whole gate during our first visits because the place is much better entered from south, when this gate is on northern side.