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2. The sawmill: Timber drying kilns and lathing wing
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This is what's left of the sawmill. Not very uplifting. Wooden wing with lathing line that's iron sheet coverings are ripping away. Behind it the front side of kilning section.
View from south, starring the drying kilns' front yard with rails and some parts of dust conveyors in the air.
Yes, there are lots of steel pipes at the railyard. Maybe belonging to some metal workshop in nearby.
The buildings can be entered from here, for example. Making an entry doesn't require too much thinking.
Lathing line is there. We'll get back to it later.
Other direction from the entry point. This hall has held something that was removed. It was probably _not_ sawing line, such installation would've required more space than there is. However if it was, then this building would be much more than a wing, a complete sawmill.
The place is ripped from valuable stuff and left to rot. No unnecessary security like boarding up walls and windows etc.
The tunnel on left side would bring carriages with fresh timber to the hall, where it would be directed to one of the four (?) drying chambers.
Same rails from above.
Here's the hall which seems to be there only to store and move timber waiting to be grilled.
A catwalk in the big hall leads to small rooms above the chambers, dressing rooms and such.
Social premises in one of the catwalk rooms.
Nice gluelam beam arcs.
Decide for youself: Is this ugly or beautiful.
The drying chambers look something like this.
There is a sort of upper platform, or first floor, too. Most of it's floor is missing because it's ripped, but some parts like the supervisor booth exist.
Name Sotka is best known from furniture, and may be that the sofa is a Sotka product. Still it's in kind of wrong place here.
The ripped section has this switching cabinet.
This line has taken something somewhere.
Looking towards the only machine installation that's totally intact. Lathing section.
Disordered metal structure.
Operating panel for the machine.
Probably mains for the whole building, so much electricity couldn't be wasted by this section alone. The yellow note reminds welders that this is fire hazardous area. Very unexpectable, considering we're on a steel platform built above a sawdust fillt bottom floor.
The inside walls close to this place were stamped with 'OTK' marks. Either they never changed the timber mark to 'sotka', or then sawing was stopped before the name changed.
A cylinder jungle.
Ladders up and ladders down.