| 2. Interior: pulping wing |
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Stuff in the dressing room, which is separated from the rest of the mill. They had to go to the working place from outside. |
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Our two trips both started from here. This section holds the pulp processing machines, as you can see from the quite untidy condition of the structures. |
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Nice basic stuff on the wall. |
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Jaws of a disc filter, which is the main cause of pulp being all around the hall. |
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Plate reveals that the machine is Swedish Vargo. |
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The ladders up. |
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Tank, pipes, valves and gauges of not the most modern type. |
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This could be supervising booth, except that a small mill like this didn't probably have supervisors atleast in the later days. Just before shutdown they operated with only 5 men in a shift! |
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Now entering the grinding hall. This booth has also the monitoring panel of power station, which is next to this wing. |
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Before grinding, logs were cut and debarked with this relatively modern line. |
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Loose cutting blade. |
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Looking down the cutting line. |
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Installed cutting blade. |
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The line is product of Valon Kone, the world's largest producer in this field! |
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Steep stairs over the log line or what.. |
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And finally, the controlling panels for the line. |
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Tank for something, possibly water? |
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Apparently the wet pulp has gathered here and the flown down to the basement, which holds different canals and pumps. |
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And here the core machine of the entire mill, grinder. Two of three grinders were electricity driven, one operated directly with water power. |
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Looking closer at one of the machines reveals just that they're very pulpy and dark. |
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Another grinder. We didn't notice this at the site, but the photo shows clearly that the machines have different construction year markings. This one is younger having the year 1916 cast to the front. |
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I suppose the last shift ended before the logs. |
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Operating buttons of one of the electricity driven grinders. |
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Behind the machine. The pipes and valves hardly come out of the mess. |
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These slices of reel cores seemed to be in wrong place here in the grinding hall, but there they just stood stacked in a corner. Original end products of the factory. |
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More pipe complex. You wouldn't notice the change, but this is a section one floor below, which had to be accessed from totally different direction. |
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If the upstairs was messy, this place was about all round plastered with pulp. |
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Looks like transportation duct. |
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Quite special pumps. |
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Power transmissions, switches. |
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Dark shots of subjects: pipes, valve handles. |