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5. The Sawmill of Jokinen, Vammala

The sawmill of Jokinen was mentioned to be active in our information source from 1988. We thought such a small sawmill would have been closed without a doubt by the year 2000, but no. The place was occupied and machines were running inside when we arrived. Some two years later they stopped sawing at the mill, even though planing continues. Our camera took a quick look at the place again, but this time with permission.

** [mpeg media] The hydropower station is alive!

	December 2000, to our surprise the place humms just some days after christmas.
	Timber forklift under the shelter hasn't moved around lately, but there are footsteps leading to the mill.
	Summer time, otherwise very same.
	May 2002. The log tracks are now out of use as no sawing is done here any more.
	Shot #2.
	When walking on the bridge at backside of the area you can see this funny text. It IS a sawmill, really.
	The rapids don't seem very powerful. Not in this duct.
	There's an alley between the sawmill and the special detail of the place: the power station which generates electricity as we speak. So the facility is only half abandoned.
	The sawmill building.
	Since this is countryside area and the sawmill is surrounded by detached houses belonging to the sawyer clique, there's is no need to close the doors.
	Fresh timber, a little bit of each dimensioned.
	The log cutter somewhere in dusty basement.
	No smoking area... Maybe sawing was stopped because they couldn't fit any more sawdust in this corner.
	Relatively old looking machinery from south east Finland - Karhula.
	The power station looks like an idyllic house by the river.
	This Ford was for sale among some other retired technology. There would be an auction some two weeks after the photographing session.
	This is another place where water is still transported to the power turbines with cool wooden ducts resembling super long barrels.
	It continues somewhere too far to see.
	The power station was dim so this is the only thing that the camera caught. The cast date tells the machinery has been modernized not so very long ago.
	There's also a mill. It's in good shape from outside but serves as a junk warehouse.