Abandoned/derelict sites

[Porkchopexpress]

 

[Porkchopexpress]

 

[Porkchopexpress]

 

[Cabrito]

Some more from around my home town San Francisco,

We pass this regularly on one of or common hike/walks in the Presidio.

What's behind the fence?


Looks half under

 

[pith helmet]

2004/2019

 

[Todd780]

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Very cool. Unreal how it was just reclaimed.

 

[pith helmet]

An old church of some kind. View attachment 646451
The heating plant.
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There is one of these about an hour from my house visible from the highway. I have wondered what it was.

 

[pith helmet]

Very cool. Unreal how it was just reclaimed.

Yes! I’m hoping for a 20 year pic if the new owners don’t tear it down or burn it. Was a fine old house at one time.

 

[pith helmet]

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That crank shaft is a work of art. Would make a cool lamp.

 

[WeLikeCamping]

There is one of these about an hour from my house visible from the highway. I have wondered what it was.

I believe this is some sort of burning tower/furnace for maybe a sawmill ? https://mapio.net/pic/p-15315282/

Also called a "teepee", "wigwam" or "beehive" burner - for burning scrap/wood chips: https://www.google.com/search?q=old...r4PYCw&bih=1006&biw=1858&client=firefox-b-1-d

 

[pith helmet]

I believe this is some sort of burning tower/furnace for maybe a sawmill ? https://mapio.net/pic/p-15315282/

Also called a "teepee", "wigwam" or "beehive" burner - for burning scrap/wood chips: https://www.google.com/search?q=old...r4PYCw&bih=1006&biw=1858&client=firefox-b-1-d

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the links.

 

[pith helmet]

Ha Ha !
I only mentioned it a ”Church” as appears its where misguided souls worship the god Krylon.

Basically Beehives were used to create better draft, contain embers and just cover a giant bonfire of woodscraps.
More trivia, they were not common until electricity came to the sawmill.
Before electricity, Woodscraps fueled steamboilers what ran mill machinery and heated drying kilns.

Thanks for the info. I should have known this as wood/pulp is THE industry around here, and the one I work in. However, I don't work in or visit mills. They still use wood for fuel in mills and plants, mostly in the form of chips.

 

[pith helmet]

Somewhere in New Mexico

 

[krick3tt]

That big dome is where they used to burn sawdust from the mill before they discovered it could, by adding glue, turn it into composite board and make money on the waste material.

 

[pith helmet]

Looks like Johnny Law took care of this still.