On my earlier tours I had spotted a rather large sawmill, which didn’t have any lumber piles on its yard. Instead the yard was slowly turning into a forest.
I didn’t have time to go check out the place back then, but as my tour of all Finnish municipalities took me to the neighbouring one at this stage, I decided to take the opportunity to go have a closer look.
The sawmill went bankrupt in 2006 and the company controlling the assets was dissolved in 2012. The logo is still on the wall. Somehow it reminds me of the Kässbohrer logo on Old Setra buses.
If nothing has happened here since the bankrupcy, those wood chips have stood there for almost 15 years.
I know nothing about sawmills. My experience limits to having built them while playing Tropico in my teens.
It is pretty evident no industrial activity is taking place here anymore.
Wonder what has been done here.
In fact I had never been inside a sawmill before, so I really didn’t know what to expect.
I think these have either been used to bring the logs in or the lumber out. Can’t guess, which.
The end of the line looks like this, so it’s probably for the lumber out.
I was a bit surprised at how primitive the building was. It had really been built function first.
The materials and colors scream the 1970’s.
Even the break room was very primitive.
I found the choice of furniture quite interesting for a place like this. The green benches seem to have been a thing, but they really don’t match with the lavish sofas and chairs.
The sofas and chairs do seem a little out of place among all the other items.
A really interesting choice to have a part of the wooden building built of concrete. There’s probably something heavy located on top of that section.
Also I think that the mystery of arriving logs has now been solved.
The views from the break room really weren’t that inspiring.
The locker room. Yellow and green are my absolute favorite colors, but I still don’t think this is a good match.