While travelling a road, which I had never driven before, my eye specialized in finding abandoned places spotted something.
It looked like an abandoned industrial building of some sort. My guess would have been a sawmill, but it wasn’t marked down as a sawmill on old maps.
The only way in was through the basement, where the ceiling was very low.
Excuse me, but is that an old TV wrapped in plastic?
Very old industrial machinery could be found in the basement.
I think this reveals it: this place definitely has been a sawmill.
All of the machinery was still there. It was as if the workers had left yesterday. Although yesterday was quite some time ago, as the place seems so primitive.
According to old aerial pictures the building isn’t there yet in the late 1950’s. It can’t be much newer than that, though.
Old bottles.
The working conditions really have been primitive here.
An old box of pineapple juice.
Rust is starting to take over here.
The belts could also be in the need of replacement.
So much for the downstairs. Let’s move up.
It has to be noted, that this was also a very small sawmill.
I don’t think this works anymore.
The opening in the wall is probably the place where logs have entered or where lumber has exited.
And that thing probably has something to do with dust removal.
I wonder, when was the last time that somebody oiled the machines.
I believe it to have been decades ago.
The entrance – or the exit.