Abandoned Mills

[dan blocker]

On 07/03/2025 at 20:22, openspaceman said:

Yes looks likely for hot dipping creosote. The dry wood was loaded into tanks, normally in steel crates, cold.  Then heated to expel air in the wood, then cooled to suck in the creosote. I think they may have heated again to expel excess creosote. If the wood was wet it would foam over, like potato chips into hot fat, and the lot would go up.

Much better than tannalising, electric and telegraph poles were done the same years ago?

Edited Monday at 09:20 by dan blocker
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[PeteB]

57 minutes ago, dan blocker said:

Much better than tantalising, electric and telegraph poles were done the same years ago?

Tantalising or tannalising? Bit of a difference?  Epic pictures, our local estate sawmill was a flat belt Robinson reciprocated single blade plus various other bits of kit like a thicknessor and mortise cutter. Spent a bit of time there before the place was locked and the old boys went home!

[dan blocker]

Thanks for that Pete🙄, could be titillating if I was Ken Dodd🤔