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Looks like fun! You got some great shots too! I'm what you call an Urban Explorer, I go to many abandoned buildings just for fun lol. The most creepy place I have been Was a 200 year old mental asylum in Athens, Ohio. I was scary as hell lol.
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Originally Posted by 96chevblazer
(Post 274431)
Looks like fun! You got some great shots too! I'm what you call an Urban Explorer, I go to many abandoned buildings just for fun lol. The most creepy place I have been Was a 200 year old mental asylum in Athens, Ohio. I was scary as hell lol.
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Yeah I have to travel a little ways sometimes.
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Originally Posted by 96chevblazer
(Post 274444)
Yeah I have to travel a little ways sometimes.
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If I may ask where this was at? I hauled bulk cement for almost 15 yrs and I can tell you what most of that equipment was used for.
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Originally Posted by 96Blazernut
(Post 274452)
If I may ask where this was at? I hauled bulk cement for almost 15 yrs and I can tell you what most of that equipment was used for.
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There is an old plant like this in Cementon NY. They moved the plant down the road about 3 miles. It's like it was just running one day and shut down the next. It's about 90% still there.
This place where you took the pictures looks to have built back during the 50's http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/v...Company015.jpg This is a finish mill. This is where the cement pieces called "Clinker" went to get ground up into powder. |
looks like some thing out of a mass murder movie lol..a torture device ohh i like it lol...looks hella dangerous lol
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Those huge drums were filled with steel balls the size of softballs. There is a metal cage in it. Then the drum turns and the balls tumble against each other and it grinds the clinker into powder. Its very noisy and yes it's a dangerous place to work. There are literally hundreds of places you can injure yourself in one of those plants.
It's a very interesting process how they make cement. That plant is what they call a "wet process". They mix limestone, water and gypsum and some other chemicals together in huge vats and stir it up, this is called "slurry" this slurry is then pumped into huge kilns where it is fired like ceramics. Then those small pieces of clinker are sent to those grinding mills and then put into silos. From there it goes into transport trucks and railcars to silos all over the world. That's the 10 cent tour of a cement plant. |
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