Went Exploring
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Went Exploring
Me and a buddy got bored today so we decided to go check out the old abandoned cement company in town heres some pics if ur interested. we were a good 150-200 feet up on rust old roofs and cement buildings.
thats a big aggar bit
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they make for some good backgrounds i have mine on a rotating cycle. comments welcome.
thats a big aggar bit
Last one can be removed if mod wants *removed*
they make for some good backgrounds i have mine on a rotating cycle. comments welcome.
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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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that sounds like fun, we aint got nothing like that around here but if we did i would deff. fbe game to go
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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
This is a finish mill. This is where the cement pieces called "Clinker" went to get ground up into powder.
This place where you took the pictures looks to have built back during the 50's
This is a finish mill. This is where the cement pieces called "Clinker" went to get ground up into powder.
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Those huge drums were filled with steel ***** the size of softballs. There is a metal cage in it. Then the drum turns and the ***** 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.
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.