29 Comments Posted by DW

A little late on the uptake here, but don't knock kevin because he wants to know where the place is. If you go to the webpage that matches his address, it looks like he actually just wants to make use of something that's going to waste. He either works for or owns an automated laundry machine business.

Probably - in most stacks, you can either get in from the bottom, or go to the top and go down a ladder inside. There's gotta be a way for service people to get in there if they need to do maintenance.

Wow...I made the comment kind of sarcastically in another section that i'd worry about coons more than people. They're disgusting animals - crap everywhere, and dangerous to be around. They look fuzzy and interesting, but their fur is better off on a coat than alive and in a room with you.

The lines on these Kirkbride buildings are just stunning. I didn't even know we had one out here (Dixmont) until I saw in the paper that they were blowing out rock and accidentally closed the highway by blowing up the hillside where Dixmont was with "too much explosive" - right out on the highway - closed for a day :-)

I wish I would've known about this stuff earlier.

Give me a surefire light and a .45 auto, and I'll go through there no problem. I'd go without the .45, even. I'd be more worried about a rat or a raccoon in there than I would anything else - that's what the .45 would be for.

Those are some really nice doors. I would LOVE to have them somewhere on my property - even if they were just on a detached garage or something. I'll bet they have a nice heft to them when you swing them.

Yeah ........... it's like rain ran down them for years and stained them. Just like every other building - including the brick-work and roof on my house.

Lynne - that was a nice story - and I'm not surprised that your compadres do the same thing. My mother was a tough teacher (she tought SED kids (socially and emotionally disturbed)), and she was always doing the same thing - raiding dollar stores to find things she thought her kids would like. When the kids would do things well, they would get "room bucks", and they could spend those "room bucks" on anything in her classroom that wasn't school owned.

She's retired now, and I'm afraid that a lot of the teachers that have followed her are just the tough part without the heart. She made a lot of difference in a lot of kids' lives - who were on the edge of going to special ed or youth homes because of their behavior.

Damn was she ever hard on me, though.

I would've guessed that it's a baler, but since there was a stamping operation, must be a stamping machine? Was there a die in the bottom of it for something that was getting stamped?

Wow. When I first saw the picture, I thought it was a walker with a toilet on it - like for someone who walks so slow they can't make it to the bathroom.

Or .. like intense rehab. "No time to take a break for a piss, man,... i'm putting it right in the walker!"

The weird thing about that machine is that it has the same pattern on the outside as a sound-proof room has on the inside. Odd.

I'm surprised that nobody has taken those radiators. When I worked at a driving range, we had some old houses on the property, and the owner and I took out all of the radiators for scrap - which was a rotten job. The houses were then toppled.

There was no shortage of scrounges and creeps who saw that the house was getting taken down, and offered up lies about nothing being worth anything inside but they'd "help clean it out if they could have the radiators and pipes".

To extend on Neefer's comment, it must've been less than your body temperature in the room, even if it was hot and humid. If that tub were hotter in temperature than your skin, you'd get the opposite effect. There is definitely nothing that magically keeps it at a different temperature than the rest of the room.

Maybe I'm old, but it wasn't that long ago that I remember seeing those machines, and I'm 29, not 59. In rural areas, we held on to those machines longer - I guess because some individuals could swindle them away from the distributors (who supply the machine, but you buy the soda at their price - presumably more than it would cost to get it at the grocery store). I remember seeing machines like this at local low-budget golf courses, etc. until the early 90s, and you can tell they got away from the distributors, just by the fact that there will be a pepsi machine with nothing but coke in it.

As far as getting anything out of it, it looks like the door is open, and it's probably been emptied.

It blows me away that all of those chains are left there. I know a lot of folks who could make good use of them - farmers, loggers, etc. who would pay better than scrap for them so they don't have to go buy new manufactured items and get reamed.