191 Comments Posted by Steve

Wow, that's really nice

Well I didn't know this hospital had an indoor pool

Lonely wheelchair.

The lonely chairs in the other buildings are yet to be promoted to this building

That bed's eating the pipe....

I'm not going to give away the location of this place, but it's really cool to think that this whole place has been developed around. Like, there's a shopping mall across the street from this place. This place is so cool!

went tonight awsome time never been there before took a ton of pics deff a creepy place easy to get lost in the basement haha but made it to three floors and some what into the burnt sec no cops so went well

The Room that your in in this pic is now completely destroyed. The 2nd floor caved into the 1st floor, and there is no roof. I have vids, as well as a pic of a ghost staring at me through a window if anyone wonts to see it. Motts?

Motts, I've been watching your stuff for a year (or 2,?) but never posted until today. YOU SIR are an absolute master with the camera. What a great eye...

I always love the derelict hospitals and institutions and such, but the "heavy industrial" sites with their rusty BIG iron really floats my boat.

This is a really great album. Thanks so much for sharing your excellent work with us!

This is an old Buffalo Ironworker. (Google for images of various models)

It's a punch press. I worked at a company that had one. Ours would punch a 2" diameter hole in a piece of 3/4" thick steel plate in about 1/4 of a second. Keep your fingers clear!
It contains a large motor with a belt and pulley drive system that spins a massive flywheel. Ours took about 10 V-belt-screeching seconds to get the wheel up to speed. I believe the motor on ours was about 15 HP.
The user fitted a punch of the required diameter to the upper ram. A matching punch die went on the bottom. A piece of steel--- the "victim" to be punched was slid in between punch and die and a button was pressed that engaged the ram and punch to the massive spinning flywheel.
The ram went down and it made a huge "KA_THUNK" noise that shook the concrete floor, and a slug of steel dropped to the floor leaving a nice perfect punched hole in your steel plate. The one in the photo is an oldie, but that's certainly what it is.

if anyone hears of a walking tour of the inside of this building please e-mail me at figg5150@yahoo.com i will fly up there to attend.

i lived right across the street from there (on abbottsford) and i convinced a couple friends of mine that we should go inside but we got caught before we can enter the building. i wish we could've gotten inside, this building amazes, me i have tons of pictures i took myself of this place.

ive been there. intense..

That's heroin stuff right there. Hardcore junkies.