Yes, it's a tree

California

Factory under sky drama

Factory under sky drama

15 Jul 2016 2 3 577
Scrap pile

Scrap pile

12 Jul 2016 2 404
Accidental window

Accidental window

12 Jul 2016 6 5 599
Angles and clouds

Angles and clouds

12 Jan 2018 7 5 488
Window to a field

Window to a field

12 Jul 2016 3 4 416
Whitsell Manufacturing Inc.

Whitsell Manufacturing Inc.

12 Jul 2016 1 390
Closed and abandoned. It was a small mill making items like utility poles. Most of our poles, at least in the west, are still made of wood. There are tracts of tree farms in the west growing trees for this purpose. They are not made of "trees from the wild," as they were in the old days of endless forests. Some types of power poles are made of metal, though.
Water tower

Water tower

09 Jul 2016 1 2 480
In the distance, a very large wood burner belonging to a lumber mill that was demolished a long time ago.
Wigwam wood burner

Wigwam wood burner

12 Jul 2016 2 4 424
This is quite small, about 18'-20' tall, relative to the burner to the north. That one is about 60'-70' including the spark screen. By the way, at this point in my adventures, I stepped into a large, decomposing rodent - argh!!! ; -o The Big One:
Rust at rest

Rust at rest

12 Jan 2018 2 291
I assume this big pipe connected to the hole at the top of the cyclone. Due to the disproportionate size of this sawdust cyclone, it is possible that it was attached to larger, older burner on this site.
Abandoned Whitsell Mfg.

Abandoned Whitsell Mfg.

12 Jan 2018 3 358
Showing the sawdust pipe leading to the burner, which is to the left of this frame. Sawdust and small shavings were blown through this pipe into the "cyclone", which was attached to the burner, from where it dropped to be burned. This company manufactured wood products like power poles, tool handles and fence posts. That explains the big piles of cylindrical scraps I saw in the back.
Sawdust cyclone

Sawdust cyclone

19 Jul 2016 4 12 492
About 5.5' in diameter at its widest point and about 7' long. An enormous chunk of rust. From "Wood Burners", by Daniel Mihalyo, Princeton Architectural Press: "Their function was to funnel planar shavings and particles of sawdust into the burner. These particles were blown through a pipe into the cyclone from the mill itself." The sawdust pipe coming from the mill can be seen in other photos in this series.
Wigwam burner

Wigwam burner

12 Jan 2018 6 4 431
Sawdust pipe on its support on the right.
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