Amazing history of what we all take for granted…paper! Your insight and passion for such historical and spectacular doings is unmatched Chris. Love this kind of stuff and you do it fabulously!💙🙏🏻💥Thanks Chris
Your videos are fascinating, and presenting style is spot on. I live in Scotland, have never been to the US, and can't get enough of your channel. I've followed you for a few years now and still look forward to your next video. Keep up the great work 👍
I worked in a paper mill for 25 years, it was built in 1891 and that building is as far as I know the only one still standing. We used water turbines as well for power and the river itself to supply water for steam. The turbines there are still in use generating electricity for the local hydro company.
I was so excited to see you uploaded this, am enjoying my vacation as you explore the hidden gems of many years ago , the 2 boys were crazy , looking forward to more of your trip 😊
Great video mate. Big fan from Australia. It’s funny to see two blokes just casually remove those turbines with a dodgy crane and some old trucks! I hope they got some decent money for it. Ps those kids were mad jumping off that bridge!
I wonder how they made out, when the books were all balanced. It's interesting that it would be more profitable to recover 80, 100 (?) year old technology than to purchase contemporary units. But you've also got to imagine the mammoth task involved in installing them in the first place. I suppose that story has been lost to time, but it must have been a pretty hair raising sequence to lower those giants down into there (and to transport them to that location), especially considering the limitations of the equipment of the time.
Those turbines are actually very efficient. Not much has changed in the last 130 yrs they pretty much nailed the Francis Turbine back than. Alot of those 1890-1910 turbines are still in use hooked to better more efficient Generators and electronic control.
One question I just cant answer for myself when seeing them guys use these torches in jeans and flanell with towels on their heads: Couldnt they have borrowed one of those extreme heat resistant suits from the nearest steelworks? 😅 They obviously had it all figured out, except for that thing about personal work safety and a certain degree of comfort while boiling off iron and steel. 🥵
While in Maine, you might make a visit to Rangeley and see the Whilhelm Reich Museum and lands. That is where Reich carried out his controversial research.
Sadly it's been happening for years, my Dad said when he was a teenager idiots were spray painting stuff, they were also target practicing on abandoned cars, busting windows out of old farmhouses, he said they were just idiots, My Dad passed away July 4, 2002 he would have been 91 September 4th, he called them destructive imbeciles 😢
I hang out there all the time! You need to go to GG Allins grave.littleton nh! Was just there for 30 years dead!that bridge kids are always jumping off it all summer.
I didn't see any electrical equipment. Kinda looks like the turbines supplied mechanical power instead of running generators and then using the electricity. 🤔
A turbine doesn't even remotely imply electrical power.....yes, it's about geared, direct, or belt driven mechanical power......electrical power on this scale didn't exist then.
If that bridge is Truly Wrought Iron , real Wrought Iron not the steel they call Wrought iron today it has value. No longer made it is sought by blacksmiths and the only company I know sells it in UK from recycled bridges etc.
@@twzted_synapse221 Ive read their company blog a lot years ago. They owned and ran multiple power plants. Basically bought up small hydropower facilities that were maybe not in peak condition as a side effect of their hydropower consulting. Maybe a generator burned out, maybe a turbine broken, etc. They often fix stuff by using equipment from nonviable old plants. They had a lot of experience with these games. Those are big turbines. If you own a dam that is a turbine short......once that thing is installed, you are PRINTING money for almost free......
@@apocyldoomer the harder the spot is to reach, the harder it is for another to tag over your work. It also adds to the impression of the piece. Graffiti, like any other art form, often goes unappreciated by Ludites.
You always have great videos, Chris! I can't even begin to imagine being involved with the manual labor it took to cut out those big pieces of iron and get them safely loaded on trucks and hauled away!
The paper mill I worked at here in Minnesota we had the same exact method running the pulp beaters by water power. A canal was constructed in the 1800’s from the Mississippi River and went under the mill. It closed up in the 1990’s after going bankrupt. It’s now called Mill Park located in Little Falls, Mn. They left some of the remnants behind when they tore it down.
Just like in the 1981 movie Thief starring James Caan ,they used a burning bar to break into a safe. Good movie. Anyway, another great video from you! Keep up the great work! Take care.
Chris, you seem to manage to find the most interesting places and locate the stories behind them. It's too bad you can't travel back in time to film some of this stuff as it happens. God Bless and stay safe.
*HOME!* There was a video of a crew extracting the turbines30 years ago on RU-vid somewhere, on the Internet somewhere. There used to be a hospital just across route 3. My pop remembers driving over the bridge before it was closed. Can you imagine driving that open deck with just a few flimsy pipe rails between you and the drop into Livermore Falls?! Used to be a great place to swim when I was a kid, there's a nice little beach on the upper river side of the mill. Or at least there used to be. That's where the Playboy party pick photo shoot from the 80s took place.
Thanks, very cool. Don't want to be rude but please listen...when speaking it's not necessary to say "raise it UP, or lower it DOWN, or collapse it DOWN" that's stupid. Lower means down and raise means up. Also, there are no eggs in EXIT... After the extraction, where do you suppose they reinstalled this giant turbine? And now I know what the expression "beat you to a pulp" means. heh heh
Man those termite cutting bars must have been something else to see. I used to wield in high school. I can’t imagine working with something 8,000 plus degrees hot!!! They couldn’t pay me enough to do that job.
there is one established in 1922 down the road from me still in operation today Stonehouse Paper & Bag Mills Ltd its got some nice historic photos on the website if you want to see what they looked like on the inside its the other side of the pond tho
Great area. Portsmouth, kittery, Portland have tons of history. Stay at wentworth by the sea for a really unique experience. Albacore is a must too in Portsmouth. Great video as always 😀
I keep thinking of Privy Pits at a lot of places you go. Gotta be bottle dumps. The grafilthy cracked me up. " Dopeless Hope Fiend" reminds me of someone I know
Back when I was a kid in the 80s there was a lot less ruin, and you could see the concrete floor clearly; there was a terrific gigantic re-creation of the Becks beer label in the middle. Plymouth State College was one of the party college picks for playboy magazine in the 80s, they used the very pleasant little beach where the intakes were that is now excavated as the setting for the photo shoot. 😃
Yes very interesting subject of a paper mill and getting rid of big turbines. Then those two kids jumping off that bridge and then all that smoke brought pilice and fire department out there. I wonder if they had to pay a fine for bringing them out there.? Great video.
I think the idea of fines like that is very recent, and either way - why would anyone have to pay a fine for the FD showing up if they weren't doing anything? A fine for a false alarm on the alarm system is different than someone else calling 911.
I've seen two videos on that bridge and I can't believe the water is even deep enough to do that there. A bridge where I grew up has very deep water but some outcrops that stick up from the bottom and we've had some fatalities.....you really have to know what's under the water to do that
With all the work and expenses that went into this, it seems like it would be cheaper to fabricate your own turbines. They don't seem particularly complicated, and they're not terribly large.
