anybody live near Florence, Orygun?
Don’t be shy. IF you do, PM me. I have a fave to ax you - it just involves visiting the Pie and Ear Museum in town.
tac
Nowhere near the place. Might be nice to visit, but a very long drive.
tac said:
anybody live near Florence, Orygun?Don’t be shy. IF you do, PM me. I have a fave to ax you - it just involves visiting the Pie and Ear Museum in town.
tac
Is it near civilization?
If you pay for gas, tolls and motels, Kim and I will take us a little ride. It’s only 5300 or so miles round trip.
Ah, never mind, we’ll just have to swing by that way anyhow with Dick & his lovely lady. I just needed to take a picture of the aerial photo they have there of Mapleton - a fascinating riverside location on the Siuslaw River, site of a former lumber yard from river to railroad, preparation and sawmill and one of the few surviving wigwam burners in the west.
Make a great layout with a lot of REAL busy-ness about it in our scale…
That aerial photo of the location during operation years in the pie and ear museum in Florence is a very fine oblique view, as seen out of the side window of a low-flying airplane.
tac
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Tac,
There are actually quite a few surviving TeePee burners in the West, well maybe not compared to how many existed in the 1950’e but still a fair number to see and measure.
Take a look here.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wigwam-teepee/
and here.
http://www.livinggoldpress.com/teepeetopiclist.htm
If you need aerial views of sawmills/slash burners I have nearly 300 8x10 photos on file.
Let me know if you want to see a couple.
Later
Rick
Terry;
There is a “Burner” still in existance just near Danford Lake Quebec, just North of Ottawa. I saw it just a month ago…about a hour and a half north of Ottawa. I didn’t see signs of recent usage…
Dear Rick and Fred - many thanks for the input - greatly appreciated. I knew there were still quite a few around dotting the landscape, but it’s still pretty exciting to find one you didn’t know about, well, for a simple soul like me anyhow. Hey, I get quite emotionally involved looking at a fence, me.
Best
tac
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Terry;
You are only a month or less away from "Looking at a fence" in my back yard.....According to that website, there’s quite a few within an hours drive of my joint.