Smokestack's coming down.

rrlund · Mar 9, 2016

They're taking the smokestack down today at the old Carnation milk plant.

gtractorfan · Mar 9, 2016

Why don't they dynamite it and knock it down all at once?

Hank ABAB · Mar 9, 2016

Any Asbestos lining in there???
Some reading

Dave H (MI) · Mar 9, 2016

Because they don't want to pay for stress counselors for all the people claiming PTSS from the noise and the PD doesn't care to handle the inevitable phone calls from 87% of the populations calling 911 to report they heard a "bang".

dr sportster · Mar 9, 2016

Keep your hard hats on !

rrlund · Mar 9, 2016

I just watched them take down some more. I was ready with the camera this time and got a better shot. Pretty impressive when it's laying on the ground.
There were sure a lot of faces going through my mind while I was sitting there watching them cutting on it. A lot of local history there. I hauled milk in there right up until the last day.

Russ from MN · Mar 9, 2016

When I saw the heading I thought it was about website that people go to when they get kicked off of YT! When I Googled it I found out it's spelled Smokestak! Google is my pfrend! Any how there are some impresive old smokestacks in copper mining country, 2 that I have seen are at Anaconda MT and Hayden AZ. I assume they built such high stacks to avoid using forced draft fans?

rrlund · Mar 9, 2016

Don't know for sure why they were so tall. I can remember the black smoke rolling out of this one from the coal though. It came in by the train load. They had a Farmall Super A with a loader that they used to feed the boiler.

Billy Shafer · Mar 9, 2016

Doesn't matter how many times. They warn people about things like that someone will call. I remember in Dallas they had a month of TV and radio adds. About taking a building down. As soon as they blew the building down. 911 was flooded with calls.

Russ from MN · Mar 9, 2016

I suppose that was another reason, so it didn't just kill the folks that lived nearby!

rrlund · Mar 9, 2016

There weren't all that many folks living to the east of there back in the day. The cemetery was out to the east,then my uncles farm. Three of the old Jenks farms were beyond there,but the smoke had usually dissipated before it got that far.

rrlund · Mar 9, 2016

We couldn't have got so close with the cameras if they'd used dynamite. Most of the town was there for the first third. Not so many for round two,but a fair number of use went back.

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 9, 2016

When I was at Lincoln they took the stack down that was originally part of the Euclid machinery plant. I was hoping to see it toppled but they put a steeplejack with a hammer up there and lowered everything down with a crane.

JD John · Mar 9, 2016

I'm with gtractotfan, should have used dynamite, maybe call in Edgar Montrose from Red Green. He would have done it!!! It is sad to see something come down like that in a community, kinda like nobody cares.

Cory Schmidt · Mar 9, 2016

They blasted the Hamilton Stack in town last year. Here is a video, see all the open ground(nearly 15 acres) on the lot that was all a large manufacturing complex.
Last piece comes down

Steve@Advance · Mar 9, 2016

I've seen some old photos, mostly drawings, of larger industrial cities, pre-electrification. Just about every building had a smoke stack. It was nasty! I assume they were burning coal, maybe oil, but every one was pouring out the black smoke!

JMOR · Mar 9, 2016

(quoted from post at 16:53:25 03/09/16) I've seen some old photos, mostly drawings, of larger industrial cities, pre-electrification. Just about every building had a smoke stack. It was nasty! I assume they were burning coal, maybe oil, but every one was pouring out the black smoke!

hey were called, "plumes of progress".

rrlund · Mar 9, 2016

Edgar could have set the charge so things came down in three neat piles. You'd have had the steel bands stacked in one pile,the re rod straightened,cut to length and stacked in another,and the concrete in little uniform pieces ready to haul away.

It's sure been easy to tell the locals from folks that's ain't from around here through all this. There's two reactions. Some like mine,"sure hate to see it go",and then there's the ones who say it's been an eyesore as long as they've "been here".

RayP(MI) · Mar 9, 2016

Thanks for sharing Randy, sorry I missed it. Sure going to change the langscape. Have to take a good look-see when I blow through later this week. Going to be missed by a lot of people. But guess it had to go. Lots of hazards to the folks that lived around there.

rrlund · Mar 9, 2016

And the demolition's complete. I guess they took the bottom down by just breaking it up with the hydrahoe.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 9, 2016

nice pictures!!!

old-9 · Mar 9, 2016

Where were the "Mythbusters"? I could see about 2000 pounds of some explosive, and hear Kari say 3,2,1,-----

jeffcat · Mar 9, 2016

Looks as if that was poured with a slip form. So sad to see history move on.

SweetFeet · Mar 9, 2016

Great photos. Bet that did tug your heart-strings.

Dell (WA) · Mar 9, 2016

RRLund.........we had 3-stacks in my home town of Durango, Colo. The last one was radioactive from smelting uranium fer the atomic bomb that blew up Japan. Took a tour as a cub scout and the foreman claimed the radiation was "harmless". Snuck a rice seed sized sample off'n the cooling table and putter in a small envelope next to my bed. Several years later, there was a "brown" spot on the envelope. A buddy and me were trying to make a "giger-counter" and the glow-in-the-dark watch dial made more clicks than the smelted uranium........now why do my teeth glow? Dell

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