Wolf, I hope you haven't been sitting up waiting. The person who showed us around worked in the power plant, but that question did come up. He thought it depended mostly on market demand and price, and perhaps on wood quality.

There are exceptions, but most veneer is hardwood and most plywood is not. The major exception is plywood with a surface of something like Birch, or Maple, veneer, on one or two sides for cabinets.

Must be kinda hard on the contents.
Better pack'em good!

I posted pix of an old cotton bailer somewhere.
I could dig them out if you like.

I'd like to see those, especially if you have an explanation to go with them.

Zippyt - so that scale is used to measure shipping containers? Why is it made to weigh in the vertical position?

They were filling the containers with char coal , to be made into brickettes at another factory .

In the pic of the instrumentation you can see the device net transmitter that talks to the PLC that has to do with shutting off the feed gate,

Any guesses?

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL162.../153689109.jpg

That appears to be a well.

nope

sewer?

popgun?

"Have You Seen theMachine?"
 

My friend asked me this as I was helping him store some stuff at an old warehouse/train depot where he rented some space.
These are pix of a cotton bailing machine, and they don't really convey how massive this thing is.
The 2nd pic shows some railroad tracks still there at the bottom of it where a flatbed cart was rolled under it and the cotton compressed onto the cart. The carts weren't regular gauge, but it was still impressive. I'm guessing a single cart would have carried close to a ton of cotton.
From what we could figger it was run by steam.
I took these pix a few years later, after my friend had moved out, and had to sneak onto the property to get them.
There is a plaque toward the top that says it was made in Birmingham, Alabama.
In the last pic I put a brick on top of part of it for scale. There are also a couple of handles to work the thing so maybe you can get a feel for how massive it is/was.
The place was/is being torn down, and theMachine may be scrap now.

hmmm, where's the pix? It said they uploaded.
Look for this thread, Have you seen theMachine?

and the pics ??

Chimney?

silo

LemmeTryAgain
 

What am I doing wrong?
When I try to upload it says they are already loaded.

Well, I tried again, but it still gives me the error saying the pix are already loaded.

The original thread is titled "Have you seen TheMachine?" if you want to see.