North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
sawmill".
Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
On 7 Oct 2004 10:12:24 -0700, [email protected] (edfan) wrote:
>North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
>deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
>California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
>Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
>the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
>sawmill".
>
>Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
Deconstructing? What ever happened to good old-fashioned English, like
"demolishing", or "tearing down", or "removing".
What's next, morticians "debirthing" people who have "de-lifed"?
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:53:33 -0700, Larry Blanchard <[email protected]>
wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] says...
>> North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
>> deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
>> California.
>>
>Chalk up another good company destroyed by Hurwitz.
Hurwitz?
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:35:53 -0700, Larry Jaques
<novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:01:16 -0700, Mark & Juanita
><[email protected]> calmly ranted:
>
>>On 7 Oct 2004 10:12:24 -0700, [email protected] (edfan) wrote:
>>
>>>North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
>>>deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
>>>California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
>>>Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
>>>the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
>>>sawmill".
>>>
>>>Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
>>
>>
>>Deconstructing? What ever happened to good old-fashioned English, like
>>"demolishing", or "tearing down", or "removing".
>
><illumination>
>
>Demolish: blow it down; wreck it; scrap it.
>
>Deconstruct: take apart to save components for recycling.
>
></illumination>
>
<standard clear usage>
salvage: Take apart and recover re-useable components for recycling
</standard clear usage>
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:42:11 -0700, Larry Blanchard <[email protected]>
wrote:
>In article <1097293634.Y9anOqna8kHAh+u89FzzZw@teranews>,
>[email protected] says...
>> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:53:33 -0700, Larry Blanchard <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Chalk up another good company destroyed by Hurwitz.
>>
>> Hurwitz?
>>
>A Texas financier, takeover artist, etc..
>
>Pacific Lumber was owned by a family who was cutting their redwoods at a
>sustainable rate. They could have cut forever. Hurwitz bought them out
>and cut everything in sight. Redwood was cheap for a few years, now
>it's almost non-existent. There's a book on the subject but I don't
>remember the title.
>
>He also did a leveraged buyout on Kaiser Aluminum and stripped the
>company bare. They're now essentially out of the primary aluminum
>business and only make finished goods. I did some contract computing
>work for them over the years and personally witnessed the decline.
>
>He's probably stripped other companies as well, but those are the two I
>know about.
ah, thanks for the background. Had heard of the redwood debacle but did
not associate a name with it.
sandydjbradford writes:
>protest against Palco Pacific lumber ,lets go to Scotia California and
>protest for the redwoods
What's the shutdown rationale? Is the sawmill losing money?
Charlie Self
"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself
and a wreck of his country." Ambrose Bierce
Spotted owl. Old growth redwoods.
They were the major contributors to the shutdown. Great old mill though.
Dave
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> sandydjbradford writes:
>
>>protest against Palco Pacific lumber ,lets go to Scotia California and
>>protest for the redwoods
>
> What's the shutdown rationale? Is the sawmill losing money?
>
> Charlie Self
> "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of
> himself
> and a wreck of his country." Ambrose Bierce
Dave responds:
>Spotted owl. Old growth redwoods.
>They were the major contributors to the shutdown. Great old mill though.
>
>Dave
>
>"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> sandydjbradford writes:
>>
>>>protest against Palco Pacific lumber ,lets go to Scotia California and
>>>protest for the redwoods
>>
>> What's the shutdown rationale? Is the sawmill losing money?
>>
>> Charlie Self
>> "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a
So the EPA forces a shutdown and the OP wants to punish Palco?
Jeez.
Charlie Self
"Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a
man's head." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> On 09 Dec 2004 00:52:58 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
> wrote:
>
> >Dave responds:
> >
> >>Spotted owl. Old growth redwoods.
> >>They were the major contributors to the shutdown. Great old mill though.
> >>
> >>Dave
> >>
> >>"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >>news:[email protected]...
> >>> sandydjbradford writes:
> >>>
> >>>>protest against Palco Pacific lumber ,lets go to Scotia California and
> >>>>protest for the redwoods
> >>>
> >>> What's the shutdown rationale? Is the sawmill losing money?
> >>>
> >>> Charlie Self
> >>> "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a
> >
> >So the EPA forces a shutdown and the OP wants to punish Palco?
> >
>
> Well of course, after all corporations only cut trees because they like
> pillaging the forests
Well, not to step on your sarcasm, but "pillaging" is the appropriate
term for what Hurwitz did when he took over Pacific Lumber.
Do a Google for more info. Here's a quote from one site:
"Local community members fear that Maxxam CEO Charles Hurwitz will take
the cash provided by the deal and
run, leaving Pacific Lumber--and hundreds of local workers--twisting in
the wind. "It seems highly unlikely that
any of that money will even stay with Pacific Lumber, much less end up
in the pockets of timber or restoration
workers, where it truly belongs," observed Bundy. According to some
estimates, Maxxam has siphoned $2
billion from the Humboldt County economy since acquiring Pacific Lumber
in 1985. PL's debt load is now even
greater than it was immediately following the
takeover, and many locals fear that Hurwitz will allow PL to slowly go
bankrupt."
--
Homo sapiens is a goal, not a description
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> I have no doubt that unbridled and rapacious greed exists in some folks
> like Hurwitz. It is a sad thing when people in such positions fail to
> account for the effects of their actions upon those in their employment.
> Don't know what the answer is, but some things are just plain wrong, no
> matter how they get packaged.
>
I tend to see red when Hurwitz is mentioned, because he also pillaged
Kaiser Aluminum who used to be the biggest employer in our town. I
realize he's not the only one. Texas does seem to have more than its
fair share, though. Must be all that oil money floating around.
--
Homo sapiens is a goal, not a description
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:10:57 -0800, Larry Blanchard <[email protected]>
wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] says...
>> I have no doubt that unbridled and rapacious greed exists in some folks
>> like Hurwitz. It is a sad thing when people in such positions fail to
>> account for the effects of their actions upon those in their employment.
>> Don't know what the answer is, but some things are just plain wrong, no
>> matter how they get packaged.
>>
>I tend to see red when Hurwitz is mentioned, because he also pillaged
>Kaiser Aluminum who used to be the biggest employer in our town. I
>realize he's not the only one. Texas does seem to have more than its
>fair share, though. Must be all that oil money floating around.
And before that is was the East and Eastern Midwest with the steel
barons. Greedy rapacious vultures seem to tend toward the industries that
are growing the fastest and turning money quickly.
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:59:56 -0800, Larry Blanchard <[email protected]>
wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] says...
>> On 09 Dec 2004 00:52:58 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Dave responds:
>> >
>> >>Spotted owl. Old growth redwoods.
>> >>They were the major contributors to the shutdown. Great old mill though.
>> >>
>> >>Dave
>> >>
>> >>"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> >>news:[email protected]...
>> >>> sandydjbradford writes:
>> >>>
>> >>>>protest against Palco Pacific lumber ,lets go to Scotia California and
>> >>>>protest for the redwoods
>> >>>
>> >>> What's the shutdown rationale? Is the sawmill losing money?
>> >>>
>> >>> Charlie Self
>> >>> "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a
>> >
>> >So the EPA forces a shutdown and the OP wants to punish Palco?
>> >
>>
>> Well of course, after all corporations only cut trees because they like
>> pillaging the forests
>
>Well, not to step on your sarcasm, but "pillaging" is the appropriate
>term for what Hurwitz did when he took over Pacific Lumber.
>
>Do a Google for more info. Here's a quote from one site:
>
>"Local community members fear that Maxxam CEO Charles Hurwitz will take
>the cash provided by the deal and
>run, leaving Pacific Lumber--and hundreds of local workers--twisting in
>the wind. "It seems highly unlikely that
>any of that money will even stay with Pacific Lumber, much less end up
>in the pockets of timber or restoration
>workers, where it truly belongs," observed Bundy. According to some
>estimates, Maxxam has siphoned $2
>billion from the Humboldt County economy since acquiring Pacific Lumber
>in 1985. PL's debt load is now even
>greater than it was immediately following the
>takeover, and many locals fear that Hurwitz will allow PL to slowly go
>bankrupt."
I have no doubt that unbridled and rapacious greed exists in some folks
like Hurwitz. It is a sad thing when people in such positions fail to
account for the effects of their actions upon those in their employment.
Don't know what the answer is, but some things are just plain wrong, no
matter how they get packaged.
On 09 Dec 2004 00:52:58 GMT, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
wrote:
>Dave responds:
>
>>Spotted owl. Old growth redwoods.
>>They were the major contributors to the shutdown. Great old mill though.
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> sandydjbradford writes:
>>>
>>>>protest against Palco Pacific lumber ,lets go to Scotia California and
>>>>protest for the redwoods
>>>
>>> What's the shutdown rationale? Is the sawmill losing money?
>>>
>>> Charlie Self
>>> "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a
>
>So the EPA forces a shutdown and the OP wants to punish Palco?
>
Well of course, after all corporations only cut trees because they like
pillaging the forests -- they could produce wood without cutting down trees
if they really wanted to.
Note to the humor-impaired: That was sarcasm.
>Jeez.
>
>Charlie Self
>"Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a
>man's head." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
In article <1097208025.BCs0PqqHTGDTMIaDJMZNPA@teranews>,
Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 7 Oct 2004 10:12:24 -0700, [email protected] (edfan) wrote:
>
>>North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
>>deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
>>California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
>>Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
>>the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
>>sawmill".
>>
>>Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
>
>
>Deconstructing? What ever happened to good old-fashioned English, like
>"demolishing", or "tearing down", or "removing".
>
>
> What's next, morticians "debirthing" people who have "de-lifed"?
>
>
Well, there's the story about Beethoven, in his tomb,
erasing pieces of paper.
Big pieces, little pieces, all sorts of pieces.
Somebody opens the lid, looks in, and asks "Hey, Beethoven! whatcha doin?"
The reply:
"de-composing"
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
> deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
> California.
>
Chalk up another good company destroyed by Hurwitz.
--
Where ARE those Iraqi WMDs?
In article <1097293634.Y9anOqna8kHAh+u89FzzZw@teranews>,
[email protected] says...
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:53:33 -0700, Larry Blanchard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >Chalk up another good company destroyed by Hurwitz.
>
> Hurwitz?
>
A Texas financier, takeover artist, etc..
Pacific Lumber was owned by a family who was cutting their redwoods at a
sustainable rate. They could have cut forever. Hurwitz bought them out
and cut everything in sight. Redwood was cheap for a few years, now
it's almost non-existent. There's a book on the subject but I don't
remember the title.
He also did a leveraged buyout on Kaiser Aluminum and stripped the
company bare. They're now essentially out of the primary aluminum
business and only make finished goods. I did some contract computing
work for them over the years and personally witnessed the decline.
He's probably stripped other companies as well, but those are the two I
know about.
--
Where ARE those Iraqi WMDs?
I used to go to Eureka for business and visited the mill last in 2000. Man
was it impressive! I'm sorry to see it go. Spotted owl country!
Dave
"edfan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
> deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
> California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
> Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
> the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
> sawmill".
>
> Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
More the spotted owl. One of our companies located in Eureka started seeing
the decline as soon as the first ruling in the late 80s'. We sold it and
moved on. Since then, virtually all business have suffered significantly in
the area. PALCO is just one of a long list of closures.
A federal appeals court shot down a series of timber cuts planned for
national forests in the Pacific Northwest yesterday, ruling that regulations
ostensibly protecting the spotted owl and other threatened species are
"blatantly contradictory to Congress' express demand." -Seattle
Post-Intelligencer 7aug04
Dave
>> North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
>> deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
>> California.
>>
> Chalk up another good company destroyed by Hurwitz.
>
> --
> Where ARE those Iraqi WMDs? _ France and Germany!
On 7 Oct 2004 10:12:24 -0700, [email protected] (edfan) calmly
ranted:
>North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
>deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
>California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
>Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
>the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
>sawmill".
>
>Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
Wow, look at the size of those bandsaw blades! 12" x 75' or so?
Bottom right pic in the 5th set, just to the right of the sweet,
young Lady in Red. ;)
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Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<1097208025.BCs0PqqHTGDTMIaDJMZNPA@teranews>...
> On 7 Oct 2004 10:12:24 -0700, [email protected] (edfan) wrote:
>
> >North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
> >deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
> >California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
> >Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
> >the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
> >sawmill".
> >
> >Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
>
>
> Deconstructing? What ever happened to good old-fashioned English, like
> "demolishing", or "tearing down", or "removing".
>
>
> What's next, morticians "debirthing" people who have "de-lifed"?
Hey, it's California - remember ;)
Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote in message
SNIP
> <illumination>
>
> Demolish: blow it down; wreck it; scrap it.
>
> Deconstruct: take apart to save components for recycling.
>
> </illumination>
>
SNIP
I have always wondered if you programmer types realize how silly that
<start the program> </end the program> stuff looks to everyone else. I
guess that it should be expected that communicating on a computer
based medium would mean that there are a disproportionate percentage
of folks in the programming world here, but after the first few
thousand times you see that, the humor escapes. As an accountant I
usually don't do a lot of debiting or crediting or use a lot of
T-accounts in my newsgroup postings, but if I did I expect most of you
would find that annoying and silly (not to mention meaningless).
Just a silly pet peeve of mine I guess. ;)
Dave Hall
It was probably suspect to cause cancer.
"edfan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
> deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
> California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
> Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
> the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
> sawmill".
>
> Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
[email protected] (edfan) wrote in news:22ec5ec7.0410070912.73291748
@posting.google.com:
> North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
> deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
> California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
> Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
> the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
> sawmill".
>
> Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
We used to visit that mill whenever we went camping in Northern
California when I was a kid, about every other year. Went there last
about 6 years ago or so. It was the BEST industrial tour, bar none, I
have ever been to. The hydraulic barker would blast chunks of bark as
big as a small boy right up against the viewing window. The barker
operator would turn an flip the logs to give access to the hydraulic
spary head and the whole building would thump like an earthquake. They
still had a log carriage powered by an truck engine when last I visited.
Although they had lasers to help the first sawyer cut the flitches, the
gang saw operator had only his eyes and ten fingers to operate twelve
gang saws. He was setting the saws to cut two or three boards early, and
was standing off the ends of the planks, so he couldn't line up the saws
with the planks. There was a finger-jointing machine which made
continous lengths of clear redwood, just like the paintable trim you get
at the Borg. The last time I was there redwood had gotten so valuable
that they had a guy trimming the bad finger joints off of goofs so they
could run them back through the machine. The pieces were as short as 6"!
I remember them cutting 8' diameter logs when I was young. They were
still getting some 5' logs when I was there last.
Man, this makes me a bit sad.
--
John Snow
"If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be here"
>
> I'm not sure I can put my hands on it now, but somewhere I have a
> little piece of redwood, probably 1/8" thick, with the tour
> information stamped on it. We'd drive from the Bay Area to Portland to
> see relatives, and stopped in Scotia once. I remember the machinery
> only vaguely.
>
> I've thought a few times since my 2-year-old was born (the kid can
> identify woodworking tools on sight and imitate their sounds, if any),
> that we'd both probably enjoy that tour. Guess we weren't going to get
> the chance, given that the mill went out of service before he came
> into service.
>
> Sigh.
>
> I think I'll go home and show him my Millers Falls 770, just to hear
> him say, "Brace and bit! Brace and bit!"
That was the ticket to the mill tour. You'd go to the museum, itself built
of redwood logs, and pick up your ticket for the self-directed tour. I
have one in my desk at home.
--
John Snow
"If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be here"
OK Leon, I give- what wonderous state do you call home? It must be A
LOT nicer than California and the people there must be "normal" and
not the millions of lunatics that have ended up in California. You
must have gorgeous beaches to walk on, trails through redwoods to hike
on and incredible mountain slopes to ski down, not to mention
smoke-free restaurants to dine in, some of the best in the world I
might add. Or perhaps where you live you can drive to work through
vineyards that produce grapes from which world-class wines are made.
No? Well that's a shame. Of course you're always welcome to come out
here and visit us in the land of fruit and nuts.
"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> It was probably suspect to cause cancer.
>
> "edfan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
> > deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
> > California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
> > Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
> > the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
> > sawmill".
> >
> > Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 18:11:06 -0700, Larry Jaques
<novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote:
|On 7 Oct 2004 10:12:24 -0700, [email protected] (edfan) calmly
|ranted:
|
|>North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
|>deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
|>California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
|>Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
|>the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
|>sawmill".
|>
|>Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
|
|Wow, look at the size of those bandsaw blades! 12" x 75' or so?
|Bottom right pic in the 5th set, just to the right of the sweet,
|young Lady in Red. ;)
We toured here once and after seeing the sharpening room for these
blades it would hard to argue that bandsaw mills waste less lumber
than a circular saw [g]. They have some serious teeth on those
babies.
On our first trip we tried to get a room at the Scotia Inn
(http://scotiainn.com/new/main.shtml)
but they were full. On our next time up the coast, we made it a point
to get a reservation there. What a neat place. The food was
wonderful and the staff knows its stuff. I hope they don't
"deconstruct" the inn too.
"Dale" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> OK Leon, I give- what wonderous state do you call home? It must be A
> LOT nicer than California and the people there must be "normal" and
> not the millions of lunatics that have ended up in California. You
> must have gorgeous beaches to walk on, trails through redwoods to hike
> on and incredible mountain slopes to ski down, not to mention
> smoke-free restaurants to dine in, some of the best in the world I
> might add. Or perhaps where you live you can drive to work through
> vineyards that produce grapes from which world-class wines are made.
I guess you saw me going to work. ;~)
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:01:16 -0700, Mark & Juanita
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Deconstructing? What ever happened to good old-fashioned English,
Jacques Derrida, that's what.
Who himself was today "deconstructed"
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:01:16 -0700, Mark & Juanita
<[email protected]> calmly ranted:
>On 7 Oct 2004 10:12:24 -0700, [email protected] (edfan) wrote:
>
>>North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
>>deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
>>California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
>>Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
>>the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
>>sawmill".
>>
>>Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
>
>
>Deconstructing? What ever happened to good old-fashioned English, like
>"demolishing", or "tearing down", or "removing".
<illumination>
Demolish: blow it down; wreck it; scrap it.
Deconstruct: take apart to save components for recycling.
</illumination>
> What's next, morticians "debirthing" people who have "de-lifed"?
De finitely.
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:22:27 +0000, Hitch wrote:
> [email protected] (edfan) wrote in news:22ec5ec7.0410070912.73291748
> @posting.google.com:
>
>> North Cal Recycled Products Division is in the process of
>> deconstructing Mill B at the Pacific Lumber Company/ PALCO in Scotia
>> California. This was the world's oldest and largest redwood sawmill.
>> Mill B was originally opened in 1910 and it was modified many times in
>> the intervening years but was still known as the the "world's largest
>> sawmill".
>>
>> Pictures at http://tinyurl.com/4gvjm
>
> We used to visit that mill whenever we went camping in Northern
> California when I was a kid, about every other year. Went there last
> about 6 years ago or so. It was the BEST industrial tour, bar none, I
> have ever been to.
> <snip>
>
> Man, this makes me a bit sad.
I'm not sure I can put my hands on it now, but somewhere I have a little
piece of redwood, probably 1/8" thick, with the tour information stamped
on it. We'd drive from the Bay Area to Portland to see relatives, and
stopped in Scotia once. I remember the machinery only vaguely.
I've thought a few times since my 2-year-old was born (the kid can identify
woodworking tools on sight and imitate their sounds, if any), that we'd
both probably enjoy that tour. Guess we weren't going to get the chance,
given that the mill went out of service before he came into service.
Sigh.
I think I'll go home and show him my Millers Falls 770, just to hear
him say, "Brace and bit! Brace and bit!"