Last of the Carnation

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

They've got one lane of the road closed today with flagmen stopping traffic. They're taking down the last of the milk plant.
In the last picture,the piece falling out toward the road caught a pretty good sized power cable of some kind and took it down off the pole. I don't know if it was telephone or what. The power company was there and they didn't seem too concerned. Somebody working for the demolition outfit went out in the road with a chainsaw with a circular blade on it and cut it in half then rolled it up.

David G · Mar 20, 2016

Those look like cable TV, not power to me.

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

That's what I wondered. I was standing there with a neighbor and told him if that was cable TV when the basketball playoffs were going on,there were gonna be some people who weren't gonna be any too happy. I real quick snapped another one when the cable and the rubble hit the ground.

Rick Kr · Mar 20, 2016

The street light is at 90 degrees in this pic too. Good action shot.

Rick

RayP(MI) · Mar 20, 2016

So long old friend. Been a part of the landscape as long as I can remember.

donjr · Mar 20, 2016

Telephone cable. I worked on them for thirty years....

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

Yep,things were really swaying there for a few seconds.

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

Yep,it was there way before you and me Ray. I was standing there with a neighbor my age. We grew up together. He had two uncles who worked there. He has a pocket watch that one of them got for 25 years of service and a wooden clock that one of them got out of there. He was telling of one kid who graduated a year before we did who went to work there at the age or 18 right after graduation. I still think I'm the youngest around here to have a direct link to it,having hauled milk in to there up until the last day,but Joel comes a close second.

RBnSC · Mar 20, 2016

2R I love it, that's the kind of stuff I face regularly. It does look like fun though doesn't it. I usually avoid getting filmed if I can. I have been on the news before it ain't that great.
Ron

J.Wondergem · Mar 20, 2016

Hey Randy, you better get a brick from there. I got a new cast plow point from Moore Plow in Greenville.

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

I should have ran out and grabbed one off the road. They're selling them at the village hall for $5 each,using the money for some memorial thing that's gonna be on the side of the bank.
I've got 2 Moore plows. Dave K has a whole bunch of NOS Moore parts. Said he tried to donate them to the Flat River Museum and they wouldn't take them.

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

I'll tell you what,one of them was making me a little nervous. He was right on the edge the whole time,bricks and dirt were sliding away,the darned thing was starting to lean and he just kept right on pulling stuff down.

retired farmer · Mar 20, 2016

Must have been a pretty neat place when it was in operation. I pulled it up on Google Earth. They must have pulled the railroad tracks out years ago.

J.Wondergem · Mar 20, 2016

I thought maybe Pitch was doing the demolition until I saw that the cranes were too nice shape.

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

Ya,the plant shut down in 75. I remember the trains coming in to the elevator and lumber yard for a few years after that. Must have been late 70s,early 80s when they stopped running. Doesn't seem that long,but when you've lived here all your life,time gets away from you.

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

This outfit's out of Lansing.

rrlund · Mar 20, 2016

Wife just went to town,here's about the last of it.

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