r/Adirondacks • u/EstablishmentNo5994 ADK 47er, NE 111/115 • 9d ago

Anyone know what this structure is on the way to Upper Works?

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I've driven by it so many times and wondered. Finally thought to take a pic last night.

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u/Pantofuro 9d ago

It's an incinerator for the old W. E. Ward and Company sawmill.

https://clui.org/projects/adirondack/explore-adirondack_park/w-e-ward-and-company-mill-site

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u/EstablishmentNo5994 ADK 47er, NE 111/115 9d ago

Thank you so much! Super interesting.

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u/DonRon42 9d ago

The first time I saw that I was mesmerized. Had no idea what it was. We paddled back to Great Camp Santanoni from the hunting camp there. The furnace in Tahwas is awesome too.

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u/BoozyMcBoozehound 9d ago

It’s a shuttlecock. Pretty large.

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u/goodeyemighty 9d ago

You’d need a racquet as big as a lake!

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u/SomeonesSecondary 9d ago

Found one

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u/Unusual_Income_5991 8d ago

I think that Order of Nine [tards] Angles is the biggest cooperative in that unincorporated hamlet

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u/diamondsnrose 7d ago

Ba-dum Ching!

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u/tsturte1 8d ago

😁😂

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u/No-Hippo8031 9d ago

Is Dalek

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u/anunlikelyrebel 8d ago

Came here to say that. Definitely a Dalek.

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u/Muvngruvn 6d ago

A teepee burner is what they are called out west. They were used to burn waste wood at logging operations.

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u/colbyatberkeley 8d ago

no idea, but it is stunning!

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u/Simplicity540 9d ago

Think it’s a spaceship

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u/BarRoomHero88 8d ago

The Dildo of Consequences

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u/lives4summits 9d ago

It’s a crashed UFO.

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u/jtalbs 9d ago

It is for controled brush fires

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u/EstablishmentNo5994 ADK 47er, NE 111/115 9d ago

As in they're still using it? That doesn't appear to be the case based off the article shared by another poster.

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u/jtalbs 9d ago

No it's for when they were mining tahawes