Oh wow this is looking great, good luck with the next stage.

thank you, thank you!

You mean no one stole those lathes?

more like, resold them when the company closed gates.

everywhere in germany, especially the eastern parts, are buildings of long-defunct companies, or hospitals, and even a ruined pleasure park, left behind, nobody caring. they fall apart, collapse, or stand up against the tides of time... and some people set out to explore the remnants of decay and sometimes, despair, shooting photographs which document what once has been, and what it is now. some are located at the outskirts of industrial areas, some are out there in the middle of nowhere. plundered, parts salvaged and resold, mere ghosts of what used to be a busy facility.

It's the same way in parts of this country. I used to rip the copper out of buildings to sell to scrapyards...they didn't ask questions.

So if I saw a bunch of lathes sitting around unguarded, I'd have been trying to figure out how to turn them into money. XP

they are probaly worth the material anymore by now. they are old enough to use leather belts for driving,. and nobody uses them anymore. at least not seriously. :) a little auto shop downtown has a set of them, built in 1917, and they still work, though the bearings are worn out beyond hope.

in the above image the machinery was probably advertized for resale, and when nobody was interested they simply let the remaining pieces sit. one day someone might buy the building and ground, and scrap everything. until then it sits there to be explored.

I can think of a number of uses for leather belts. Care for a demonstration? ^.~

they were used as drive belts throughout industrial revolution. have you ever seen those little model steam machines and the stuff they drive with those spring threads? the same is possible with leather belts. only on plain-surfaced wheels. the steam machine would drive a main shaft running the length of the hall, where the wheels drove long belts. those in turn would deliver power to machines like hammers, cutters, saws, lathes, and so on.
in german language, "throwing off the belt" is still used as a figure of speech meaning "calling it a day".

and then there are all the other uses your brain just came up with trying to tease me. *paws your nose*

Aww, come on, you could have at least given me a courtesy blush. XP

I'cve been in this fandom for too long for that. :)

I'll add it in post. XP

Wow sieht gut aus mit den Schatten :)

yay, danke! ^^

Oi, es wird :)

Die Perspektive fetzt, ich bin begeistert!

yay, dann mach ich weiter! ^^