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@1martymcfly298

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for another great video, I've been following your videos since 2016 2017

@krisshaw9464

2 ай бұрын

So how close to civilization is this spot

@NASPRNEWS

Ай бұрын

i have access to a map with over 120 abandoned locations on google earth just form South Carolina abandoned buildings.

The "typewriter" is a Burroughs F 1000 bookkeeping machine from c. ~1950. The building was likely an accounting and records office for the plant if I had to wager a guess, hence all the file boxes strewn everywhere.

@trixieleigh7912

Ай бұрын

The ads for these are amazing 😂

You're approaching the perfect urbex mix there. A tramp through the woods, industrial monoliths and a characterful house with enough left inside to offer a little mystery.

@catcrazy67

2 ай бұрын

Fantastic vid thanks

Just to clarify, I did not cut open that fence. Looks like it's been like that for years.

@ronaldmiller2740

2 ай бұрын

YOUR A GREAT EXPLORER..THATS A BIG DROP WOW!!! CHRIS AND JAY,, I GOGGLED SYSTEMATIC ITS AUTO TECH. FOR PRINTING..IT HAD INK,, VERY COOL HISTORY VIDEO..

@screwthecabal6453

2 ай бұрын

The house looks flooded too.

@Ganiscol

2 ай бұрын

Okay. But what were those holes in the ground right there? Lacking context, but have an abundance of curiosity! 😅

@OriginalSithMonkey

2 ай бұрын

Whether you cut the fence or not your still on private property. Two minutes of research

@playerroku4412

2 ай бұрын

Did you really think you have to clarify that with us

Hi, Chris, at 13:15, the machine you are looking at is a Burroughs Sensimatic, which I believe to be from the early 1950's and I believe it was called a Comptomitor. I worked for Burroughs Corp. from April,1965 till about April of 1982 The Comptomitor was a forerunner of the earliest computers and I think it was all mechanical and was probably just before they started using electronics. I will start trying to learn more about Burrough's history and try to let you know what I find out, if you're interested. God Bless and stay safe.

@laswan5

2 ай бұрын

That's very interesting! Thank you for sharing that information.

@brandoncoir972

2 ай бұрын

My grandfather also worked at Burroughs in Farmington Hills, Mi. I have seen that machine in his basement with other adding machines they very cool and Heavy! keep the Great work going guys!

The wildest thing when finding places like these is imagining how in their heyday, they were places people lived, worked, thrived, now only seeing humans every so often. Valuable properties once.

Hey, man, just a tip to remember when doing urban exploring: If you ever have any question as to whether flooring or stairs may collapse, but you're dead-set on exploring anyway, ALWAYS try your best to step as closely to the walls or banisters as possible. That's where any remaining structural stability will be found, and where you're the least likely to go crashing down. It was making me so nervous watching you guys go up and down those treacherous stairs when you were stepping on them close to the middle of each step. Try to remember to keep safety as your #1 priority whenever you're out exploring anywhere that's risky - especially when you're in the middle of nowhere and medical help has no quick or convenient means of reaching you.

Typewriter is a Burroughs alphanumeric accounting machine.

@ghtaboma

2 ай бұрын

Was curious about that thing! Thanks.

@MatthewBlanchard-lm1et

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for that tid bit of knowledge

@Anon-mk4ms

2 ай бұрын

Many thanks, I thought it might be a telex machine but and accounting machine makes more sense.

@onecargarage5360

2 ай бұрын

What I gathered from the brochure I found online, it looks to be an early computing machine probably from the 60s, and would store the information on magnetic tape. That could be what all the boxes are for also.

@MisterKatz

17 күн бұрын

Bookkeeping Machine

I recognize that machine anywhere, it’s a Burroughs Alphabetic Accounting Machine. Used for accounting. I’m an accountant so yeah thank God we have computers now or that’s what we would still use. Fun huh? Great video as usual thank you great to see that. When things were still made in America. Good times.

8:59 I'm amused at how no one is able to access the top of the silos to spraypaint or to steal the copper wiring. Thanks for the tour Chris! 👍🤠

I can tell you exactly what all the square light blue flat box-like items upstairs in the attic at 18:03 are... 16mm film reel containers for transporting and storing large16mm movie film reels after having been developed. Those appear to be the 16" size which held up to 2000' of developed film. This is how any movies that were shown in schools, business training programs, colleges and many other applications were shipped and protected. There are both tops and bottoms visible. The film reels were put into the bottom half, then the tops were fitted over the bottoms and secured using the canvas straps that were then buckled tight to lock them closed These were in common use from the 20's through the early 80's until VHS tapes began to be used for the same kind of educational materials. Many libraries and schools still have stacks of these slowly decaying boxed film reels in deep storage. Probably over 90% of every old video you've ever seen came from these 16mm films before being copied to VHS or digitized. Any kid from the 70's on back through the 40's who took a history class (that is every kid who went to Jr High or High School) has seen these when the teacher showed films with a big projector. They just don't remember the boxes the films came in... Sometimes the boxes were a greyish tan in addition to the blue or black. Hope that was a contribution to outdated information. Sometimes we old boomers are actually useful. And in person, actually pretty cool.... ;)

@gwengwen4535

2 ай бұрын

That’s awesome. I’ve heard of this before! 😎

I was just watching a video of a house being built, and now seeing this old house nearly reduced to the studs gives me such an odd feeling--to think that decades ago the same amount of attention, care, and pride went into this building, and something new and exciting was created, probably a shining moment and beacon of accomplishment to multiple people; but now it rests in sad and lonely decay, its purpose having been fulfilled, and now forgotten. Thinking back to the video of the new house, it is, in a weird way, sad to think that a similar fate may await it decades from now. A bittersweet curse of inevitability.

Very interesting find, especially the house. Thanks Chris and Jay

That hole is terrifying

@867diesel

2 ай бұрын

reminded me of my ex 🤣🤣

@lablackzed

2 ай бұрын

​@@867diesel😳😂😂😂😂that big 😱

@867diesel

2 ай бұрын

@@lablackzed i had to strap a 2x4 to my ass . so i wouldnt fall in 🤣🤣

@867diesel

2 ай бұрын

@@lablackzed i had to strap a 2x4 to my ass . so i wouldnt fall in 🤣🤣

@samholdsworth420

3 күн бұрын

​@@867dieselcan I get her number?

That house could've been an office building for the other cement company

During the cold war many buildings were CD fallout shelters.Churches,Schools,Office buildings ect. My parochial school had barrels of survival biscuits,water,first aid kits and even several Geiger counters in the church and school basement. Common in steel mill towns.

@TheBamaChad-W4CHD

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. It was in a sheltered valley so that really would help with radioactive fallout moving with the wind. The secure file containers were once fill of info on what to do to pick up the government if it had collapsed.

@CrazyBear65

2 ай бұрын

I remember yellow Fallout Shelter signs when I was a kid. They were all over Pittsburgh, movie theaters, stores, schools...

@TCW838

Ай бұрын

The building I worked in (I retired in 2019) was built in the '50s. To this day, it has the CD shelter signs all over with arrows in various places leading to the basement. It was designed for 400 people. The found the canned biscuts, water, etc in an unused room during a remodel several years ago, all packed in 25 and 55 gallon drums. Cots were hung from the ceiling and in recesses in the walls. Geiger counters were still in wood boxes and hundreds of dosementry "pens" were also in their original protective storage condition. Interesting to see how efficiently they used the space they had available. The coffee shop in our building was originally doubled as the shelter kitchen. Very interesting the way they had everything set up, just waiting for "that day" to sadly come.

Looking at that old picture of when it was in operation makes me think about all the people that must have worked there just like any other job or place & could never imagine it buried in the forest & abandoned. Another great video Chris. I've never missed one.

@monsterglo

2 ай бұрын

I always think of what the walls could tell us, such forgotten times ❤

@Smurphenstein

2 ай бұрын

I had a bad accident in a workplace in the 80's and nearly died. The place was levelled many years later. It's since been used as a demo yard before it was demolished. Part of it still stands and it is now an undercover carpark, shops, apartments. My and other's blood, sweat and tears are literally in places like this. It's sad to see them gone or just left to decay. There are all sorts of stories in places like that which just end up lost in history, like most parts of life.

@monsterglo

2 ай бұрын

@@Smurphenstein I agree completely so very sad , I am so thankful to hear you survived, there is a reason you survived ! I truly believe that , I contracted covid in 02/2020 . on a ventilator for 6 days died 3 times , my DNR disappeared was found 2 weeks after I was in rehab getting my strength back, apparently I have unfinished business to attend to before I leave this planet , I do have many long covid symptoms but I am a fighter

I can't believe you guys bushwhacked that way, prob the hardest route in! Lol I love that place, been there lots of times and such a beautiful area. There are 3 trails to the cement towers that I remember, 2 from the north and 1 from the south. Lot of cool stuff in that area too like the locks, bike path, Widow Jane and the Synder Estate. Just wish people would stop vandalizing abandoned things so they can be enjoyed for more years to come. I got some cool pics in the admin "house" a few years back, nice to see it still standing and nearly unchanged.

I wonder, who owns that land: Those deep, cylindrical man-made shafts, at the beginning of this video, need to be covered, or filled-in, obv. People/animals will fall in, and never get out.

@Totally_Not_A_Pigeon

2 ай бұрын

The Snyder Estate owns that land I believe (it’s practically in their backyard)

@cdd4248

2 ай бұрын

That is the stuff of nightmares!

@karenlynn6860

2 ай бұрын

That's exactly what I thought . Poor animals trapped in those holes.

@CrazyBear65

2 ай бұрын

Hence the fence... With the gaping hole in it...

@KeyboardBuster

Ай бұрын

Whoever falls in deserves whatever they get for being dumb and careless. Leave those holes be.

Chris and Jay thanks for all your exploration, sadly my health prevents me from exploration, always enjoyed forgotten places , Be careful please ❤

This was absolutely awesome. Great videography as usual. Thanks, Chris

You sir. Have some damn good content on your channel. Been a follower for a few years now and it seems that I don't skip any of your videos. Love how thorough you were with that drone. I wanted to take in every second of that chunk of history. Thanks Chris!

👋🏻Chris,Awesome Sites You Find Very Interesting, Thank You For Sharing🙂👍🏻

My daddy retired with Martin Marietta Blue Circle Cement Shelby County Alabama. He was a mix chemist. Lab work, making the formula to add to the kilns! I loved this explore, reminds me of him. RIP DADDY! ❤

Thank you, Chris! ❤

You need a metal detector. Imagine all the hidden treasures you could find in places like this.

@ian3580

2 ай бұрын

But they are on private property. No items found, whether in plain sight or buried and found with a metal detector belong to them.....

@jman1989

2 ай бұрын

Nails, lots of nails

@jman1989

2 ай бұрын

​@@ian3580get over it

@vickorano

2 ай бұрын

it's probably owned by the state or govt, so I say take what you can find. there were surely dirt roads which many employees would travel over, I bet there were even small lodging buildings. belt buckles, buttons & coins...

@ian3580

2 ай бұрын

@@vickorano Even if state or government property, that doesn't make it YOUR property to go metal detect or remove any item you want.

Interesting that you found a bunch of Civil Defense stuff in the house. Shortly after entering, I noticed several old telecom racks laying on the floor -- it's possible that this house was used for storage or some kind of telecom junction point. Also possible that it was from the cement plant but who knows.

Awesome video! I appreciate your bravery in going into that abandoned house. Many thanks to you Chris, and Jay.

15:14 Magnetic tape transmittal form - Magnetic data storage tape was used by mainframe computers. The transmittal form was required by IRS. Before the internet, if a company wanted to send a data tape to the IRS that form would be included. Data probability would have been employee W-2, or other tax info. Those boxes would have held the data tapes for transport.

My mom used to tell me about how she would have practice nuclear drills at school when she was a little girl in the 50s and 60s. She said they’d hide under their desks and cover their heads, either with their hands or text books, in case of falling debris. She later used that same tactic when she was a young adult when her home got hit and damaged by a tornado. It saved her and her friends life. They hid under a table away from the doors and windows in their mobile home. She said if it wasn’t for the bomb drills as a girl that she wouldn’t have been prepared for a tornado.

@Angel-hd2rs

Ай бұрын

Yup, that was my generation, too. I had pretty much forgotten all that. Maybe I blocked it out, who knows.

Watching the video it Started looking familiar. I went in the house about 10 years ago. They look about the same as the last time I was there seem to be holding up fairly well. I Remember finding a news paper from 1981.

Very cool explore! Thanks for taking us along.😊

Thanks for sharing Chris , interesting place. That hole should be covered , so dangerous !

@Angel-hd2rs

Ай бұрын

Oh, you don't think the fence will do? LOL

I was born in 1957 and remember doing those drills and listening to the sirens testing all the time

@laswan5

2 ай бұрын

Born in 1952 and I remember them too.

@Angel-hd2rs

Ай бұрын

Born in 1948 and I remember them, too.

That house must have some high quality roofing material to have lasted that long. The exterior walls looked like asbestos tile. Amazing location altogether.

This was a great find. Thanks for going and sharing!!!

Yup. I'm near 60yrs old. We learned to duck and cover under our desks when I was in school in the early 70's. One time there was a loud car crash just outside the school, our widows were open and it was very loud and sudden, and we all dove under our desks. I had nightmares for a week about bombs dropping, everything being destroyed and I couldn't find my home or my mother. It was a fear that was instilled in you at that age and time.

@seesea-sv3xw

2 ай бұрын

I am 63 and we never did the duck and cover stuff in NJ I guess they figured bring between NYC and Philadelphia we all been vaporized, though I do remember checking out a fallout shelter in my elementary school one day while the ehole school was outside for a picnic and I and a friend took a detour coming back from the bathroom.

@teresayates8274

2 ай бұрын

​@seesea-sv3xw Yeah. I went to a Catholic school in upstate NY. I didn't go to public school until 4th grade. So maybe the schools had different ideas on the duck and cover.

@Angel-hd2rs

Ай бұрын

Being born in 1948, I went through the same thing but in an earlier decade. I never realized how long that had been going on. Interesting...

Interesting & eerie indeed!!! Awesome explore, thank you 💖

Thanks for the journey Chris!

Forgot about this channel for a hot minute. Binging on all your videos now. Kudos for the contents!

I can’t believe the holes at the bottom aren’t closed off. They know people are gonna go back there I’m sure

@Angel-hd2rs

Ай бұрын

That's why they put up the fence. LOL

Be careful...I grew up in this area and there are quite a few areas that are monitored by "government agencies." I grew up in Wallkill (just south of Rosendale) at the foot of the Shawangunk Mountains. There are a lot of areas there that were once used by the government for training purposes but are still monitored even though they have been abandoned. Weird stuff happens in those woods.... 🤣

@grey_street

2 ай бұрын

BIGFOOT THAT'S WHY!!!!

@LanceVance305

Ай бұрын

Elaborate on weird stuff

@samholdsworth420

3 күн бұрын

​@@LanceVance305people spooking themselves out

So as you are walking around in that water,you don't know of its 1inch deep or 100 ft.

Dang, Chris! Draw a line due east across the river and you'd be where I grew up in Staatsburg, NY - was there this past weekend as a matter of fact. As for that Sensimatic, it was an bookkeeping/accounting machine by the Burroughs Company, found a few close images of ads from the 50s , so the one you saw was prob from the 60s (just a wicked assed guess). Excellent find of that office building!

Further up just below Catskill NY you'll find a very small town of Cementon. Half that plant is shut down. I use to go there for work. Might be all shut down by now that was 3 years ago. Its owned by Lehigh Cement last I knew.

5:16 Minus the spraypaint. 👍😉

@MobileInstinct

2 ай бұрын

True

The civil defense department used a lot of concrete...

Such a big place thanks for sharing guys

WOW!!!! Amazing video and find. Thank you for sharing. I found your channel through Lamont at Large Enjoying your channel.

When I think of civil defense, I also think about underground bunkers. You know, like where they would mine cement? Hmmm...

@h.bsfaithfulservant4136

2 ай бұрын

👌👍

@bob20011

2 ай бұрын

​@@h.bsfaithfulservant4136 yeah I mean why would the gov contact people who dig holes in the earth for a living to talk about making nuclear bunker. Just some insane conspiracy!

Well you can go to dangerous places. Just great viewing and take care. HI Jay!

Amazing stuff. This is definitely one of your best finds.

There's a body buried ander the old house

Very nice! Thank you for sharing, and greetings from Canada!

sensimatic alphabetic accounting machine, very interesting find.

My father worked in the lab (quality control testing) at a cement company. The lower level of that building looked just like that lab. There was also an adding machine just like that one there. My guess is the lab was on the first floor and the business/shipping office on the second. That was the arrangememt where my father worked which is now another abandoned (portland) cement company in PA.

wow, what a blight that was left behind

Cool find! I love seeing historic places!

Wow this place was such a mystery. Great video!!

So cool! I sometimes wish I was a guy explorer as I’m a big wimp of a girl explorer🤣 and too afraid to go this deep into the woods or plains to explore! That’s why we have you and Jay!! 🙌🤣❤️❤️

In the old photo of the plant in operation there’s a rail car near the silos. The railroad grade should still be there but possibly overgrown by brush from view. It could be an interesting walk to find where it went and joins the mainline, if that still exists.

@gwengwen4535

2 ай бұрын

Good catch👀

I remember in elementary school, we had fire drills and also fallout drills that was back in the early 60s. Thanks for the old memories. ❤

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Great video. Thanks!

Those green industrial lights fetch a nice sum.

Probably set up as underground fall out shelters . Pretty cool.

Very interesting. Both you and Jay made Very interesting videos on this old cement plant.

Really cool. Thanks for sharing.

You and Jay going upstairs at the house---was sure you were going to crash though! be careful!!

8:08 “What’s Up there?” Bigfoot👣

Awesome find with a lot of history.

Looked like an Eastern Black Racer snake. Amazing find!

13:30 that seems to be an electric typewriter. I found a few similar ones online, also from Sensimatic. Wanted to share the link but apparently got auto-blocked. 😅

Wow, very cool explore.

Damn, I was never expecting you to visit my hometown!

Loved it!❤

How did I get to be older people? 😮 😂 We watched the Duck and cover videos and practiced hiding under our desk.

Loved this!!

As always, your videos are awesome. 💯

You should get one of those Zoom spot light flashlights when exploring these places. there’s no telling what could have been in those cylinder ground shafts those lights would be perfect for looking in them. check these lights out in sporting and hunting stores.

in the abandoned house, you found a burroughs sensimatic industrial/architectural typewriter. a very prolific and expensive typewriter for doing blueprints and floor plans, back in its day. its truly a relic. burroughs adding machine was a cometitor to IBM in its time. also those 2x4 in the house, also look like they are actually 2x4 inches and very valueable

This is an awesome find.

Always enjoy your videos 🤗🙏

Fascinating!

Awesome Vid Love The Attack Drone Background Music 😎

What a find! 👍🏽

Pretty cool find out in the woods

It's an accounting machine, very cool!!!

Let’s goooo, finally one of my favorite KZreadrs are talking about rosendale

Excellent channel ❤

Fascinating. 👍💯

Great video. 👍.

taco bell shirt!! we used to have those places in Australia.

Fascinating to watch, interesting, x

No roads. No trails... dude... if you knew how many people have tramped around those woods...

@laswan5

2 ай бұрын

Oh I'm sure they know.

thanks for the tour of this place. The CD group dumped something there. I was out of the way. Hmmm. great video.

Thev old "cold cave" mines are pretty close to me. I never knew about that Google maps location though. Looks like I'm going exploring!

We can't wait!!

There is a small town in the middle of the forest between St louis and Farmington... Well a big church two houses and two barns. But was believed to be an old Mormon town from the mid 1800's. Ppl just left it. The church was interesting, it had been re-painted and the outside and inside fixed up. It also had chairs and old candles set up. The path sits outside the Farmington elementy school. (You can see the path on Google maps) Follow it till it ends then follow the old creek. It dose a u shape around the town. Might still be there.

Cool place