Posted by Dofflin Don’t worry we’ll move your body to teh quarry so you look like a REAL msp eleet.

lolll,

OR, alternatively my cadaver could be left in freun to scar some kids before they fall and break legs for the hundredth time





P.S

jesus christ thats a lot of posts lol

For me, doesn’t have much to do with my skills. Just started to explore less dangerous abandoned places and through experience and learning began to explore more dangerous places. One step at a time.

Being an auto mechanic I find gaining access to secured structures has become my specialty. I have all the tools to remove any hardware known to man. and a little bit of problem solving goes a long way when you need to find creative was to make an improvised roof entrance.

Posted by Samurai i was at work one night (11p-7a ahift) doing my 3rd round of tests, when i came across three chuckleheads wandering around my place of business. No boots, no safety glasses/ goggles, no hardhat, no chem gloves... just wandering around taking pics of my recaust plant. They had parked their car a mile or so away and walked up the tracks thinking that an operating paper mill would be a 'cool place to check out'. (facepalm) I asked them to leave and to their credit, they did. I didn't have to call security.

Never had much yen to explore the paper mill in my town, but when they are doing the reclamation process, everyone in town knows they are doing it. LOL. It makes my eyes burn and I can barely breathe and that is some two miles away from it. I do not think I would enter it without appropriate safety apparel.

I don't have any real skills and most of you would probably say "Bro, do you even explore" because I rarely if ever go anyplace I would not be allowed by security.

Posted by Watcher Never had much yen to explore the paper mill in my town, but when they are doing the reclamation process, everyone in town knows they are doing it. LOL. It makes my eyes burn and I can barely breathe and that is some two miles away from it. I do not think I would enter it without appropriate safety apparel. I don't have any real skills and most of you would probably say "Bro, do you even explore" because I rarely if ever go anyplace I would not be allowed by security.

with a Kraft-process mill, there are dangers that are hidden. Give you an example- hydrogen sulfide. This wonderful gas happens when an acid hits a base in the sewer in the floor. In low concentrations, it smells like rotten eggs, you know, a bad fart. It's relatively safe then. In high concentrations, you don't smell it and if you get a whiff of it, the gas pretty much kills you almost instantly. The gas also pools in low places so you could walk into a pocket of it, not know it and be dead before you hit the floor. International Paper lost 12 people to it in a mill in Alabama some years back. The gas alarms didn't work and no one was wearing H2S crickets. The shit-tacular part is this can happen in a closed-down mill as well.

and that was just ONE danger out of 100. I know it's kind of ironic that i had a supercow when i saw these folks at 3:30am trundling around my plant considering my proclivities for exploration, but i also didn't want to have to render first aid should they have got caustic crust in their eyes, nasty thermal burns from the steam we used or chemical burns from the sodium hydroxide i was making.

Posted by Samurai with a Kraft-process mill, there are dangers that are hidden. Give you an example- hydrogen sulfide. This wonderful gas happens when an acid hits a base in the sewer in the floor. In low concentrations, it smells like rotten eggs, you know, a bad fart. It's relatively safe then. In high concentrations, you don't smell it and if you get a whiff of it, the gas pretty much kills you almost instantly. The gas also pools in low places so you could walk into a pocket of it, not know it and be dead before you hit the floor. International Paper lost 12 people to it in a mill in Alabama some years back. The gas alarms didn't work and no one was wearing H2S crickets. The shit-tacular part is this can happen in a closed-down mill as well. and that was just ONE danger out of 100. I know it's kind of ironic that i had a supercow when i saw these folks at 3:30am trundling around my plant considering my proclivities for exploration, but i also didn't want to have to render first aid should they have got caustic crust in their eyes, nasty thermal burns from the steam we used or chemical burns from the sodium hydroxide i was making.

Do I ever know what that stuff smells like. The whole town knows when they are using it. I used to work in a plastic factory back when I was a junior Watcher in training - ruined my sense of smell but I can still smell *that*. So I also know a bit about working in a factory that uses dangerous chemicals, to say nothing of the machinery used for making and working with that stuff. I would not have wanted anybody wandering around in there without proper authorization. And now I also know industrial sites are dangerous for the unprepared.

Posted by Watcher Do I ever know what that stuff smells like. The whole town knows when they are using it. I used to work in a plastic factory back when I was a junior Watcher in training - ruined my sense of smell but I can still smell *that*. So I also know a bit about working in a factory that uses dangerous chemicals, to say nothing of the machinery used for making and working with that stuff. I would not have wanted anybody wandering around in there without proper authorization. And now I also know industrial sites are dangerous for the unprepared.

i worked in plastics ages ago... Continental Precision Corporation Of Vermont... CPC for short. It was an injection molding plant. Eighteen machines running 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. We had this one material that ran on an automatic making pieces for garden hose menders. It was called "Delrin II". Never forget this shit... if a piece got stuck in the mold during ejection, it would stay in the mold and get hotter and hotter and hotter until it combusted. When Delrin II burned it basically gave of formaldehyde. The whole place would absolutely reek of this shit.

as far as I know, that place closed in 2006 or 07.

Now for that plant near you, what's the name of it? My former boss wanted me to come work for him in an old Temple-Inland mill in Lousiana.

As for me, I used to work for a variety of laboratories, including a human pathogen research lab. Old labs can have some really dangerous stuff if mishandled. I've accidentally burned my fingerprints off and contracted lab-borne illnesses enough at work to know that whatever they have laying around just gets more dangerous with age.

Some of the biological diseases found in old labs can be nasty if they survive abandonment. Of course, that's a big if (most have very narrow temperature/moisture ranges they can survive in), but we had plenty of nasty chemicals too. Old laboratories can have lots of chemicals that will ruin your day in creative ways- for example, some of the chemicals I've seen in labs can do things like: give you cancers wherever they touch you, release fumes that fill your lungs with acid, melt your skin, dissolve your bones, poison you in increasingly horrifying ways, permanently blind you with the fumes, or just straight up explode if shaken.

If you ever find yourself in an abandoned lab I highly recommend checking the labels before picking anything up, and don't pick up anything you don't recognize. Hell, don't pick up any chemicals you do recognize unless you know how to safely handle them.

I've been exploring storm drains for 10+ years now and I've never had any major issues besides me falling off a cliff and into the Mississippi River. I'm still alive to tell you about it HA HA (LOL). I've also explored a lot of sewers and I've never had any issues with dangerous gases that would kill me (LOL). I must be immuned to the smells, gases etc (LOL).

Posted by hoover 2 I've been exploring storm drains for 10+ years now and I've never had any major issues besides me falling off a cliff and into the Mississippi River. I'm still alive to tell you about it HA HA (LOL). I've also explored a lot of sewers and I've never had any issues with dangerous gases that would kill me (LOL). I must be immuned to the smells, gases etc (LOL).

Tell us more about you falling into the Mississippi River

Posted by Samurai Now for that plant near you, what's the name of it? My former boss wanted me to come work for him in an old Temple-Inland mill in Lousiana.

Graphic Packaging West Monroe. I don't know if it has ever been a Temple-Inland mill - GP has always had it since I have been here. Not too far from the Duck Commander place if you were a fan of Duck Dynasty. (I never really was). I have a couple of friends that work at the mill and they seem to like it. Paper does seem to be big business down here, there are a lot of places where they grow trees just for the mills. Never really was around that in Missouri.

The factory I worked at made acoustic seals for the auto industry. Found out after I stopped working there that these included asbestos as one ingredient. I can't say I'm unhappy about not working there any more.

Posted by Kabes Tell us more about you falling into the Mississippi River

Sure. I was walking along a narrow sandstone ledge about 2 feet high above the Mississippi River for which the river was high at that time to take a look at a nearby storm drain outfall, on my way back I couldn't remember which way I came from (up the hill or continued on the narrow ledge), I tried to continue walking on the narrow ledge but first I had to walk past a small tree but when I stepped on a edge of the narrow ledge to get around the tree, my boot (which were old winter boots) slipped off the edge and I slid into the Mississippi River but I was floating in the water because my backpack saved my life due to the fact that I had some empty plastic bottles in my backpack that made it act like a life jacket. I was able to climb back up the cliff and back up to the ledge but if it wasn't for my backpack with the bottles inside I might of died that day. On the plus side it was a hot 80 degree day, so that water felt nice (LOL). Later when the river level went down I learned that the water in that area was 10 feet deep.

Posted by Watcher Graphic Packaging West Monroe. I don't know if it has ever been a Temple-Inland mill - GP has always had it since I have been here. Not too far from the Duck Commander place if you were a fan of Duck Dynasty. (I never really was). I have a couple of friends that work at the mill and they seem to like it. Paper does seem to be big business down here, there are a lot of places where they grow trees just for the mills. Never really was around that in Missouri. The factory I worked at made acoustic seals for the auto industry. Found out after I stopped working there that these included asbestos as one ingredient. I can't say I'm unhappy about not working there any more.

this one was called Bogalusa (not sure if I am spelling that right). International Paper spun off the mill to a start-up formed from IP execs called "Sylvamo"... not sure if they did to get out of contracts with the municipality or what. Everyone here is waiting to see if it's going to close or not. Money isn't in free-sheet paper anymore... it's in packaging.

Posted by Samurai this one was called Bogalusa (not sure if I am spelling that right). International Paper spun off the mill to a start-up formed from IP execs called "Sylvamo"... not sure if they did to get out of contracts with the municipality or what. Everyone here is waiting to see if it's going to close or not. Money isn't in free-sheet paper anymore... it's in packaging.

If that is the same one as I found on Google, its a good deal further south in Louisiana than I live. Bogalusa is kind of central/eastern in the state. Monroe, where I hang my hat, is in the northeast part. Pretty sure our mill makes packaging too. We had at least one other in the area but it closed before I ever moved here.