January 1970Standard Wood Preservers
Shreveport, Lousiana
The camera used is a Yashica SLR with Ektachrome slide film. The slides were converted to digital using a home made light box and camera stand holding a Nikon L-19 camera.
January 1970
Standard Wood Preservers
Shreveport, Lousiana
View of the treating department
looking from storage yards.
I inspected and bought southern pine
utility poles from here.
January 1970
Standard Wood Preservers
Shreveport, Lousiana
As above but closer to
treating cylinders.
January 1970
Standard Wood Preservers
Shreveport, Lousiana
Instrument board within
the treating plant.
The larger guages have a paper disk for
an ink pen to trace and record temperature,
vacuum, and pressure.
January 1970
Standard Wood Preservers
Shreveport, Lousiana
The usual steam leaks while steam
driven air compressor is running.
January 1970
Standard Wood Preservers
Shreveport, Lousiana
As above.
January 1970
Standard Wood Preservers
Shreveport, Lousiana
Foreground - horizontal, compound
steam driven air compressor.
Background - two gasoline car engines
driving large preservative transfer pumps.
The engine on the right is a 283 cu. in.
Chevrolet V-8. The exhaust valves leaked
so bad that the manifold glowed cherry red!
March 1970
Dierk's Wood Treating
De Queen, Arkansas
The treating department.
There were eight wood treating cylinders
eight feet in diameter and one-hunderd
twenty-five feet long - as I remember.
I inspected and bought southern pine utility
poles from here.
March 1970
Dierk's Wood Treating
De Queen, Arkansas
The instrument board.
The top row of instruments are recording
temperature, within the treating cylinders,
and the bottom row are recording pressure, on
round paper disks.
March 1970
Dierk's Wood Treating
De Queen, Arkansas
The control panel.
Many of the valves in the plumbing
for steam, presevative, vacuum and
compressed air, are remote controled
by use of this panel.
March 1970
Dierk's Wood Treating
De Queen, Arkansas
The pit contains eight steam driven
high pressure preservative pumps of which
three are visible here.
They maintain a pressure of 150 lbs/sq/in
during the high pressure portion of the
treating cycle.
March 1970
Dierk's Wood Treating
De Queen, Arkansas
Plumbing and pressure regulators.
March 1970
Dierk's Wood Treating
De Queen, Arkansas
The maze of plumbing is awesome.
The small wheels on stands up from the floor
are extensions handles to large valves under the floor.
March 1970
Colfax Treating Company
Pineville, Lousiana
Locomotive boilers in the treating plant.
I inspected and bought southern pine
utility poles from here.
March 1970
Colfax Treating Company
Pineville, Lousiana
Treating cylinders, rail track, switch engine
with preservative storage tanks in background.
March 1970
Colfax Treating Company
Pineville, Lousiana
Background left - instrument board.
To the right is a steam driven horizontal
compound air compressor.
Nice, neat, clean, safe installation!