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Achnacarry, Egg End Boiler View
SC 549317
Description Achnacarry, Egg End Boiler View
Date 23/6/1978
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 549317
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Timber treatment plant, Achnacarry, Inverness-shire This is an unusual 'home-made' plant of a type which was a common feature of estate woodworking until central sawmilling made them uneconomic. It has been constructed from two old boilers, the larger one cut open to form a treatment tank. This view shows the treatment tank in its brick setting, with a firegrate at one end and a short chimney at the other. The small egg-ended boiler on the right contained preserving liquid. It probably originally supplied steam to a threshing-mill engine. This plant was probably designed for treating fencing posts and other outdoor timberwork with creosote, a coal-tar by-product. More recently copper compounds have been preferred for anti-rot timber treatment. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H78/173/14
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