Rust

A reddish brown tinge to metal that has been exposed to water or vapour. Who has rust?



It is interesting how I drove by this dilapidated metal factory for a couple years but hadn't really "seen" it. The building has broken windows, no doors, a rusty roof and one would think it was abandoned. That is not the case. People actually work in this place. I think they fabricate metal beams. The other interesting piece is the large ball chained on top of a concrete pedestal. Even while photographing it I didn't realize there was an engraving below. I had to do a close up on the photo to read what it says. Not only is the history a little strange but that someone would create it into a monument of sorts struck me as very curious. All but the two bottom lines are legible. Here is majority of the inscription:

This ball is erected here as it resembles

bowling in a Paul Bunyan way.

This famous land clearing ball developed

by C. L. "Red" Wilson was used for knocking

down 16,000 acres of timber on the

Hungry Horse Reservation in Montana and

many more acres in other parts of

the United States and Canada

Another view of the building behind the ball.