Location: Nummenpää In Nurmijärvi (FINLAND)

N60°26.95'

E024°38.26'

Power Transformer In Nummenpää, Picture 1- This old tower is something, which I spotted a year ago during the spring, while driving through the countryside. Attempt to check the tower more closely during that time, was hampered by the muddy and totally wet field which surrounds the tower.

- It's most likely an very old power transformer or other electricity equipment. Once the power cables have gone through the building and the holes from where the cables have gone in and come out, are still visible in the upper part of the tower. What I mean by a very old power transformer, is that I've never seen transformers build in this way. The construction is totally unfamiliar to me. Normally these are made out of stone and look very sturdy. There are of course few wooden power transformers, but those are build in a totally different way, they don't resemble this one at all.

- Also this doesn't look too sturdy, although the years it has been abandoned, probably have affected to that fact. The surroundings from the day it has been in use, have changed quite a lot. The tower now stands alone in the middle of a cornfield. There's no roads, not even a path leading to this place.

- That means, that I was required to walk through the cornfield...luckily the farmer with his new shotgun, was sleeping...

 

Power Transformer In Nummenpää, Picture 2

 

- The interiors of the tower, or what's left of them. There's no way anymore to reach the upper part of the tower. All the sub-levels have come down years ago and now it's almost the walls alone standing. All kind of pieces were hanging from above and that's why I really didn't feel too comfortable of standing there staring.

Power Transformer In Nummenpää, Picture 3

 

Power Transformer In Nummenpää, Picture 4

 

Power Transformer In Nummenpää, Picture 8

 

- Like said, it's in a middle of a cornfield, no paths no roads. I had company with me during the trip and he promised to keep an eye on the farmer and yell, when the farmer with his shotgun comes out.

Power Transformer In Nummenpää, Picture 6

 

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