Hose

Looks like something tunneled up under that floor. "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albakoiky." :)

i'm telling you, some escaped convict is very lost right now.

Hilarious! LOL Motts, is that brick or wood block again??

Oops never mind, thank you Motts. I just saw your close up of the blocks in another shot and they're wood!

But Jude, it almost looks as if the floor is buckling up, doesn't it?

Dear Motts....i have been checking out this site for quite some time now but have yet to comment untill this day. a good bit of you pictures speak out to me but this picture really caught my attention. i am not able to look at a picture as a whole. i look at details one by one then slowly peice it all together. my eyes where drawn mostly to the gass on the left. the way it is cracked and not broken and the light hits it reminds me of something out of my past. this is a picture worth commending.

Rew, to me it looks like it was dug up, for lines of some kind? (pipe, wiring etc.)

probably some massive snake, or large man eating ants....im guessing its ants..odd

NO.... I THINK RAT WAS RIGHT, BUGGS MADE A WRONG TURN. LOL

"I *knew* I shoulda taken dat left toin at Albequerque..."

Tremors!

As someone previously stated, wood blocks (pecan?) were used on the floors because they absorbed oil and could be removed and replaced if needed.

Using a little bit of physics commonsense, it is safe to assume that there is a floor beneath the wood blocks. The blocks being torn up in this manner is probably due to someone pulling something up from the floor, such as a piece of wire, pipe or wood.

I cant say what happened to this floor but I have been to the Bruderer plant in huntsville alabama. Yes the wood floors absorb oil and are replaceable, but are mostly there to absorb shock. If you are building a 250,000 $ macine and something falls you dont want to replace it. wood always gives befoere concrete.

I believe the wooden blocks were used to cut viberation. The blocks were actually layed on a cement floor where something like tar was put down first then the blocks were then installed.

I have a desk clock my wife bought me a long time ago at SASCO. It was made from flooring obtained during demolition of part of the Studebaker assembly plant floor in 1992-1993. It has a number of #206 stamped in it. It is interesting that it looks like it could have been from a wood block like the ones in this picture. It is flat on the bottom, arched at the top ( probably a band saw ) and routered on the front edges to dress it up. A large hole was cut in the face to hold a battery powered clock. I suspect these blocks were used in a lot of Studebakers old buildings, if not all of them. My Dad, Uncles, Granddad, Brothers, Father-in-law, Cousins, numerous neighbors and friends all worked there at one time or another. Certinally one of them would remember if these blocks were used in the assembly plant building as well as the stamping plant. I certainly ask someone just from curiosity.