Here's some more nice work from Patrick Sells and Casey Tyrrell, the guys behind Pennsylvania-based Salvaging Creativity, whom we first looked at back in January. To refresh your memory, Patrick and Casey (with the assistance of Matt Shober) turn industrial and institutional scraps into beautiful and useable stuff, like this bench made from a school stage.
While walking us through some of their pieces, Patrick describes the benefits of being based in Yorkville, an area he jokingly refers to as "Central Nowhere, PA:"Situated in a region whose main economy is industrial manufacturing, we source waste stream materials for re-use as raw materials in limited quantity functional pieces.
The wood cut-off bench was designed and built in collaboration with Matt Shober. He salvaged pine floor joists from a school stage that was torn down. Matt then cut, tapered the ends and sanded for 2 weeks to produce the butcher block styling. The gear is salvaged from a paper mill one mile south of our shop.
The garbage can is built from cylindrical steel roller bearings all welded into the form of a can. These bearings come from a local manufacturer and are electric traction motor bearings for locomotives. The mesh infill is leftover stainless steel sieve scrapped from another local industrial processor.
The planter is composed of a compressor scroll salvaged from Johnson Control's manufacturing facility. It is an industrial scale compressor for a refrigeration/chiller unit.
Our building is the original plant of York Manufacturing/York Ice Machinery (1890's) which grew into York International (air conditioning/refrigeration). They moved out of this facility to another larger one by the 1930s and they are now owned by Johnson Controls. This compressor scroll went full circle—out of Johnson controls and repurposed back at the original factory where the ice making/air conditioning industry was born.
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