Well-deserved retirement after many years of dedicated service.
You can see a stencil nailing machine with a hammer bar and two nail cases. The nails were separated from each other in the nail cases and then passed through hoses to the hammer trays. The nails in the hammer trays were forced into the wood by means of hammer bars using silver steel hammers.
This stencil nailing machine from BOHM & KRUSE was purchased in 1975, the year in which the PALCO pallet factory was founded, then still located in nearby Hallschlag, and was put into operation in 1976.
In the beginning, the stencil table was still slid in under the hammer bar manually. Pallets were produced on a powered stencil table from 1977 onwards. This nailing machine was used to produce two-opening and four-opening pallets until 1986, with the bottom boards still being nailed by hand after the machine. Starting in 1986, after the installation of a new automated pallet line, this nailing machine was only used to produce two-opening pallets. It was decommissioned in 2020.
The freshly restored nailing machine can now be admired in its final home, the former station building in Losheim.