The Cornell Pulpwood Stacker, believed to be the last of its kind in the world, was designed and constructed in 1911-12 by the Joors Manufacturing Co. of England for the Cornell Wood Products Co. and represented a change in the storage and handling of pulpwood. This mechanical conveyor stacked wood after logs were slashed into smaller pieces, after which the wood was floated down a sluice to the paper mill's grinder room, where it was reduced to pulp and converted to paper. The steel structure stands 175 ft in height, measures 36 ft wide at the base and 10 ft at the tip, and maintains its 45 degree angle by concrete counterweights. Operated by a 35 horsepower electric motor located at the tip, the conveyor consisted of a one inch wire cable equipped with iron discs, and workers used a catwalk on the upper side of the left truss frame to make repairs. Its operation ceased in 1971 as it became obsolete; after fire destroyed all but two of the original buildings in 1989 and all but about 60 feet of the original sluice system and log pond was filled in, it remained as a surviving relic of the pulpwood and paper-making era.