"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
05/10/2016 at 08:00 • Filed to: Houselopnik
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"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
05/10/2016 at 08:00 • Filed to: Houselopnik | 1
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So MrsZtp asked me to dig up these stepping stones that go from the front to the backyard. While digging them up I noticed a pattern; a circle then a square block. Thing is, there was massive gaps in the pattern. Long story short, they were buried in the dirt..
Shown here with all blocks discovered...unless there is a secret path somewhere.
Once I speculated the possibility of more blocks, I started stabbing the ground with the shovel until I heard a noise. This happened six times.
How does this even happen?!
Most of the hidden blocks were buried under a inch of dirt and grass. I have no idea how these got buried so deep and the others didn’t.
It was these grouping of blocks that were mostly buried. We’ve lived at this house for over a year now, and we had no idea what was under the soil.
This one wasn’t buried completely, just a lot of growth.
And they had growth on it worst than this one. This one was easy to find because you could still see the stone.
Overall there are 18 stones on the east side of the house; out of the original 12 that we knew about, I discovered 6 more, and only 1 was broken. Unfortunately, the other side of the house has a few stepping stones as well, and I wonder if any more are hidden over there too...
So far, outside, we’ve discovered an airsoft shotgun, a mirror with its glass shattered, many tarps covered by dirt, softball bats, padding for some sport, fishing poles, silverware, drinking cups, a steak knife, a badminton net, and that’s all I can think of at the top of my head.
Does anyone else find weird stuff like this? Stuff that makes you question everything like ‘how’ and ‘why’?
64Mali
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:04 |
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While cleaning up the backyard for my parents house when they bought it we found; Car doors, Tires, Pipe, Cable Spools, Signs, Trash, etc.
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zeontestpilot
> 64Mali
05/10/2016 at 08:08 |
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So glad I’m not the only one suffering. A car door though? I'm visualizing it half buried with dirt, lol.
CalzoneGolem
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:15 |
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Yeah I keep finding stuff year after year. While cleaning up leaves this spring I found a butter knife, some rope, nails and some plastics. We’ve lived here for three years.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:21 |
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Our house was new construction, so we find buried wire, chunks of broken concrete, random pieces of cut pipe, roofing materials, etc. Basically, anything that could be considered scrap or trash was thrown into the yard area and subsequently covered by a layer of dirt. Anything too big to be smoothed over with dirt was picked up and thrown into the roll-off dumpster. Then they came in with sod to complete the burial process.
-this space for rent-
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:24 |
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Where does your downspout drain to? I bet that area gets a lot more water than the rest of the path.
Funktheduck
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:25 |
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Current place I rent I’ve found some old marbles and an old hotwheels car that the wheels rusted off of. Never spent much time in the yard of my other house I rented. House I grew up in had nothing that I can remember other than general trash when we first moved in.
However, my grandmother’s house had all sorts of cool stuff. When my dad and uncles were kids they found a cannon ball, several civil war era lead bullets, and arrowheads from time to time. They were usually found while my grandparents would dig up stuff for gardening or while they were playing in the woods behind the house. The house is pretty close to Kennesaw Mountain where significant battling happened during the civil war.
vondon302
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:27 |
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Half a van. Top half at that.
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/ran-when-parke…
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zeontestpilot
> CalzoneGolem
05/10/2016 at 08:28 |
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Hopefully we just have small stuff left, lol.
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zeontestpilot
> Funktheduck
05/10/2016 at 08:37 |
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Nice! There might be some matchbox cars around here. Gramdpa did the electrical for my house back in ‘7x, and the story goes my uncle played with MBX cars on the lawn, and the owners kept finding them for years after.
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zeontestpilot
> -this space for rent-
05/10/2016 at 08:41 |
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Oh good point! Will have to check that out when I get home.
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zeontestpilot
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/10/2016 at 08:43 |
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It's nice to know they at least attempted to cover up their laziness.
Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:43 |
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By some miracle, I actually haven’t found anything. I bought the house a year and a half ago, but it was built in
1942.
You’d think there’d be
something
, right?
Scott
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:48 |
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Ohh yeah, I own 29 acres, and at least 2 prior houses have stood on the property. Also a previous owner did some changes after the house was vandalized and they left stuff from the work scattered around the property. Not to mention being in the NE so a lot of history in the area, at least relative to History in the US. Having 4 dogs, they often seem to act like a crew of collage students on my little amateur hour archeology site. Some times they show up with the strangest things, and they only have free run of 2 acres.
Major finds so far: some weird metal frames, rusted old car fenders circa 1920s.(sorry to much rust and not enough metal to hazard from what) A rock foundation, a toy truck. Lots and lots and lots of balls, from tennis balls to basketballs to what looks like the balls they put on high tension power lines to warn low flying aircraft. Most interesting was a rock that looked like it could be a dinosaur claw. I set it aside to have it looked at but it went missing. The rest is either not worth mentioning, or a scrap of something clearly man made, but not enough of it to know what.
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zeontestpilot
> Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
05/10/2016 at 08:53 |
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Apparently you haven't dug deep enough, :).
Gone
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/10/2016 at 08:54 |
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I like digging in my yard and finding fence boards and sheathing under the sod. Also concrete, nail strips, and cups in the plant beds. It’s like being a trash archaeologist. The neighbors keep finding bricks, so that’s a good score. New homes are fun.
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CalzoneGolem
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 08:55 |
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It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
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zeontestpilot
> Scott
05/10/2016 at 08:55 |
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It sounds like I'd be in heaven wandering your yard, lol. I love older stiff abandoned, :).
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> Gone
05/10/2016 at 09:09 |
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It’s all fun and games until you try to install a french drain. Then it gets old very quickly.
functionoverfashion
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 09:12 |
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We’ve found all kinds of stuff and our house was built in 1987! An axe head, a spade shovel (head), a mattock (again, just the metal), lots of trash, kids toys, balls, etc. In particular, we’re on the edge of a big hill with a lot of small undergrowth. I’ve been keeping it trimmed low and that’s the never-never land where I find lots of things. I could see why, though, the previous owner’s kids didn’t want to fight 5 foot tall underbrush and thorns to get that stray soccer ball.
Azrek
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 09:15 |
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So your yard is like Minecraft?
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zeontestpilot
> functionoverfashion
05/10/2016 at 09:22 |
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I found an maul head, neighbor’s kid knows saw that the metal was stamped and could be valuable since it's so old. I sold it for $10 on the condition I see it after he makes it nice again, lol.
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functionoverfashion
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 09:25 |
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haha, cool. I actually bought wood handles and put all of the tools I found back into use after some cleanup. None were especially old, I don’t think. I think the previous owner of the house was just very lazy and/or absent minded when it came to placement of tools outside. Like, the shovel had a TrueValue imprint, which was the affiliation of the local hardware store in the 80's and 90's.
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Gone
> TheRealBicycleBuck
05/10/2016 at 09:28 |
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My builder put in two french drains - one before closing and one after I, uh, “suggested” they install another one on the opposite side of the house. Took ten guys to do the second one. They finished it all in one day - including manually digging out ~150ft of trench, laying drain lines, positioning drains, and covering it all up with new sod.
To hell with ever doing that on my own. You are a brave soul. I’d farm that out or at least rent a trencher...but I’d probably farm it out, haha.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> Gone
05/10/2016 at 09:36 |
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It’s not terribly difficult, it just takes time. And a shovel.
I would have rented equipment, but I wanted the line under the drip line for the eave. That puts it too close to the house for a trencher and even a mini backhoe would be too close for an amateur to operate safely. Gee, honey, I thought you would like an extra door into the bathroom....
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zeontestpilot
> Azrek
05/10/2016 at 09:41 |
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It's exactly like that.
haveacarortwoorthree2
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 09:47 |
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You’re looking at this all wrong.
smobgirl
> Funktheduck
05/10/2016 at 10:03 |
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I have found SO many marbles. But I also keep losing the ones I find so maybe there are really only about 5.
coelacanthist
> Scott
05/10/2016 at 10:06 |
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Ever had anyone look around with a metal detector?
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smobgirl
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 10:10 |
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I can’t remember if I know where-ish you live. I’ve seen some crappy mitigation in areas with lots of lead in soil where they’ve just brought in clean fill and buried everything that was in the yard already. Tacoma, WA, northern Omaha, and a few counties in Missouri I’ve had first-hand experience with but there are definitely more. I’d think you would have had some sort of disclosure if that was the case here though.
I was trying to landscape my front yard and found out that nearly all of it is concrete under about 6-8 inches of dirt. Apparently I once had a nice driveway.
BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 10:10 |
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On my property I’ve found old oil wells, along with pipes for transporting oil, farm implements, an old truck, the metal remains of a horse drawn wagon, a chimney, lots of bricks, a couple rusted half buried barrels, a sowing machine, a two man saw, and a few shovel heads.
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Scott
> coelacanthist
05/10/2016 at 10:54 |
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No but I need someone too, one of my dogs lost his tags, and one of them is the original Rabies tags he had in Puerto Rico and I'd love it back. That said I'll likely get one myself someday, just not a priority yet.
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zeontestpilot
> smobgirl
05/10/2016 at 11:18 |
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I’m in Michigan, in the country. We have a wrap around deck that goes halfway around the house. Underneath it is all cement, it's the old walkway to the old front door.
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zeontestpilot
> BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
05/10/2016 at 11:20 |
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Your place sounds at least exciting, lol.
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BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
> zeontestpilot
05/10/2016 at 11:21 |
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Exciting for being the middle of nowhere.