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Digging up hte garden has discovered a thing. some kind of drain water connection thingy?
has a steel lid that is clamped down via 4 studs. in the centre of the lid is a threaded support (female) ready for something to go in but no idea what.
Vertically mounted. any guesses?
Since you're a Killer I opened this thread slowly.
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Are there random numbers appearing on a screen nearby?
Over engineered DIY rotary washing line thingy?
That's a NATO standard machine gun support, as used by the Operation Gladio stay behind networks in case of democractic election resulting in a government that falls behind the standards of the overlords
something that shouldn't be that close to the surface ?
PT shaft of a vertically buried tractor
Artisan frozen sausage mount.
base for an old manual water pump ? probably got a 1-way valve under it
Home made mount for something, that's my guess. Doesn't look like anything water related but who knows what bodges have been done in the past.
Definitely an early contender for Thread of the Week!
Breather pipe to a vampire, bomber wielding, baby robins coffin.
Dunno if it’s just me but I’d be very tempted to slowly undo the four retaining bolts and see what happens/doesn’t happen.
Disclaimer : this way of thinking has not always worked out well for me in the past so don’t blame myself if you empty the North Sea of gas.
Have you dug down around it to see if it's connected to pipes?
Thrunge gasket (imperial) innit.
The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the “up” end of the grammeters.
Swing ball set. Pro edition.
Ordnance Survey Fundamental Benchmark
(It's not that, I am well aware)
Google image search using your pic comes back with some interesting suggestions:
- TM-62M anti vehicle mine (think we can discount that one)
- Reddit discussion about an unidentified four bolt object under a drive which turned out to be a hydraulic post lift (doesn't look quite the same):
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/ub0cb3/unearthed_this_industriallooking_column_while/ - Discussion about old vehicle axles being used by surveyors as boundary markers. Is it near the corner of the property?
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/1ba3eif/what_is_this_about_12_inches_across_metal_an_inch/
I think it's the base for an aerial.
Hate to be serious but yellow paint and four bolts says old cast iron gas main to me.
+1 for borehole cap or an old well cap
It's the top of a mast from a Clanger musical boat.
The Iron Chicken will be along soon to take it back for repair.
It's a borehole. I've seen hundreds of them and inspect them for the environment agency.
Here's one I photographed last week.
Just to be clear here, is the mount artisanal or the sausages?
I hadn't thought that far ahead. Which may also be Killer's excuse if they undo the bolts....
Its cracked anyway. You can see the big crack where a stud is
Dig round it some more...
@joshvegas I haven't been into the new Leeds office since they moved last Oct as I'm pretty much always on site at the moment!
Finished doing EA stuff now though and starting on IDB stuff.
ads678 - assume they cap them for safety? In which case, nerdily interested to know why the hole in top, assume to prevent any gas build up?
Following with interest. Interesting find. I’d be unable to rebury it too. Curiosity can be risky tho.
If it’s the borehole ads678 describes (seems v likely) is that going down to the water table. Does it gush, potentially I wonder?
Remember to get the Mrs to video as you take the bolts out. Might make you a few p on YouTube.
Hope it’s not gas!
Better have a bung ready.
The ones I've been looking at are ground water boreholes rather than gas. The hole in the top is to attach a tap/valve to. Not all have the valve attached though. Think it depends on ground water levels or something, some would have water spewing out of the hole if the valve wasn't fitted! I don't deal with the actual monitoring though, just checking the infrastructure.
The one in the OP looks like it's decommissioned and it isn't used anymore.....one of the things I've been doing is trying to help the EA figure what they have and what is still in use....
@killer - where about are you btw?
This is one with the valve fitted.
ads678 – assume they cap them for safety? In which case, nerdily interested to know why the hole in top, assume to prevent any gas build up?
Stop stuff getting in, I have lifted a family of newts out a ground water borehole missing a tap before. Pulled out the bailer sampler and there were three newts staring out at me.
The hole at the top is for gas monitoring fitted with a tap you keep it sealed and fit the monitor. At least that's all I have ever used it for. You might feasibly get the dip meter in, big tape measure with a sensor at the end tells you where the water level is. You would also get a narrow bore water sampler in.
I think generally, Adam would confirm, they all pretty much get the same cap for convenience.
I have only ever used them for water quality monitoring.
If you need help I’m sure there is a boreholes anonymous group near you to provide support with your addiction. 😉
Yes, it’s quite fascinating to see what’s in your area. Around me (Co. Durham) you can see where former pits were because there are clusters of holes with confidential data on the depth (the black dots), and lines where surveying was done for roads (bypasses) that were never built.
Well, despite having just managed about £3.5m of ground investigation I didn't recognise that as a borehole! The ones I get to see are a bit 'neater' than that. (I'd probably complain tbh)
Still think it's a homemade washing line holder from an old borehole cap. 😉