Strange things found in the forest

[Egon]

Chimney clean out???

 

[Creamer]

Isn't in the forest because where I grew up there wasn't such a thing. In our pastures around home (Dakotas) we have numerous circles of rocks that were left from the bases of tepees. They are a little hard to find but once the cows get the grass chewed down they are pretty easy to see. They are on virgin prairie so have never been disturbed.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Looks similar to the door on our beehive oven. The hole in the door is missing the gate to regulate the fresh air draw.

 

[stuckmotor]

My scene from the past was the water tank on abandoned railroad near where I grew up. My grandpa said he could hear the construction sounds when they put in the railroad. He said his cousin was in charge of keeping the tank filled. The water was pumped from a stream by a hit and miss engine. I guess the tank was scrapped over thirty years ago when they took up the tracks.

 

[stuckmotor]

I thought everybody's family was like that.:confused3:

William Faulkner would have had a field day with my wife's family. He could have won at least one or two more Noble Prizes in Literature if he had written about her family. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

• Strong women
• Manipulative women
• Strong men
• Weak men
• S...x
• Marriage elopements to other states
• Money
• Poverty
• Drinking/Drunks
• Crime
• Great business decisions
• Control from the grave
• Droughts and failed crops
• Internal family strife
• Violence
• Failed promise
• Death bed apologies
• ...

I could go on and on and on. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[DT86]

Looks similar to the door on our beehive oven. The hole in the door is missing the gate to regulate the fresh air draw.

Interesting, tell me more? I do agree, what ever it is for, there is a air damper of some sort missing. The lug is still there.

I found the frame in a depressed area, think a sink hole minus the hole, and the door on a hillside several hundred yards away, amongst some soft ball + size rocks.

 

[dan ny escarpment]

These, the bathtub, and the vehicle debris posted previously, were subsequently found to be near an old home site, now in an inacessible area of a local park. Parts of the foudation and another bathtub, old appliances, remain. I used a USGS quad from photos taken in the 1950's to figure out where the structure was, the road leasing to it disappeared a few hundred yards into the woods, up the side of a steep hill. The pillar of stone looks more recent and "maintained", but the "patio" of stones around it e looks older. The old tractor sits in the floodplain and only level ground anwhere close to the homesite, down a very steep hillside. All in the middle of the woods now.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Interesting, tell me more? I do agree, what ever it is for, there is a air damper of some sort missing. The lug is still there.

I found the frame in a depressed area, think a sink hole minus the hole, and the door on a hillside several hundred yards away, amongst some soft ball + size rocks.

Our is built into the center chimney of our cape. Dates to about 1760 but I think the hardware was probably replaced sometime in the 1800's. Look up center chimney cape beehive oven on Google.

 

[dan ny escarpment]

The tractor found yesterday appears to be a Fordson Model F, built between 1917 and 1928

 

[dan ny escarpment]

The tractor found yesterday appears to be a Fordson Model F, built between 1917 and 1928

The front wheels were in the other pile of debris, one leaning against the tree in the photo.

Fordson Model F Tractor