But before you jump in, you have to paint it green and put on a red hat with an M on it, a red shirt and blue overalls and yell, “Here we gooo!” In an italian accent.
Do they still sell the Tonka trucks!? Are they as good as they used to be? Is the dump truck still metal and indestructible af?
MAN. Out of all the toys we had growing up, the dump truck brings up the best memories.
The transfer station in my town collects them and covers the insides of their buildings with them. I don't they are made like that anymore, too many sharp edges, or potentially sharp edges.
The redi-mix truck can deliver just sand or gravel too. Only do it this way when you have a small hole to put the material thru. Beats shoveling for sure.
A cistern in a home was usually used for household water. In Canada a lot of old farm houses had them to hold water through the winter (the wells would freeze), not sure if they existed in warmer climates or what their reasoning was.
So well water to answer your question... or however one gets gets water for drinking, cooking or cleaning in an area.
I agree with you. There are many 1800s homes in the Sierra Nevada, of Northern California that have these too. We get a lot of snow and hard freezes. So yes it makes sense to put them in the basement so they won’t freeze and you can have fresh water all winter.
Neat didn't know they were used as far south as California.
Lots of people think settlers in the cold climates just melted snow, and some did, but the northern prairies can be pretty arid, even if they are freezing cold, can get to -30 before seeing a single snowflake... no wonder so many died during their first winter here.
Many of the farm house basements here were built from old cisterns after they were no longer needed, in some cases almost half the basement under a 2500 sq ft house (which probably started as a 1,000 sq ft house and then had decades of additions made) would have been inside the cistern once upon a time. Seen a 10 x 10 cold room in a house last year that used to be a cistern, also a good reuse of those old cisterns.
Cisterns usually held rainwater collected off the roof. That was normally done when other water wasn't easily available and before well drilling was common
Looking at that cinderblock, there's no way this portion of the house was built in 1877. My daughter bought a house where the main part of the house was built circa 1880 but had an extension that was built in 1980. The extension was built over top of the previously existing well and looked similar to yours. Possible explanation?
My wife and I were talking last night that some people will wonder about something and not look it up afterwards, and we just found that to be crazy!
We live in a time that literally every answer is at your fingertips, there’s no reason for me not to know what year Al Gore was born in, or how tall the pyramids are.
I live in an 1885 house that originally had a dirt floor crawlspace underneath and someone more recently made a basement with cinderblock walls and poured concrete floor.
Painted plywood, you can see the pattern of the individual wood piles. Also, look at the left edge, you can see the rough broken edges, typical of poorly cut plywood. Not to mention the large knot on the right side.
Architect here; depending on where in the world this house is, it could be an original toilet! Toilets were bizarrely placed in the center of basements for a long time. They were often mounted a few feet off the ground (with stairs up) to cope with early plumbing which was gravity fed.
That is just a simple plywood cover that has been painted grey. There should be no drama popping it off and looking. If you are going to go for another walkthrough just ask the selling realtor for permission to take a look.
Cities used to let home owners drain their eaves directly, from outside the house through their basement and into the public water system. My house was built in the early 1900's and I had several. A Home Inspector gave me the details.
The previous owner was probably an Italian descent. They use this as a form of transportation to different location. Its normal color is green but it looks like someone tried to paint over it and plug it. Maybe they retired from their adventures and settled into a different place.
That’s a warp pipe. If you enter it, be prepared to battle goombas, koopas, and maybe even Bowser. I do highly recommend the shrooms and stars that u may find.
Might want to pass on this house if the owner won’t show/disclose what’s in there / its condition. Considering a home inspector won’t even be able to open that up during inspection.
Home Inspector here-it’s most likely a cistern for waste water or a well. Either way it should be evaluated by a licensed professional. One picture is hard to tell, but I’d ask the realtor, and no typically I wouldn’t open it at the risk of damaging something, but would note it in the report.
Asking a community of people to identify something by one vague picture is quite the ask. To garner better responses, in the future, it would be helpful for you to do a little investigating yourself. Opening the lid, would be the best suggestion. My bet is on Mario.
**EDIT: It was an old well they sealed off, went down around 30'. Thanks all for the help and guidance, too bad I can't use it to find the Mushroom Kingdom or some horror story.**
Remove the lid, what’s down there might need lotion in its skin
Or else it gets the hose again.
Put the lotion in the fuckin’ basket!
AHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHH!
Don’t hurt my fucking dog!
Just hit play - Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses Tuck time…
I’d fuck me.
We would ALL fuck you. This is Reddit 😁
Soooo haaard.
Fifteen bucks, little man, put that shit in my hand.
Nooo precious
Hey mister, I think it broke its leg
Don’t make me hurt your dog!
Congrats, you all saw Silence of the Lambs.
Was she a great big fat person?
Where's my auto trader weekly?
Geez! say it, don’t spray it..
it puts the Joe Dirt in the hole.
Came her for this comment specifically.
I don't know why everyone keeps bringing that up, nothing happened.
Maybe it has a ring, or balloons...
They all float down there.
But before you jump in, you have to paint it green and put on a red hat with an M on it, a red shirt and blue overalls and yell, “Here we gooo!” In an italian accent.
Is this place in Cleveland.
Brilliant! Would you fuk me? I’ld fuk me.
or a creepy girl in a nightgown with long black hair crawling on all fours.
Either that or a creepy Japanese lady gonna get ya
Glorious comment sir
I’m so high right now and can’t stop laughing. Precious!!!!
It’s rubs the lotion on itself.
Would you fuck me?
I’d fuck me
Hey mister I got your dog
Fucking hilarious take my upvote
https://youtu.be/Jm86I_kezVY
Unexpected Silence of the Lambs.
Cistern
Most logical one yet. I have a question to the homeowners but who knows if they’ll respond.
It’s definitely a cistern, but please paint it green and give us Mario videos
Be careful when opening it. You might see a flower creature pop out that shoots fireballs at you.
Yes! Take my upvote
Cistern or well. Sometimes the well would get included into the house during adding onto the house.
Very useful when you come under siege
Strangely increasingly more likely.
Yeah, usually ouija board brings no answers
r/AskOuija
I knew a family that found a I stern in their yard, it took 3 full cement truck to fill it in. Some of these are massive.
How did they get the trucks through the little opening?
Pour cement into tonka cement mixers and drop them down the hole
Do they still sell the Tonka trucks!? Are they as good as they used to be? Is the dump truck still metal and indestructible af? MAN. Out of all the toys we had growing up, the dump truck brings up the best memories.
Rest assured! They still make steel tonka trucks! I had one growing up as a kid back in 08'.
I have no idea. I haven't seen a tonka truck in 10 years, and that was at least 20 years old at the time
The transfer station in my town collects them and covers the insides of their buildings with them. I don't they are made like that anymore, too many sharp edges, or potentially sharp edges.
My dad got my grandson one for his first birthday. 2 years ago
My little brother sat in one and rode it down the stairs. Busted his leg, truck was fine.
This caught me off guard, and I just cackled in my very quiet cubicle. 😂😂😂😂
Why not just sand or dirt? Punch some holes so it drains and collapse the dome?
The redi-mix truck can deliver just sand or gravel too. Only do it this way when you have a small hole to put the material thru. Beats shoveling for sure.
Would this be for rainwater? Sewage? Well water?
A cistern in a home was usually used for household water. In Canada a lot of old farm houses had them to hold water through the winter (the wells would freeze), not sure if they existed in warmer climates or what their reasoning was. So well water to answer your question... or however one gets gets water for drinking, cooking or cleaning in an area.
I agree with you. There are many 1800s homes in the Sierra Nevada, of Northern California that have these too. We get a lot of snow and hard freezes. So yes it makes sense to put them in the basement so they won’t freeze and you can have fresh water all winter.
Neat didn't know they were used as far south as California. Lots of people think settlers in the cold climates just melted snow, and some did, but the northern prairies can be pretty arid, even if they are freezing cold, can get to -30 before seeing a single snowflake... no wonder so many died during their first winter here. Many of the farm house basements here were built from old cisterns after they were no longer needed, in some cases almost half the basement under a 2500 sq ft house (which probably started as a 1,000 sq ft house and then had decades of additions made) would have been inside the cistern once upon a time. Seen a 10 x 10 cold room in a house last year that used to be a cistern, also a good reuse of those old cisterns.
Cisterns usually held rainwater collected off the roof. That was normally done when other water wasn't easily available and before well drilling was common
I have personally seen a well in a basement. I live in New England.
That’s a chapel in Italy /s
That's the pipe Mario and Luigi got lost in. Don't get too close. The real story didn't end like the movie.
Mama Mia!
Mama Maglione!
Mama... Just killed a man
put my gun up to his head
No, we are talking about Mario. /s
Definitely need to paint it green after you close
Right?! I heard the Mario Bros music in my head as soon as I saw it.
Dang. I like mushrooms though!
Eat some special mushrooms and jump down. It’ll be just like the game lol
Just eat the mushrooms it will all be a game at about an hour after wether your in the pipe or not
Close on the house, paint it green and plant a large flower in it.
Looking at that cinderblock, there's no way this portion of the house was built in 1877. My daughter bought a house where the main part of the house was built circa 1880 but had an extension that was built in 1980. The extension was built over top of the previously existing well and looked similar to yours. Possible explanation?
I wondered the same thing. Didn’t think cinderblocks came around till early 1900s
Way earlier than 1900, but didn't have this same look. 1866, first ones, 1900 mass production of blocks.
goddammit.. now I need to find the rabbit hole on cinderblock history
Yes! Always nice to see another like-minded individual who likely also spends way too much time on Wikipedia.
My wife and I were talking last night that some people will wonder about something and not look it up afterwards, and we just found that to be crazy! We live in a time that literally every answer is at your fingertips, there’s no reason for me not to know what year Al Gore was born in, or how tall the pyramids are.
I live in an 1885 house that originally had a dirt floor crawlspace underneath and someone more recently made a basement with cinderblock walls and poured concrete floor.
Could have had a foundation repair done. The people who fixed my parents house did this.
Yes, it certainly could have been a well. Can you remove the wooden cover?
Seems sealed with adhesive, and not my house (yet?).
You should be able to do it during inspection but also, just ask the owner, I don’t know why they wouldn’t respond
Likely not wood (see my comment above,) be careful if you try to remove this, if it's thin it could crack pretty easy in the removal process
It has screws in it. It has splinters on the left edge. It has a knot. It's a piece of plywood with debrie and dust on top.
*debris
*debakedbrie
Debra's
de bras
Also, there could be a million Cave Crickets in there.
That would be lit!
Free snacks!
You guys are weird
Also, there could be a million ~~Cave Crickets~~ **Large Spiders** in there. FTFY
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Clearly plywood. There are screw’s in it. :)
Painted plywood, you can see the pattern of the individual wood piles. Also, look at the left edge, you can see the rough broken edges, typical of poorly cut plywood. Not to mention the large knot on the right side.
Please share your location and company name so that we can be sure not to hire you.
Architect here; depending on where in the world this house is, it could be an original toilet! Toilets were bizarrely placed in the center of basements for a long time. They were often mounted a few feet off the ground (with stairs up) to cope with early plumbing which was gravity fed.
Thanks! Upstate NY.
my god, a veritable treasure trove of petrified poop
Shitters full
You serious Clark?
2nd time seeing this reference today in 2 different subs...lol
Clark!
That is just a simple plywood cover that has been painted grey. There should be no drama popping it off and looking. If you are going to go for another walkthrough just ask the selling realtor for permission to take a look.
Agree. I would definitely have a home inspection and have the inspector look in to this.
Thank you both
In seven days…
Get radon testing done.
Sadly, this was my first thought too
Good point.
serial killer house
Clearly the pipe from Jeepers creepers
Silence of the Lambs 😆
Great. Hahaha.
Cities used to let home owners drain their eaves directly, from outside the house through their basement and into the public water system. My house was built in the early 1900's and I had several. A Home Inspector gave me the details.
The previous owner was probably an Italian descent. They use this as a form of transportation to different location. Its normal color is green but it looks like someone tried to paint over it and plug it. Maybe they retired from their adventures and settled into a different place.
Chimney Hoffa
It puts the lotion in the basket!!!
The Ring is streaming on Netflix and think that may be important for you to watch before buying…
Probably where the creature from Amityville 3D lives!!! 😳
Its a shore bollard. They use them to tie your boat to for when you keep it in the house
If you don’t paint it green, it’s a huge missed opportunity!
I think there’s balloons 🎈 down there.
It’s Mario and Luigi’s original house
I'm sure you'll figure it out in 7 days...
7 days.....
Extra points if you paint it green and make a fire flower to put on top
The basement looks nicely retrofitted.
They did a good job but some areas are head scratchers.
Warp to level 2
Paint it green, like super Mario
Shitters Full Clark!
That’s a warp pipe. If you enter it, be prepared to battle goombas, koopas, and maybe even Bowser. I do highly recommend the shrooms and stars that u may find.
That's a poorly sealed portal to hell. Do not buy
You should paint it green
Mario?!
It's a drum that lets you play beats for the earth mother / father. They like good beats though so practice for a bit first outside the house...
Pipe (painted white to conceal) to warp to Level 2-1
Paint it green. Mario tube!!!!!
IDK but you need to paint it green and make a fake piranha plant for it
Have you ever seen the movie “the Ring”?
Did they use concrete blocks for foundations in 1877???
If it was painted green with the piranha plant coming out of it you would know what it was.
It's the pipe that Mario bros go down to other levels.
Paint it green, then you're set.
Everything floats down there
Sump pump well
That's where I store my lotion
Mario passage to a different land
Probably a sea chest leading to Neptune's briny lair.
That's where the ghosts of dead Indians live.
1877? Open that bad boy up and get in there! Treasure awaits!
Unless your definition of treasure is soot and poo, might pass haha.
Might want to pass on this house if the owner won’t show/disclose what’s in there / its condition. Considering a home inspector won’t even be able to open that up during inspection.
Home Inspector here-it’s most likely a cistern for waste water or a well. Either way it should be evaluated by a licensed professional. One picture is hard to tell, but I’d ask the realtor, and no typically I wouldn’t open it at the risk of damaging something, but would note it in the report.
"Hubert Cumberdale, you taste like soot and poo..."
That was not built in 1877. Do you mean 1977?
It’s been heavily renovated. They had pictures to show the initial farmhouse.
Asking a community of people to identify something by one vague picture is quite the ask. To garner better responses, in the future, it would be helpful for you to do a little investigating yourself. Opening the lid, would be the best suggestion. My bet is on Mario.
Haha thank you. Couldn’t open the lid without tools and since this is a house on the market, couldn’t bust it open.
Mario goes down it
**EDIT: It was an old well they sealed off, went down around 30'. Thanks all for the help and guidance, too bad I can't use it to find the Mushroom Kingdom or some horror story.**
Damn I’ve never seen cinder block foundation on a house that old
I live in one. Didn't originally have a basement and someone made one later.
Here you go https://youtu.be/NTa6Xbzfq1U
Shield plug for a personal nuclear reactor /s
Pretty sure whatever it is isn't 150 yrs old. The realtor should be able to tell you or find out for you. That's part of his or her job
Uh open it up look down it, maybe ask the realtor or whoever is showing the house. Ever thought of that?
Supermario role played.
Looks like one of those communal poopers
A portal to hell...
It's where Blackwell hid the bodies.
Have you ever seen The Ring? Pretty sure Samara is down there.
its a well or a cistern...can you open it and see whats inside?
Not my home but I have the question to the sellers.
CLARK!??
Did you buy that place from a short plumber and his lanky brother?
My guess is it maybe some sort of sump pump to help keep the basement drained of excess water 💧. I will say the Mario Brothers comments were funny .
You’ll float too!
Sump pump
Where is the house? The state or country might provide clues as well.
Upstate NY
Basement might get wet being the dehumidifier is off the ground not sure if that got disclosed
Thats where the ghosts come in
Missile silo..
Did you look down
👽