Photo: Shut off valve
Mr. L pulled out his metal detector last week and walked around the yard with it. He found junk auto parts from the previous owner, then he found something at indicated it was rather large. He began digging. What he found was a metal ring, as if someone had buried a pipe vertically or a small metal drum. He dug a little more and found a pipe with a shut off valve. This pipe runs to our side yard faucet that sticks above the ground about three feet near the driveway.
We’re not sure where the main line runs into the house, but this looks like it was the original shut off valve. Was it for more than the side faucet? We’re afraid to even try to turn it for fear we’d break the pipe (that would be a bad thing).
To make it easy to regain access if we ever need it, Mr. L fashioned a cover for it and re-buried it. I snapped this photo before we began filling in the hole.
This “fun” project of hunting for junk with the metal detector became a small, impromptu job that took nearly a day to finish.
lol… the things you find when digging through your garden. I once found the bones of half a cow together with tons of charcoal and ashes and a couple of beer bottles. The previous owner must have had quite a big party.
There’s something like that at the side of my mother’s house (built 1926). We have never figured out what it goes to–or went to–and it is sometimes filled with water. Just one of those little mysteries of old houses. Like the light switches that don’t do anything, or the traces of a doorway now walled up.
Half a cow, tons of charcoal, and beer bottles. Sounds the the remains of a barbecue party. Cat, you’ve been visited by Texans! 🙂