Posted: 8/12/2017 8:22:11 PM EDT
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People are strange.
I found no less than 7 full bed frames in a concrete patio today. Most of them seemed like the regular metal bunk beds that you find in a dorm room. Not just the spring part for the mattress, but also the sides and legs, plus what looked like a full size complete with tube head board. I would have loved to hear that conversation. "Instead of putting mesh in this patio, I have all these extra beds just laying around, lets use them instead, it will be great" I also found two round grates off a charcoal grill, and some random bits of angle iron they just tossed in there. Turning what should have been a straight forward tear out into a real pain in my ass. Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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People sometimes try to save money like that, or just get rid of junk. Ever started to run short on a concrete pour and started adding bricks and rocks?
The trench where my water line is buried is full of glass and trash. I know because I had to dig up the stop box once. |
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I paid some guys to tear out my old garage, bust up the pad and build me a new one. They tore it out and found another pour under that was 12" thick in places. God they were pissed. 
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People sometimes try to save money like that, or just get rid of junk. Ever started to run short on a concrete pour and started adding bricks and rocks? The trench where my water line is buried is full of glass and trash. I know because I had to dig up the stop box once. |
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Whoever cleaned out my old house after it was foreclosed years ago and I ran out of time to nab stuff found (among other things) a SAM-7 "rubber duck" trainer and some dummy rifle grenades.
I miss them...but I was sort of half expecting to see it on the news.... |
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Took down a drop ceiling in a room at work and discovered a rigid extension cord. Rigid conduit with a male extension cord end wire nutted to the conductors inside, then plugged into a receptacle someone took the time to run about 14 feet above ground level.
The rigid extension cord went right through a brick wall and fed some lights and a fan in a different room. Have also found some stupid coworker hacks, motor bearings worn out, but instead of ordering and installing a new motor he made attempts to cool it, one wrapping soft copper tubing around the motor and running water through it, the other cutting into a fresh air ventilatiom duct and diverting some aor to blow on the motor. |
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There was a barrel maker, Bill Large, whose trade was mainly the muzzleloading target rifle crowd. He added on to his shop at some point, and used old, shot-out rifle barrels for re-bar. He took a lot of heat for burying so many "historical artifacts." |
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I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations has passed by now.Â
Imagine a 300 foot trench about 12 feet by 12 foot wide. It used to contains a conveyor system. Where the parts being conveyed rode at floor level at the top of the trench. After a major redesign of the conveyor system the parts were now suspended from a overhead conveyor system. The night before the concrete was going to be poured every department in the factory disposed of all their unused items in anticipation of taking them off the books for the next fiscal year. Let's just say there was a lot of head scratching by the contractor doing the pour when they realized all the concrete they estimated would be needed  wouldn't fit in the trench! Many years later a retiring engineer the me the dollar value of the items that went in that trench. It was a pretty big number. |
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I worked on a high rise that was built over what every map/plat/survey had said has been a parking lot for the last 50+ years. Once they stripped the asphalt they found that is was paved with brick. Once they got the brick up the discovered that the site was on the footprint of an old ice house and still had all the 10" thick walls with another 6" of cork insulation. While tearing that out they found an old fuel tank(around 20K gallon) that was partially filled with concrete. |
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I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations has passed by now. Imagine a 300 foot trench about 12 feet by 12 foot wide. It used to contains a conveyor system. Where the parts being conveyed rode at floor level at the top of the trench. After a major redesign of the conveyor system the parts were now suspended from a overhead conveyor system. The night before the concrete was going to be poured every department in the factory disposed of all their unused items in anticipation of taking them off the books for the next fiscal year. Let's just say there was a lot of head scratching by the contractor doing the pour when they realized all the concrete they estimated would be needed  wouldn't fit in the trench! Many years later a retiring engineer the me the dollar value of the items that went in that trench. It was a pretty big number. They knocked the whole place down and put up expensive houses in a new fancy neighborhood. I always wondered if someone's basement always smells sorta funky because of it. |
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That perforated piece would make for good ventilation, in the wall of a chicken coop.  
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| I worked with my uncle doing concrete as a teen. We found old metal bed frames all the time. Sometimes, that old decorative black iron fence. Mostly from the 30s and 40s pours. I learned how to use a cut off saw and torch doing that stuff. Then, sometimes we would get concrete made with cinders. That stuff could be demo'd with a scoop shovel it was so soft. |
| We opened a crate that was from a vendor in China and found a pocket protector with an ink pen, notepad filled with Chinese characters, and 2 keys on a piece of wire. It must have slipped out of somebody's pocket while filling the voids with insta-pack. Always wondered what the keys went to. |
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We opened a crate that was from a vendor in China and found a pocket protector with an ink pen, notepad filled with Chinese characters, and 2 keys on a piece of wire. It must have slipped out of somebody's pocket while filling the voids with insta-pack. Always wondered what the keys went to. |
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I may or may not know of a factory building whose bottom floor was full of asbestos wrapped heating equipment and piping that was backfilled with gravel, but with lights and other electrical service left on...
Energized racks of electrical equipment that powered God knows what, and where the wires go... |
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I worked on a high rise that was built over what every map/plat/survey had said has been a parking lot for the last 50+ years. Once they stripped the asphalt they found that is was paved with brick. Once they got the brick up the discovered that the site was on the footprint of an old ice house and still had all the 10" thick walls with another 6" of cork insulation. While tearing that out they found an old fuel tank(around 20K gallon) that was partially filled with concrete. |
| Not my workplace but when somebody buys my mothers house and hires some fellas from Home Depot the clean out the "water garden" they might just find it's actually an in-ground pool mostly filled in with trash appliances. Anyone need a treasure trove o vintage 80's washing machines? |
| I demo'd a motorized sliding glass door today, maybe the oldest example I've worked on yet. In order to cut down on motor noise, someone crammed the header full of newspapers, most still with rubber bands around them. The papers generally disintegrated as we pulled them out, but the best readable ones covered Nixon's visit to China. |
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First PD I worked at in NJ, found the old log books from the early 1920's and 30's. They had entries like...
"Pagnetti left white household to see about the two African Americans walking down Westfield Ave." yet they didn't use African or American. Other entries listed horse carriage accidents vs automobiles, and later on reports of "Irish and Italian hoodlums walking the streets." Lots of old history in those books. |
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We had an environmental cleanup here at our plant when recorda from the 50s were found listing paint in drums and other goodies were buried in the back lot.
I watched them dig up everything from boxes of new metal framed safety glasses to 55 gallon drums of white paint where the drums were gone and the paint was still in the drum shape. An older area had the paint just poured in a hand dug hole and that one had sandwich packaging from Classons unimat which was apparently down the road at one time. One package still had the remains of food in it, stunk like hell the day after it was uncovered. Another spot had old boots and lockers. |
| Had a rescue call a long while ago. A guy ran through a T intersection and wrecked pretty good. There were all these porn videos laying around on the ground. It seemed he was the district rep for porn specializing in big breasted women. He told us to keep anything we wanted. |
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My neighbor was filling in/decommissioning his pool. You have to punch a couple big holes in the bottom of it and have it inspected by the city before you can fill it in. The inspector asked what he was going to throw in there. He said just dirt. The inspector was quite surprised. He said usually people fill it full of all kinds of stupid s***. He's gone out to inspect and found cars, patio furniture, dead horses just about anything you can imagine.
I found 15 lbs of pot that was shipped "return to sender" at a dealership I worked at. The postal policeman told me it happens all the time. |
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If you go to the right place in Idaho, you can find where they have buried the remains of a nuclear reactor that melted down along with various irradiated parts of the three reactor workers that were killed - to include one of their heads. https://passingstrangeness.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/sl1-burial.jpg 
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While unpacking a pallet of freight from China we found a drawing of a dick. I added it in with the rest of the closeout documents that I was required to turn in to the office.
My boss saw it and asked what that was supposed to mean. I said "I don't know but it looked important so I thought you should have it." He replied with "Give it to Darlene (his wife who worked in the office) she's an expert on those." |