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(@stacy-carroll)
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On a creek bottom on rural woodland. It is fiberglass with dirt floor and a rolled up firehose on the inside.

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Posted : June 24, 2020 2:56 pm
(@noodles)
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Sorta looks like a bunker...or a cement mixer thing. ?????ÿ

 
Posted : June 24, 2020 3:36 pm
(@paden-cash)
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Interesting.?ÿ I thought the same thing as Angel.

I found an old rusted out '40s era milk truck body once that had been occupied by an apparent hermit.?ÿ The mystery was that it was located in the middle of several closed sections with multiple creek crossings, almost two miles from a road. How it got there is anybody's guess.?ÿ

 
Posted : June 24, 2020 3:48 pm
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It has some sort of hook on top that would seem to indicate a crane moving it. Can't imagine how a crane would get there. It's made of fiberglass and I'm pretty sure it's not a cement mixer. This is the back

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Posted : June 24, 2020 5:03 pm
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@stacy-carroll

Too bad it wasn't filled with large sums of green legal tender!!
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Posted : June 24, 2020 5:19 pm
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It's upside down.

I would call it a right-angle funnel. Picture it on a construction site, maybe eleven floors up. Attach a flexible trash chute to where the "door" is and you've got a way to get construction debris to the bin on the ground.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

 
Posted : June 24, 2020 10:12 pm
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@dave-lindell

I'd agree. Made of fibreglass it wouldn't be able to take any significant weight, so its original purpose must have been to "direct" something. The pivot pins may have been to enable it to be tilted backwards so as to let a wagon pull up underneath before being lowered again for when the rubbish was discharged down the chute.

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 2:04 am
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It's just a wealthy surveyors retirement program...

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 4:22 am
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Just a guess, was it used for a pumping station for water from the creek, hence the fire hose.

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 8:57 am
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Whatever it was supposed to be I would bet it is now being used to hide from deer that will be fed a very short distance away at a very easy angle for shooting from hiding.?ÿ No sport to it whatsoever.

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 9:06 am
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Posted by: @holy-cow

shooting from hiding.

Shooting from within could be quite traumatic for ears.

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 9:19 am
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@bill93

See similar contraptions used for the same purpose every year.  The one that might deafen you is a cut off overhead feed bin.  Maybe four feet in diameter and four feet or so high.  Sit on a stool and wait for the prey to be exactly where the feed supply has been for a month or two.

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 9:30 am
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BTW... This was the same property where we found a fire hydrant in the woods and saw a three legged squirrel eating a mushroom. Strange place

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 3:07 pm
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Could be a survival unit.

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 6:54 pm
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@paden-cash

yesterday down a steep trail in the forest, rear 1/3rd of a 1960s Chevrolet Impala lying on the ground upside down. Maybe it was dumped back when the trail was a drivable logging road.

 
Posted : June 25, 2020 7:47 pm
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@stacy-carroll

what did the 3-legged squirrel have to say?

 
Posted : June 26, 2020 8:22 am
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My guess is that it was originally used as a form for some sort of fiberglass layup or a concrete structure.?ÿ The exterior that we see in the photo is not what you would see when what ever is created by this form. I see these type of things around boat yards.?ÿ Is there a dam in the neighborhood with a concrete spillway??ÿ?ÿ

 
Posted : June 26, 2020 8:59 am
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@dave-karoly

I didn't speak to it... I was afraid it would answer me.

 
Posted : June 26, 2020 12:11 pm