First, a little bit of context.
I've lived in this house 22 years. It's an ex council semi, quite a small house but a sizeable garden. At the back it's about 30m x 10m. I had grand ideas in my mind but it turned out over the years, not quite enough money to realise them and even less time and motivation! Near the back border there's always been a shallow pit or depression about 2m square. This has grown nothing but brambles and weeds, and in my sporadic weed clearances I've often found bits of rubbish, and frequently pieces of brick and concrete rubble. Also at one corner there was a piece of corrugated iron that I occasionally tried to shift with no luck.
A couple of months ago I started to clear the brambles again and the weeds growing around it, and decided I wanted to clear out the weeds and get rid of the rubbish once and for all, so I started to dig.
I've found all sorts of useless rubbish. Trolley wheels, a broken toy gun, a golf ball, pieces of broken carbon fishing rod, lots of broken glass, bricks (lots of bricks), a melted plastic gauge in a housing of some sort, pieces of plastering edge bead etc etc.
As I uncovered more and more I found some more corrugated iron sheet at the other corner. At both corners the sheet heads downwards at a steep angle. Yes indeed, it does look as if the whole thing is a single sheet!!
But what's that long thing starting to be revealed in the picture above, just to the right of that chunk of brick? It appears to be a rusty iron or steel pipe of some sort. About 2" in diameter...
I didn't want to rupture it if it was a connected gas or water pipe but it didn't appear to be heading in a logical direction for that, and anyway as I uncovered more it started to feel looser in the earth, until...
A substantial steel pipe about 5' long with about 6mm wall thickness. Sorry not sorry for the mixed units, it's the way I work!
One end is a bit flattened as though someone's hammered it in as a post for something.
I've lived in this house 22 years. It's an ex council semi, quite a small house but a sizeable garden. At the back it's about 30m x 10m. I had grand ideas in my mind but it turned out over the years, not quite enough money to realise them and even less time and motivation! Near the back border there's always been a shallow pit or depression about 2m square. This has grown nothing but brambles and weeds, and in my sporadic weed clearances I've often found bits of rubbish, and frequently pieces of brick and concrete rubble. Also at one corner there was a piece of corrugated iron that I occasionally tried to shift with no luck.
A couple of months ago I started to clear the brambles again and the weeds growing around it, and decided I wanted to clear out the weeds and get rid of the rubbish once and for all, so I started to dig.
I've found all sorts of useless rubbish. Trolley wheels, a broken toy gun, a golf ball, pieces of broken carbon fishing rod, lots of broken glass, bricks (lots of bricks), a melted plastic gauge in a housing of some sort, pieces of plastering edge bead etc etc.
As I uncovered more and more I found some more corrugated iron sheet at the other corner. At both corners the sheet heads downwards at a steep angle. Yes indeed, it does look as if the whole thing is a single sheet!!
But what's that long thing starting to be revealed in the picture above, just to the right of that chunk of brick? It appears to be a rusty iron or steel pipe of some sort. About 2" in diameter...
I didn't want to rupture it if it was a connected gas or water pipe but it didn't appear to be heading in a logical direction for that, and anyway as I uncovered more it started to feel looser in the earth, until...
A substantial steel pipe about 5' long with about 6mm wall thickness. Sorry not sorry for the mixed units, it's the way I work!
One end is a bit flattened as though someone's hammered it in as a post for something.
off for nothing.
