Last night when I found the second, I whimpered.
There is no doubt in my mind that each of these is at least 6 feet long and was meticulously and maliciously painstakingly hammered into the ground just to screw over the future homeowner. They aren't in line with the sprinklers so I doubt they are marking out anything to do with them. I also fully expect to find more of the things.
Nearby these two chunks of ankle-breakers are the two wads-of-concrete-with-rotted-wood posts postholes I uncovered. None of them line up so it's pretty clear they are unrelated. Now I have to figure out WHY they hammered rebar into the ground with such malevolent enthusiasim.
Whatever the answer is...lord, it can't be good.
From mofette on LJ:
ReplyDeleteDon't try to work out why - you still have to get it out.
Sorry!
Don't I know it!
DeleteFrom mandrill on LJ:
ReplyDeletePerhaps you just need to rent a metal detector to find all the buried (metal) hazards in the yard? Perhaps you'll uncover some silver ingots or something. ;)
We have a metal detector, we were discussing using it today. It will no doubt beep every 5 seconds at all the crap in the ground until it finally goes insane and self-destructs in despair.
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