OleSarge
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Yeah C'mon you diggers out East, how about some 8-12 footers with all those pontiled goodies? (Where I live we're lucky to find 5-6 footers).
Great info, OleSarge!
Just wanted to add that as many privys were in crowded city lots, there wasn't much room to relocate a full one, so there were "honeydippers" who would actually clean out the full privy taking the "sludge" away so the privy had a new life. Hardly a "fantasy" job!!
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Yeah C'mon you diggers out East, how about some 8-12 footers with all those pontiled goodies? (Where I live we're lucky to find 5-6 footers).
Re purposed as a back-yard coop?Old outhouses are plentiful here in western Pennsylvania..lol. Anymore it seems people paint em up and turn them into yard deco. See them all the time on my different job sites,took some pics yesterday of one to send home,she gets a kick out of them..This one has a square hole cut into the side,wonder if it was for passing toilet paper through?
I’m breaking my own rule here regarding stepping on another OP’s thread by changing the subject amid-stride. But, since I’m the thread OP, I give myself permission.
I covertly snooped your threads and posts and I note you appear to be as enthralled by old bottles and glass as you are by a alchemists dreams.
What I’m wondering is if you do focalized searches for your glass treasures or is it something you do concurrent with using your metal detector.
A friend of mine is a former extension agent. He reconstructed the old family outhouse, with a pit below, and stocked it with vintage "Ag statistics" books and a basket of corn cobs... if you know what those were for. I might need to pick up a few now that corn harvest is underway - just in case t.p. ends up in short supply again...