not found in the ground but on top, maybe you guys can help

[omlambu]

actually, my house is only 600 sq/ft I think these may have come from the large farm house up the hill before the property was subdivided.

 

[GiGi]

Farmer

You guys might show the photo to all the old farmers that you know, I bet they could answer it for you. I just lost an old farmer friend last month, 87, and I know he could have answered it for you. He gave me an old concrete pig feeder that was like a very large dog bowl. What about a cement water trough for chickens? (Just trying to use my imagination!)
GiGi

 

[JamesGA]

Molds sure... but what about drainage things. Like you put the fat end under the pipe coming down from your homes gutters, and it directs the water out and away?

I think this may be the answer - I went to Savannah recently, and saw something very similar to this inset into a sidewalk. It channeled the water from the gutter downspout across the sidewalk to the gutter.

 

[MCH02]

Im putting my money on something for drainage also. The narrow ends of them arent blocked of, so if they were molding something, why would the end be open? Whatever they were pouring in would run out that end rite? I bet they dug a trench, poured the concrete and made the impressions for the water to run out. I suppose they are so thick because they didnt care how thick they were if they were simply digging a hole in the ground and filling it with concrete, Im sure they never planned to move them.

 

[sectshun8]

I love this thread came back after a month in hiatus. New eyes to agree with my original assumption, hahahaha.

 

[Elixir]

Interesting

 

[Elixir]

Carol K, I know this is off subject and might be a bizarre question, but where you ever at a nature activist protest? I saw a woman on an episode of the ali g show with a woman that looks just like you that plays guitar :!:

 

[fiat128]

I vote for gutter splashes (drain pans). If you had a cistern, they could have directed the runoff into it.

 

[TNCSHOOTER]

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no really, that is my only idea..

 

[zander10]

they are watering trofts for animals. when the source of water is from a well. or carried some distance to the animals.

 

[kiwihunter]

Sorry to throw a spanner into the works but these dont look like concrete to me. I work with molded concrete, but these look like they have been hewn from big blocks of stone to me. The early saw marks are still evident, to substantiate this. Admitedly I only have photos to go by, but thats how it appears from here. The drainage trough idea to take water from the downspout seems a dead cert to me as well. Nice finds.

 

[RickO]

Those look like the drains that were under downspouts on the old houses in the Catskills..... many houses still have them.... also were used under the spout of well pumps... so the ground did not erode from dripping or spillage.... Actually, they look exactly like those - RickO

 

[zander10]

Those look like the drains that were under downspouts on the old houses in the Catskills..... many houses still have them.... also were used under the spout of well pumps... so the ground did not erode from dripping or spillage.... Actually, they look exactly like those - RickO

i am with he well pump splash theory.

 

[reeldoc]

definetly drains,just seen the same thing recently in historic Phila. in front of every building and under the downspouts

 

[headhunter]

well it looks like everybody ran out of ideas,nobody been on here in a day or so.i was thinking a mold for something first time i seen them,but like ED said(that rymes don't it"ED said", )they look like the ground was used as a form for them bye bye

 

[zander10]

i saw on tbn that they are used to water animals from a well.