Here's a quick video of the pipe in my shop floor, what do you think?
What's this pipe going too?
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Dragfluid
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If you put your ear close to the open hole, can you hear any Chinese?
Don't have sound on this machine, so don't know what you're saying. Was there running water out there at one time? A shower perhaps?
Don't have sound on this machine, so don't know what you're saying. Was there running water out there at one time? A shower perhaps?
OP
Shop has a bathroom.
manwithtools
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Socket for a jib boom crane? That plug is not anything normal for a tank or plumbing.
nadogail
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Looks like a good place to pour some concrete.
OP
Maybe, looks like the concrete was cut out near the wall and at the pipe location with just that section between untouched?
jimkinney
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If you blow (compressed air) in it, does it come out somewhere else
OP
Still packed with dirt.
toolin' around
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No idea. But the 24” plug is interesting... trying to think of a reason they’d do that?
Have you dropped a camera down there? Are there any openings in the side walls?
One thought was maybe it housed a hydraulic ram and was some sort of lift? But would seem unlikely... how would you access connections etc?
Since you said it was a heavy equipment repair shop... Another thought is maybe it housed some form of rotating tool or former that was removable? Could the “stove” have been a forge? Maybe some form of heavy bending jig for springs? Different size jigs could be interchanged?
The long plug kinda leads me away from the tank theory... would have expected some form of threaded fixture if it was a tank?
Interesting to see what the collective GJ wisdom reveals!!!
Have you dropped a camera down there? Are there any openings in the side walls?
One thought was maybe it housed a hydraulic ram and was some sort of lift? But would seem unlikely... how would you access connections etc?
Since you said it was a heavy equipment repair shop... Another thought is maybe it housed some form of rotating tool or former that was removable? Could the “stove” have been a forge? Maybe some form of heavy bending jig for springs? Different size jigs could be interchanged?
The long plug kinda leads me away from the tank theory... would have expected some form of threaded fixture if it was a tank?
Interesting to see what the collective GJ wisdom reveals!!!
toolin' around
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Yep... Jib crane is a another good candidate!
OP
Kaizen
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Good excuse to get a snake inspection camera. Any treasure inside that plug or writing? Maybe a picture of someone laughing their *** off at this prank
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gunguy
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I'll go the jib boom theory or some other type of tool mount.
Is it just curiousity or is there a reason for the need to know?
Jim
Is it just curiousity or is there a reason for the need to know?
Jim
OP
Always a need to know, curious why there's no concrete at the wall but will probably never know.
toolin' around
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What other reason beyond curiosity do you need???
OP, looking at the other photos, that’s more than just a wood stove, and I doubt it’s primary purpose in life was shop heating!
From the orientation in relation to the round post, (I think) you can just see the top of the plug to the right of the stove (near the right end of the chair back)... I was half expecting to see it directly in front of the stove opening, but it’s not.
The flat on top of the stove doesn’t look like it opens, but still could be a clue... I could imagine a rotating boom with a chain block, used to lift and position large components to heat for removing stuck components etc?
I suspect that the purpose of the stove and the pipe are closely related!
toolin' around
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These things become fascinating, and you just can’t leave them alone!!!
The stove looks like it may have had a water jacket or heating coil, judging from the two flange fittings on the side? Not sure what purpose they may have had for hot water? Apart from a washer... is there anything on the outside of the wall adjacent to the area with no concrete that provides any clues?
The flanges are on the wrong side for a pump to have been mounted there, but the dirt area looks like it would have been directly beside the stove. Could there have been a coal hopper on the outside, with a chute that fed coal under the wall, that has since been filled in?
The stove looks like it may have had a water jacket or heating coil, judging from the two flange fittings on the side? Not sure what purpose they may have had for hot water? Apart from a washer... is there anything on the outside of the wall adjacent to the area with no concrete that provides any clues?
The flanges are on the wrong side for a pump to have been mounted there, but the dirt area looks like it would have been directly beside the stove. Could there have been a coal hopper on the outside, with a chute that fed coal under the wall, that has since been filled in?
Im guessing an in ground lift. They cut the plumbing out and the big hole filled with dirt is where the tank was.
coljar
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I'll also go with the jib boom or maybe a post socket.
Its an old propane tank converted into a stove. All the fittings and the flat top you mentioned are original to the propane tank.
OP
The stove has three legs on the wall end so a vertical tank in the past life.
No sign that the shop had an in floor lift.
No sign that the shop had an in floor lift.
DTE
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Some shops had a oil drain mounted in the floor similar to that and it could be swung to 2 bays with lifts for oil changes. Then went to a in ground tank out behind the building.
OP
No coal in this area.
safetymachine
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Yeah I bet that was a lift. We have the same kinda thing in our shop...
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