Can you dig it?

[tkaz]

I can't imagine coming across that in my yard!  Makes me curious for that area, since they have had some brutal floods in the last few years.  I wonder if that was buried or just a casualty of the flooding at some point.  Either way, what a cool find!

[SIGNGUY]

I'm guessing it was planted there with hopes that other machines may sprout from it's seed?

some people plant fruit and vegetables.... others apparently Coke vending machines..

I am suprised it's not all rusted through?

[flippa]

I bet this guy's property was filled land much like my parent's rear yard was.  When someone digs up my parent's yard, they are gonna find Volkswagen Bug parts buried in the rear.

[MaineT]

Its somewhat common up here in the north east. My dad helped his grandfather bury 5-6 scrap cars back in the late 50's on the family farm cause that is just one of those things they did back then. They also had a dump sight for the trash, past the area that the outhouse was for years before my dads time. The farm and land was sold back in the late 70's and chopped up and built on during the 80's and 90's. Now that land is all houses and but they missed the dig area for the cars which would be back yards right now. Someone will be very shocked if they put an addition on!!

And yes, we do have that new fangled indoor pluming now, some even have one of those cement ponds!!!

[aspbear]

I believe that this was a common practice for Coca Cola.  I know when they closed the plant here in Harrison they dug a pit and buried all of the signs and machines said it was cheaper than transporting all of them to another plant.

Of course people went out and recovered everything they buried....

[Eric]

There is a junk yard here in my hometown that had a sink hole... I talked with a few retired Coke guys years ago.. they are all gone now
Mr. Ward said he and another guy took truck load after truck load of the old nickle machines and dumped them in this area and Coke
came and made sure these were covered with dozers...

Now that has me wondering if this guy has more?... weird find for sure...

[Creighton]

Running a ground penetrating radar sled over that area would be interesting.
Creighton

[MoonDawg]

      There's gonna' be a Victor hot dog cooker down there somewhere. 

[SIGNGUY]

There is an old Dump just outside my town as well, that was a dump... pretty common practice of hauling old machines and "junk" out of the old plant to the dump...

it's probably 20 feet of dirt over that area now and all wooded...