Finding Objects In The Walls?

pritch

We always moved around alot when I was a kid, and everytime we would move into a new place the first thing my dad would do was cut a little slot in the drywall so he could drop his change into the wall cavity. "Moving money" he would call it, and on the day we moved from each house, he would cut a hole down by the baseboard big enough to get his hand in and scoop it all out. I've always wondered if he ever missed any and left it behind. He was a plumber by trade, and one time our nieghbor, who owned a laundermat, hired him to unhook all the washers and dryers and haul them off, 'cause the guy was selling the building and getting out of the laundermat biz. We found more dimes and nickles under those machines than you could imagine. This was in the mid-'60's, and the place had been open for many many years. I think dad still has all those old coins, but I pretty much took my half straight to the record store and bought a bunch of 45's. I ain't got them anymore, either.

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loneframer

How ya gonna get that horse outta the hole when the stupid sob falls in there and croaks? HONEY..... GET THE DAMN SHOVEL!

sparehair

Somebody who wasn't supposed to kill a horse.

skyhook

Found a Large Rat Skeleton hanging from a piece of 12-2 romex inside a wall. HO said "that light never worked right".

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Wolfgang

1993 I'm working on a remodel of a house built in the early 70's. I'm laying on top of the tall pantry units cutting in the walls, thinking to myself, I sure hope I dont drop my brush down there behind them. I look down and see something that looks like a tool belt. Get a painters hook and rope, hook the thing, and pull it up...heavier than heck. Turns out to be an electricians belt full of brand new tools, though dustier than you could imagine. In one of the pouches is a billfold with ID and 80+ dollars. Got home that night and decided to track the guy down. Call him and we meet up that same evening. Return the belt, billfold, and money. He now owns his own EC company and we have had a good friendship and working relationship ever since. The belt is hanging on a coat hook in his office, still covered in dust, like some sort of shrine.

strathd

Just two months ago we're tearing down the plaster ceiling in a kitchen remodel. A 1982 playboy and a buttplug with a string attached to it land on the floor.

English Roofer

Ive found various things in old roofs we have stripped off like roofers nail pouches full of copper nails and lead plumb bobs but my favourite was a letter by the plumbers who had laided down the lead sheets in 1911 and they had cut a coin in to the deck as well.
I have showed this in the roofing section photo'es but thought you might like to see it.
Cheers
Dave

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strathd

That was cool english roofer. Much better than what I found. LOL

boman47k

Who knows when the horse died? It could have died anytime years before the house was built unbeknownst to the builders of the house. It would make one wonder which came first? The horse or the house?

Old North

High Landrons, how old were the bills you found?

neolitic

Another one hiding behind the cabinets....
http://www.contractortalk.com/f11/wh...t=mouse+skulls

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woodchuck2

X2, i have put my signature on the roof with the date before. I have stumble acrossed signatures in the past and always found it interesting of who was there before me.
My father years ago found an old double barrel .50 muzzle loader in the walls of a house once. He was tearing the house down and luckily he was doing it by hand as the roof had already collapsed from snow. The gun was wrapped in a cloth and was in rough condition. The owner of the property was an old friend of his and the owner said he could keep it. The gun was made my Moore&company and has military stampings on it. I still have the gun, i will post some pics when i get a chance.

heartoftexas

This happened in my home town a few years ago!

> > BROWNWOOD, Texas (AP) - A family renovating a rural home they had
> > lived in for three years found an old trash bag in an attic crawl space
> > containing the mummified bodies of three infants. Authorities said Sunday
> > they were investigating the deaths as homicides.
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> > ``One baby was wrapped in a towel, one baby was in a blanket, and the
> > baby we originally found was wrapped in a sheet inside a paper sack,'' said
> > Chief Deputy Mike McCoy of the county sheriff's department.
> >
> > McCoy said authorities were searching for the home's prior occupants
> > and no arrests had been made.
> >
> > The homeowners discovered the bag Thursday while renovating the
> > two-story house near Brownwood, McCoy said. He wouldn't identify the family,
> > but said they weren't suspected in the deaths.
> >
> >
> > The infants' ages and genders could not be determined due to
> > deterioration. A call Sunday to the medical examiner's office, which has
> > been examining the remains, was not immediately returned.
>

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trptman

Man, that would be a horrible thing to find...
I almost had someting similar, at least for a second.
I was working on an old farm house and was going to convert an enclosed back porch to more useable living space. Had a block foundation to the porch that I was therefore going to insulate better. I opened a section of floor to do that and discovered there was a lot of extra dirt under there that was going to make it tough to work in. so I get a shovel and start digging out the extra dirt to level the ground underneath. I'm finding small animal bones of various sizes (must have gotten in through an old hole since closed up I figure to myself) when I come across what I thought for a second was an infants skull. after almost freaking out for a second I look closer and realize to my relief that it is just a doll's head. the dirt on it and the lack of hair along with all the other small bones I'd been finding had me convinced for a bout a second that I'd found some human skeleton. Luckily a false alarm.

MALCO.New.York

TNT = Tri-Nitro Toluene.


Nitro-G is quite different!!

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neolitic

However, dynamite contains nitro,
TNT is not dynamite.

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MALCO.New.York

Thanks for the Education. Looked it up, and yes! Dynamite is "Based upon Nitroglycerine and Diatomaceous Earth" !


So AC/DC has been misleading us all these years!

Those Damn Aussie Bastids!!!!

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