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RE: privy - 6/20/2005 2:07:41 AM    madman   Posts: 4860 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline yes heres some pictures good luck madman Attachment (1) (in reply to Tony14) Post #: 21

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 2:10:51 AM    madman   Posts: 4860 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline cistern found some teens stuff down there mike Attachment (1) (in reply to madman) Post #: 22

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 10:44:03 AM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline If we dig past the well do you think we will find anything? We are going to keep digging, hopefully we find stuff. I am going to try to find the outhouse from the 1900's in my yard. I think it might be underneith the well? would you no anything? If you want me to i will post a picture of my back yard? (in reply to madman) Post #: 23

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 11:39:19 AM    diggermeister Posts: 149 Joined: 5/3/2005 From: North Carolina, USA Status: offline Hey guys, NO the privy will not be under a well or cistern . A well is dug down to the water table and is for drinking water. It might be located anywhere on the property. A cistern can be a wide range of depths and was to collect rain water for household use. The cistern would be found near the house and the rain gutters would drain into it. A privy is for human waist before the advent of indoor plumbing ie; crapper, toilet, sh!thouse . It was usually located further from the house (than a cistern) often near the fence line and downwind. It would have had a small building (outhouse) built over it and be used for about 10 years give or take. Trash would be tossed into it all through it's usage. If you have found a concrete cap this is most likely on a well or cistern and probably 'modern'. Older cisterns and wells would be used for trash after their usefulness as a fresh water source had ended. BE CAREFUL! Wells can be VERY deep. It seems as though this might be what you have found... < Message edited by diggermeister -- 6/20/2005 11:40:41 AM > _____________________________ If I Wasn't Crazy; I'd Go Insane, GARY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/federal_law_forbids_bottles (in reply to madman) Post #: 24

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 11:51:17 AM    Tony14 Posts: 2478 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: online The well we found is right next to a creek that is fed by a natural spring about 50yds up the creek. I think the well might have been shallow and they used the creekwater to drink, and feed there garden. Post a pic of your whole backyard from standing at the back door. Keep an eye out for the cistern too Andy. < Message edited by Tony14 -- 6/20/2005 12:04:42 PM > (in reply to madman) Post #: 25

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 2:14:56 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline yes it is a well. My dad use to live here when he was a kid. His dad made a well for rain water, for there garden. My dad said that the well is 7 ft. (in reply to madman) Post #: 26

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 2:17:42 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Here is a picture of my backyard here is a picture standing from my back door Attachment (1) (in reply to madman) Post #: 27

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 2:18:39 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline here is a picture standing from the corner of the backyard Attachment (1) (in reply to madman) Post #: 28

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 2:20:04 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Here is the picture of the spot that me and Tony14 started digging to find a privy, but found out that it is a well We dug about, more than a ft down Attachment (1) (in reply to madman) Post #: 29

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 2:22:02 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Here is a picture of the little river behind, that Tony14 was talking about. (the river runs behind the fence) Attachment (1) (in reply to madman) Post #: 30

RE: privy - 6/20/2005 2:23:43 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Do you think there is an outhouse or privy on the yard? Where do you think it will be? (Look at the pictures of the backyard) (in reply to madman) Post #: 31

RE: privy - 6/23/2005 12:49:06 AM    Tony14 Posts: 2478 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: online Post a pic of your house from the street to possibly get help on finding the cistern. (in reply to madman) Post #: 32

RE: privy - 6/23/2005 1:19:58 AM    madman   Posts: 4860 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey tony and andy, wow thats a big back yard it may be tough to find the privy , look for any depressions in the ground then probe the depression to see if you can find the out line of the walls of the privy, you need a probe!!!!!! its a must, since that yard is so large, im guessing it wont be all the way in the back of the lot, id check mid yard and along the property lines, stand at the back door, and try to guess where it was, look for dips in the ground, as far as the cistern, how about a picture of the back of the house this might help madman (in reply to madman) Post #: 33

RE: privy - 6/23/2005 1:33:43 AM    Tony14 Posts: 2478 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: online Next time hes on he'll take the pictures. We found the well in the back left corner of the yard(1st pic). If you look at the second pic, just to the right of the trampoline where all of that stuff is piled, we have found glass right on the other side of the fence (in the woods) there. Just so you know mike, the big barn lookin thing in the second pic is the garage. < Message edited by Tony14 -- 6/23/2005 1:55:51 PM > (in reply to madman) Post #: 34

RE: privy - 6/23/2005 3:17:14 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Front Pic of house Attachment (1) (in reply to madman) Post #: 35

RE: privy - 6/23/2005 3:17:41 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Backyard Pic Attachment (1) (in reply to madman) Post #: 36

RE: privy - 6/23/2005 3:19:18 PM    Andy4707   Posts: 214 Joined: 5/7/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline The front porch use to be brick until my aunt moved in and made it wood. (in reply to madman) Post #: 37

RE: privy - 6/24/2005 2:07:04 AM    Tony14 Posts: 2478 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: online So what do you think, Mike. (in reply to madman) Post #: 38

RE: privy - 6/24/2005 2:16:32 AM    madman   Posts: 4860 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline i wish i was there, it would be so much easier do you have a probe???? the cistern is right behind the house find it dig it up there may be more than one privy in that back yard probe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mike < Message edited by madman -- 6/24/2005 2:20:20 AM > (in reply to madman) Post #: 39

RE: privy - 6/24/2005 2:17:48 AM    madman   Posts: 4860 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hmm no back door is this house added on to?? mike (in reply to madman) Post #: 40

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