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Jerb322 @lemmy.world

1y ago

What is this pit used for?

At a farm in Wisconsin. Farm is big, but looks like it only houses large equipment.

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RC car course
- This. The ramp is a giveaway.
  
  I'm sorry, I'm new here. What ramp?
- If you hadn't said it it wouldn't have been so obvious to me
- Yup. It's a nice one too. Not surrounded by fence and trees and junk
- RC
  remote control?
- WAY too small.
  
  There are various size classes

The element that makes me think no one has gotten it right are the stairs. People enter and exit this when it is full.
I am willing to wager internet points that this is for washing or fluid based differentiation of materials. The dividers structure would be some form of flow distribution control or cleanup system.

Speculating, but maybe a runoff pond/detention basin?
Looks like the asphalt slopes toward it which would direct stormwater into it. There's also no gutters on the building in the back, so that water would just hit the pavement and run off. There's also a pump-looking gizmo in the lower-right corner that appears to have a discharge hose going away from the structures on the property.
- Or for propane tanks. They need to have an area underneath to catch the gas if they star leaking. And the bumps can be some kind of foundation for putting the tanks. It looks like it could hold two tanks next to each other.
- But why the humps and the ladder?
  
  I mean, the steps could be a safety device if you fell in since there's no safety rails around it. The humps are probably just sediment buildup.
  Again, I'm speculating, but I've seen those kinds of basins before.
  
  Speculation but: Children.
  If you have something that looks like a pool they’ll go swimming.
  The ladder gets them out and the humps give them a place to stand in the middle to keep their heads above the water line. Their arms get tired very quickly.
- I was thinking the same. It looks like gravel.

Possibly a slurry pond? The only pools like that I've seen on farms were all on dairies; and they dump the cow piss and shit in them. I've also seen above ground cess pools like this at some industrial factories in the boonies. Used to be a tarmic plant outside my hometown that used one.

Looks like it would be a fun RC car playground.

Could be a hog house sewage slurry lagoon, I see what looks like a pump out on the far right corner. I'm not sure about the humps on the bottom, but they might control the current to avoid a whirlpool effect when pumping out the pond. Just guessing here.
- This is almost certainly it. I agree those lumps on the bottom look intentionally designed to prevent sloshing when filling the pond
- Yep it's a slurry lagoon aka as a stinking shit pond. Since it's unlined it leaks massive quantities of nitrates into the soil and water table.

- One of the major problems with pattern recognition is that is only recognizes patterns it already knows.
  It is not either of those two things based on the ladder and vent like thing at the end.
  
  So no way out for the archeologs? They supposed to dig their way out?

It's a model of a bigger pit.

The lumps in the sand are where they bury the bodies

It’s a built in take out container

Fat tire skateboarding

Considering it's in Wisconsin, my vote is a DIY ice skating rink with the waterproof bottom removed for the summer

The subject of Mouserat's greatest hit.

Leech pit.
No, not that kind.
The kind where they keep leeches.

possible maintenance on various large equipment?
You drive them into and then onto those pillow shapeed humps, giving you acees to their under carriage?
Oil changes, transmission work, etc..
You can't exact floor jack up a combine..
Pure speculation..
- Maintenance on most large farm equipment is performed from the side. In a pinch, the undercarriage is also usually several feet off the ground at rest because it needs significantly more ground clearance than a road vehicle.
  As for changing tires and such, actually you do floor jack up a combine. It's just a really beefy hydraulic jack.
- A very small area for that and there would need to be an entrance or exit. The stairs look like they are in the way.
  
  Yep..
  Harvest season Funtime ballpit?

Parcour-pitfighting, Dana White's newest blunder.

BMX maybe?
- To small. It's a track for RC cars.
  
  Yeah, that makes more sense

The Mines

Mass grave

Animal bath?
- I agree with this. There's some kind of pump on the bottom right which has to be for water.

Maybe they unearthed the septic system for maintenance recently?

rice farming?
seems like this is on a farm, this is a piece designed to be filled/emptied... not water tight so not really a fish thing
- Definitely not rice. That’s farmed on huge fields and have (in USA at least) telltale levy lines which are used to control flooding the fields. Poke around in northeast Arkansas and you should find some.

Swimming pool?

I was going to say BMX or dirt bike practice course But the steps and the weird pump thing in the bottom right corner would get in the way.

they opened up that fucking pit and had the WALL OF DEATh, and now well... gotta do something with the leftovers.

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