Jan
12
2007
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Nailed


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We’ve had to tell the kids to wear shoes outside the house. That they should look out for screws, staples, knife blades, saw blades, broken glass, staples, and rusty nails. We had a guy go over our whole yard with a magnet, twice. Each time filling buckets with these items.
So yesterday 4yo walks in with this thing.
I have no idea what it’s for or where it came from. Did Christiane dig it up with the Toyota Excavator? Is it a survey stake? Ground stake? My guess is it is from the old house (1951) and not the new construction. Christiane thinks it’s from the farm that was here before the house that was here before our house.
Any other guesses?

6 Comments for Nailed


Julia
January 12, 2007, 4:44 pm

Tent stake maybe? I don’t think they were ever used in the construction of houses, not little ranches from the 50′s anyway, but they might have been used on playground equipment or a treehouse. I could have also been used for landscaping.


Ruth
January 12, 2007, 6:49 pm

It looks like a stake used to ground the electricity system.


Tex MacRae
January 12, 2007, 8:16 pm


King of Kentville
January 13, 2007, 6:38 am

Definitely a nail used to hold the gutter on…never heard it called a pike before so I guess I learned something new.


King of Kentville
January 13, 2007, 6:39 am

LOL, I guess that “pike” in the previous post should have been “spike”…that makes more sense :-)


David E.
January 19, 2007, 12:07 pm

I guess that’s what it is. But the old house had a flat roof — no gutters. That just makes it more of a mystery.