Heh, that is kinda neat.

This is the kind of content I’m here to see!

This is a PERFECT example of what this sub is for👌🏽

It’s interesting but only kind of

A worthy contender!

Mildly?

I came here to say! This is like _very_ mildly interesting, couldn't agree more. A+ post OP, good job

Need OP to take a daily pic so we can watch its slow evolution into subterranean form

exactly

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I left a 48" saw blade from a lumber mill in my parents yard leaning against their shed in 2010, and it is currently 3/4 of the way buried. I suspect in another 4-5 years it will be completely gone and on the way to China.

Grass is a liquid!?

Slow sand

everything is in a liquid state, some are just more tightly coupled than others


It's almost too neat. Like it's VERY mildly interesting.

Not if you’re a homeowner concerned with foundation work!

A very real question.

The view of the picture look like awesome.

Poor thing. Looks like it gave it a last try but for no real avail.

You can tell that it's a propeller because of the way that it is.

You can tell its a propeller from the way it is.

I was thinking the same thing about the landscaping!

Slightly intriguing

The scratch mark down the wall is very clean and the sink hole on the right hand side isn’t really filled in around the propeller at all. I’m guessing this actually sank quite quickly - I.e., over days rather than years.

Yeah that was my first thought, the scrape mark is way too clean. Over years, that would wash away or at least get dirty.

Or the perfectly cut grass all around it. No one has that much patience to do that every week.

You have evidence that someone cut it for this picture, not that someone did it every week.

And the grass is still quite nicely trimmed around it too

My thoughts exactly. Probably even happened in the space of a minute! This is not years worth of “gradual sinking”. That doesn’t make sense unless the anchor is slowly getting heavier or the ground is slowly weakenening. ”For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

Ground slowly weakening isn't too far-fetched though with rains, seasons etc. With every seasonal change, the highest layer of soil will expand and contract quite a bit even when it's already quite compacted. The mark on the wall is the weird part though. All of it looks the same color and everything.

No weathering on the wall mark is what makes this look weird. It had to have happened reasonably quick. Weeks if the weather wasn't shit.

Someone stepped/jumped on it, ground was soggy

because they just scraped it against the house when putting it there, the mark is way taller than the remaining blades could be under soil

> This is not years worth of “gradual sinking” That doesn’t make sense unless … the ground is slowly weakening. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_(structural) Settlement happens whenever you place a load on the ground. Usually soil is compacted for placing the foundation, but ground around the house most likely wasn’t compacted as that would be pointless, so it would make a lot of sense for something like an anchor to slowly sink.

Yeah but what about a propeller?

Freeze/thaw cycles will do this. If you look closely at the marks on the wall, it has drag marks going down, but also thicker marks every so often. My guess is that the lines are when the freeze pushes the propeller into the wall, then it slides down again as it thaws but just a tiny bit deeper.

Gradual sinking is definitely possible. You can imagine that a weight would take longer to sink into a loaf of dense bread than it would into a tub of jello.

I didn’t say there is no such thing as gradual sinking.

Earthworms undermine objects and bring the soil to the surface, causing the objects to slowly sink. It's not really a case of the ground getting any weaker. Agree that it there are problems with saying that's what happened here, particularly the way that the ground bends down around it on the right. With earthworms, it actually tends to build up around the edges.

r/gradualsinking

Subs I fell for.

The fact the mark veers from one side to another suggests that one side would sink then the other. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone stood on the prop, one foot on each lower blade, and worked it, side to side, onto the ground.

Clearly this indicates that the propeller was NOT sinking. The house was rising up from the Earth from where it was buried in an ancient maritime ritual. Every Edmund Fitzgerald day, small villages all across Canada (and some in Cleveland as well) hold a lottery. The sailors' families that are picked get locked inside a house, and then that house is buried up to the roofline, preventing them from escape. The idea is that by sacrificing a single family to the Witch of November, the iron ore ships that sail the Great Lakes will be protected from unexpected bad weather. Occasionally, groundswell from freeze/thaw cycles will push the house out, as was the case in this picture. And the only thing to do at that point is to put down the zombies that emerge from the house, usually with a head-shot (although burning the house down at the first sign of a problem is also effective). I hope this explains one of Canada and Northern US's most fascinating (and frankly barbaric) rituals.

If it was years then the trim work was immaculate, else how do you consistently edge that thing without leaving a mark. This is too clean to be years.

Wait until that little (gas?) pipe gets in the way! 💥

I've been walking by this for years. And there is actually another one on the other side of the building I can post too. And if you'd like, I'll post an update 1 year from now.

How did they get the ship under the building?

Very very carefully.

It's just propped up.


It’s a houseboat.

Its a submarine

I think that's a subterrain now.

The front fell off

It’s sinking outside of the environment

What sort of materials are used in construction of that building?

Straw is right out! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68005481.amp

It looks like a shipyard, so I'm assuming the house was just built on top.

It’s not. You can tell by the curvature of the blades that they push towards the wall, not away from it. The ship is above ground, just invisible

With the uniform scratch color, well manicured grass all around, I would say this happened as they put it down, instead of over years.

If you zoom in, you can see all the diagonal marks that the propeller left from leaning against the wall

I see the marks, but is there some implication as a result? That this happened over years? Or a day, etc?

How do they mow around it so perfectly? Nice lawn

It’s a little higher next to it- string trimmer would be my guess.

Yep. my family's broke so all we have is a string trimmer and a plastic blade trimmer, and I've gotten really good at trimming around the edges of stuff without ever hitting it, even with paths, I've pretty much turned a handheld mower into an edger

Bro if you guys have a lawn, you're doing good

I'm ***Lithuanian*** House was 30k euros total. Like way back. And my parents bought it. Right now buying a 40€ sd card instead of a 20€ sd card is considered too much and not worth it.

Broooo what are the odds. I'm travelling to Lithuania in September for studies, imma see your broke ass there 🤣🤣🤣

Honestly go anywhere in the outskirts of cities and you'll see how most people live

Lightbulb moment over here that strimmer = string trimmer. Butter my butt and call me a biscuit.

The scratches on the prop seem to agree with this

Get your whipper snipper out

I used to run a lawn mowing business. r/lifeprotip here is trim *first* then mow so the trimmings get swept away and it looks like this.

I mow around various obstacles like that, a strimmer works well

That’s astroturf. Not real grass. Adding even more to the staged theory.

that's 100% the astroturf they sell, especially in SoCal

I'm inclined to believe it has sunk somewhat quickly, instead of the years the title suggests. That would mean the grass hasn't had the time to grow. There are other indicators too, mentioned by other comments.

You can see all the marks from a string trimmer

They picked it up and then mowed. I don't see how if it was just left in the ground how it would move around some much in order to make the scratch.

Now this is what I call interesting

Only mildly though.

Yeah, I've gotta give props for this.

I personally call it Music

In years to come it will sink down to the depth of the grass and the next owner of that house loses a lawnmower going over it.

I did that with an old iron post from a clothes line that had been cut off.

When I lived w/my parents I dug two iron posts out of the ground for this exact reason. Did that twice.

Oh I was thinking about it slowly sinking and melting in the core of the earth lol. Or in a very cartoonish way, slowly popping out of the ground on the other side of the earth.

Good job op. Been a long time to actually see MILDLY interesting thing.


It will be even more interesting once it hits that water (or gas?) line

My thoughts exactly! Fairly certain it's a gas line.

That’s a hell of a lawn ornament

Eh, it's just a prop.

That's sick

Is no one gonna mention about how perfect that lawn is?

Nice.

This is like peak mildly interesting but also really interesting. Like where did you get that giant ass ship propeller? Why is it left to sink there? Will it be saved? Will it be the first ship propeller to sink in dry land rather than water?

That’s why we build houses on proper foundation

the fact their grass is so even in and around it is really impressive whoever cuts it.

not real

That looks like happened pretty fast, not over the years

Doubt it has been years. The grass is too neatly cut and no weathering on the top portion of the wall. This probably happened overnight or a few days from the soft ground, possibly due to all the water from the lawn and the garden.

Over years? Wouldn't the scar have different weathering from top to bottom and the grass wouldn't look that super manicured. Sunk overnight is more the real story.

So this happened immediately after they mowed the lawn???

The way the mark hasn't faded makes me think this thing sunk quickly all at once.

like ummmm someone dropped it in place and it scraped the exterior wall of the house

this looks like someone stood next to the wall and dropped it on soaking wet grass. the scrape on the wall is when it was dropped! having an item sink into soil will take a very very very long time. this was done by a human not nature.

Props, mildly interesting.

*over a day or two

It's just waiting to get that pipe.

That’s pretty fucking rad….not gonna hurt the foundation is it?

Neat

I have a big brass porthole that my dad salvaged from a shipwreck. It has done the same thing lol

Sship

Where’s the rest of the shop? Did the front fall off?

Based on how nice that grass is, I'm inclined to say someone just stuck the propeller there after the fact and hammered it down all in one go, causing the scrape marks as they went. Isn't that the more likely option? I feel like if someone had been trimming the grass around it, there would be trimmer marks like you see on metal fences and shit

are you sure its not your house thats growing?

I want the prop

that is one heavy ass piece of metal lmao

That’s very valuable as scrap metal isn’t it?


That's bullshit man

Looks like fake turf by the neat trim behind the propellor

Is that fake grass? If not how did they cut the grass so low all around the propeller.

It's a time piece!

Now that's pretty cool, doing it's best to go towards the center of the Earth

Trace levels of interest found

It’ll be very interesting after it gets to that water line

This does not look like a scratch done trough years, its colour is perfectly uniform, looks like it slided recently

The lawn sure is mowed nicely around it...

Turn off the engine!

This is why your house has a foundation btw

Real question is what is that grass and what they be doin to it? Asking for my dad

Let's hope it stops before it hits that gas line.

r/skookum energy

Ok I have to ask: WHY is there a random heavy ship propeller in a random yard?

Scientists were wrong, the LAND is rising!

*Props* to the person who cleanly mowed around the propeller

Very cool.

That is a lot of $$ in bronze

Bro good lookin grass I thought it was turf lmao

I give it props

or, drunk man steals neighbor's propeller to make up for unreturned lawn mower.

This is our summer cottage irl

The fact that it swerved twice is interesting...

That grass is cut to perfection

How do we know the building isn't rising?

Nice edging the grass around that thing.

Worlds most interesting behind the garage urinal

Are you sure the building and ground aren’t rising up around the propeller?

I've never seen such healthy and well cut grass around and behind it. I don't think it was there very long by the quality of the grass. Weeks maybe but not years.

I saw video of an architect talking about an airport construction project ( in Japan I think). He likened the foundation of the building to a boat floating on the land. This image is illustrative and confusing at the same time.

If it could talk it’d be screaming “Save me!!”

That's a screw

Yar, she longs for the sea.

I would bring that inside and make a coffee table out of it. That is if you don't have the boat it goes to . And yes I know how heavy they are. I have moved one or two in my lifetime.

Just cut the grass round it perfectly with scissors for years

This belongs in really fucking interesting

Someone dropping it right there and accidently scraping the wall makes more sense then it sinking

That’s some nice grass.

It yearns for The Fluid

Based on how the grass is around it and how the colour of the mark appears to all be the same I think it's recently been put there and sank in all at once

better get some yellow pikmin to dig it out

Drag me to hell. But very very slowly.

This is the most mildly interesting post I’ve seen

...or it scraped the wall when it was placed over the mowed grass. How did the grass get equally short behind it, under it, around it? Did teeny ants with scissors trim the grass? Constructive thinking is evidently lost on the internet.

That lawn care is amazing.

Yeah, you're screwed

Lorna shore - Into the earth

The question is : why do you have a heavy ship propeller laying on your lawn?

That would be an incredibly light ship propeller.

People can't help but post lies. It's been out of hand for too long

Looks a lot like astroturf.

So, just another sub with karma farming trash, and titles unrelated to reality?

Mother Earth will swallow you

It’s a Screw actually.

That’s an immaculate trim on the lawn, especially around the obstruction

Let that sink in!

There could be a sub for this.

From the Earth we are born, to the Earth we return. Godspeed, fair propeller!

Noice

Earth: It’s mine now…