Bushwick Urban Archaeology: Entire Driveshaft
See that long bar sticking out of the ground at a severely acute angle? That’s a driveshaft, the thing that transfers the energy from the engine to the wheels of a car. It was a good 3 feet longer, but we sawed a piece off, thinking it was just an old gas pipe. When we realized it was solid steel, we decided to leave it in there until we can dig the entire thing out. I see a lot of crazy junk in my yard, but this one really makes me wonder what the hell could have been going on…
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
You have me laughing every time you post one of these things. I can’t believe all the crap you KEEP finding….and all on a little city sized back yard…..
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Oh you have no idea how much junk we have thrown away. I never get tired of telling the story about the entire couch we found UNDER the ground.
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
When my friend renovated Sweet and Vicious in Nolita, they dug up the ground to lay brick and found two rusted out pistols.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Haha, pistols in the dirt in Bushwick would be less surprising than a couch buried in the ground…. Hahaha.