Found this at an old cellar hole. Moonshine still? Furnace?

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Stumbled upon an old cellar hole today deep in the woods and spotted this hunk of metal. Not sure if it's part of an old moonshine still or some sort of home made furnace. There are large sheets of galvanized metal in the cellar hole as well, which made it impossible to detect. Any ideas on this one?

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Looks like an old furnace cap and distribution box... Not a moonshine still. :laughing7:
 

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Yep. "Octopus".

The house I was raised in (built 1822) had a coal furnace converted to gas. One evening the pilot went out and when the gas finally got to the water heater pilot light all of that duct-work opened up like a popped balloon. Blew out all the basement windows and turned my slot car table into toothpicks. Luckily no fire afterwards - but no furnace, either!
 

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Looks like a crashed UFO, LOL

Yup, that's what it looked like from a distance! Very weird to have that furnace in the middle of the woods.
 

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Sure, spoil my fun! LOL! I was going to drag it home and set up my own still!

That would have been great except for the fact that is galvanized metal and you would have been pushing up daisies drinking anything that came out of that...Got to be copper... So Funny :laughing7:
 

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Yup, I have watched that moonshiners show and they do have copper stills. Copper's over $3.00 a pound, so those stills aren't cheap to make!
 

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Look for the bones of the moonshiners who used it as a still.:laughing7:
 

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That’s my bong from college
 

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Look for the bones of the moonshiners who used it as a still

You never know! First chore is to drag all the metal out of the hole and see if there's any coins or colonial relics in it. I detected around the hole, but all I got was iron signals from all the nails. I'll spend the day there some time and see if anything good comes out of the ground. Worth a shot...
 

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Yep. "Octopus".

The house I was raised in (built 1822) had a coal furnace converted to gas. One evening the pilot went out and when the gas finally got to the water heater pilot light all of that duct-work opened up like a popped balloon. Blew out all the basement windows and turned my slot car table into toothpicks. Luckily no fire afterwards - but no furnace, either!
My grandad's old house had the same set-up. I remember going down in the cellar with him to stoke the furnace. I got to pick lumps of coal and toss them into that flaming Inferno, which I thought was so cool.
 

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I was voting UFO until everyone else recognized it. You're killing it, Tim! Don't let the scrappers know where that is, they'llbe hauling it to the nearest scrap metal buyer!
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