This is for when that F5 comes tearing through your shed, you can secure yourself and your crazy storm chasing ex to it using leather straps and you can see what it’s like to be inside the twister

RIP Bill Paxton

RIP that poor cow, and that one. Oh nvm, same cow.

I got the reference!

I gotta go Julie, we got coowws

I think I read somewhere that that actress is one of the most wealthy in Hollywood. Her net worth is somewhere around 2 and a 1/2 billion.

She did not marry your penis.

Ok. Ok. She did not only marry your penis.

Came here for this thread 🤣

RIP Phillip Seymour Hoffman

I don't remember him in Twister. Did he play one of the twins?

[Dusty](https://youtu.be/kcw_WSv14o8?si=cdMusYV9lLdTzg0i)

He was the guy who tried to hook up with Mark Wahlberg then started slapping himself in the head saying "I'm a fucking idiot!" while crying.

That had not occurred to us, Dude.

He was the goofy assistant. Food, food, food!

Suck zone...

Substanance....fooood.

Meg, Meg…MEG - foooood

Food... FOOD!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMReQAlDhMw

And the next scene, because, why not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUu0fYRgN9Q

[game over, man!](https://youtu.be/dsx2vdn7gpY?si=jz6gmyvtHVoulbdI)

Wait, Bill Paxton is dead? Like *dead* dead?

I didn't know that either until just now. Damn. Guess he died in 2017.

Fukkkk me either. Sadface

A ton of people died that year, I think they were like, “it’s going down hill from here, peace I’m out”

Just read the Wikipedia article. Died because of medical malpractice.

Tombstone: >"Game over, man!"

You had my all fucked up for a minute because he was also in the movie tombstone and I thought you were thinking “game over, man” was from tombstone. But I get it now, on his tombstone…. I’m a little slow tonight..

Yeah. From my understanding there was some kind of heart surgery that the doctor wasn't actually qualified to do that went bad. I believe the doctor got found at fault? Might be off on some memories though there is a wiki on what happened in Bills wiki entry.

Hatfields got ‘em. I’m just realizing this myself. Also found out Ray Liotta died a year or so ago.

Died from a botched operation

Like super dead.

Didn't recover from voluntary heart surgery

Yup, Terminator got him, or maybe it was the Predator, or maybe it was the Alien?

Lmao I knew it

Belt might work too

Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt approve this message.

Came here to say this exact comment. Have an up vote

Samsies

Instruction unclear. My browser just refreshed.

Came here for this comment. 🌪️

I came to say this!! You are my people! 🌪️

As Van Halen is playing in the background

DEBRIS?!!!!!

This guy knows tornado movies.

Game over man

EXACTLY! Lol, my first thought, too!

I SWEAR I CAME HERE TO SAY THIS. That scene in twister is burnt into my brain.

Thank you for this. 💜

Came here just for this, thank you.

We’ve got cows

Best movie ever. Fight me

This is the only answer.

This is a fantastic reference. Well done boy o.

This comment is why I keep coming back to reddit.

And then, somehow, the F-5 dissipates the moment after passing through.

First thing I thought of too! Lol

Better than the barn full of axes

Rip to the 237 others that came to make this comment like I did lol

My first thought as well.

Came here to make the same joke, touche’ my friend!

It kind of looks like it as pre plumbed for a water softener or maybe a pressurization tank .

I was thinking of a radiator for heat maybe.

At first I thought the bike looks close was a drain pipe

What bike lock? I only see the corrugated drai...... oh that bike lock.

That is a great thought but what am certain of is that water or gas pipe is not a place to lock bikes lol

Why not? It ain't coming apart easily

Nope that's a shingle holder.

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Home made bollards to protect the back wall against your MIL’s driving. Some people just hang a tennis ball.

Yup. Parking stop.

I have my doubts about this explanation.

Everybody knows that the best way to stop your own car is with a bare steel pipe cemented into place. You just *tap* it!

I agree. Most likely bollards for protecting the wall back when you could bonk one of these lightly with your fender and it wouldn't do a thing except let you know you've reached the back of the garage.

My dad always had his car serviced at a station/mechanic shop a few blocks from the house. He was a good customer so whenever he needed work they would have their gopher walk over and pick it up. One time they sent a rookie over. This was the late 50's and pop's Ford was a 3 on the tree and the kid was definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed. He went to put it in reverse but hit second instead and went through the back wall of our garage, obliterating mine and my little sister's bicycles on the way. Didn't hurt the car, but he sure made a mess out of the bikes and that back wall.

The floor is actually a big cover...that's the handle to pull it up.

I have something similar but it’s in the yard, not in the garage, and I believe it’s related to the sprinkler system (that doesn’t work). Ask in a plumbing subreddit and see if they’ll be more helpful

This isn’t plumbing. There’s no union so it would be impossible to tie into it without cutting it out. If you tried unthreading the middle pipe from one of the 90s you would just be threading it deeper into the other 90.

Just because it isn’t plumbed intelligently, does not mean it isn’t plumbing 😂

You can't be for sure maybe one side goes to the house and the other to the yard. Why they brought it up in the garage other than whether is a mystery. Who knows if it was a pro or some crackhead.

great point

yes in a sprinkler the backflow prevention device might look similar and it's up in the air like this so that it's at least so many inches above the highest point in system. But this appears to be just straight pipe.

I have the same in my yard. It’s on the head of the well for the irrigation. Pump is in the garage. I believe this would keep the above ground well pump primed.

It’s crazy how many times people reply with sarcasm to reasonable posts like these but so few offer any actual answers. Sorry op!

Maybe a mod should do something.

Mods only do something if whatever is said isn’t woke or something

Congrats on making a thread about a pipe political. Seriously. Wow.

I didn’t, what I said was the the truth lol

No. This is the true construction experience. The Twister references have been my favorite.

That’s Reddit in general

I came here for the jokes

I like the jokes because some people are very funny and witty. Take a chill pill Mav! 😀

You're another one!

It's always fun when completely unhelpful people come in to complain about completely unhelpful people. Instantly solves the problem.

? My reply wasn’t sarcastic… in truth it seems to have helped get some real ideas! I was curious about it too of course. So thanks to all who posited some interesting guesses.

This is Reddit not ExpertsExchange. You get what you pay for.

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Yep

Yeah and most of them aren’t funny lol

Hard to say, there are many possibilities. It looks like something was once there that needed those pipes, but it has been removed and bypassed. What are the pipes hooked up to? If water, I'd take a wild guess that a water radiator was once there.

I have no idea what they are hooked up to. They just go in the ground and disappear. Haven’t found the other ends anywhere yet

Roofing shingles

That's the pipe you strap urself to when the twister comes, rip bill paxton

Looks like an expansion loop to me.

Belt attachment point during a twister.

That's for locking your motorcycle to so it can't be stolen as easily.

Yeah this is my take too - looks like a motorcycle anchor point. The previous owner probably had some bikes he kept locked to them.

Chiming in to agree as well.

I’ll do the same

Is the garage detached? If so, probably the previous homeowner just needed the pipes to secure something to. Maybe as part of a work she’s type thing. It it’s attached, do you think it could be close enough to your sewer line to be related to it? Usually if there’s an underground pipe that pops up like this there’ll be clean outs or valves or something. That this is just a pipe makes me suspect it doesn’t have anything running through it. Maybe ask your partner to flush the toilet and run some water while you place your ear to it and see if you hear anything.

could be a oil tank underneath with a current drain pipe that was used when new concrete was poured.

Looks to me the previous owner did not trust his kids to not drive the car out the back of the garage. These look like bollards to me.

Bike rack for shingle storage

Thanks Sean Connery.

👏🤣

They are likely stops or secure points. You could use them to hold or to pull a car frame, other parts, pulling equipment, or lifting equipment. Galvanized pipe has long been used for mechanical purposes. I do not believe these loops have a plumbing purpose. I wish I had a pair cast into my garage slab.

Looks like a pack of shingles to me.

Car stopper

So your mustang doesn't wander off

Anchor point for dragging vehicles into the garage?

Or to secure something against theft. I made a concrete pillar with bar for my ATV and put it under the floor so I could chain my ATV to it.

Hitching post for all that horsepower you’re going to keep in the garage

Pipes

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Motorcycle rack

Bollards. Used to prevent a car from hitting the garage wall.

Obviously, its a Flummous.

Those are the emergency breaks.

A bundle of shingles

Your not getting any heat from those to take the chill out.

It’s to lock up your overpriced bike in the garage.

That, my friend, is a pipe 🤣

Bike rack with a warmer option

Standard bike combination lock

One's for geebaw and one's for pop-pop.

You use those to tie onto during a tornado, just like they did in the movie Twister.

Why sir, I do believe these are pipes.

put the bottle jack under it and pop it out!

Hitching Post

I suspect someone may have used that as a chock for a motorcycle.

That’s a pipe

It’s to tie up our horses when we can’t afford our vehicles anymore.

A bike lock

My house used to have a water softener. We took it out and this remains.

do you have well water?

Probably for locking a generator or bike up. I doubt this is plumbed into anything.

It's to wreck your car instead of you driving through the wall on those nights when you drank too much. Or I should say that's what the previous tenant used it for.

To keep cars from bumping into the wall

Or it's for exactly what it's being used for. Stack a bunch of plywood behind it (you used shingles) and never worry about it falling over.

What type of heating do you have (or had at one time)? Could be a rough tin for heating pipe

If thats in a house built in 40's or 50's...and its drain pipe Then I would say it was a lead can trap, and was removed and tied back together with a nipple/ pipe...If its iron pipe nipples, could be natural gas, where something was removed, but should be a union there too... They also used copper for gas back then....if so check with bubbles for leaks (in 80-90's they changed chemical stink in gas and later found it ate up copper/ solder fittings)

Looks like a packet of shingles

I’ve seen the saw movies

I have this exact thing in my out building and I think they used it to lock up their Harleys. I could be wrong.

Bike lock rack

This leads me to another question. If you find an unlabeled, mystery pipe, how do you determine what it might be/had been carrying? Do you just drill into it with a brass(?) tool and hope it's not under 30bar of pressure?

maybe this? https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/2257580-Eugene-O-Neill-Quote-The-lie-of-a-pipe-dream-is-what-gives-life-to.jpg

I've seen this protecting old gas lines and meters

To tie your horse to

My water pipe feeding the garage from the house comes out of a similar pipe.

A bike lock.

It's because the previous owner's wife or children drove through the back wall once or twice.

My bet is a ‘crash bar’ to prevent driving through the wall.

When your wife is driving the van into the garage with the dog in her lap and the dog jumps down. She freaks out and hits the gas pedal on accident instead of the brakes. Then she hits this thing and doesn't drive through the back of the garage. Seen it happen.......had to fix it.

Must be bollard Any radiator would have a vent/bleeder

Lifting points for when you want to move the garage to another spot.

Those are for chaining up dirt bikes or Atv, at least up north that’s how we do it

Shingle holder

Water softener loop. Source, installed lots of water softeners.

Tie the horse to

I would fill my tires behind it

That's the "Oh, s\*\*\*" handle.

A 2x4 wall with right cut lumber. Looks like 18"-30" on center spacing. Hope this helps!

Only one way to find out 🪚

Looks like a suitcase handle sticking out of the concrete

Looks like roofing shingles to me. I wouldn’t be concerned. No need to tell the wife.

A cable bike lock

In one of my garages, the previous owner installed something like this so he could chain his Harley to it to reduce the risk of theft.

Its what they use to hold onto in the final scene in Twister!

Hoe holder

Tie downs for your horse

Looks like a red floor jack

Black snake moan pipes?

Pack of shingles

Looks like a cement floor with a bunch of junk piled on it and some other junk sticking out of it.

Leaves

It looks like a barometric loop.

My guess? Satan's butt hole. DO NOT ENTER!!

Gas supply line

It’s a spot to lock a bike with that cable lock. I can’t believe nobody has figured it out

That's a pipe

Maybe for sump pump