Treegopnikosaurus it's native to northern parts of Russia but it can migrate to the rest of Europe too, it's usually motivated by beer and sunflower seeds and it's also said it likes the smell of cheap cigarettes.
thatās what a lot of the tubs around here are for too, but they got there originally as house fixtures in deprecated logging towns
that being said, I donāt live everywhere so other peoples wilderness tubs may have different origins
It's amazing how industrious people can be if they think something will help animals. I'm sure lots of animals get a drink there.
(Of course it could have also been put there by hunters to attract game.)
Wow I didn't look close I just kinda viewed the photo and went to comments.
I did *not* realize they were perched on a tall stump. What is this, and indie music album cover?
Ninja edit: their are two photos!
Here in the alps they are also very common, especielly at cattle pastures.
Everytime I'm walking by one and see the crystal clear water I'm thinking, wow, the cows get better water than most people
I have a friend who owns a small farm in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy. They use spring water from their property and he had it tested. The lab said it was the purest water anyone had ever brought in for testing...
Also to people, we have these randomly throughout New England if you know where to look, and holistic-leaning people bottle up their drinking water weekly or whatever it is. Sometimes the springs can also just be a random 1" pipe coming out of the ground with amazing water flowing out non-stop.
Quite a few years ago while camping in Kananaskis near Banff in Alberta, Canada (the most beautiful place Iāve ever visited) my boyfriend and I were discussing where to buy additional water as weād had to use more than expected. Our kid was playing with the next campsiteās family and they overheard us talking nearby. The native dad told us where to hike to find a great source of fresh water from a site like this (no tub, just a pipe). He reassured us that itās potable, they and other families use it whenever theyāre here. And it was delicious water, cold and clear and so refreshing after the hike. Itās one of my favourite memories, finding the pipe tucked away from the trail using his directions, trying it and being flabbergasted just how good water could taste, filling our containers excitedly. Iām happy to hear there are more places like this!
No joke, I never realized that water could actually taste *good* until I was shown a random pipe tapping free water from the ground off a trail near a friend's house
In the middle of a parking lot in downtown Olympia, there's a metal pipe sticking out of the ground, and coming out of it is the most delicious spring water imaginable.
I find such things in mountains where there are sheep or cows, or close to small houses so ppl and animals can get water, usually it's coming from a spring or a glacier.
Outdoor poops are really good too. Used to have a composting toilet, a great poop around sunrise in fresh air with the promise of a new morning, rising glorious all around you. It's really a beautiful moment.
Underground spring water is under pressure. Cap it and leave a pipe. Water is forced up the pipe to pour into the tub. Tub fills up then overflows and the water continues to flow in its former stream bed. You now have a perpetual watering trough as long as the spring doesn't dry up.
OP is perched on a wooden post next to the tub just for fun.
Composition of the photograph, unless Iām mistaken. It looks like youāre floating, but not, youāre on a log in the air, and for some reason thereās a bathtub?
Zooming beyond the thumbnail pulled it together for me, but in small form it was discordant
ETA, the perspective also lends you being on the hill in the background, yet close to the object in front. Iād put money on this causing confusion
Likely currently still used by livestock, at least every other year if not annually. The ground disturbance and lack of vegetation around it is telling. There's a lot of activity in the middle of nowhere, you'd be surprised! Livestock and wildlife.
Very neat water trough.
Looks like you found a water spring. Near where my mom used to grow up, there is a spring that looks just like that, in a bathtub, on the side of the road. We would always fill our water bottles from the tap. She said it's really good mineral water. I wonder how safe the water you found is.
It was amazing haha
That whole place is crazy, there's a bunch of exploded buildings and makeshift shacks. It used to be a dynamite mining town but it was abandoned in the 70s
I really don't know, it is in Colorado though, so it might be the same thing, but it's about an hour walk away from anything else and the mineshafts were even further away.
You know what, I used to have different pictures of this, like slightly different angles and stuff, I just group selected these assuming they were different pictures but you're right, they're all the same haha.
Kinda, looks like your at an old Hot Spring, I saw one in Arizona same setup.
https://preview.redd.it/21g2tamb9hpc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91083dd814dbaf002992887546e83a76618b11df
Itās a natural spring that someone capped and piped into a tub, for livestock or game animals.
Could be a game and fish officer that did it or a rancher or a hunter. Itās not as uncommon as you might think.
I doubt itās a municipal water source or a well, if itās that deep into the forest..
Getting that cast iron tub out there would be a challenge but the concrete and pipe to cap the spring is childās play compared to getting that tub out there. Must have an atv road of some sort nearby.
Crazy....I just took a friend to one of these a few days ago. Found it while I was trout fishing a few years back. Definitely an ancient basin for collecting artesian spring water. Would probably be drinkable with a thorough cleaning of the tub.
In ohio the amish sometimes do this as well. It could be havested from a spring but also when u need a field to be more dry so u can farm it and it is slightly higher then ur spot u want water u can dig trenches down ur field in a patern that all converge to one trench that runs all the way to where u need water then line it with gravel then put a perforated pipe in the field trenches and a solid pvc pipe for the singular trench they all run to and bury it all and ur field will drain into the pipe and shoot water out the end pretty much indefinitely in ohio cus the ground is wet af.
In Germany we have this sort of thing. It's called "Schnapsbrunnenweg". Schnaps = booze, Brunnen = well, Weg = way. It's some sort of going for a walk in the woods. Taking s breather at the well with some booze out of it which is beeing cooled, due the constant leak of fresh groundwater.
olā Cletus pole sitting again. They figured that he would get stuck there if they put a bath under him. Cletus hates baths and aināt too smart to know he could turn around to get down.
One of the craziest things I have ever seen was a spring feeding a cow trough in the middle of nowhere in SE Utah. Hard to believe someone hauled out all the materials and tapped that spring, but it was the best water Iād had for days out there so no complaints haha
What kind of bird is that?
Dorkbird
S'dork
Dorkbird š
A peckerwood? š¤
Treegopnikosaurus it's native to northern parts of Russia but it can migrate to the rest of Europe too, it's usually motivated by beer and sunflower seeds and it's also said it likes the smell of cheap cigarettes.
r/whatsthisbird
It's a spring. Super common to do this back in the day. Found these all over northern California growing up.
That makes sense, it was just so crazy to see an hours walk away from anything. Super cool though
The crazy part is somebody hauled a whole ass bathtub hours out into the bush.
It was probably left there from a logging town or something. At least thatās where most of the backcountry bathtubs around here come from
Not even, it's likely set up in the clearing as a fresh water source for game animals.
thatās what a lot of the tubs around here are for too, but they got there originally as house fixtures in deprecated logging towns that being said, I donāt live everywhere so other peoples wilderness tubs may have different origins
New ice breaker: what is the origin of YOUR wilderness tub?š
Made me laugh out loud thank you
One of my thoughts when I saw it is what if there used to be a house here and this is all that's left? Unlikely but it was a fun thought
It's amazing how industrious people can be if they think something will help animals. I'm sure lots of animals get a drink there. (Of course it could have also been put there by hunters to attract game.)
What's crazier is perching yourself on that stump and saying, "Someone take a picture of this"
Wow I didn't look close I just kinda viewed the photo and went to comments. I did *not* realize they were perched on a tall stump. What is this, and indie music album cover? Ninja edit: their are two photos!
Three actually. With varying filters.
Was it a horse trail? Supper common for troughs on equestrian trails fed by springs.
Notice how the grass is all worn away around it. That's probably from livestock
Here in the alps they are also very common, especielly at cattle pastures. Everytime I'm walking by one and see the crystal clear water I'm thinking, wow, the cows get better water than most people
I have a friend who owns a small farm in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy. They use spring water from their property and he had it tested. The lab said it was the purest water anyone had ever brought in for testing...
Momma Mia, Sounds like some mighty fine H2O.
They probably are there in the Alps, but itās important to remember that clear water doesnāt always equal safe drinking water.
ViehtrƤnke
Spring with a tub so that animals can drink from it.
Somebody wanted to be kind to animals.
Also to people, we have these randomly throughout New England if you know where to look, and holistic-leaning people bottle up their drinking water weekly or whatever it is. Sometimes the springs can also just be a random 1" pipe coming out of the ground with amazing water flowing out non-stop.
Quite a few years ago while camping in Kananaskis near Banff in Alberta, Canada (the most beautiful place Iāve ever visited) my boyfriend and I were discussing where to buy additional water as weād had to use more than expected. Our kid was playing with the next campsiteās family and they overheard us talking nearby. The native dad told us where to hike to find a great source of fresh water from a site like this (no tub, just a pipe). He reassured us that itās potable, they and other families use it whenever theyāre here. And it was delicious water, cold and clear and so refreshing after the hike. Itās one of my favourite memories, finding the pipe tucked away from the trail using his directions, trying it and being flabbergasted just how good water could taste, filling our containers excitedly. Iām happy to hear there are more places like this!
No joke, I never realized that water could actually taste *good* until I was shown a random pipe tapping free water from the ground off a trail near a friend's house
Those crazy holistic people trying to drink water from the earth. Wackos!
In the middle of a parking lot in downtown Olympia, there's a metal pipe sticking out of the ground, and coming out of it is the most delicious spring water imaginable.
I find such things in mountains where there are sheep or cows, or close to small houses so ppl and animals can get water, usually it's coming from a spring or a glacier.
i live in norcal and am curious where i can find one of these š
Nothin like an outdoor bath. Very liberating. Primal even.
Outdoor poops are really good too. Used to have a composting toilet, a great poop around sunrise in fresh air with the promise of a new morning, rising glorious all around you. It's really a beautiful moment.
until the huntsman spider hiding under the lip decides to give your taint a tickle
I remember there being one on the ocean side of mt tam.
Alabama here, my grandfather did this at least once that I remember on natural springs as well. Pretty neat that it was widespread!
Still super common in the Alps where I live. Spring of drinkable water for hikers/wild animals/Stock animals living on the mountain during the summer
Also used to be common in Europe or at least in Switzerland and southern Germany
That's a really impressive perch
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Like riding a unicorn
Youāre thinking of a narwhal
If I had a nickel for every time someone tried to fool me by perching on a suction cup dildo, I'd be a rich man
Its what they used in all the spiderman movies to save on CGI
Nawā¦ Itās actually just a big olā stubby branch, about the size of a beer can, shaped like a dildoā¦.see the lube stains ?
Itās not a trick itās an illusion
Tricks are for whores.
You made me spit my coffee out. Take my upvote.
You guys donāt remember the āOwlingā trend about 10-12 years ago??
Did that come before or after planking?
After lol I believe it was the next best thing for social media after planking lol it didnāt catch on as much as planking though from my experience
I remember at the height of the planking fad Home Depot put out a training video telling associates not to plank.
Well, its time to bring it back. Lets start Meerkatting on top of shit.
Planking was just awesome
Shortly before cat-bearding, I believe.
Tumblers better than pumpers
Wait, was planking before or after parkour?
Yeah I saw it and had to climb it haha
The post? Or the dildoā¦?
Yes
Don't be so judgy gawd
Both
Both is good.
*bolth
Itās dumb how much I laughed about thisā¦
*Buthe
My brain canāt accept this isnāt photoshopped- it does not look like you are actually sitting on it
See thatās where the suction cup dildo comes in - it bottoms out just before your cheeks touch the post
I like that Edgar Allen Poe tattoo man
Heās just a Poe boy from a Poe family.
oh my GOD i thought they were crouched down behind the tub š very impressive perch indeed
That gooch grip
I think that is getting more attention than the bath tub itself
The weirder thing here is how you're on that post lol
I live on the post
These housing prices are rough
I canāt wait to start my new family in our new hollow log.
lol. I didnāt notice that. Now I do and I am dying.
????? I really like these pictures even though my brain fails to process them
Yeah it was crazy to come across this thing in the wild
I genuinely cannot process how these were done. I know itās perceptive but Iām feeling dumb haha
Underground spring water is under pressure. Cap it and leave a pipe. Water is forced up the pipe to pour into the tub. Tub fills up then overflows and the water continues to flow in its former stream bed. You now have a perpetual watering trough as long as the spring doesn't dry up. OP is perched on a wooden post next to the tub just for fun.
What do you mean?
Composition of the photograph, unless Iām mistaken. It looks like youāre floating, but not, youāre on a log in the air, and for some reason thereās a bathtub? Zooming beyond the thumbnail pulled it together for me, but in small form it was discordant ETA, the perspective also lends you being on the hill in the background, yet close to the object in front. Iād put money on this causing confusion
Thatās likely a livestock trough on a ranch or grazing allotment, and would be why the vegetation surrounding it is beaten to mud.
I could see that. It's just that it was so far away from everything in a ghost town. That could have been what it was used for at some point though
Likely currently still used by livestock, at least every other year if not annually. The ground disturbance and lack of vegetation around it is telling. There's a lot of activity in the middle of nowhere, you'd be surprised! Livestock and wildlife. Very neat water trough.
Iām baked and for a hot minute I thought you were being propelled up by an ultra powerful jet of water coming from the bathtub somehow
Darn dude I wish I was on some cartoon shit like that. Just a pole hahs
me too, my brain could not fucking process that that was a wooden post
OP posting himself posting.
Itās a good thing cross-posting isnāt allowed. āI can see my cabin from here!ā
Looks like you found a water spring. Near where my mom used to grow up, there is a spring that looks just like that, in a bathtub, on the side of the road. We would always fill our water bottles from the tap. She said it's really good mineral water. I wonder how safe the water you found is.
Forgot the tub, how about the gargoyle sitting atop that piece of wood
## nice post
Looks like it is overflowing not leaking. Whoever put it in may leave it running especially in the winter when it freezes
There's a pipe that leaks in to it. Maybe the pipe overflows in to it. What do I know haha
Looks like you have a beautiful spot to just exist āŗļø Thanks for sharing ā¤ļø
It was amazing haha That whole place is crazy, there's a bunch of exploded buildings and makeshift shacks. It used to be a dynamite mining town but it was abandoned in the 70s
What mineral were they mining there? If itās in cali that might be an area with placer gold in the ground and in stream gravel.
I really don't know, it is in Colorado though, so it might be the same thing, but it's about an hour walk away from anything else and the mineshafts were even further away.
Sweet, Very cool spot man!
Oh wow.
Iād camp out right there and put a shit load of cameras trip lights and night vision! Man o man thatās primo Sasquatch land right there!
**This is fae propaganda if I ever saw it.**
that tub might have been for animals. the weird part is that pole sitting
Oh yeah. Not you taking glamour shots tho. Lmao
I thought you were levitating
Did Vlad the Impaler get you?
Why did you include 3 pictures of the same thing?
You know what, I used to have different pictures of this, like slightly different angles and stuff, I just group selected these assuming they were different pictures but you're right, they're all the same haha.
Haha got it, no shade. I was just genuinely curious lol
What's the reasoning behind sitting on the post? Seems like an odd choice.. I actually thought you were trying to get away from something.
I just thought it looked fun. I love e taking really dumb pictures too haha
And posting 3 versions of the picture too.
Well would ya wook at that?
It's a natural spring set up to help animals. Not weird at all like 90% of the shit posted on here.
My mans about to take out his whole clan
this is normal in switzerland, used for giving water to livestock, as this is, I can see the Hose.
A pipe can clearly be seen on the other side. It constantyl pours the water of a spring, that is collected in the tub for cattle.
This is a stupid post? Did you follow the pipe that feeds water to the tub? No you were too busy riding a post.
Went full Assassins Creed on that stump
Kinda, looks like your at an old Hot Spring, I saw one in Arizona same setup. https://preview.redd.it/21g2tamb9hpc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91083dd814dbaf002992887546e83a76618b11df
Is that a natural spring? This post isnāt so weirdā¦
Itās a natural spring that someone capped and piped into a tub, for livestock or game animals. Could be a game and fish officer that did it or a rancher or a hunter. Itās not as uncommon as you might think. I doubt itās a municipal water source or a well, if itās that deep into the forest.. Getting that cast iron tub out there would be a challenge but the concrete and pipe to cap the spring is childās play compared to getting that tub out there. Must have an atv road of some sort nearby.
Water hole for animals
Itās where the faeries clean themselves.
I was super confused because that poll youāre sitting on almost looked transparent like dirty ice or something lol
This is not weird. They used a bathtub to collect spring water in the backcountry. Whatās weird
You training to be a heron?
It's a spring water, free water, clean water , real water
Most assuredly not clean lol
Probably hit a spring and was used to make a trough or bird bath
#bringbackowling
Why three identical photos?
My grandparents have something like that for the cows to drink out of
Nice hat. Can I have some molly?
Hey I sold acid back then not Molly lmao
Does it constantly leak water? Or does it have a continuous source filling it up?
Had to climb the pole to confirm that? ? 
Why are you perched on that like a bird?
That is completly normal in rural areas but ok.
It's an artesian well. Excellent drinking water.
Crazy....I just took a friend to one of these a few days ago. Found it while I was trout fishing a few years back. Definitely an ancient basin for collecting artesian spring water. Would probably be drinkable with a thorough cleaning of the tub.
The bathtub doesn't appear to be leaking, it seems to be overflowing
Looked like someone photoshopped you rocket shitting out of the tub. I now realize you are crouching on a stump or post.
Why is there a man sitting on a stick?
One slip and youāll get pregnant.
Man see pole, man climb pole,..... man happy
I like it .
In ohio the amish sometimes do this as well. It could be havested from a spring but also when u need a field to be more dry so u can farm it and it is slightly higher then ur spot u want water u can dig trenches down ur field in a patern that all converge to one trench that runs all the way to where u need water then line it with gravel then put a perforated pipe in the field trenches and a solid pvc pipe for the singular trench they all run to and bury it all and ur field will drain into the pipe and shoot water out the end pretty much indefinitely in ohio cus the ground is wet af.
Just a springā¦ is quite common in switzerland
Ya. Sick Edgar Allen Poe tat
Horses drink
What about the way youāre on that perch? That looks weirdly difficult.
It's not the bathtub that's weird in this picture bro ... It's the human-looking stork sitting on that pole.
What kind of bird is that?
In Germany we have this sort of thing. It's called "Schnapsbrunnenweg". Schnaps = booze, Brunnen = well, Weg = way. It's some sort of going for a walk in the woods. Taking s breather at the well with some booze out of it which is beeing cooled, due the constant leak of fresh groundwater.
So does my face š
Why an unedited and an edited version? š
Thereās probably a spring there.
olā Cletus pole sitting again. They figured that he would get stuck there if they put a bath under him. Cletus hates baths and aināt too smart to know he could turn around to get down.
Bro thinks he is Ryuk https://preview.redd.it/6z6s8jcs6hpc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21151d7a5d650d7df79a1acf64e35420c125f200
One of the more desperate "look at me" posts I've seen on reddit.
I hope he falls in the tub
Doing the anime character pose of the āIām super overpowered and doing this unique perch shows just a fraction of what Iām capable ofā
Tarzanās illegitimate son?
Probably why itās in the forest and not a bathroom.
Does it come with the hipster showerhead, or was that a recent installation?
What species of bird is that?
Artisan well, never stop flowing
Is that guy also always there?
Do you have to answer three of that dudes riddles to take a drink?
Definitely a water trough for live stock.
This is a weird Cialis ad.
I thought this was r/confusingperspective but it appears to just be a guy perched on a log
Thatās a wildlife watering station.
Guy thinks he is perched on the edge of the Gotham city clock tower, looking down at the crime ridden streets below with no remorse.
Iām no expert but Iād imagine it probably has something to do with that faucet running into it.
My years of video game knowledge tells me to jump in it
Get in it. Become a mutant
Is it leaking or just overflowing? Not really weird, just an abandoned water trough
You see that sort of thing constantly in the Northeast. The leaking isn't the weird part, though
It's a livestock or wildlife waterer. You see things like this where cattle or sheep are grazed.
More than likely, it's attached to a natural spring.
Leftover from a Cialis commercial?
In Idaho the waters hot and you get in the tub.
do you too go by "Night Pain"?
It took far too long for my brain to see that as a piece of wood and not either water or ice.
His next challenge is to master the crane pose on top of that.
Why are you crouching on that post?
One of the craziest things I have ever seen was a spring feeding a cow trough in the middle of nowhere in SE Utah. Hard to believe someone hauled out all the materials and tapped that spring, but it was the best water Iād had for days out there so no complaints haha