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That was my thought. It lines up with the direction of the sun quite well. It is not lined up with the house. It is lined up to give shade to those windows in the hottest part of the day.
It can also be something to tie a line to. Such as fishing nets that need to be repaired.
I could easily see it as a trellis for growing hops. Tie strings to the horizontals and run them out a few feet and the hope will climb them no problem.
An old guy down the street made something similar out of old pipes that arced over his driveway. They supported Concord grapevines, and walking by his house in the autumn was heavenly. After he died, the vines disappeared but the pipes stayed up for a long time.
My bet is on shade tarps.
The photo is a great example of forced perspective. From the hand rail on the left, we can see that the house sits a good bit further down and at a distance from the pipe structure.
There are also holes in the pipes about a foot off the ground, indicating that more pipes (or something other going straight along) were there as a lower anchor for something. So, great for affixing tarps that have pre-made regular holes set along the edges. And very effective at providing shade to the house as a whole (which works the best for keeping a place cool) as well as the area between the house and the hill the structure sits on, making it a nice place to sit in summer.
I think the angle of the shot misleads how much space is between the metal and the house. You can see it anchored at the top of stairs leading down. Given the height of the railing down the steps the metal pipes might be about 8 foot tall, too tall normally for fencing.
you're half-right. what's misleading about the angle of the shot is that you can't tell that the house is not flat - the stairs and the drop-down section indeed are about 8 feet from this structure, but to the right (our right) of the door, the house extends further. there, the structure is less than 2 feet from the house. you can tell by looking at the rocks on the ground on the right side - it's barely 1 (large-ish) rock away from the house.
either a GROSSLY misleading photo in several ways - one of the most absurd optical illusions i've ever seen - or that's not the same house. something's fucky. either way, wow, yeah, what a weird image.
It isn't actually that close. There is a retaining wall and a set of stairs on the left that leads to a whole lower section. It is a weird angle making it look really close. I'm still not sure what the metal frame is for, and the railing for the stairs seems to go right through it so it can't be a fence or anything enclosed.
There is a patio area between this and the house. Looks like a lower area
[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3wnn4jdt7olgh3t5xkhql/screenshot-www.google.com-2024.05.17-22\_33\_18.png?rlkey=05z6brjcvsmjunsw941ldk7vb&st=oeekk5lm&dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3wnn4jdt7olgh3t5xkhql/screenshot-www.google.com-2024.05.17-22_33_18.png?rlkey=05z6brjcvsmjunsw941ldk7vb&st=oeekk5lm&dl=0)
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I think this is it! So from what I see and what you said, it’s just a railing of some sort between the grassy area and the lower patio area….am I understanding that right? So it looked strange to me due to the perspective of the shot?
Out of curiosity, how did you find the house on google maps?! A reverse image search?
There is what looks like a handrail, at the left, which goes *under* the brown thing in question, and corresponds with the position of what appears to be steps on the overhead view. This handrail looks in normal perspective and scale to the house, so I don't think the brown thing being a railing makes sense, as one walks *under* it when using the stairs.
Yeah but would you want a wall of vines Infront of your door? Would grapes just not grow there? And wouldn't you want it to be sealed so you don't have grapes in your pipes?
all the windows seem to fall within the span of this thing
so during winter- no vines.
during spring/fall- grow the vines.
harvest the fruit and veggies off the vine, can them and repeat yearly
The whole house is built down below the level that the picture was taken from, the yard is below that you can see the stairs on the left hand side of the picture heading down to the house and that is the railing that is up close to where the picture is taken. Across the whole yard.
FYI, there’s no way this is the solution. The stairs’ grab rail passes in front of the frame in question, making the former definitely closer to the camera
I’m pretty sure that’s just a safety rail. It looks like a retaining wall and steps leading down. I think the rails are shorter than you think but are on a raised piece of ground.
That was my first thought. We had the same setup at my Nans house, except it was further away from the house and up on a hill. She'd use it in the summer, mostly for rugs and bedding, but before they got an electric dryer, sometime in the 70s-80s, it was the only way to dry clothes.
Seeing how there is a drop off and I’m going to guess this is in a location that gets snow I’d venture they would hang tarps on it to act as a screen to help block snow from filling the lower area around the house.
We get snow, but not an excessive amount, I’ve never known of any house around here having anything special implemented to deal with snow specifically. Tornado’s for sure, but not snow. ;)
Right but with the lower area, blowing and drifting snow would pile up for sure.
Also good for blocking blowing tumbleweed, hanging your buffalo hide, etc
This is my thought as well. My uncle used to grow them on trellis supports like this but his were made of wood. It looks like there used to be a garden there, or at least something other than grass that has now grown over the area.
Isn't that just the guardrail from a higher point, leading to stairs on the right that lead down to the house? You can see the grass at the bottom of the poles / the top-down perspective of the photo - as if someone was crouching when they took it. Non?
In my region of the world (Germany) installations like that were called "Teppichstangen"; some also had little hooks attached to the underside of the top bar and were placed adjacent to each other, so you could string up a laundry line between them.
Without the hooks, this was used to hang up carpets and beat the accumulated dust and dirt out of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_hanger
Source: my house was built in 1925 and I have my own carpet hanger in the garden, only a single arch though.
It could have been a fence for any numerous types of vegetation such as grapes tomatoes, and so forth you can grow in 5 gallon buckets.And then it vines up into string that goes horizontally and it helps to make ease of picking
My title describes the thing. I don’t know much other than it looks like rusted metal framework installed very close to the home, running almost across the length and a bit taller than the bottom of the roof line.
One house we were looking to buy had an oil tank in the basement that leaked and they had piping like that to pull vacuum on the soil to remove it before they dug up the contaminated soil and carted it away
the pipes have holes down the length to suck in the oil, of course it should be under a foot of soil, but it did look exactly like this, maybe they tried to pull them up.
I lived in a house with something similar in the back and I think it was a frame for hanging rugs to beat in the spring.
Edit: looking again, though, that’s a whole lotta rug they would be beating!
South side of the house? Hops! As in beer. It’s the frame for a hop trellis. In the winter there’s no foliage, so it allows passive solar on that stone wall (heat sink/thermal mass), and in the summer it shades the wall so it doesn’t absorb that sunlight.
Source: had the same setup.
My guess is to stop errant golf balls. Is/was there a golf course right there? Was because… man did a lot of the golf courses disappear where I grew up learning golf. Every single course except one that I spent tons of time working on my game for college is gone. RIP north course, Cherry Hills, Mountain View, Paradise Knolls and Diamond Valley.
Here is my 2 cents. Frame for an awning? Or porch roof? Looks like newer shingles on the roof. Could have been removed during the roof replacement. Just a guess.
The perspective is very skewed. The steep berm extends the length of the house and the poles are on top of the berm, even with the top of the stairs, and about 8-10 feet away from the house the whole length. Look at the shadows made by the extended roofline. If the poles were close to the house, we'd see shadows on the house. So it's probably what's left of a fence.
Is there a photo of an angle away from the house?
Might be a similar set on the other side of the garden, to hang wires between, and dry clothes or something else.
Also, from looking at the stair, the seem to be a drop right behind it, meaning it’s likely further from the house than it seems, so could also just be a framing for a fence.
Other people mentioned something having to do with strings and having vines and hops growing on the strings, which seems plausible, but I'm also wondering if a previous owner was a hunter and used this to hang deer or whatever to butcher them.
The mismatched lawn is the giveaway here. The area has been deprived of watering and so a roof type shelter must have been in place.
My best guess is a DIY summer gazebo or a greenhouse even. You have a horizontal indentation of the ground near bottom of pic... from outer framework perhaps? But definitely not a trellis.
Bird feeders. I've seen this set up for hanging birdfeeders. Squirrels can't climb these poles. No close trees to jump from. Excellent viewing from home.
Could be a set up for a clothes line. If there are wholes about a foot down from the top bar. I have lived places with these before. If not that I don't know.
My guess is it was built for large sun shades that can be attached to the frame and then anchored to the ground. Moving away from the house. You would have a comfortable shaded area. The house would be protected from the sun more, too. Even if it wasn't built for that originally, the current owner could use it for shade coverage.
I think there used to be a chain link fence there, now the frame is all that's left. It's for the kids playing football/soccer on the field, to avoid hitting the house.
My cousin has exactly this setup, in her side yard through the backyard. Maybe four feet from the house along the side yard and runs a straight line from there for about an acre. It was, and now is again, a simple grapevine trellis. The previous homeowners were wine makers. The current home owners (my cousin & her spouse) are currently growing and aspire to make wine.
Thanks for that! Are grapes grown in specific areas mostly? I know we have a few wineries in OK, but am not familiar with the temperate needs of growing grapes.
They can grow in a wide variety of climates. My cousin in Southeast Washington, which can be snowing and frozen or sunny and hot as heck, depending on the season. Different grape varieties are better suited for certain climates than others as well. ...and the presence of vineyard trellis does not necessarily mean that grapes were successfully grown in that location.
True, as indicated by the numerous tomato planters and cages that I have had in the past. Their presence was absolutely no proof that I had ever successfully harvested tomatoes at any given time. Lol
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Only thought I have (a guess) is that in the summer something could be hung up to block the sun so keep the house a bit cooler.
I've seen a few DIY heat shields over the years. Wouldn't be surprised if it was the case here. Are they located on a southern or western exposure?
That was my thought. It lines up with the direction of the sun quite well. It is not lined up with the house. It is lined up to give shade to those windows in the hottest part of the day. It can also be something to tie a line to. Such as fishing nets that need to be repaired.
And the yellow grass around it where the angled tarp held down by bricks would sit.
That's what I was thinking, the best way to block the heat is stop the sunlight before it hits your windows.
Dang I was thinking laundry, as in attaching lines high and low to be able to double up on drying.
Could they have grown vines around them? Otherwise, I think they may havehad fabric or tarps over it for privacy, shade, or wind block.
Seems like a weird design for a trellis, but maybe it's for a specific kind of vine or plant?
I could easily see it as a trellis for growing hops. Tie strings to the horizontals and run them out a few feet and the hope will climb them no problem.
I’ve seen people grow hops on strings from all sorts of supports. And beans and peas. Strings hang down, one for each plant.
My first thought was growing hops
Interesting idea, but not nearly tall enough to grow hops. I have 4 bines in my back yard and they will go 25 feet if you let them.
Not tall enough foe hops
It’s not the ideal height for max yield per acre, but it’s good enough for someone that maybe got the materials to build it for free.
An old guy down the street made something similar out of old pipes that arced over his driveway. They supported Concord grapevines, and walking by his house in the autumn was heavenly. After he died, the vines disappeared but the pipes stayed up for a long time.
My bet is on shade tarps. The photo is a great example of forced perspective. From the hand rail on the left, we can see that the house sits a good bit further down and at a distance from the pipe structure. There are also holes in the pipes about a foot off the ground, indicating that more pipes (or something other going straight along) were there as a lower anchor for something. So, great for affixing tarps that have pre-made regular holes set along the edges. And very effective at providing shade to the house as a whole (which works the best for keeping a place cool) as well as the area between the house and the hill the structure sits on, making it a nice place to sit in summer.
I’d wrap some of that nylon netting around that and grow some tomatoes and cucumbers! (probably a better view than the neighbors house too)
I think the angle of the shot misleads how much space is between the metal and the house. You can see it anchored at the top of stairs leading down. Given the height of the railing down the steps the metal pipes might be about 8 foot tall, too tall normally for fencing.
you're half-right. what's misleading about the angle of the shot is that you can't tell that the house is not flat - the stairs and the drop-down section indeed are about 8 feet from this structure, but to the right (our right) of the door, the house extends further. there, the structure is less than 2 feet from the house. you can tell by looking at the rocks on the ground on the right side - it's barely 1 (large-ish) rock away from the house.
Lower in the thread someone posted a link to an overhead shot, there appears to be almost a full patio that runs the length of the house.
either a GROSSLY misleading photo in several ways - one of the most absurd optical illusions i've ever seen - or that's not the same house. something's fucky. either way, wow, yeah, what a weird image.
So maybe it's 4 or 5 feet away from the house?
It isn't actually that close. There is a retaining wall and a set of stairs on the left that leads to a whole lower section. It is a weird angle making it look really close. I'm still not sure what the metal frame is for, and the railing for the stairs seems to go right through it so it can't be a fence or anything enclosed.
There is a patio area between this and the house. Looks like a lower area [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3wnn4jdt7olgh3t5xkhql/screenshot-www.google.com-2024.05.17-22\_33\_18.png?rlkey=05z6brjcvsmjunsw941ldk7vb&st=oeekk5lm&dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3wnn4jdt7olgh3t5xkhql/screenshot-www.google.com-2024.05.17-22_33_18.png?rlkey=05z6brjcvsmjunsw941ldk7vb&st=oeekk5lm&dl=0) [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q6zyj6vaie1ztcw1axfud/Screenshot-2024-05-17-224738.png?rlkey=dmx42cpwq8adyjs0g6iha5kk9&st=wmmgwcl1&dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q6zyj6vaie1ztcw1axfud/Screenshot-2024-05-17-224738.png?rlkey=dmx42cpwq8adyjs0g6iha5kk9&st=wmmgwcl1&dl=0)
I think this is it! So from what I see and what you said, it’s just a railing of some sort between the grassy area and the lower patio area….am I understanding that right? So it looked strange to me due to the perspective of the shot? Out of curiosity, how did you find the house on google maps?! A reverse image search?
Google image search shows it on zillow which gives the address that can then be looked for on Google maps.
Isn’t this a wonderful time to be alive? :)
A railing for giants?!
There is what looks like a handrail, at the left, which goes *under* the brown thing in question, and corresponds with the position of what appears to be steps on the overhead view. This handrail looks in normal perspective and scale to the house, so I don't think the brown thing being a railing makes sense, as one walks *under* it when using the stairs.
Likely solved!
I was thinking it used to be used as a trellis, possibly for grapes?
Or hops, or tomato or lots climbing veg.
Yeah but would you want a wall of vines Infront of your door? Would grapes just not grow there? And wouldn't you want it to be sealed so you don't have grapes in your pipes?
Faces a golf course?
Maybe used to?
all the windows seem to fall within the span of this thing so during winter- no vines. during spring/fall- grow the vines. harvest the fruit and veggies off the vine, can them and repeat yearly
Golf course protection net
could very well be. I am always open to different view points
Perhaps it had a fence to protect the windows from balls/toys from above? It looks like a light fixture on the far right end?
The whole house is built down below the level that the picture was taken from, the yard is below that you can see the stairs on the left hand side of the picture heading down to the house and that is the railing that is up close to where the picture is taken. Across the whole yard.
I think you are correct!
FYI, there’s no way this is the solution. The stairs’ grab rail passes in front of the frame in question, making the former definitely closer to the camera
Oh God I missed that. Wtf is this thing? 😂
For real!!! The longer I look at it, the LESS it makes sense
Has anyone said rails to hang a net if the house is on a golf course? Common by me
I’m pretty sure that’s just a safety rail. It looks like a retaining wall and steps leading down. I think the rails are shorter than you think but are on a raised piece of ground.
Old-school drip irrigation if there are holes drilled in the bottom of the horizontal pipe.
The only thing I could think is maybe some sort of clothes drying rack, but I have no idea why you'd need you clothes 10 feet off the ground?
That was my first thought. We had the same setup at my Nans house, except it was further away from the house and up on a hill. She'd use it in the summer, mostly for rugs and bedding, but before they got an electric dryer, sometime in the 70s-80s, it was the only way to dry clothes.
Are there any other photos that show it from other angles?
There aren’t. :/
There are: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/s/KJJ1pzIrVe
Where about is the house?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma makes me think it's more likely this was for some kind of wind block.
Probably for drying laundry.
Seeing how there is a drop off and I’m going to guess this is in a location that gets snow I’d venture they would hang tarps on it to act as a screen to help block snow from filling the lower area around the house.
We get snow, but not an excessive amount, I’ve never known of any house around here having anything special implemented to deal with snow specifically. Tornado’s for sure, but not snow. ;)
Right but with the lower area, blowing and drifting snow would pile up for sure. Also good for blocking blowing tumbleweed, hanging your buffalo hide, etc
Haha. I definitely need one to hang my buffalo hide on and hitch my horse too…
Pole beans?
This is my thought as well. My uncle used to grow them on trellis supports like this but his were made of wood. It looks like there used to be a garden there, or at least something other than grass that has now grown over the area.
Isn't that just the guardrail from a higher point, leading to stairs on the right that lead down to the house? You can see the grass at the bottom of the poles / the top-down perspective of the photo - as if someone was crouching when they took it. Non?
I think you and the others that suggested it’s a railing are correct!
In my region of the world (Germany) installations like that were called "Teppichstangen"; some also had little hooks attached to the underside of the top bar and were placed adjacent to each other, so you could string up a laundry line between them. Without the hooks, this was used to hang up carpets and beat the accumulated dust and dirt out of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_hanger Source: my house was built in 1925 and I have my own carpet hanger in the garden, only a single arch though.
Interesting! It is an older house, so you never know!
Could it be washing line support?
It's for shade sails.
That's probably a carpet beating rod or carpet hanger. https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/en/object/1075602-frau-vor-teppichklopfstange-stadlau/
It could have been a fence for any numerous types of vegetation such as grapes tomatoes, and so forth you can grow in 5 gallon buckets.And then it vines up into string that goes horizontally and it helps to make ease of picking
My title describes the thing. I don’t know much other than it looks like rusted metal framework installed very close to the home, running almost across the length and a bit taller than the bottom of the roof line.
I'm very curious. It seems to have holes about 12 inches above the ground on each vertical pole.
One house we were looking to buy had an oil tank in the basement that leaked and they had piping like that to pull vacuum on the soil to remove it before they dug up the contaminated soil and carted it away
Except there holes meaning it couldn't hold a vacuum or a liquid.
the pipes have holes down the length to suck in the oil, of course it should be under a foot of soil, but it did look exactly like this, maybe they tried to pull them up.
It could of been sports related or for clothes.
Can you tell if that side of the house faces the equator (south in the northern hemisphere)? That looks like a hops trellis.
I cannot.
I lived in a house with something similar in the back and I think it was a frame for hanging rugs to beat in the spring. Edit: looking again, though, that’s a whole lotta rug they would be beating!
Maybe they had some kind of screen or chicken wire and it was a guinea pig run?
South side of the house? Hops! As in beer. It’s the frame for a hop trellis. In the winter there’s no foliage, so it allows passive solar on that stone wall (heat sink/thermal mass), and in the summer it shades the wall so it doesn’t absorb that sunlight. Source: had the same setup.
My guess is to stop errant golf balls. Is/was there a golf course right there? Was because… man did a lot of the golf courses disappear where I grew up learning golf. Every single course except one that I spent tons of time working on my game for college is gone. RIP north course, Cherry Hills, Mountain View, Paradise Knolls and Diamond Valley.
it probably was a fence, there is a serious drop from that lawn to the house, hence the stairs.
Fence? There’s a connector on the top right corner
noice sleuthing
Optical illusion, it’s probably 20’ or more from the home. So it’s probably…I have no idea.
Might be for growing hops.
Sports ball netting
Here is my 2 cents. Frame for an awning? Or porch roof? Looks like newer shingles on the roof. Could have been removed during the roof replacement. Just a guess.
Frame for a batting cage
A place to tie up seasonal inflatable yard items like Santa?
Community golf course and this sits along side a hole
The longer I look at this the more it weirds me out
This one won’t be definitively solved unless the owner comes forward.
The perspective is very skewed. The steep berm extends the length of the house and the poles are on top of the berm, even with the top of the stairs, and about 8-10 feet away from the house the whole length. Look at the shadows made by the extended roofline. If the poles were close to the house, we'd see shadows on the house. So it's probably what's left of a fence.
Is there a photo of an angle away from the house? Might be a similar set on the other side of the garden, to hang wires between, and dry clothes or something else. Also, from looking at the stair, the seem to be a drop right behind it, meaning it’s likely further from the house than it seems, so could also just be a framing for a fence.
Carcass or skin drying frame.
Other people mentioned something having to do with strings and having vines and hops growing on the strings, which seems plausible, but I'm also wondering if a previous owner was a hunter and used this to hang deer or whatever to butcher them.
Maybe a frame for a fence
Old. Cricket netting.
And if not. Golf netting.
The mismatched lawn is the giveaway here. The area has been deprived of watering and so a roof type shelter must have been in place. My best guess is a DIY summer gazebo or a greenhouse even. You have a horizontal indentation of the ground near bottom of pic... from outer framework perhaps? But definitely not a trellis.
Bird feeders. I've seen this set up for hanging birdfeeders. Squirrels can't climb these poles. No close trees to jump from. Excellent viewing from home.
I'm 80% sure this house was featured on This Old House/Ask This Old House...
Wow, really? I would kind of be surprised lol
Could be a set up for a clothes line. If there are wholes about a foot down from the top bar. I have lived places with these before. If not that I don't know.
My guess is it was built for large sun shades that can be attached to the frame and then anchored to the ground. Moving away from the house. You would have a comfortable shaded area. The house would be protected from the sun more, too. Even if it wasn't built for that originally, the current owner could use it for shade coverage.
Could have been trellis for growing hop bines at some point.
I think there used to be a chain link fence there, now the frame is all that's left. It's for the kids playing football/soccer on the field, to avoid hitting the house.
Could it be used for netting to protect the property from cricket balls?
is it next to a golf course?
It could be a hops trellis.
Perhaps they grew hops as a hobby
You'd install netting and then let it do it's job so the kids don't wreck your windows with baseballs
I think it’s for growing grapes.
Heat shield. Stone and brick houses absorb and retain heat like a pizza oven. On a hot day the walls just radiate heat even after the sun goes down.
It looks like a fence. It’s not that close to the house, the fence framing is on top of a hill and the house is down steps. Mostly an optical illusion
Hang clothes? Or sheets?
Maybe a prior owner made and sold quilts?
Could it be a grape arbor?
Be cool if it was for growing hops. But very unlikely.
That looks like WWII German POW stonemason work on that structure.
My cousin has exactly this setup, in her side yard through the backyard. Maybe four feet from the house along the side yard and runs a straight line from there for about an acre. It was, and now is again, a simple grapevine trellis. The previous homeowners were wine makers. The current home owners (my cousin & her spouse) are currently growing and aspire to make wine.
Thanks for that! Are grapes grown in specific areas mostly? I know we have a few wineries in OK, but am not familiar with the temperate needs of growing grapes.
They can grow in a wide variety of climates. My cousin in Southeast Washington, which can be snowing and frozen or sunny and hot as heck, depending on the season. Different grape varieties are better suited for certain climates than others as well. ...and the presence of vineyard trellis does not necessarily mean that grapes were successfully grown in that location.
True, as indicated by the numerous tomato planters and cages that I have had in the past. Their presence was absolutely no proof that I had ever successfully harvested tomatoes at any given time. Lol