Location: Sydney, Australia. Found it during bushcare.

The brass barb fitting and the powdery filling suggest some sort of kiln burner to me, but the dark green paint on the outside of the tube looks rather ordinary and not like it has been through high temperatures.

The soft, powdery cemetitious filling has a copper-green tint. Only one end has a hole.

If it were not for the brass barb and coppery fill colour I would assume this is just a bit of structural steel from someone’s carport (or similar) that has filled with cement and now been cut to pieces for disposal. But a carport with a barb fitting? WTH?

We find all sorts of garbage in this bushland because it’s sandwiched in suburbia. Traditionally it was a dumping ground (mattresses, furniture, asbestos, whole cars) and today still people use it illegally as a dump (mainly building materials and soil). Lots of random materials get deposited by or uncovered by stormwater runoff & floods too. There is no limit to the craziness of what you find here.

  • Forester@yiffit.netEnglish
    138·
    14 days ago

    That’s a bong, missing the bowl. The bowl would have been a 90° female fitting like this

    It even has a tiny carb hole next to the mouth hole. I’m guessing that the interior is plaster of Paris or something similar.

    I’ve smoked out of worse

      • Forester@yiffit.netEnglish
        61·
        14 days ago

        It’s no roor but it’ll rip in a pinch if you tilt it 45 deg. And put a cup of wet in it. You’ve clearly never smoked out of a garden hose triple perks Gatorade bong before.

        China glass used to not be a thing.

        • toiletobserver@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          14 days ago

          My high point was a chest cooler filled with water and a five gallon jug with the end cut off. Made a wicked gravity bong.

          • Forester@yiffit.netEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            I’d like to apologize now that I realize you are a separate person from the person above you and not another of his sentences. I was a little confused

    • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      14 days ago

      I wouldn’t expect a carb to be in that location.

      It doesn’t strike me as a bong.

      Also, I bet the lining always had some sort of hole thru it.

    • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      Hmm. I admittedly don’t have experience here, but I guess that makes sense.

      I’m not sure how you would attach an elbow to a barb fitting though. A rubber pipe is usually used on these (but that would then burn/melt).

      Is plaster of paris usually used to make bongs? I’ve only really noticed plastic bottle ones in the bush. I guess plaster will survive burning things better than plastic, but it’s also porous.