Iv'e got about 50 of these things stacked in my yard. Wht are they designed for? There about 12 inches long. They look like there made to stack, but doesn't seem like they would make a good wll since there hollow. They don't have anything on the ends to interlock with one another so they don;t look like theyd make some kind of drain line. What are these?

OK,they appear to be drainage tiles.
 They are used without mortar, for draining storm water, seeps, etc. away from foundations.


eeyore

Oh, perhaps I'm doing something wrong with the post. It says I've got attachemts on my post of the pictures What am I not doing to get the pics to post and view?

Posting pics for Steve

Your attatchments showed up 3-4 minutes after you posted......weird!


eeyore



EDIT:  thanx Dewey

Hmmm. They would line them up? They don't have any ridges on the end to help them stay together so it seemed like it would not be very effective?

They just give the storm water or seeping water an easier route than through hard-packed dirt. They are not meant to accommodate large amounts of water, and they are meant to have lots of area for the water to spread out and evaporate easily, not neccessarily to "move" the water from one area to another.
We set them on a bed of washed rock 2"-3" dia. then cover over with 1"- 2" washed rock, to form sort of a drain field.


eeyore

I have a slew of terracotta ones I dug up in my yard, they were packed full of soil.
That was because of all the leaves in gutters being carried into them and the leaves eventually rotting into soil.
Correct on the distribution of rainwater from gutters through them away from the foundation.
I'll try and remember to take a picture of them tomorrow.

Well thats interesting to know what their purpose is. I was going to get rid of them but then just the other day I saw on some DIY show this guy using them as wine racks in his basement! As it turns out they are the perfect size for holding a bottle of wine!

WELL, THERE YOU GO !
Make a nice wine rack (or something else) and shoot a few pics to post, so we can all see!



eeyore

Steve, just don't let Craig know you have wines. He just might change from beer to wine. Lol

eeyore got it right. Before plastic tile came along these were used to move water underground. More commonly known as Field Drain Tile. They were butted together. No mortar, and dirt would seep into the joint seam and plug them up. Every so often we had to dig up a few and clean out the line one way or another. They could be a real PITA. Some people would use them as exterior plant holders when grouped together. Some even painted them. Use your imagination. Wine Rack.....duh..... I don't know about that one. I would hit the bottle on the tile and break the bottle. Maybe that was due to ME hitting the Wine in the bottle first.....LOL ..... hic

Seems to me that these would make a nice flower bed edge material, stand them on end, upright, around the bed. saw a bed made with small tree trunks once.all cut to a foot long then embedded into the ground.

these would look great this way, then some contrasting small flowers planted in them.

ED

It looks like drain lengths for a ditch system for rain runoff;they help direct the water on each side of your driveway, your driveway would have a larger section of drain under the driveway cement, they are to keep the water pointed in the ditch and so you can throw dirt over them so you dont have a falloff on each side of your driveway which can be very dangerous, thus it can taper the landscape and not leave a pit to fall off the side of your driveway.

Here are some of the terra-cotta variety that I was digging up back in January 2007.  Grandma's curtain drain outfall had clogged itself up completely resulting in flooded basement conditions.

No they weren't arranged like shown in the picure.  I knew I wanted to use the nice bedding slot they had come out of to place the new replacement plastic pipe, so I threw a few back in the slot to protect it.  Originally the joints had been wrapped with either tar paper or newpaper, but it had rotted away.  Maximum depth was a bit over 3 feet.  Somewhere on these forums is an old 'thread' on the project and questions that arose as it went along.

Mini rocket launchers? LOL

I found a short section of one here in my wife's flower garden that was square w/ a round hole, and was a yellowish colour clay. I'll try and remember to take a photo of it.

Yes, everyone contributing has the he right application and use.  It never took off as a product.
However, I have taken it one extra step.  These were glued together at one time.  You can see how it was glued one on top and next to the other.   They were in our ware house for over thirty years.   I sawed thru them like bread slices (about 6").   First I thought I would use it as "screen" around the garden or like "window" spaces in a hollow tile wall.   Well, years later, when I finally wanted to get rid of them.  I also remembered needing to put in a Concrete Pad under the garden faucet to keep the red dirt from getting into everything.
Well, "Walla!!"   I dug a rectangle hole lined up the mini tubes and came up with a "Porous Concrete Slab"  Patent pending.  Ha, ha..  I put some red lava rock in the middle (basalt would have been fine).  I guess you can do this for your driveway, have grass planted in it and the tires would keep the grass trimmed.  Aloha Brothers.

OJ, your photo didn't come through, can you repost it please?

I remembered to take a photo of the ones I have...


These are hexagonal.
The idea of a wine rack is intriguing! The mass of the tiles would prevent abrupt temprature changes for the wine and a rather interesting display rack!
I may just have to add another thing to my to-do project list...