It’s a timer for watering the lawn. Probably goes out to a home installed irrigation system.
“It” has a name, Mr Manual Hardie Pope.
The house has a bore sprinkler system then why would they connect this to a tap ?
No idea, eithwr way a timer for your tap to wherever it goes
Hard to say unless you traced where that water line went.
How do I do that ? Sorry I recently bought this house and the previous owner have never used it and doesn’t know anything about it as it was already there when he bought the house
Hard to say without being there, but that water line goes somewhere after it goes in the ground, you can try just assuming it continues on in the direction it’s bending before going into the ground and go check the next room, or outside and see if there’s any mechanical stuff in that direction.
You can get a stiff pole, or some sort of probe to try to poke into the ground looking for pipes, but you’d have to be careful to not poke a hole in it (or anything else that might be down there.)
Looking at that first picture, it looks like the threads are cross-threaded, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that connector leaks. Based on all evidence presented, it’s probably a not great install job from a previous homeowner. Most of the time those things are connected to irrigation systems, but it could really just be anything that needs a lot of water, but not a constant amount of water. A source to refill a pond? A small pool? An in ground irrigation system? An overbuilt sprinkler system? A really crazy way to just get an outdoor spigot?
Impossible to guess what a random homeowner was thinking 20+ years ago when it was put in.
We use one to fill our swimming pool without having to watch it.
I saw your attached file first. That is a broom, it is used to move dirt and dust around in the floor.
Do they know how exactly people used them? Are they valuable if still in working order?
Most people held onto the long green “handle” bit and pushed the white bit with all the little green “bristles” around.
Then my dad would smack me across the back of the legs with the handle for not doing a good enough job. J/k
Can confirm, I have one too.
Wow! What are the odds?
Water timer. Looks to be crossthreaded.
Can I pull out the pipe from the ground ? The tap doesn’t work, I mean its rusted and doest move at all.
Not unless you cut off the water, and cap off the pipe (then turn the water back on). It’s probably still connected to your water supply.
Depends which pipe. The copper mains pipe: as ephemeral gibbon says. The Plastic pipe after the timer: not sure, depends what it’s connected to, but it might be possible to just cut it off.
2 hour water timer
