What is it? Game 77

1. Wil Mullins
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

   Sauerkraut.

2. volcanogodless
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

   its a container for fermenting something like meade in. The top part keeps the expanding gases from opening the top. it could also be for beer, lye or anything like that.

3. cam
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   A compost bucket

4. mary
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   It’s for making buttermilk.

5. mary
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

   It’s for making buttermilk, yogurt, or clabbering butter.

6. dopealope
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

   It is a Japanese fermenting bucket for pickles.

7. Salp
   October 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

   It’s definitely a bucket for making sauerkraut.

8. Christophe
   October 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

   Maybe a place to keep food / brine on old sailboats?

9. klharina please!!
   October 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

   Toilet Bowl :]

10. Jason
    October 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    It’s an old-school port-a-potty. The top swivels up like a toilet lid, you crap inside and put the lid back down. You get a bunch of those when you have a hoe-down so there isn’t a line at the outhouse. And when it fills up you just toss it back into the woods and let nature take care of it.

11. matt
    October 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    it looks like a simple garbage can you find at parks; the top part is a cheap lock to keep raccoons away.

12. reznicek111
    October 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    I’m guessing an old maple sap bucket for sugaring.

13. sodakar
    October 9th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    Looks like my grandmother’s nukazuke container. (pickled fermented rice bran)

14. kashkoi
    October 9th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    I think it may be a kim chee (alt. sp. kimchi) pot. the pot looks like it spend time underground.

15. LaggyNid
    October 9th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    I thought those were for making/aging/moving sake.

16. Holly West
    October 9th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Easy…medieval diaper genie.

17. talli
    October 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    lye

18. CheeseDuck
    October 9th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    A Radioactive Muffin Storage Compartment.

19. Spewingllama
    October 9th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    Sauerkraut, I think.

20. LisaL
    October 9th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    hmmm….my guess would be they used it to pickle stuff in it.

21. LisaL
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    Wait wait… does the link up above.. the one that says “Fermenting crock pot” give the answer away?

22. jonn
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Butter Churn.

23. Randalll
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Demons. This bucket is from the 1600’s and is made of hazelwood. At the time a miscariage was blamed on evil demons and so to coax the demon out of the womb the bucket was ‘baited’ with ‘birthing blood’ and place in the room with the victim. At dawn the bucket was covered and barred before the second crowing of the cock.

    Of course, this was all superstition and reflected the barbarity and ignorance of aur forefathers, but I wouldn’t open it just the same.

24. coolare
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    it’s a pickler for making pickles and such…

25. stormie24
    October 9th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    it’s a bucket for collecting maple tree sap so maple syrup can be made out of it.

26. Deena
    October 9th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    I think its to hold fish so they don’t jump out back in the day.

27. arrow
    October 9th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    It’s a chamber pot.

28. tripleX
    October 9th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    Maybe a chimney? You can turn it away from rain with the nodges and use half a lid. The bars keep out unwanted visitors.

29. Katie
    October 9th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    It’s failed prototype #34 from when they were designing the first cube

30. Dude
    October 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Used for drying out meat, making jerky

31. su.wei
    October 9th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    a honey bucket….:)

32. Charlie (Colorado)
    October 9th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    kim chi pot.

33. Some Canadian Skeptic
    October 9th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    It’s for stealing from victorian-era walruses.

34. stephen
    October 9th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    its a old school wax bucket used to make candles?

35. Fabala
    October 9th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    It’s a bucket to collect maple sap in. The bars inside are to catch leaves and sticks that may fall in. The notches on the bottom are to sit on two nails hammered into the tree.

36. DeLuxe
    October 10th, 2008 at 5:13 am

    Old-skool washing machine?

37. Alex Parker
    October 10th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    It’s a Japanese mochi pestle!
    Just really old.

38. Nick Peters
    October 10th, 2008 at 8:39 am

    oh it´s an ancient apple juice press

39. radiophonic
    October 10th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    Could this possibly be a bucket from a guillotine?

40. Jane
    October 10th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Used for making cheese.

41. SenorMysterioso
    October 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    ice cream

42. breezy
    October 10th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Portable beehive.

43. ZenBlue
    October 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    waterwheel spout

44. distortdd
    October 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    it is used to collect feces

45. Joshuaism
    October 10th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    It’s a table for cutting the heads off chickens.

    Put their neck under the lever to hold ‘em down, chop em off, and let the head fall in the bucket.

    Kinda gross if you ask me…

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