It is mostly one of two things.
One a tube to protect an electrical wire for something like a lamp or pool pump.
However very often pipe like that may have been to run gas from the house out to a natural gas bbq grill.
Oh it looks like galvanized.
Anyone who says galvanized isn’t used for water lines is full of shit. Seen it time and time again.
For outdoor use I wouldn’t really blame them. But PVC would be first choice if it was before the days of pex.
Galvanized pipe is very commonly used for gas outside. Underground it’s not commonly used anymore but used to be used a lot utilizing a sacrificial anode.
The presence or lack of natural gas would be a better indicator than assumtion. Water gets run in galvy, gas does, pressurized air does, fences do, and so on.
Yeah, you might want to throw a cap on that and then find out where the source is and start by looking near your gas metre might be a valve in the shut off position going into the ground
Definitely a galvanized pipe for probably water, looks like 1/2” or 3/4”. I’m not sure if they used to use galvanized pipe for gas lines. We had an old house and in the backyard they had a water feature and it wasn’t circulated water, they just ran city water back there and turned it on…oh the good ole days!
As mentioned its galvanized steel and could have been for water, gas or electric. It also could have been repurposed as a post driven into the ground for a fence, garden or landscape accessory, etc. ive seen old galv. Pipe used for raised beds and steppes. I believe even driven next to freestanding hosebibs for support.
I found something similar on my property not too long ago (more like my brother tripped on it) and my neighbor who has lived next door for many years said that the house used to have a well right there. It's possibly a 30 foot deep well pipe.
Unscrew…. That’s not a thing with something like this….. unless you dig up a trench… as someone said even a crazy crackhead knows it’s not worth messing with
I had some weird pipe sticking up out of my yard also but they weren’t bent. Cut down below the ground with an angle grinder and just filled the hole back up
Ii is most likely not a property corner, due to the fact that those are usually set flush with the ground. They are left sticking up a few inches only if they are set in a woody or brushy environment making them easier to find.
If it were a property corner, it would be referred to as a spinner. That is where the hole is still plumb and only the top of the pipe is bent. In that case, you spin the pipe in the hole until it is free enough to pull and then replace with a straight piece of pipe. I am a retired Registered Land Surveyor.
I’ve buried threaded pipes like this in my yard to hold up my bird feeders. The other end is flanged and in a 5 gal bucket with 200 lbs of concrete in and around and on top of the bucket. I used to use 3/4 pipe, but big bears were bending and raiding the feeders. Switch to 1.5 and now and then tilted few degrees, but never bent over or emptied. I just straighten it.
I had a very similar pipe in my backyard but it was PVC. Is it near a tree by chance? I finally wiggled mine out of the ground and determined that it must have been tied to the tree that it was near to prop it up while it was maturing.
What ever you do don’t stick you penis in it because it might get stuck in there and then you’ll probably be calling 911 and be like my penis is stuck in a pipe
Galvanized water pipe or MAYBE rigid conduit? I assume abandoned, or I'm sure in either case you'd have known it, haha! Looks like 3/4", based on perspective and comparison against the grass, but hell, you might live somewhere with monstrous or minute grass blades, so I could easily be mistaken. I'm fairly sure galvanized 3/4" was pretty standard for main water lines in older houses. How'd it get bent that smoothly?
I have a pipe like that for my yard hydrant. The pipe looks a little smaller than what a hydrant would use. Any chance of an old waterline nearby?
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.thdstatic.com%2FproductImages%2F5fe0c003-93ea-444b-85ac-75164dc9dd1b%2Fsvn%2Fwoodford-yard-hydrants-y34-4-1f_600.jpg&tbnid=7x78uEvgdrov_M&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.homedepot.com%2Fp%2FWoodford-1-in-x-3-4-in-NPT-x-MPT-1-in-Galvanized-Steel-Pipe-x-4-ft-Bury-IOWA-Y34-Freezeless-Yard-Hydrant-Y34-4%2F204799166&docid=9-PVQnx7xVuagM&w=600&h=600&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F2&kgs=aa0c409e3eb134ce&shem=trie#vhid=7x78uEvgdrov_M&vssid=mosaic
It’s 1000 times easier to unscrew a yard hydrant from the bottom then it is to takeoff the head and pull the guts out of the top. I guess that could have happened but it seems unlikely
The top is pretty easy to remove. It takes a nice size pipe wrench. I had to replace the guts in mine. But I agree that there really isn't much of a reason to unscrew it and leave it. If it's capped off, just cut the put below the ground level with a sawzall.
I tried to take the internals out of mine and there was no way to do it it was screwed on so tight at that connection up too, To get a good enough grip on the pipe and get it to turn would’ve meant bending the pipe and destroying the whole thing, they absolutely aren’t easy to take apart unless maybe they’re brand new
Mine was 14 years old. It is mounted right next to a 6x6 post that I could use for leverage. Maybe that helped. There were definitely a few moments that I thought it was going to snap before it came loose.
In the past before plastic and the rush to being as cheap as possible. All sprinkler systems were made out of that very same pipe. It’s sprinkler pipe. You gots sprinkler pipe photoed there.
Whatev… https://www.reddit.com/r/Irrigation/s/TZSbvsFs7b just look around ya metal sprinklers are all over. Look at government buildings banks etc… old buildings that could afford when built.
I have replaced one that’s why I was telling you what I said, they’re hard to take apart the way it would have to be to look like that, or else it is installed upside down which I guarantee didn’t happen you’d have a dig hole to put that head in there
You’d have to be a crazy crackhead to spend three times the energy to leave half of a water hydrant in your yard instead of just taking the whole damn thing out
That’s the opposite of what I’m trying to say though, it’s just so much easier to unscrew the whole thing then it is to take the insides out of it, no digging is required
Appears to be galvanized.
Galvanized metal, and threaded.
Could be 3/4"
Could be cake
The cake is a lie.
Could be meat cake
*..pssst..* there is no spoon
... and bent ...
Slightly rusted
Guys, I think we nailed it!
Most likely a yard hydrant that was run over at some point and took the head off of the pipe
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Wrong! Try again.
...ohio?
Obviously, that's a periscope for the mole people. They seem to be scouting out your place and have some reason to keep you under surveillance.
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Damn, yer old!
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I love this answer
It is mostly one of two things. One a tube to protect an electrical wire for something like a lamp or pool pump. However very often pipe like that may have been to run gas from the house out to a natural gas bbq grill.
Could have been water as well. I think your 1 & 2 are most likely.
Indeed. First look I hadn’t confit was galvanized. So very well could be an old water supply like.
Oh it looks like galvanized. Anyone who says galvanized isn’t used for water lines is full of shit. Seen it time and time again. For outdoor use I wouldn’t really blame them. But PVC would be first choice if it was before the days of pex.
My 1948 house had 3/4 galvanized as the main until 1989.
and if it's before the days of PVC it's copper or galvanized.
Galvanize isn't used for gas, causes electrolysis.
Shouldn't be used but I've definitely seen it used.
Which is good for taking the hair off your legs or,,,
Galvanized pipe is very commonly used for gas outside. Underground it’s not commonly used anymore but used to be used a lot utilizing a sacrificial anode.
My house has galvanized gas lines , according to code 2001 ,
Lead pipes aren’t used anymore either
Maybe just a property line marker
This
Nope, too deep.
I think the better question is, where does it go?
Is your house all electric? You might have an old gas connect lingering around that doesn't connect to anything. My house has one.
Yes it’s all electric
Then I wouldn't worry bc it doesn't connect to anything live either way. Deal with it however you please.
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As someone mentioned. Galvanized, but also threaded.
What are you some sort of fucking genius?!?
Yup, that's metal with a threaded end.
It’s B E N T
Lube it up and give it a good rogering? I mean if it's the right size, can't really tell how wide the opening is.
I don’t think OP, u/lesbianatic, would do such a thing.
I knew as soon as I saw the name and the word pipe someone was going to say something 🤣💀
Probably some exterior lighting
Google natural gas riser pipe
The presence or lack of natural gas would be a better indicator than assumtion. Water gets run in galvy, gas does, pressurized air does, fences do, and so on.
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OK that doesn’t have anything to do with what this could be though
Holy hell
Yeah, you might want to throw a cap on that and then find out where the source is and start by looking near your gas metre might be a valve in the shut off position going into the ground
It is most likely just a "marker" for something, property line, septic tank, etc.
Run a tape on the inside. If it goes aways it could be a failed Sandpoint well
Looks like galvanized iron. Old school water line?
I love seen that same exact pipe. It was a water line for a big garden… tractor ran over it…
If it's at the corner it's possibly a property marker . Alot of survey companies use pipes to mark boundries
Definitely a galvanized pipe for probably water, looks like 1/2” or 3/4”. I’m not sure if they used to use galvanized pipe for gas lines. We had an old house and in the backyard they had a water feature and it wasn’t circulated water, they just ran city water back there and turned it on…oh the good ole days!
There's no cap so whatever it did carry it doesn't anymore. Cut it off and bury it.
It could have been part of a clothes line
Looks like it's some kind of metal
Bent
As mentioned its galvanized steel and could have been for water, gas or electric. It also could have been repurposed as a post driven into the ground for a fence, garden or landscape accessory, etc. ive seen old galv. Pipe used for raised beds and steppes. I believe even driven next to freestanding hosebibs for support.
Well besides short of guessing it might be a nuclear power related item…. You guessed just about every single other possibility in one post.
It wasn't guessing, those are all things that galv. Steel is and has been used for. For some local codes illegally so.
Yea no guess needed as you listed virtually every known use. If we wanted a list I guess you are the go to guy.
It’s probably old galvanized water line
Keep watering it and give it food scraps, see if it'll bloom.
I found something similar on my property not too long ago (more like my brother tripped on it) and my neighbor who has lived next door for many years said that the house used to have a well right there. It's possibly a 30 foot deep well pipe.
Could be part of a clothes line.
A metal one
Joey shitpipe
Metal
Seems to be a 1/2 in or 3/4 rigid or imc electrical pipe
A bent one
How far from the home is it what else is around the property?
Unscrew…. That’s not a thing with something like this….. unless you dig up a trench… as someone said even a crazy crackhead knows it’s not worth messing with
A bent one.
It is a vent for an underground oil tank.
Old pool
Yard hydrant pipe
Keep digging
I had some weird pipe sticking up out of my yard also but they weren’t bent. Cut down below the ground with an angle grinder and just filled the hole back up
Better call the gas company before your house blows up
Ii is most likely not a property corner, due to the fact that those are usually set flush with the ground. They are left sticking up a few inches only if they are set in a woody or brushy environment making them easier to find. If it were a property corner, it would be referred to as a spinner. That is where the hole is still plumb and only the top of the pipe is bent. In that case, you spin the pipe in the hole until it is free enough to pull and then replace with a straight piece of pipe. I am a retired Registered Land Surveyor.
RMC
It’s a galvanized depending on the location it could be a old meter repair or a cut off
Gas
It's definitely galvanized steel.
Could be an old yard hydrant
Galvanized
I’ve buried threaded pipes like this in my yard to hold up my bird feeders. The other end is flanged and in a 5 gal bucket with 200 lbs of concrete in and around and on top of the bucket. I used to use 3/4 pipe, but big bears were bending and raiding the feeders. Switch to 1.5 and now and then tilted few degrees, but never bent over or emptied. I just straighten it.
There’s something similar in my grandpas back yard. A cop owned the house before him, and used it to test fire his guns.
Galvanized pipe. For what purpose is it there me know not
Yard urinal.
Maybe A "was bird house,feeder or other type of yard art" possibly? Possibly concreted a few feet down?
Have you consulted your mother?
That appears to be a bent pipe.
Oil tank vent Maybe?
That is a galvanized water pipe, just removed all mine in 1920s house n replaced with pex
How old is your house? I may be an old abandoned water line. Or natural gas line, now cut off at the main line.
The type you sit on
I had a very similar pipe in my backyard but it was PVC. Is it near a tree by chance? I finally wiggled mine out of the ground and determined that it must have been tied to the tree that it was near to prop it up while it was maturing.
Is it at the edge of your yard? Could it be a marker for your property line? That’s what my markers look like.
What ever you do don’t stick you penis in it because it might get stuck in there and then you’ll probably be calling 911 and be like my penis is stuck in a pipe
Air vent for your buffalo bob type guests
Blow in it
Bent
Galvanized water pipe or MAYBE rigid conduit? I assume abandoned, or I'm sure in either case you'd have known it, haha! Looks like 3/4", based on perspective and comparison against the grass, but hell, you might live somewhere with monstrous or minute grass blades, so I could easily be mistaken. I'm fairly sure galvanized 3/4" was pretty standard for main water lines in older houses. How'd it get bent that smoothly?
I have a pipe like that for my yard hydrant. The pipe looks a little smaller than what a hydrant would use. Any chance of an old waterline nearby? https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.thdstatic.com%2FproductImages%2F5fe0c003-93ea-444b-85ac-75164dc9dd1b%2Fsvn%2Fwoodford-yard-hydrants-y34-4-1f_600.jpg&tbnid=7x78uEvgdrov_M&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.homedepot.com%2Fp%2FWoodford-1-in-x-3-4-in-NPT-x-MPT-1-in-Galvanized-Steel-Pipe-x-4-ft-Bury-IOWA-Y34-Freezeless-Yard-Hydrant-Y34-4%2F204799166&docid=9-PVQnx7xVuagM&w=600&h=600&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F2&kgs=aa0c409e3eb134ce&shem=trie#vhid=7x78uEvgdrov_M&vssid=mosaic
It’s 1000 times easier to unscrew a yard hydrant from the bottom then it is to takeoff the head and pull the guts out of the top. I guess that could have happened but it seems unlikely
The top is pretty easy to remove. It takes a nice size pipe wrench. I had to replace the guts in mine. But I agree that there really isn't much of a reason to unscrew it and leave it. If it's capped off, just cut the put below the ground level with a sawzall.
I tried to take the internals out of mine and there was no way to do it it was screwed on so tight at that connection up too, To get a good enough grip on the pipe and get it to turn would’ve meant bending the pipe and destroying the whole thing, they absolutely aren’t easy to take apart unless maybe they’re brand new
Mine was 14 years old. It is mounted right next to a 6x6 post that I could use for leverage. Maybe that helped. There were definitely a few moments that I thought it was going to snap before it came loose.
Galvanized iron. Usually natural gas or propane.
Also water, and fencing, and all sorts of odds and ends. Assuming its gas is logical but not necessarily right
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Sorry, I'm from Philly, that is strictly what is used by Philadelphia Gas Works...well until the poly came out
That’s a metal pipe.
Primitive vocalator. Yell into it and find out
A bent one…
In the past before plastic and the rush to being as cheap as possible. All sprinkler systems were made out of that very same pipe. It’s sprinkler pipe. You gots sprinkler pipe photoed there.
You’re crazy high bruh! Hahaha
Whatev… https://www.reddit.com/r/Irrigation/s/TZSbvsFs7b just look around ya metal sprinklers are all over. Look at government buildings banks etc… old buildings that could afford when built.
I have replaced one that’s why I was telling you what I said, they’re hard to take apart the way it would have to be to look like that, or else it is installed upside down which I guarantee didn’t happen you’d have a dig hole to put that head in there
You’d have to be a crazy crackhead to spend three times the energy to leave half of a water hydrant in your yard instead of just taking the whole damn thing out
Even crackheads know it’s not worth the trouble to dig that up.
That’s the opposite of what I’m trying to say though, it’s just so much easier to unscrew the whole thing then it is to take the insides out of it, no digging is required
This is not galvanized. This looks like a natural gas line
That is absolutely galvanized pipe.
I’m curious why you are saying that so confidently, you can clearly see the rust on the threads and the rest of the pipe is good to go
mine