what is a pipe doing sticking out of the ground like this?

[Kevlardini]

This was out in the woods on some old farm land. The pipe was sticking into the ground and probably went down a long way. It had threads on the top like something screwed onto it. It was about an inch in diameter. It was next to an embankment. What would have gone here?

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Agony and Death on a Gold Rush Steamer: The Disastrous Sinking of the Side-Wheeler Yankee Blade - Grab it through Amazon!

[Reed Lukens]

A corner marker... Pipes, axles, you name it, metal of many kinds are used to mark the corners or sections of properties. I have 6 here on my property.

 

[DiggerGal]

Oil for heat. There is probably a large holding tank underground.

 

[Fourwayz]

Hi Kevlardini, try this on for size. IF you have a GPS, get the coordinates. Go to the county GIS (A geographic information system) then see where the tube is on the property. It MAY be a property marker OR even a Benchmark marker. It MAY even be the last remnants of an out building. Who knows!

 

[ARC]

Well pipe ?
OR marker.

If it goes really deep... I would lean toward a well pump pipe ?

 

[rhedden]

Our elderly neighbor fell off a step ladder (while picking peaches, mmmm) and landed on a pipe like that. I'll spare you the details, but he was OK after the doctors took care of him, amazingly. Lived to be 96. I suggest pulling out pipes like that when you see them!

 

[Carolina Tom]

Oil for heat. There is probably a large holding tank underground.

1" diameter pipe is too small for an underground tank. You would be pumping for hours trying to get the fuel into the tank.

 

[DirtStalker]

Some artesian wells in our area have pipes sticking out of them but most have water running out of them

 

[G.I.B.]

Tie a lead weight onto a ball of kite string and see how far down it goes.

 

[kingskid1611]

Take kids out there on Halloween and tell them its the air pipe for a pit full of vampires or something and you will never have anyone on your hunt site again....and you will have started a local legend..

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Granny would drive pipes or rods into the ground to chain her cow to graze in a specific area.

 

[leenie]

might be a old house site in the days before electric power people used picture pumps to get water. I found one here and it was a house site square nails and all.

 

[d2]

Reed is probably right, corner marker. I have them like that here. Even a pine knot painted red that has been drove into the ground...d2

 

[Limitool]

Probably a pipe to an old still... kidding. I was driving my ATV years ago up and down of the ridges around me here in TN. I found an old pipe lying on top of the ground about 60-70 ft. from Hwy 50's edge. I got off the ATV and followed it into the wooded hollow. It went about another 200 ft. and I found an old small building. Not more than 4'-5' high and maybe 6' x 8'. But it was sunk into the ground about 2 ft. also. The building was made out of old cinder block, wooden roof and floor. The pipe I followed went into the building and just ended. But, another pipe went down into the ground into an artesian well. There's no other buildings around at all or any homes close at all. I just figured it was an old still from back in the day and they used the pipe to fill containers near the road and then left.