✅ SOLVED What is this piping?

[Shooting Star]

I uncovered this today. It is about 6 inches deep, and too embedded in the earth to pull out. Gas line? Sprinkler?
It is also only about a foot from a telephone pole, and titled at an angle, which makes me think it is loose and not connected.
Thanks for any help!

 

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[wainzoid]

grounding rod/stake

 

[Icewing]

It's a grounding rod for structures.

 

[buck8point]

grounding rod/stake

Yup, usually like 6-8' long and solid copper. fittings are brass. it was connected via copper ground cable to the pole at some point.

 

[Shooting Star]

That was quick! Thanks! I guess I should just leave it then.

 

[Icewing]

Yup, usually like 6-8' long and solid copper. fittings are brass. it was connected via copper ground cable to the pole at some point.

Not solid copper. They are copper plated steel. Try a magnet.

 

[ARC]

You must be an avid "scrapper"... OR an electrician.

:P

 

[trdking]

If there is no ground lead attached to it or any structure near it, there was at one time. Swing a big radius around the ground rod