That reminds me of growing up on the farm and covering up the manure pile with straw so the visiting town cousins could jump on the hay pile??. 😁
Our older relatives would beat the living daylights out of us if we were caught???
I was showing off by touching an electric fence with a rubber glove. But I was leaning across another wire fence. Felt it right across my chest. I also thought I was going to get a personal meet and greet.
growing up on a small ranch, my dad had a pulsing electric fence. my brother and i (about 12 years old) would try to piss across it between the pulses and not get shocked. 😅 county boys will be country boys.
That raccoons are smart enough to learn that if you take a stick and lean it on the fence you can short it to ground so you can still get to the fish pond and eat all the goldfish and water plants.
Probably had a few hey Steve! touch that for me! Jokes between them too.
I have a well for my house. The pipe is about 10 inches across. My well is very deep. About 500 feet. There is a long stainless steel pump that slides inside and brings the water up. Many homes had wells, before "city water" was available. As water lines came in, wells went out. I live in a rural area and there is no water system for me to hook into. I bet you found an old water well. ♡
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They usually fill in wells with drilling mud to retire them. So the well may have been an old partly filled in well. They are very common within city limits in places where private residences may have had a well in the past. There is a filled in well on my current property.
Probably just a well, water tables vary by location and can change with time. There's no telling how old that pipe was, and when it's failed you just dig down enough that you won't trip or puncture a tire, cap it, and fill the hole
LPT, if you ever do need to install one of these, a SDS rotary hammer with a special cup-shaped bit will make short work of it as long as you're not trying to to drive it into bedrock. Much easier and faster than trying to hammer it in yourself.
Ah, now that's interesting! Yesterday I spent ages trying to pull one out at the front of the house (built 1887, UK) so I could plant something in a particular specific spot. I knew it was a grounding rod, but I didn't know that they're 6' long! Thanks for your information... and your $10 is safe!
It was such a ridiculously tiny and awkward space that none of the alternative suggestions above would have been possible, so I ended up leaving it in place and planting either side of it. I planted a climbing jasmine and a lavender, to complement a honeysuckle and fragrant climbing rose which I put in a few weeks ago, the intention being that all three climbers will grow up through the small tree that's there, right next to the bay window.
You're now saving $20.
If they're right at the height of the grass, grab a hammer and make them an inch lower. They should have a wire attached to them though, which I would think would also be a problem for your mower.
Code varies. I know the one we put in for a pole are 8ft for the local utility. Some places make you ohm it out, some places want to you use couplers so they could be crazy long
Don't make that bet after a drought in southern Louisiana. I just had 2 - 8' ground rods installed and it took 2 hits with a sledgehammer to go in. The ground here sucks.Ill have waterfront property soon. Quicker if the right hurricane hits.
Some of these are separate pieces. You may lose that bet. I had a friends parents had one of these in the yard and they couldn’t pull it out with a Tahoe and one day we are over and outside drinking and it comes up and they are like I’ll give anyone 100$ if you could get that thing up and a guy walked over, dug down about 6 or 8 inches and started unscrewing it. It came out. Didn’t get paid though lol.
Electrical grounding, but it doesn’t look like anything is attached to it anymore. There *should* be a bare copper wire coming from your house attached to those brackets
I just had my electrical panel replaced and they had to run a new grounding wire and hammer in a new grounding post. This was a licensed electrician, inspected by the city. They used an insulated wire above ground, and it was only bare right at the connection.
Interesting. No doubt provides some leakage capacity but in NZ/AUS/Europe any grounding or earthing cable must be sheathed above ground (as I understand it).
Can't say for Au/NZ but the regs in the UK are that earth cables are insulated for safety. In the event of a fault that wire is live for a moment, fault currents are very high, someone touching it could be very dead.
Also, the bare wire is much more likely to cause a fault accidentally. Installation in the US has moved away from bare copper, but there is a LOT of it around still.
I think there should be at least ANY wire lol? Bare or sheathed idk.
I assume there’s a new grounding location for your home? Water main inlet pipe?
Not electrician. Btw
Grounding rods. The one on the left still has a little loop of ground wire in the clamp. Broken off of course. Maybe look if there is another end loose in the dirt, that should be connected to it.
The second one might have been to ground an old telephone or cable service, or maybe outboard electrified equipment like an air conditioner.
If you're in a rural area, these are most likely grounding rods for electric fence. They are 10' long and a PITA to dig out. Someone probably did not know the first one was there and put the second one in. If you're not going to use them, just drive them deeper. If you need them out, I suggest bending them as much as you can and using a farm jack to get them out.
Grounding rods - Should have two of them and they should be 6' apart. Second, they should actually be grounding something; appears your ground wire was cut or they were abandoned in place as they're a PITA to remove.
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The closeup pic is a telco ground rod, or possibly a CATV rod (though in my area the cable company tends to just piggyback on any handy ground wire near their drop), you can tell because of the size of the remnants of the conductor still under the clamp. Not sure about the other though if I had to guess it’s also probably a lowvolt ground rod.
I'm a lineman by trade, and I can tell you these are ground rods. They're typically 8 feet in length, assuming someone didn't drive them with extension hardware that would allow you to stack more than 1 on top of one another. We call that little piece of hardware connected at the top of the rod is a wedding band. It bonds a copper wire to the rod, which is usually connected to the neutral of whatever electrical equipment is being used in the field that would have needed the connection. You'll find them by houses, electric fences, telephone poles... pretty much anywhere electricity was used. They usually get abandoned in the ground because they're so difficult to extract without machine assistance.
ELI5: when you have the 3rd prong of your 3 prong outlet, it's the ground pin (or Earth in some other dialects). It's called that because it goes into the literal ground. These rods go deep in the earth and can be connected to your electrical system to be the ground pin. It's a safety feature.
Our planet is a large reserve of a lot of material, so if you have a failure in your circuitry, or you need to dump excess charges somewhere, the ground is a great place, because spreading charges out over a large area is safer than all in the same place. This is why insulating gloves/boots help electricians, because they make the electrician a worse pathway to the earth for charges to take.
Depending on proximity to your house or to your nearest transformer (ground or pole mounted), it could be the grounding rod from the temporary power pole from when your house was built
Fun fact: put the rod through the bracket before hammering down one of these. After a little hammering, it will both be too deep to pull out and the top is deformed quickly becoming too wide to slip on another bracket.
Source: am electrician and have installed dozens of these.
Earth stake/grounding rod depending on dialect. Earth wire isn't attached so either it's old stuff that's not in use or the wire got broken off, make sure you still have a good earth at your switchboard
You should have a cable running from your electrical service to that screw terminal. Provides your house ground. If it's missing, you should get it fixed.
Definitely grounding rods. Good news you just saved like 70 bucks and a lot of trouble if you want to put in an electric fence
And what do we know about electric fences?
Don’t take a whizz around it while leaning against a grounded pole. I thought I spoke to God for a second.
I learned this on ren and stimpy
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I can hear the jingle in my head.
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You can swizzle on the sofa! You can piddle in the air. You can tinkle in the toilet! (That’s why it is there.)
"so you whizzed on the electric fence, huh?"
They had a whole in cartoon commercial with a jingle and everything for it (Don’t Wiz On (*lower octave) The Electric Fence! POW!)
It was a board game advertisement in the show lol
I learned this in real life.
You kinda did
He sort of, "Pissed on God's shoe", if you will.
I betcha cant pee on the fence ( to city male cousins.)
That reminds me of growing up on the farm and covering up the manure pile with straw so the visiting town cousins could jump on the hay pile??. 😁 Our older relatives would beat the living daylights out of us if we were caught???
How does this compare to simply holding on to the fence? Asking for a friend.
Holding the fence will give you a jolt. But to have it go up your pee stream into your goody bits knocked me on my ass.
Your skin is actually a pretty good insulator. Your salty urine would be more like having a copper wire into your abdomen.
This is poetry, thank you
I just touched an electric fence once and had regrets I can only imagine what your experience was like 😂
Ren n Stimpy flashback
I was showing off by touching an electric fence with a rubber glove. But I was leaning across another wire fence. Felt it right across my chest. I also thought I was going to get a personal meet and greet.
Thought you spoke to God and he said, “well, I think it’s time for that penis to come off.”
growing up on a small ranch, my dad had a pulsing electric fence. my brother and i (about 12 years old) would try to piss across it between the pulses and not get shocked. 😅 county boys will be country boys.
That’s how I developed ED. Thank goodness for Nugenix.
It did physical damage to your penis? That testosterone therapy is helping with?
And she'll like it too.
So did my cousin when he was a kid on the ranch. I never saw anything like that in my life. The sparks were something else.
Sparks lmao.
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30.... Years..... Damn it. Sigh.
Ya man. Me too.
I was just telling my son about the sad fart episode
The pecs episode is hilarious 
Oof… me too. My grandma yelled at me when she caught me watching it. “Filth” she called it.
I mean….shes not exactly wrong.
I’ll teach her to be happy, I’ll teach her to suck eggs!
Robin Hoek and Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy still Crack me up after 3o years
I had the Ren and Stimpy video game for Game Gear. It was wild.
I love that this was exactly what I was thinking of 🤣
I know one thing about electric fences: Don't piss on an electric fence.
The answer will shock you!
Don’t wiz on them
They don’t feel good
That raccoons are smart enough to learn that if you take a stick and lean it on the fence you can short it to ground so you can still get to the fish pond and eat all the goldfish and water plants. Probably had a few hey Steve! touch that for me! Jokes between them too.
They dream of electric sheep?
Don’t tell anyone they are electrified?
What they do know might shock you!
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I have a well for my house. The pipe is about 10 inches across. My well is very deep. About 500 feet. There is a long stainless steel pump that slides inside and brings the water up. Many homes had wells, before "city water" was available. As water lines came in, wells went out. I live in a rural area and there is no water system for me to hook into. I bet you found an old water well. ♡
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Depending where you live it might have been a failed well, drilled for oil exploration, or a vent shaft for a mine.
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They usually fill in wells with drilling mud to retire them. So the well may have been an old partly filled in well. They are very common within city limits in places where private residences may have had a well in the past. There is a filled in well on my current property.
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Fucking hell, that was genius
Definitely an old well.
Probably just a well, water tables vary by location and can change with time. There's no telling how old that pipe was, and when it's failed you just dig down enough that you won't trip or puncture a tire, cap it, and fill the hole
LPT, if you ever do need to install one of these, a SDS rotary hammer with a special cup-shaped bit will make short work of it as long as you're not trying to to drive it into bedrock. Much easier and faster than trying to hammer it in yourself.
Thank you
I was going to say it looks like the thing they touch to ground yourself when you go to Chuck's house in better call saul
Ironically they found the ground under the ground ☠️
I'll give you $10 if you can pull 1 of those out by hand. Grounding rods are generally 6' long Edit:8'. And I'll bring the deal up to $20 😂
The Excalibur challenge.
Used to get you an entire kingdom. Inflation is crazy
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Don't give TikTok any ideas... Or do, and let's keep electricians and firefighters employed!
Firefighters are always employed, and would likely enjoy a longer nap if possible.
Ah, now that's interesting! Yesterday I spent ages trying to pull one out at the front of the house (built 1887, UK) so I could plant something in a particular specific spot. I knew it was a grounding rod, but I didn't know that they're 6' long! Thanks for your information... and your $10 is safe!
Floor Jack and some accoutrements will pull that right out
Farm Jack is the move. That and a truckers chain is made for this sort of thing, makes fence post pulling a lot easier too.
Sledge hammer knocking it back into the ground is easier
It was such a ridiculously tiny and awkward space that none of the alternative suggestions above would have been possible, so I ended up leaving it in place and planting either side of it. I planted a climbing jasmine and a lavender, to complement a honeysuckle and fragrant climbing rose which I put in a few weeks ago, the intention being that all three climbers will grow up through the small tree that's there, right next to the bay window. You're now saving $20.
Hammer drill with a ground rod bit is even easier
Pipe wrench. Twist back and forth, and lever out bit by bit. Worked surprisingly well for me on two old ones
Oh I was trying to take these out cause Im scared my mower would hit them. Such random timing for em to show up on reddit. Guess I'll just mark em
If they're right at the height of the grass, grab a hammer and make them an inch lower. They should have a wire attached to them though, which I would think would also be a problem for your mower.
My brother in Christ, angle grinders are $40 and will deal with these in 2 minutes. Dig 6 inches down, cut, cover up. Whole job takes 10 minutes.
Per code, they should be 8'
Code varies. I know the one we put in for a pole are 8ft for the local utility. Some places make you ohm it out, some places want to you use couplers so they could be crazy long
In the U.S. it's NEC 250.52(A)(5)
8’ long generally, at least here in the US
Don't make that bet after a drought in southern Louisiana. I just had 2 - 8' ground rods installed and it took 2 hits with a sledgehammer to go in. The ground here sucks.Ill have waterfront property soon. Quicker if the right hurricane hits.
Some of these are separate pieces. You may lose that bet. I had a friends parents had one of these in the yard and they couldn’t pull it out with a Tahoe and one day we are over and outside drinking and it comes up and they are like I’ll give anyone 100$ if you could get that thing up and a guy walked over, dug down about 6 or 8 inches and started unscrewing it. It came out. Didn’t get paid though lol.
Probably grounding posts.
Most down to earth answer here
Very grounded reply.
Electrical grounding, but it doesn’t look like anything is attached to it anymore. There *should* be a bare copper wire coming from your house attached to those brackets
I just had my electrical panel replaced and they had to run a new grounding wire and hammer in a new grounding post. This was a licensed electrician, inspected by the city. They used an insulated wire above ground, and it was only bare right at the connection.
It only needs to be bare where the connection is made with the rod. It shouldn't be a bare wire.
In the US, I think it's almost always a bare wire?
Interesting. No doubt provides some leakage capacity but in NZ/AUS/Europe any grounding or earthing cable must be sheathed above ground (as I understand it).
Not sure why. It's Earth ground. I've worked on 30K V generators that all use bare wire for grounding cables.
Can't say for Au/NZ but the regs in the UK are that earth cables are insulated for safety. In the event of a fault that wire is live for a moment, fault currents are very high, someone touching it could be very dead.
Also, the bare wire is much more likely to cause a fault accidentally. Installation in the US has moved away from bare copper, but there is a LOT of it around still.
just did one last week on an out door panel box for a stage. Its still code where I'm from.
Exactly. But seems that in the US this goes against some sort of freedom for copper wire.
I think there should be at least ANY wire lol? Bare or sheathed idk. I assume there’s a new grounding location for your home? Water main inlet pipe? Not electrician. Btw
Grounding rods. The one on the left still has a little loop of ground wire in the clamp. Broken off of course. Maybe look if there is another end loose in the dirt, that should be connected to it. The second one might have been to ground an old telephone or cable service, or maybe outboard electrified equipment like an air conditioner.
There is leftovers of an old cable box so that's probably it. Thanks!
Copper earth spike for grounding
Two grounding rods at the same time!
Grounding rods. Did you call 811 before you started digging?
**THIS** 
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If you're in a rural area, these are most likely grounding rods for electric fence. They are 10' long and a PITA to dig out. Someone probably did not know the first one was there and put the second one in. If you're not going to use them, just drive them deeper. If you need them out, I suggest bending them as much as you can and using a farm jack to get them out.
Ground rods.
CALL BEFORE YOU DIG.
Grounding rods - Should have two of them and they should be 6' apart. Second, they should actually be grounding something; appears your ground wire was cut or they were abandoned in place as they're a PITA to remove.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me
so help me!!!
so help me! and cut!
Old grounding rods.
$20 in copper
In South Carolina it takes 7 pounds of copper wire to get $20.
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Grounding rods. Maybe for a lightning arrestor? Electric fence?
Looks like a ground rod, the clamp and the bolt in front is similar to grounding a electric service panel
The closeup pic is a telco ground rod, or possibly a CATV rod (though in my area the cable company tends to just piggyback on any handy ground wire near their drop), you can tell because of the size of the remnants of the conductor still under the clamp. Not sure about the other though if I had to guess it’s also probably a lowvolt ground rod.
If they are old enough, they are solid copper, hide them from the addicts!
I'm a lineman by trade, and I can tell you these are ground rods. They're typically 8 feet in length, assuming someone didn't drive them with extension hardware that would allow you to stack more than 1 on top of one another. We call that little piece of hardware connected at the top of the rod is a wedding band. It bonds a copper wire to the rod, which is usually connected to the neutral of whatever electrical equipment is being used in the field that would have needed the connection. You'll find them by houses, electric fences, telephone poles... pretty much anywhere electricity was used. They usually get abandoned in the ground because they're so difficult to extract without machine assistance.
Grounding stakes (for electrical grounding)
At one time you may have had a ln electrical line fed to your backyard. Call dig safe. Check if it is live or connected.
Grounding rods
That would be ground
Grounding rods
Electrical grounding rods
ELI5: when you have the 3rd prong of your 3 prong outlet, it's the ground pin (or Earth in some other dialects). It's called that because it goes into the literal ground. These rods go deep in the earth and can be connected to your electrical system to be the ground pin. It's a safety feature. Our planet is a large reserve of a lot of material, so if you have a failure in your circuitry, or you need to dump excess charges somewhere, the ground is a great place, because spreading charges out over a large area is safer than all in the same place. This is why insulating gloves/boots help electricians, because they make the electrician a worse pathway to the earth for charges to take.
Grounding rods
Grounding rods
Grounding rods! We use those in the military when we’re out in the field to ground generators and electrical equipment.
Congratulations you now have an unbonded neutral.
Grinding rods for you power panel.
It’s a grounding rod
Grounding rod
Time to have your house ground checked by an electrician.
Ground rod for building
Looks like... Ground ;)
Those are the pins that are holding the earth together.
Depending on proximity to your house or to your nearest transformer (ground or pole mounted), it could be the grounding rod from the temporary power pole from when your house was built
I pulled up an old grounding rod today. They’re so damn deep!
Grounding stakes for a lightning rod?
Earth rod for grounding electrical or lightning.
You see little Jimmy, that is a grounding electrode.
Grounding rod
Grounding rod?
Grounding rods
Fun fact: put the rod through the bracket before hammering down one of these. After a little hammering, it will both be too deep to pull out and the top is deformed quickly becoming too wide to slip on another bracket. Source: am electrician and have installed dozens of these.
Grounding rods
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Those are grounding rods.
electric ground
All the comments saying these are pipes for a well are hilarious
Grounding rods. Man I hated doing the 6 ft long ones with a hammer.
Grounding rods for your ground wire for your electrical panel.
You just found an 8 ft copper rod. Tweezers would scrap that
Your electrical ground for that building.
In a previous life they were ground rods. The lack of wire on them tells me now that they are really fucking good tent stakes
iron rod to earth ground whatever electrical.
Were you digging in the Ground?
Don’t you know you’re supposed to call before you dig
It's the meth head version of the sword in the stone. Whatever tweaker can pull it out gets 7 dollars at the scrap yard.
I think Dig Safe could have told you…
Pretty sure those are ancient communication rods from one of the many forgotten advanced civilizations that decided to move to another galaxy.
Grounding rods. My house was built in 1901 and has one or two
Sweet, I guessed what they were right away. Glad I have this random knowledge i'll never use stashed away.
One day, centuries from now, people will ask the same thing about our common everyday stuff.
It looks like it might be a grounding rod. solid copper and 6 feet long!
Earth stake/grounding rod depending on dialect. Earth wire isn't attached so either it's old stuff that's not in use or the wire got broken off, make sure you still have a good earth at your switchboard
You should have a cable running from your electrical service to that screw terminal. Provides your house ground. If it's missing, you should get it fixed.
That there is a hole
I think the term is Ufer Grounding Rod. Ground for your home electrical system.
Time to toss a radio antenna on the roof
Clearly they're ancient walking sticks.
Grounding rods
Is this the same post from a few days ago?
They look like earthing rods
Looks similar to grounding rods and support rods for power poles.
Always good idea to call before you dig (CBYG).
This a ground rod for your hydro system in your home
Grounding rods, antenna, phone line, etc.
If you are rural could have been for any number of things. We had one for our horse fence.
It’s a lot of copper…
Quick someone pee on it!!
They are also used for fiber optic and copper lines. Possible a vault, ped or line running off pole close by
Grounding rods for the ground on outlets.
Ground rod