I'm digging in my back yard to install a dry well and found this about 12" down. what is it? my gas an water come in from the front of the house so I doubt it's either of those
I'm digging in my back yard to install a dry well and found this about 12" down. what is it?
Call 811 dumbass before you get bankrupted from knocking out a utility cable
other than electric, what other utility cables are usually buried?
telecoms
>what is it?
How the hell would we know?
This anon is right. Call 8-1-1 and get it checked out. They don't charge you.
Water, sewer, fiber optics, irrigation, old telephone or telegraph wires, etc. Could be abandoned utility lines that went to a structure that used to be there. Fresh air pipes for an underground bunker?
Might be an abandoned gas or oil well.
It might also be trash some butthole buried instead of taking to a dump.
>Water, sewer, fiber optics, irrigation
ah yes the old water cables. imagine going back in time and explaining what a pipe is to someone still using the old water cables their head would explode.
they are gonna be so WTF when they go out to flag that line
Only one way to find out what’s in there.
oh look another brand new, never actually used tool
I hope it's natgas.
I think this is probably sprinklers
galvanized? with a screw cap like that?
nah
old gas line
or live gas line
who knows?
8-1-1 knows
Open it and find out, it's your property, isn't it? You shouldn't have to call a stupid number to dig a hole.
Why didnt you call before you dug?
Get your biggest sledge and start pounding, you'll find out what it used to be for soon enough.
your ground already looks dry, why would you need a dry well
also prolly irrigation or your sump pump
Looks like an old Aldyl-A gas-line with a stupid and unused (and stupid) steel riser coming out of the top.
You're an idiot. Just because you "think" your gas-line comes from the front doesn't mean that you don't have gas lines in your back yard.
If I saw this I would immediately sick the company lawyers on you, probably take you for $40k just for exposing it and probably damaging the line for all your haphazard digging.
Source: I work for the gas company. That's probably in a fricking easement and supplies your neighbors, and I eat whole families like yours for breakfast.
Definitely a Mueller steel-tee coming out the top at about 1-inch. Probably left it when your local gas company converted from alley/easement & meter to a meter at the house-wall, to reduce the amount of customer-owned yard-line you had.
IS YOUR METER AT YOUR HOUSE WALL?
If I were you I would cover it up immediately, abandon all plans for whatever you were thinking of doing, and pretend you never touched it.
Pray to god you didn't bring a Grade 2 leak on your head.
And before you're imagining "Oh but it shouldn't be there, I own this land" - I've had about 400 people claim that and only one was ever successful. You probably have some easement from the butthole of 1962-1973 protecting it, and even if you didn't, it's a prior rights situation.
The only person who ever won this argument went to their Title Insurance company, so I hope you bought this soon enough to still have coverage. Most last one year, some two.
Call 8-1-1 next time douchebag.
gb2reddit you samegayging limp wristed pussy. guess how I know you don't own any tools
I own at least four hammers.
>Someone who knows their stuff shows up on PrepHole
You: OMG FRICK OFF SHUT UP I HATE YOU
goback toreddit you wiener gobbling moron
just filter any post that mentions "reddit", any post with more than 4 links and any namegay
the good thing about morons is that they use very predictable and unoriginal posting patterns, making them easy to filter automatically
Based lineman
Haha, cool
>install a dry well
Subsurface water disposal is illegal in many areas. Check it out before you receive a cleanup order.