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Please help me identify this weird concrete cylinder on my lawn

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Hey there, I have owned my home for 3 years and this concrete cylinder has obviously been here a lot longer than that. It's big, ugly, heavy and built solidly. I just have no idea what it is for. When I just moved in it had a bit of soil in there so I did add more to plan some flowers in there to kind of spruce it up a little. When I would dig down about halfway, there are just random chunks of bricks and concrete I presume just refuse from some kind of construction meant to fill it up. I used a metal rod going at an angle to see how far down it goes I didn't want to dig up my lawn, and it does go down at least a foot and a half below the lawn surface of what I presume is the same concrete cylinder as you see above the surface.

I just would really like to know what this thing was possibly used for, or is it just the most obvious answer of being just like a lawn ornament where people would plan something inside, or is it something much more important of possibly being a part of some old structure. This home was built in the mid 1960s, this could even be from when the property was first developed, I just do not know.

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

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Weird water pipe made into a planter it looks like
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Lawn looks a little discolored around it, probably less deep root growth, probably an old septic system.
Entrance to the 4th dimension.
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I'd shoot it personally. Pretty sure my AK would break it.
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old ag drainage tile. ive dug up quite a few. i dug up some wooden sewer main once too,
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Looks like a section of fired-clay pipe.
Maybe there was a water meter at the bottom.
But probably not anymore.
Previous owner may have used it for a planter.
I agree with Hal.
I'd shoot it personally. Pretty sure my AK would break it.
don't get lil Chevy triggered now
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Weird water pipe made into a planter it looks like
Agreed, an old piece of clay/Terra-cotta water/sewer pipe that someone repurposed into a flower planter.
View this link for reference....
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don't get lil Chevy triggered now
Is that a challenge?

Cuz I'll accept that challenge.
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Trap door to where the previous owner kept his wife.
I was gonna say similar, but trap door to Bidens basement.
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I'm not too worried about it, time to forget about it and move on.
The real question is can you turn a post about a sewage drain pipe political ?. Answer : apparently you can !!! Gold star for you today boys !!!
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This may sound ignorant but how can this be a water pipe? This concrete cylindrical beast is about 3 feet above the surface, with no threads or grooves on the top for any kind of water pipe to be attached to.

Old septic system?
My understanding was that a typical septic system would mainly have a giant tank usually installed a minimum of 2 feet underground with a pipe for waste to flow through, coming from the house. A small opening on the surface above the buried tank, with a pipe leading down, used for the removal of the waste.
The bottom line, and I should have mentioned this, this house bought in the 60s, is located in a suburb of a city, and was built with a sewage system. There would not have been any reason for any kind of septic anything. Which makes this all the more puzzling.
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This may sound ignorant but how can this be a water pipe? This concrete cylindrical beast is about 3 feet above the surface, with no threads or grooves on the top for any kind of water pipe to be attached to.

Old septic system?
My understanding was that a typical septic system would mainly have a giant tank usually installed a minimum of 2 feet underground with a pipe for waste to flow through, coming from the house. A small opening on the surface above the buried tank, with a pipe leading down, used for the removal of the waste.
The bottom line, and I should have mentioned this, this house bought in the 60s, is located in a suburb of a city, and was built with a sewage system. There would not have been any reason for any kind of septic anything. Which makes this all the more puzzling.

At one point it was probably underground...
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- "Looks like a section of fired-clay pipe."
---Its concrete, probably with some round metal wires inside for structural reinforcement when the mold was poured I imagine, NOT made of clay.
In addition, if it was a clay drainage pipe, draining to the city sewer, why would there be a giant 30" vertical clay section sticking up 3 feet above the ground? And its somewhat on a hill, higher in evelavation than most of the lawn around it, so even if it was for drainage, it would have been built somewhere low, so if there was a lot of water, it would flow down to it.

- "old ag drainage tile. ive dug up quite a few. i dug up some wooden sewer main once too,"
"Tile drainage is a form of agricultural drainage system that removes excess sub-surface water from fields to allow sufficient air space within the soil, proper cultivation, and access by heavy machinery to tend and harvest crops. While surface water can be drained by pumping, open ditches, or both, tile drainage is often the most effective means of draining subsurface water."
---Naw I do not think so, you can see in the photo, it sits much higher than the street, at least 5 feet, and the house itself is higher than many of adjourning properties.
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The real question is can you turn a post about a sewage drain pipe political ?. Answer : apparently you can !!! Gold star for you today boys !!!
Is that a challenge?

Cuz I can do that too!

I know, it already was.
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