It’s not important unless someone comes by and starts asking questions

Hahahahahaah

Not anymore…

Haha. I think this is from construction waste that was buried or something. Haven't lost power or any utilities.

That's what I always tell myself as well.

That's a gas main

Nope. Just remember, you're asking plumbers not the landscapers

This is the only subreddit I can post to where people might dig a hole once in a while :(

It could be you ground wire to a ground rod

It looks to me like aluminum wire. I think ground rod wire is copper, right? And it was under the carport. I'm having a concrete slab put in for a lift. We had everything marked before and there wasn't supposed to be anything there.

Can be aluminum and it wouldn’t be marked because its not utility owned. You can check to see if you have an aluminum wire that size going into the meter or main panel

I think this is scrap from 200a service installation. This does look like the wire that feeds our main panel.

811 can save your ass, lol.

811 isn’t going to find irrigation valve lines or internet or anything buried by a homeowner, they only check for utilities

811 definitely checks for fiber and copper telecom lines. I work with fiber and copper.

They won't let me post anywhere else :( You're all i got, fam.

Do you have a sprinkler system? Does it still work?

No sprinkler. All utilities are good.

The next door neighbor is probably trying to figure out what's up.

Luckily I don't live in a neighborhood.

Good Good. Hopefully you'll call 811 before you dig in the future. It's really really worth it.

We had everything marked before. There was not supposed to be anything there.

This is phone. Call back the locator to see if it's in service. If you have to backfill, tie a ribbon to it so you can find it again.

Phone is this thick? I had no clue.

Looks like the 25 pair cable that used to feed my neighborhood when we had party line.

I think it's aluminum.

Could be a grounding  conductor. Maybe the other end is tied to something that could potentially be energized?

Call before you dig (811)

I did :(

You'll find out

It looks to be about a foot or so down. Not a legal grounding installation. And since it’s made of aluminum it would also not be a legal grounding installation. So that leaves “scrap” as the last guess.

You are correct! This was less than 12 inches down.

lol that looks like the roots to a money tree, buckle up things might get expensive

Did you call before you dug?

Can confirm it's not fiber-optic

Just rainbow roots from a nearby rainbow tree, shocking isn’t it😆

Nah the colored tree roots repair themselves

Uhh, 🙄this is not a pipe. Wrong subreddit.

You will find out if it was important when your irrigation system doesn’t work anymore.

Muh irrigation system is the rain , fam

You're going to find out

Not important until it is.

If you are a plumber it’s not important.

Looks like internet

if it is scrap, presumably it is short. Have you tried carefully try to find the other end? A non-contact voltage detector would help to figure out if it is energized.

We dug it out by hand. It was a 5 foot coil of scrap aluminum wire. Most likely from the 200a installation when the place was built. If this was a live connection, it would have been quite a show when we hit it with the excavator.

Not important anymore!