Posted on 06/10/2015 6:02:04 PM PDT by Toespi
Very weird. We were doing some yard work this evening and hit something, as we dug further we found an old clear plastic bottle with liquid in it. We tried to dig it out and it wouldn't budge, as we went further we realized it was attached to two electrical wires in the ground.. Any idea what this could be?
Post a picture.
Post a picture please.
Dry Box?
Grounding point for tin foil hats.
A Battery?
Got any photos?
The liquid is probably rain/groundwater/condensation that found its way into whatever the container is. I can’t think of any reasons why you would purposely attach a container of liquid to an electrical system underground.
Cut the blue wire!
Repeat
Cut the blue wire!
No WAIT!
For nightcrawlers?
Run
That was buried there 50 years ago with the remark, “Boy, wait till they dig this up. They’ll go crazy trying to figure out what it is.”
follow the wires and that should tell ya.....
bottle was a crappy attempt at a water proof splice ,indicative of the strange liquid inside AKA H2o
Shamefully, I have never learned to post a picture. It looks like a clear old plastic bottle about eight inches long, with brown liquid I it. There is one wire going in and one wire going out but both are extending deep into the ground and the bottle is now out of the ground but secured to the wires. The electrical wires are probably 1/4 inch diameter.
Love it.....some thing I would do
Was one wire isolated and run to a metal object? If so it might have been the equivalent of a zink or amp bag. they use them to help prevent corrosion. In an amp bag design it would product a small electrical current that would help prevent corrosion and the jug would contain some sort of acid (may be mild) and would not last for years. But one wire would have been for ground and most likely none isolated and/or run to a grounding pole, the other would have to be isolated up to the item it would have been connected to.
well, you can go to imgur.com and upload a picture from your phone or computer to their site.
then you can use HTML to post the picture. once you upload to imgur, they will give you code to put here that will let us see the picture.
cut the wires and see what goes out.that should tell ya what they go to ,whoops,went to
Do the wires go in the same direction or opposite?
Wait a minute, you said brown liquid?
Uh oh.
Opposite.
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