Found this in a garden near my property. Any ideas? For an old gas light?

Sorry it's blurry, but you get the point I think:


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I don't know, but it looks like a garden hose guide. The guide rotates and allows a garden hose to be pulled through the garden without dragging it through the plants.

That was my first thought Steve.

A pulley/fulcrum? Was even thinking low rope on an old clothesline?

Got me too

plumb

I don't disagree, BUT, I yanked on it this morning and it doesn't come out... Definitely attached to something larger underground. I'll look around for more of them.

You may have to dig around it a little bit, it may be an actual pipe or a hose guide set in a small amount of concrete to anchor it.

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Not a plumber by trade but a fierce DIYer

That "coil" looks like spring of some kind.

Dunno, but still intrigued!

SWAG?

Live near water? Boat mooring?

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Added a less blurry pic. I'll dig around it, maybe prior poster is right in that it's attached to a concrete anchor...

Its on a retaining wall hill. Part of city property near train tracks.

Nowhere near water.

Stumped!

It looks like a type of worm gear. It might have just been scrap used for a stake.