New to me house with 3 acre pasture in front...found a deep, deep skinny hole! Ideas?

[cpy911]

I have a new to me pasture in front of the house that slopes down to the road. It is about 3 acres. I was walking around inspecting it and found a very deep hole filled with water. The hole was about 10" diameter but very, very deep. I have never seen anything like it. I did not want to push to hard with my hoe handle fearing of breaking a pipe or something. I know the county rural water goes up to the house, so I will contact them about it. I can't tell if water is from a pipe or from filling by the heavy rains...

Any thoughts?
Skinny deep hole - YouTube

 

[hayden]

I would guess and old well casing of some sort.

 

[jeff9366]

Where are you located?

 

[cpy911]

Where are you located?

I am in Western Oregon outside of Portland. Lots of rain here....

 

[Jstpssng]

It looks like an old dug well to me.

 

[hosspuller]

Just in case it's a sink hole always tie off with an anchor away from the hole... like 50 feet. Then probe the hole with several lengths of PVC pipe and couplings. Increase your caution for every ten feet of depth.

 

[jaxs]

Tie a heavy sinker on your fishing rod and drop it in to measure dept.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Barricade it so no one or animal falls into it, really break a leg or worse. The casing indicates an old well casing.

Ron

 

[4570Man]

Barricade it so no one or animal falls into it, really break a leg or worse. The casing indicates an old well casing.

Ron

Where did he mention a casing? I’d just fill the hole up with rocks and if it sinks again I’d deal with that later.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Where did he mention a casing? I’d just fill the hole up with rocks and if it sinks again I’d deal with that later.

Look at the video. Sure looks like a steel casing sticking a little above grade. Ron