When I hauled Serenity away, (it was sitting about where the wheelbarrow is in the first pic) a small problem arose. The area available for driveway was now substantially wider, and a septic line cleanout that had never been an issue before was right where cars are going to want to go. Dumb place for a cleanout, anyway.
So: Make it go away!
Dig down to the pipe. Since there was never any traffic on this spot it was a lot easier than I feared; dirt can get mighty compacted. I could wish this one was deeper, in fact; car tires are heavy.
Cut'er off with a hacksaw, as close to the union as is consistent with putting on a cap or another union down the road. Clean up the cut with your pocketknife.
Install a cap. DON'T glue it down; there's no pressure in that pipe, and you may want it back off someday.
Cover it up, and you're done. Total elapsed time including digging; probably less than 15 minutes.
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You pulled measurements from other landmarks in order to find it again later, right?
Well...sorta. It's easy enough to sight between two other cleanouts to get latitude; longitude might be a little harder to estimate unless the driveway doesn't shift to the right as I kind of expect it to do. Nothing's perfect.
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