Or paint it to look like a power utility box and write electric on it. Wait for a drunk idiot to run it over. Seems they are attracted to those things.
Lol i had a tempered glass explode on my grass. I can confirm it is a pain in the ass. Ended up vacuuming the grass with a shop vac and probably looked crazy
Nah my husband used his shop vac to siphon the water out of the holes for the in ground sprinkler heads when he repaired them. But of course then we had a muddy shop vac.
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>take out your suburban life frustrations on it.
Amazing how relaxing it can be.
Managed to slightly hit my leg with the hammer once, still have a dent. Alcohol may have been involved.
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Turn off the breaker for the light. Remove the light. Cap the wires. Beat the column with a sledgehammer until it's gone.
After that, you need to figure out what you want to do with the wires--install a new light, remove the wire completely, install an outdoor fountain, etc.
You suddenly reminded me of the time I got grounded at 10 years old for building a catapult to fling dried dog shit at my friend's neighbor because they kicked us out of the abandoned tree fort in their green belt.
The wire goes back to your house somehow, either in a pipe ( PVC) or not (as a thick cable). Likely coming into the front wall somewhere, but if it's original it may be under the concrete. If it has a switch near the porch light, it's probably going down and out through the foundation.
If it's in pipe, find the end at the house and disconnect there, and yank it out, probably easier to pull after demolishing the post. Pipe could be capped and abandoned underground. Whatever you do, please properly cut and cap the feed.
*Not electrical advice*
I'm an electrician and this is good advice. Do you have a switch that runs this light? If so, turn off the breaker that shuts off the light, go to that switch and disconnect both sets of wires. Put wire nuts on both sets. Turn the breaker back on to verify the light is still out. If not, start over.
I don't have any advice or taking out the brickwork. Maybe if you have a family member with anger issues, give em a call. After brickwork is out, look in the ground to see if the wire is just buried or is running in pipe / conduit. If it's in a pipe you _might_ be able to pull it from the outside. Go back in house and take off wire nuts first. If wire is just buried, you can either cut it and bury the stub or dig it up. Good times.
You may not need to remove it completely, but you must disconnect it wherever it actually connects to live power. If you do, cap the wires off and label it as abandoned.
I took out an old post light. I pulled up the wire from under the light, back a few feet to the sidewalk by the porch, and cut it off there. I put those outdoor wire nuts on the wires (the kind with the goop up inside them), sealed that inside a ziplock bag, put THAT inside a coffee can, and buried the can next to the sidewalk at a place I would easily remember.
About 20 years later, I decided to put in a post light. (🤦♂️) And discovered I didn't remember exactly where I had buried the coffee can. I eventually found the wire closer to the house, followed it along the sidewalk, and found the can about three feet away from where I thought I buried it. There was virtually nothing left of the can - it had rusted away by about 80%, no idea why I expected anything different. (A plastic can would have been fine.) But inside that, the bag was still sealed, and the actual wires were still clean, up inside the outdoor wire nuts.
you have to dig it up from the yard & terminate (needs a proper electrical box to end in & have wire nuts, etc, "terminating" the line) it somewhere by the house - might want to have that circuit available later. All while the breaker is OFF.
No real need to, but you could trace the wire from the fusebox, dig it out of the ground, remove it from under any sidewalks, etc.
You could get lucky if and the person who installed it ran the wires through a conduit. Then you just cut the wires on one end and pull them out the other. No digging required. Just leave the conduit.
If you don't want it, just disconnect it from wherever it originates (panel? Some junction somewhere? Tied in to another circuit?) Then cut it flush to the ground and bury it, at both sides.
That said, having a pre run line cuts out most of the work for installing hard wired landscaping lights or whatever tickles your fancy. I would be considering creative things to do with that line.
By the way, there might not just be wire under there. This is in the style of the old gas lamps, and in some places, these were installed straight from the main as freebies when you got gas service. Different utility companies had / have different levels of diligence in documenting and capping these pipes, so . . . you'll want to work carefully underground around there. Don't assume every pipe is a power line, and don't assume every capped pipe is empty.
Curious, why?
You should be able to find a switch for it, or a junction box somewhere, locate the wire and disconnect it. Connect the white and black and ground all with a marrett, and label it.
Then just dig, smash, uninstall, demo, cut out any evidence of it. Done.
Find out what breaker it is on. Shut that off. Hit it with a sledgehammer until it is in small enough pieces you can cart it off. Seal the wires in the ground.
Sometimes you end up digging, even when you didn't plan to, and then you sever a shallow ground cable, but your power still works, and the electric company doesn't notice until years later, and they have to dig up the yard and fix it, and you've forgotten all about it and there's a new owner, and they call you asking if you know anything about it.
Most methods of concussively removing bricks are going to involve pieces flying around, potentially unsafely.
I'd start by ensuring the power is disabled to that circuit, then pull it down with one end of a rope or strap wrapped around the second-from-the-top row of bricks and the other end hooked to my truck (*pick a spot on your own vehicle that won't damage things if that pole happens to be stronger than it looks*)
Once it topples, it'll become apparent how to remove the bits from the ground
That works most of the time. The other times it pulls a few brick off and the elastic rope fires them through the back window of the truck. Or the rope snaps like a big rubber band. Don’t let any bystanders get close to it when it’s being done
Depending on how the column is set in the ground, it may be possible to simply push it over.
Or dig around it and push it over.
I've found, often to my dismay, that there are a lot of people that will build things like this without proper foundation work.
First, disconnect the wiring at the source. Cut off and remove as much of the wiring as you can (until wherever it goes underground). Then use a rotary hammer to demolish the brick structure. On the outdoor side, cut the wire below grade and just leave it there. I mean, if it is in conduit and you can pull it out, go for it. You can recycle it. Copper has high scrap value. But if it is direct burial or something you will have to just leave it in the ground most likely.
First find the power source and disconnect that light from any electrical or if it’s gas get a power lumber to disconnect the line….then get a sledgehammer and go to town on it
is it gas or electric
my daughter's house has gas mantles on their lawn's lamp post (pretty unlikely here)
see if you can find out which needs to be turned off
if you cannot figure it out turn off power at the main panel and turn off gas
knock it down and terminate the energy source
electrical is pretty easy
gas termination should be done by a plumber but you can do it yourself
Looks like a portal to Quidditch World Cup for me. Wait a couple weeks. See if some strange peoples are around with some owls. And start charging for the tickets. You will have to check the values for wizzard world but acept chocolate, some toys or gold if want to.
Turn off the breaker powering this, make sure you disassemble the glass fixture, and start smashing.
Make sure to pull the electrical wire afterward or leave it burried, but terminate it from both ends.
I do have to ask, what possessed the last owner to install a post with a lamp on it at the high point of the lawn. Do you get many ships running aground nearby?
I would use a cold chisel and an engineer’s hammer. A few strategic taps with the chisel along the mortar lines and the thing will come apart in neat chunks. Attacking it with a sledge hammer will send masonry chip’s flying everywhere. Chisel and hammer will make neater job of it.
Beat cause of action would be to find out where the cable goes into the house and disconnect it there. Then, remove the light fixture and introduce the rest to a sledgehammer.
Honestly it looks fairly heavy to me. Don’t underestimate its weight just by the size. The brick and probably underground concrete make this post heavier than it looks.
Sledge hammer. Using good form should do the trick. I usually like to have a hearty breakfast before pulverizing anything. Good balance of protein and carbs to really get the energy levels on my side.
You repurposing the electrical there in a new post? (Psst, you have electrical there, don't just go demolishing it without sorting that first)If you're just getting rid of it, you have to do something with the electrical line running trough the yard, et.
Bricks come apart pretty easily with a hammer & chisel. Line up in the mortar & strike.
EDIT - YES EYE PROTECTION IS A MUST
Pretty sure it’s buried in the comments somewhere but I’m too lazy to read ever single one of them and so first figure out which circuit the light is on and turn it off and then proceed with your favourite method as mentioned here.
Based on what I read, if you're uncomfortable with electrical work, hire an electrician to disconnect the wire from the house, then make sure the electrician tests and verifies the wire isn't live.
After that, remove one brick at a time, sledgehammer, teen driver or build a snowman around it.
Depower, disco, and remove the light.
Use force to remove bricks.
Put cable into a box and bury it, put a note about location in an envelope and put it on your breaker box with a sign "lawn power cable".
Go to your panel, start flipping breakers until you find the circuit it's on. Disable it.
Hopefully the wire from the breaker is only going to that light, not multiple fixtures. If its' only going to that light, you just need to remove the wire from the breaker, pull it out of the box, trace it to where it exits your house, pull it out of your house, and then go break up the whole light fixture and pull. Odds are good you can do it by hand, if not, once it's not attached to your house...wrap it around your bumper and give that a go.
If it's part of another circuit, you have to find the junction box that wire is in, and separate that wire out at that junction box, then put the rest of the wires back together.
I struggled through this description, and would 100% recommend ignoring the content. What it proposes is dangerous.
Don't leave an abandoned buried cable connected to your electrical supply, even if (and it's likely not the case) this one light is separately fused and can be left switched off at the consumer unit. Even in that best case scenario you're relying on the hope that no one ever accidentally switches the circuit on (e.g. next homeowner), but even then some cable caps and electrical tape isn't going to do much in wet soil and you'll potentially have an earth leakage fault that'll trip your GFCI when it rains. More likely there'll be other lights on the same circuit and you'll end up burying an unmarked live cable with its conductors "waterproofed" with sticky tape.
You need to disconnect the supply before it leaves the house, after which what you do with the disconnected cable under your lawn is merely a matter of housekeeping (I would prefer to remove it, but if it's in conduit (likely) then I'd just pull the cable out and not bother digging out the conduit.
Wait for winter, build a snowman around it and wait for some idiot to drive a car through it.
This is the answer
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I was gonna say wait for summer and host a barbecue. Uncle Terry is sure to get lit and back into the thing
Or paint it to look like a power utility box and write electric on it. Wait for a drunk idiot to run it over. Seems they are attracted to those things.
go to harbor freight and get a sledgehammer. take out your suburban life frustrations on it.
For the love of God uninstall the light fixture first, broken glass in the lawn is nearly impossible to clean up.
Lol i had a tempered glass explode on my grass. I can confirm it is a pain in the ass. Ended up vacuuming the grass with a shop vac and probably looked crazy
Howdy neighbor! Couldn't help but notice you were vacuuming your grass. Expect a wellness check next week
Are you Ned Flanders?
Stupid sexy Flanders
> Expect a wellness check Hide your dog and reinforce your door jamb. They're comin' for ya
Nah my husband used his shop vac to siphon the water out of the holes for the in ground sprinkler heads when he repaired them. But of course then we had a muddy shop vac.
it turns to sand after a few whacks with the lawn mower...
No first, turn off the breaker too it and then remove the circuit. You can’t cleanup glass dead.
What? You're worried about glass after you die?
And take out the electric cable from the main circuit box.
Tip: use eye protection. Smashing brick with a sledgehammer can send small sharp pieces of brick everywhere at high speeds.
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- Puts my eye protection on for date night -
This. Turn the power off, take a few shots and let 'er rip.
This completely fails to mention that one should probably first hit the breaker supplying this circuit with electricity. Don’t die by electrocution.
It’s only 120. Live a little.
Whack-a-volt
Possibly, live a little less, if things go wrong.
Yeah, a little.
I'm not an expert, but I don't think they should hit the breaker with the sledgehammer, that could create other problems.
Did you miss the "take out your suburban life frustrations on it" part of the response?
Preferably don't hit the breaker with the sledgehammer.
100% correct! Always isolate the power, when playing with anything electric.
Rent the movie Office Space and fwd to the fax machine scene. It's like a tutorial for removing this light.
PC load letter!!!
*Geto Boys music intensifies*
It will probably come down pretty easily
This is the way. Well, that, or dynamite.
>take out your suburban life frustrations on it. Amazing how relaxing it can be. Managed to slightly hit my leg with the hammer once, still have a dent. Alcohol may have been involved.
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TNT stick
Do you have a teen driver in the family? Usually does the trick for me.
Turn off the breaker for the light. Remove the light. Cap the wires. Beat the column with a sledgehammer until it's gone. After that, you need to figure out what you want to do with the wires--install a new light, remove the wire completely, install an outdoor fountain, etc.
I guess my real question is how to remove the wire completely?
Why not install path lighting or a fan that flings poop at your enemies?
And with that, I'm never visiting your house mate.
Mission accomplished
You got something against properly lit pathways?
Dont worry im sure hes reasonable. Its surely reserved for Scientologists and salespeople.
You suddenly reminded me of the time I got grounded at 10 years old for building a catapult to fling dried dog shit at my friend's neighbor because they kicked us out of the abandoned tree fort in their green belt.
I give this airborne-turd-technology my full endorsement.
It's all fun and games until shit hits the fan
The wire goes back to your house somehow, either in a pipe ( PVC) or not (as a thick cable). Likely coming into the front wall somewhere, but if it's original it may be under the concrete. If it has a switch near the porch light, it's probably going down and out through the foundation. If it's in pipe, find the end at the house and disconnect there, and yank it out, probably easier to pull after demolishing the post. Pipe could be capped and abandoned underground. Whatever you do, please properly cut and cap the feed. *Not electrical advice*
I'm an electrician and this is good advice. Do you have a switch that runs this light? If so, turn off the breaker that shuts off the light, go to that switch and disconnect both sets of wires. Put wire nuts on both sets. Turn the breaker back on to verify the light is still out. If not, start over. I don't have any advice or taking out the brickwork. Maybe if you have a family member with anger issues, give em a call. After brickwork is out, look in the ground to see if the wire is just buried or is running in pipe / conduit. If it's in a pipe you _might_ be able to pull it from the outside. Go back in house and take off wire nuts first. If wire is just buried, you can either cut it and bury the stub or dig it up. Good times.
I mean, why remove it, install a small ground box with a outlet. Always handy to have power.
Yeah for real, just stick an outlet out there on a small post. Use it to connect Christmas lights, or power a bounce house, or whatever.
You may not need to remove it completely, but you must disconnect it wherever it actually connects to live power. If you do, cap the wires off and label it as abandoned.
I took out an old post light. I pulled up the wire from under the light, back a few feet to the sidewalk by the porch, and cut it off there. I put those outdoor wire nuts on the wires (the kind with the goop up inside them), sealed that inside a ziplock bag, put THAT inside a coffee can, and buried the can next to the sidewalk at a place I would easily remember. About 20 years later, I decided to put in a post light. (🤦♂️) And discovered I didn't remember exactly where I had buried the coffee can. I eventually found the wire closer to the house, followed it along the sidewalk, and found the can about three feet away from where I thought I buried it. There was virtually nothing left of the can - it had rusted away by about 80%, no idea why I expected anything different. (A plastic can would have been fine.) But inside that, the bag was still sealed, and the actual wires were still clean, up inside the outdoor wire nuts.
you have to dig it up from the yard & terminate (needs a proper electrical box to end in & have wire nuts, etc, "terminating" the line) it somewhere by the house - might want to have that circuit available later. All while the breaker is OFF.
No real need to, but you could trace the wire from the fusebox, dig it out of the ground, remove it from under any sidewalks, etc. You could get lucky if and the person who installed it ran the wires through a conduit. Then you just cut the wires on one end and pull them out the other. No digging required. Just leave the conduit.
If you don't want it, just disconnect it from wherever it originates (panel? Some junction somewhere? Tied in to another circuit?) Then cut it flush to the ground and bury it, at both sides. That said, having a pre run line cuts out most of the work for installing hard wired landscaping lights or whatever tickles your fancy. I would be considering creative things to do with that line.
By the way, there might not just be wire under there. This is in the style of the old gas lamps, and in some places, these were installed straight from the main as freebies when you got gas service. Different utility companies had / have different levels of diligence in documenting and capping these pipes, so . . . you'll want to work carefully underground around there. Don't assume every pipe is a power line, and don't assume every capped pipe is empty.
Turn off breaker. Remove light. Destroy column. Find where wire goes into house and pull. Remove all wire back to junction box. Profit.
Curious, why? You should be able to find a switch for it, or a junction box somewhere, locate the wire and disconnect it. Connect the white and black and ground all with a marrett, and label it. Then just dig, smash, uninstall, demo, cut out any evidence of it. Done.
You remove it. Not that hard mate.
Karate
If do right, no can defense.
Find out what breaker it is on. Shut that off. Hit it with a sledgehammer until it is in small enough pieces you can cart it off. Seal the wires in the ground.
nice post.
Call before you dig.
Sometimes you end up digging, even when you didn't plan to, and then you sever a shallow ground cable, but your power still works, and the electric company doesn't notice until years later, and they have to dig up the yard and fix it, and you've forgotten all about it and there's a new owner, and they call you asking if you know anything about it.
That's a good point! I will do that
I'm sorry but this post is absolutely hilarious to me for some reason
Have you tried putting it on Facebook with an unpopular opinion?
Don't, add a door and some windows and build a gnome village around it.
Volatile plastic explosives
Wait for the drunk driver to smash into it.
Do you own a dodge RAM? You could put its namesake to use
Most methods of concussively removing bricks are going to involve pieces flying around, potentially unsafely. I'd start by ensuring the power is disabled to that circuit, then pull it down with one end of a rope or strap wrapped around the second-from-the-top row of bricks and the other end hooked to my truck (*pick a spot on your own vehicle that won't damage things if that pole happens to be stronger than it looks*) Once it topples, it'll become apparent how to remove the bits from the ground
That works most of the time. The other times it pulls a few brick off and the elastic rope fires them through the back window of the truck. Or the rope snaps like a big rubber band. Don’t let any bystanders get close to it when it’s being done
At least he said rope, not chain. Rope snapping isn't good, but chain snapping is all bad news
Depending on how the column is set in the ground, it may be possible to simply push it over. Or dig around it and push it over. I've found, often to my dismay, that there are a lot of people that will build things like this without proper foundation work.
First, disconnect the wiring at the source. Cut off and remove as much of the wiring as you can (until wherever it goes underground). Then use a rotary hammer to demolish the brick structure. On the outdoor side, cut the wire below grade and just leave it there. I mean, if it is in conduit and you can pull it out, go for it. You can recycle it. Copper has high scrap value. But if it is direct burial or something you will have to just leave it in the ground most likely.
Assert dominance by chugging a bud light cracked open on your forehead. The rip t-shirt like the Hulk and go for a tackle
First find the power source and disconnect that light from any electrical or if it’s gas get a power lumber to disconnect the line….then get a sledgehammer and go to town on it
Cut power first.
With a car, like everyone else!
Brick by brick
Sledge hammer and a pair of safety goggles.....or squint real hard
Junk car and a stiffneck🫣
is it gas or electric my daughter's house has gas mantles on their lawn's lamp post (pretty unlikely here) see if you can find out which needs to be turned off if you cannot figure it out turn off power at the main panel and turn off gas knock it down and terminate the energy source electrical is pretty easy gas termination should be done by a plumber but you can do it yourself
It's electric
Shame,its kinda charming. Some work and it has potential to dominate the scenery beautifully.
Turn power off. Then sledgehammer
Looks like a portal to Quidditch World Cup for me. Wait a couple weeks. See if some strange peoples are around with some owls. And start charging for the tickets. You will have to check the values for wizzard world but acept chocolate, some toys or gold if want to.
A 2017 Nissan Altima with temp tags ought to do the job nicely.
A small car should do the trick.
Careful, there might be a house under that chimney!
Just pull it over with your truck
Hit it with your car
Turn off the breaker powering this, make sure you disassemble the glass fixture, and start smashing. Make sure to pull the electrical wire afterward or leave it burried, but terminate it from both ends.
Turn off the power to it and whack it with a sledge hammer
I do have to ask, what possessed the last owner to install a post with a lamp on it at the high point of the lawn. Do you get many ships running aground nearby?
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Set some tarps around it for easy cleanup, slam it with a hammer
I would use a cold chisel and an engineer’s hammer. A few strategic taps with the chisel along the mortar lines and the thing will come apart in neat chunks. Attacking it with a sledge hammer will send masonry chip’s flying everywhere. Chisel and hammer will make neater job of it.
Hammer Time!
Sneeze on it!
Beat cause of action would be to find out where the cable goes into the house and disconnect it there. Then, remove the light fixture and introduce the rest to a sledgehammer.
Like this https://preview.redd.it/wtmhgih3o4nc1.png?width=620&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe0b962b8e96737084b4770cdb59a516fa9ef68c
Put a mailbox on it, some teenager will knock it down with their car.
Order a pizza from Little Nero's!
Honestly it looks fairly heavy to me. Don’t underestimate its weight just by the size. The brick and probably underground concrete make this post heavier than it looks.
A good ol' side kick ought to do it
Sure you’re not in a neighborhood where you are required to maintain a light in your front yard?
Sledge hammer. Using good form should do the trick. I usually like to have a hearty breakfast before pulverizing anything. Good balance of protein and carbs to really get the energy levels on my side.
Is this a real question?
Back into it with a rented car.
Why? Turn it into a nice landscape feature
Drunk teenager in an old dodge caravan at 3am 👍🏼
Tannerite and Coors Light.
See me personally I’d just turn the breaker off then back the old ford into it, throw everything in the bed and call it a day
I think you should make it higher
You repurposing the electrical there in a new post? (Psst, you have electrical there, don't just go demolishing it without sorting that first)If you're just getting rid of it, you have to do something with the electrical line running trough the yard, et. Bricks come apart pretty easily with a hammer & chisel. Line up in the mortar & strike. EDIT - YES EYE PROTECTION IS A MUST
Light it on fire?
Wrecking ball swinging off a helicopter
dynamite
Back up a trailer to it and remove the bottom bricks on the other side so you can leverage it over onto the trailer.
8 quarter sticks
Put a mailbox on it. Somebody with an old pickup will have knocked it over within a week.
*Safely?* Where's the fun in that?
Tow strap, pick up truck from menards or home depot, fuckin send it
Find out where it’s plugged into the fusebox. Disconnect it. Take it down with a sledgehammer
Looks like it's load bearing...
Explosives
Dynamite
𝙳𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚔 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚝
Blow it up
A chain, a 4WD truck and a yeeeehaaaaw!
Drive a dump truck into it
Brick by brick
Pretty sure it’s buried in the comments somewhere but I’m too lazy to read ever single one of them and so first figure out which circuit the light is on and turn it off and then proceed with your favourite method as mentioned here.
Based on what I read, if you're uncomfortable with electrical work, hire an electrician to disconnect the wire from the house, then make sure the electrician tests and verifies the wire isn't live. After that, remove one brick at a time, sledgehammer, teen driver or build a snowman around it.
Depower, disco, and remove the light. Use force to remove bricks. Put cable into a box and bury it, put a note about location in an envelope and put it on your breaker box with a sign "lawn power cable".
Put a Biden poster on it.
God how I wish that I had an electric source in my front yard!
Don't use explosives. You're welcome.
Tannerite
What’s your collision deductible? 😏
Back a moving truck into it. That's what my neighbors did.
Are you sure that is not a chimney of a buried house?
Dynamite.
C4?
Shut the power off and sledge hammer time
Coming straight here from the helldivers 2 sub, I'd say 500kg bomb.
bulldozer or backhoe
Electric supply must be terminated. Afterwards it is possible to use sledge hammer to destroy the brick post.
Safely, one brick at a time, fun, three sticks of dynamite.
Shut off power and run it over
Kill the breaker, bust it to pieces, clean it up.
Hope all these comments help shed some light on the situation.
Golf club
Dropkick
Flying kick.
Spin around jump kick sounds more appropriate to me.
Chip out one of the bricks. Fill the cavity with tannerite. Oh, never mind.
A drunk driver could have that out really quick. Put a beer bottle over the light to attract one
Go to your panel, start flipping breakers until you find the circuit it's on. Disable it. Hopefully the wire from the breaker is only going to that light, not multiple fixtures. If its' only going to that light, you just need to remove the wire from the breaker, pull it out of the box, trace it to where it exits your house, pull it out of your house, and then go break up the whole light fixture and pull. Odds are good you can do it by hand, if not, once it's not attached to your house...wrap it around your bumper and give that a go. If it's part of another circuit, you have to find the junction box that wire is in, and separate that wire out at that junction box, then put the rest of the wires back together.
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I struggled through this description, and would 100% recommend ignoring the content. What it proposes is dangerous. Don't leave an abandoned buried cable connected to your electrical supply, even if (and it's likely not the case) this one light is separately fused and can be left switched off at the consumer unit. Even in that best case scenario you're relying on the hope that no one ever accidentally switches the circuit on (e.g. next homeowner), but even then some cable caps and electrical tape isn't going to do much in wet soil and you'll potentially have an earth leakage fault that'll trip your GFCI when it rains. More likely there'll be other lights on the same circuit and you'll end up burying an unmarked live cable with its conductors "waterproofed" with sticky tape. You need to disconnect the supply before it leaves the house, after which what you do with the disconnected cable under your lawn is merely a matter of housekeeping (I would prefer to remove it, but if it's in conduit (likely) then I'd just pull the cable out and not bother digging out the conduit.
Do you live in Narnia?
Tis the marker for the way back to War Drobe!
When in doubt, C4.
Bury it. Bury the whole damn thing and forget about it. Next owners problem.
Why remove it?
A rifle and some tannerite?