You specify non-stock use, but I will describe this anyway -
chicken are pretty small in the stock department, but they scratch and dig.
I needed a temporary enclosed run beside an old
chicken coop, for day-time use. I dug only about 1 ft deep and put a medium sized black plant pots in the hole, put rocks in the bottom, stuck the metal pipe in, and added rocks all round until they heaped up a bit at the top. I used the miscellaneous sized rocks that would be called "glacial till" - the Heinz 57 of the rock world.
The pipes I used were from an old car
shelter, so I reused any functional fittings to make a typical Gable roofed rectangular shelter about 9 ft by 16 ft covered by chicken wire. "Temporary" can last a long time on our farm, and I'm sure it's been over 10 years now. It only gets used intermittently, and if there are older
chickens in there for brooding etc, I will find they will move rocks out of the top of the plant pots and as I clean up the bedding for composting, I toss the rocks back in.
This thing has been through windstorms and snowstorms (wet, heavy snow) and it's still standing. That makes me think that pipes in 3 ft holes if you don't have things inclined to dig in the area, would last quite a long time.