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When I look at your original image, I see (mostly) horizontal lines dominating, and that makes me think of a long skinny pano type crop, rather than the normal 16:9 or 4:3 type crops. Next I'd look at what the features are - what are you trying to show off in the image. You mentioned the cable drum, and there's a cool bird in flight with reflection over the water. I also like the buildings on horizon. The grass/foliage in foreground is just a filler I think. And with the plain sky, I'd just leave it top third max.
So taking all of the above, I'd crop above the grass so that mostly looking from left of image you're drawn to the cable drum and bird first, no grass bottom to distract. Have the "plain" water and sky mostly top and bottom. Crop from the left so cable drum about 1/3 from left. Leave some grass bottom right to balance it out.
Something like your 4th edit above, but more savage crop from bottom. Like this...
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