Ever uncover anything interesting while digging?

[turbo36]

Other than a couple bodies, nothing.

Was one of them Jimmy Hoffa?

 

[mustangsallysdad]

Dang, that's alot of Diet Pepsi. I thought my wife drank alot. She says thank you for your patronage(she works for Pepsi):thumbsup:

Tell her she's welcome and coupons are always welcome.

 

[Travelover]

When I was a kid someone gave us a 1964 Renault Dauphine. We took the body off and made a dune buggy out of it. Yep, buried the body in the back yard. :laughing: I wonder if anyone ever found it.

 

[SCtractorguy]

I found an old motorcycle, Suzuki I think. Buried where I was putting the barn. It looked pretty beat up like it had been in a wreck. The kids found where I had dumped it (6 years ago) and thought it was the greatest find even. They are pretty sure it can be put back in to working order. :laughing: :confused2:

 

[dcyrilc]

At work about six or seven years ago, I augered up the 3-phase primary, which also fed the local college, that the power company forgot to locate. Knocked out power for about two miles.

Earlier in my career, back in the '90s, one of our operators hooked the 110K volt undergorund feed with the auger which put half of Kent Washington (population 150K?) out of power by taking out the substation.

 

[Bedlam]

A refrigerator

 

[ayelvington]

At work about six or seven years ago, I augered up the 3-phase primary, which also fed the local college, that the power company forgot to locate. Knocked out power for about two miles.

Earlier in my career, back in the '90s, one of our operators hooked the 110K volt undergorund feed with the auger which put half of Kent Washington (population 150K?) out of power by taking out the substation.

That had to be LOUD and BRIGHT! What did the end of the auger look like?

 

[dcyrilc]

That had to be LOUD and BRIGHT! What did the end of the auger look like?

The one I did just kinda fizzled in the hole and didn't do any damage to the auger. An intermittent sound like sizzling bacon and some occasional smoke comming out of the loose dirt in the bottom of the hole. It really wasn't very exciting.

The one in Kent years back never broke the insulating jacket but pulled the slack out of the vaults at both ends and ripped out the connections. The biggest excitement there was pulling the auger out of the hole with the cables wrapped around it. We shut down the job, secured the area, and waited for the power company.

 

[AMR]

I found an 1899 coin in a field while harrowing. I had to get off the tractor to grease the harrow and there was the coin that I just turned up laying in the dirt, rough shape but you can make out most everything on it.

 

[psj12]

I found the PVC pipe going from my well to the house.

My friend who was operating the backhoe said look at the size of that root in the bucket. It was not a root. It wasn't quite where it should have been.

 

[easygo]

I found a few old spoons and forks while tilling my gardens. Some silver coated utensils from many years ago. My house was built in 1836 and one of the spoons has 1889 engraved on it. I assume kids took them out to play and they ended up getting buried like toys tend to get lost today too.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

This and a bunch and I mean a bunch of these, bet there's alot more I haven't found yet just barely under the sutface and alot are still showing on the surface.

 

[Inky05]

them kids is too clean to have been just below the surface....

...but if you found a bunch of them... you might want to check the lost and found... they can be expensive to keep! :laughing:

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

them kids is too clean to have been just below the surface....

...but if you found a bunch of them... you might want to check the lost and found... they can be expensive to keep! :laughing:

Only found the 2. I've stopped digging for more.

 

[sw03]

I thought it might be fun to hear what kind of stuff some of you have come across while plowing or excavating.

Sure, the BX24 seat nut is junk as bad as the old BX22...LOL

 

[jayste]

Not much. A cultivator spade once. Misc. junk. Wasn't it Mama Gump that said, "scratching around with your tractor is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get"!:laughing:....maybe not. I was going to say Jimmy Hoffa but it was mentioned before I got through with the first page.

 

[RadarTech]

alas-- we are on the second page an no one has admitted to any of the following much to my surprise!!!


1. Jimmy Hoffa-- I posted this earlier..
2. The bodies of the men from the grassy knoll (ever seen the Mark Wahlberg movie The Shooter?)
3. A coffin-- or old grave markers
4. A buried pet
5. A lost bomb shelter-- I think I read this in a very old post here
6. An old septic line-- I read this somewhere too-- yea yea that would really stink-- PUN INTENDED
7. Blackbeard's long lost treasure
8. for those in Texas-- Black gold, Texas Tea, so ole Jeb could move away from there.
--- and your spilled oil from the last 10 oil changes don't count!
9. bad Log piles from the lazy loggers 20 years ago..
10. scrap building supplies left by the builder.


well there are more.. but I am tired.....


Any of those out there?


and realize-- most of those are so tongue in cheek...



J

 

[Tractor Factor]

10. scrap building supplies left by the builder.

I remodeled my accountant's basement a few years ago, and about a year after we finished his basement flooded. It was the first time it had ever flooded in the 15 years since the house had been built (no, I didn't build it). After it was pumped out, dried, cleaned and gutted, it was obvious that water had come up through a floor drain in the concrete floor.

He couldn't figure out how that could happen, as the drain was tied into a line that ran out to daylight, to a drainage ditch along the road. Well, we ran a snake through and hit an obstruction. Pulled the snake back and it was covered with thick black goo.

Long story short, started digging along the back foundation wall and every bucket full brought up rotted scrap lumber, steel banding, scrap asphalt shingles, beer cans...you name it. Down near the footer we found the perimeter drain tile, a 4-inch perforated pipe, and it was all too evident why it was clogged: Somebody had tossed a nearly full 5-gallon metal bucket of roofing cement on it, and after 15 years it finally rusted through and seeped into the drain pipe, completely clogging it up.

 

[Bedlam]

Not sure if digging was meant for anything other than hoes but this is a funny story.
My sister in law was doing some planting and she found what was a huge root.Sh pulled and pulled and finally borrowed my cable puller and attached it to the 'root'Pulled it tight, and the used the lopping shears to cut it off.
Continued on planting and filled in the holes.
She says she wasn't getting he usual telemarketers that she used to. Then noticed the phone was dead.
Yes she had pulled and cut the phone line.:confused2: