Buried stuff rising to the surface

[n8wrl]

So far:

Cast iron bathtub
Water heater
Mower deck, without motor but WITH wheels
Crushed washing machine
and lots of rocks

 

[TWD]

So far:

Cast iron bathtub
Water heater
Mower deck, without motor but WITH wheels
Crushed washing machine
and lots of rocks

Lots and lots of glass here.
Sometimes random car parts that must have fallen off, or were left on the ground after replacement :laughing:

 

[1950T]

i find alot of old plow points and implement bits. i recently cleared 50a that had grown over where the old stantion barn and milk house were. i dug all kinds of crap out of there. tractor tires rims. frame and rear from a oliver 60. about a pickup load of rubbers from the milker claws. seems my greatgrand father and grandfather threw all the crap in the foundation hole of the milk house when the dozed the lot. lots of bones too. even found a anvil that had the horn broken off.

 

[D7E]

Where we are clearing 40 acres of bush now there was an old yard site in the middle and after working it now there is an area of about an acre just covered in iron . Every thing from chains ,sprockets,cultivator shovels to an old stove popped up . Had a day picking it off by hand and got $135 for a truck load of scrap !

 

[czechsonofagun]

Yeah, just look at our Government:laughing:!

or more like

 

[300UGUY]

Don't feel too bad. The people that lived on the land I now occupy were slobs, too. I have lived here 16 years and the glass keeps coming up. I usually see something shining and carefully pick it up and put in in a bucket I keep for just such things. I think the culture of the people is slowly changing. I have noticed the glass being replaced with fast food wrappers and plastics. They degrade in only one lifetime. Did you know the State Insect of South Carolina is the Litter Bug?

What you need is a bottle deposit law like Michigan. Before the law, cans and bottles all over. After, nothing. If someone throws one out, somebody else will pick it up for the .10 deposit.

 

[Tig]

Found a human jaw bone once. I would guess it was from a 10 year old.
It surfaced near the shore in an area the builds and erodes. I'm certain it was a long ago drowning victim. The forensic guys showed up to document it. After they left I never heard another word.

 

[dave1949]

What you need is a bottle deposit law like Michigan. Before the law, cans and bottles all over. After, nothing. If someone throws one out, somebody else will pick it up for the .10 deposit.

They get picked up around here for a .05 deposit. A guy goes down our road about once a week in the summer months. Now, if the fast food places would put their glop in returnable, recycleable plastic containers and charge a deposit, the world would be a cleaner place.

We have a 5 cent dep. on all plastic, metal and glass beverage containers except unflavored milk. 15 cents for a wine bottle - go figure.
Dave.

 

[wade simpson]

I saw a show a while ago, a biography of Charles Darwin, before evolution he was famous for a study he did on earthworms. He stated that part of the reason that some objects rose and some sank was the action of earthworms doing thier thing tilling and generally moving the soil upwards.

Stupid little factoid.

My land was a farm 80 yrs ago and I pretty sure the farmer grew rocks and now they gone wild.

 

[SPIKER]

I saw a show a while ago, a biography of Charles Darwin, before evolution he was famous for a study he did on earthworms. He stated that part of the reason that some objects rose and some sank was the action of earthworms doing thier thing tilling and generally moving the soil upwards.

Stupid little factoid.

My land was a farm 80 yrs ago and I pretty sure the farmer grew rocks and now they gone wild.

here is a problem for ya.
which makes no sense to me is everyone seems to say that the "frost cycle" freeze thaw pushes rocks up to the surface. yet this happens in places where there is no freezing and if that was really true the stuff that comes up to the surface would never have sank under to begin with? I know I can drop a ?? (insert nut bolt or elephant is seems) in the grass RIGHT UNDER MY FEET WHILE WORKING and it will be gone for good.? wonder if there is some sort of WORM HOLE that lets this stuff fall under ground to about 12' then it all get pushed back up by the frost?

Mark