Things found in the field

[Lloyd_E]

Finds to date:

hornet nest
barbed wire and regular wire
old beer bottles
a few tools
spent shells - shotgun

Best find: colonial clay pipe

Lloyd

 

[shot_gun]

This thread got me thinking about all the stuff I used to find. A tomahawk head made out of sand stone, some arrow heads, misc. pipes but I think the best was a balloon with a letter from a little girl in 3rd grade. It said whoever should find the letter please mail it back with a little info on who I was ect. Now the kicker was it was from Springfield Illinois. It was ironic because I live in Sprinfield TWP NJ. So that letter had quite a haul. I did mail it back but I never heard anything back. I think that was in 88' Ah the memories.

 

[POC]

In the picture; is that your house, or the neighbors?
I'd love to put some of mine behind a big fence....

BTW, the reason I call them "idiot neighbors" is because their land survey shows a PROPOSED 50' right-of-way NEXT to their property. They assumed this gave them the right to use this 50' piece as their own. They removed our survey stakes, TWICE, then the woman that lives there cursed (like a drunken sailor) the guys working for me when they were setting the survey stakes back in place again in preparation for installing a fence. Police were called, yadda, yadda, yadda, then it took more than a year before the township attorney would say, "That is YOUR property line, you CAN put up your fence there." (see fence in attachment)

 

[dbdartman]

In the picture; is that your house, or the neighbors?
I'd love to put some of mine behind a big fence....

The (ugly) blue (with dark brown trim) house behind the fence is the neighbors I'm referring to. Pic was taken from my back deck. The proposed ROW was supposed to go along the long side of their property, because the road I live on meets another at a pretty good angle. Presumably this was proposed when the "block" I live on was planned for "suburban type" development (1/2-1 acre plots).

 

[LBrown59]

Finds to date:

hornet nest
barbed wire and regular wire
old beer bottles
a few tools
spent shells - shotgun

Best find: colonial clay pipe

Lloyd

I found this burried in the weeds on the upper left corner of our 2.33 acres back in 1971.
I used it one time that year and put it in the car port/garage where you see it here.
It's been in there now for 37 years.
We moved here in 1966 and hadn't see it before 1971.
Hard tellin how many years it had been laying there before we moved here.

 

[Gary Fowler]

What exactly is it that you found. CMU block with some sort of bars across. What is that for?

 

[LBrown59]

What exactly is it that you found. CMU block with some sort of bars across. What is that for?

Sorry I acccidently posted the wrong picture.
Go back and take another look at my post .
Hope it's the right picture now.

 

[LBrown59]

What exactly is it that you found. CMU block with some sort of bars across.
* What is that for?

The answer is in this thread.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/124746-burn-barrel-base.html

 

[dbdartman]

Looks like an old drag harrow to me (I think that's what it's called). Personally, I'm more interested in it's "old iron" neighbor, looks like from the later 30's or early 40's. What is it?

 

[LBrown59]

1*Looks like an old drag harrow to me (I think that's what it's called).
2*I'm more interested in it's "old iron" neighbor, looks like from the later 30's or early 40's.
3*What is it?

1* I call it a spike harrow.
2-3* 1950 chevy.

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[MikeD74T]

While bush hogging I found a hide-a-bed couch a previous owners tennant burned to save disposal fee. I had to remove the disk to get all the wire out. MikeD74T

 

[Gravdigr]

My property was logged a number of times. My finds only cost me money. So far I have 2000' of cable, maybe 5 20' chains of various thickness, tons of fenceposts and sheepwire, a few mailboxes, a culvert and this bad boy. A rake from a d8 dozer. That cost me a new set of blades. All of this is buried deep in the blackberries and brush, and my mower is on front so it finds things first. Oh and last week I killed the phone line for the whole road. Amazing how far those metal phone boxes will fly and all those tiny tiny wires they have inside...

There is a body somewhere on the property. Doubt I will find it with the mower, but the archeological inspector (some guy who checks to make sure your property is not a burial ground before you construct) told me that if you find mocassins on the feet stop, if you find Nikes on the feet keep going.

I find bodies every time I mow my yard

I generally find the usual stuff when mowing the fields: bunnies, baseballs, tennisballs, arrows, cans and bottles....glass bottles explode wonderfully.

 

[jasperab]

I always liked Paul Harvey's stories when he did the ads for Alladin Stanley Steel thermos. A woman wrote in to say her husband lost his thermos while plowing and found it the next year, good as new.
The best story however was the lady who claims her husband was asleep in the deer stand and awoke to find a large buck standing under the stand. He reached for his gun, kicked over the thermos, and the last he saw of it was as it went over the hill on the deer's antlers.
Pauls reply, " and I'll bet you're going to tell me that the next year he shot the same deer, recovered the thermos, and the coffee was still hot".

Most interesting field find I ever recovered was an "indian" artifact. About 8" long, 3/4" in the middle, and tapering on each end. Made of green hardstone.
I tried for years to find someone who knew what it was for, and finally I showed it to a collector I know in St. Louis, and he started laughing and said he knew exactly what it was. Not Indian! When he was a boy he cut hay with a hand scythe, and it was a sharpening stone for the blade.

 

[leftybob]

A few years back my Father in law owned a city block in a small river town in Missouri. The city got on his case about high weeds so I had at that time a Farmall Cub with a brush hog type belly mower. So I drove over to mow for him. The first round the front wheels ran over a car wheel next a car hood. Luckly I didnt hit it with the mower. The next pass I was'nt so luckly I wraped a braided rug around the mower blades. What a mess. It took some time to cut that loose. I guess the people living there thought the high weeds was a good place to ger rid of their trash.

 

[zionview]

For years I managed a 1,500 acre prison farm. We found horseshoes for workhorses every year. Once, we pulled up what I believe was a flathead Ford engine block that was buried. Back in the seventies, we bought half the neighbor's farm. We took out the fencerows so we could farm on the contour. We found medicine bottles, old coins and an ink well.

 

[backdoor]

I found a round thing one time when I was disking some newground that had recently been cleared. I saw it in the disked area as I made my next round. I guess it is a marble, it is about one and one half inches in diameter and seems to be made of unglazed crock material. It is fairly smooth, not chisled out of rock or such.

 

[sunnyside360]

I've found stone arrow heads, horse shoes, small hammer (for fixing horse shoes), lots of animal skeletons, parts/remnants from school desks from old one room school house.

 

[EddieWalker]

I found two old trailers, one I just left there and is still rusting away, the other one is in my shop storage area. It was a real gem and a great find tucked into the trees. I found both of them by bush hogging areas between planted pines and old growth hardwoods that was very overgrown. From the condition of the tires, it had been sitting there for quite a few years.

Eddie

 

[Gravdigr]

I dunno about out your way but around here 1 call to a scrapper and if that buried trailer has any weight to it they will take it out for you. Up here in the hillbilly mountains scrapping is pretty serious business. I actually have a job waiting for me, about 10 ton of rusted farm equipment needs cut and hauled. About $1,600 worth of scrap give or take.

 

[actionaj]

Many years ago I was mowing an empty lot that had a bunch of junk construction equipment on it. The lot had been cleaned up the year before I got the job mowing it. I hit a buried cable and it wrapped around the blade sucking the mower to the ground. I had to dig under the mower to get to the cable to cut it. It stopped the tractor dead cold and took rest of the day to get it free. Steal cables are bad thing to hit especially half buried ones.