Things found in the field

[Jeepnford]

I don't remember ever billing anyone for bush hogging a pedestal. I believe we were supposed to but people usually didn't come running to admit doing it. Since most of them were along ditches I never knew if the landowner,state DOT or county did it and I wasn't much good at playing Dick Tracy. If someone was digging however and cut a cable that was harder to let it go since it was usually easy to figure out the guilty party.

 

[greenbeanman in Kansas]

I haven't had any spectacular finds but I have to tell a story on my uncle. He only farmed because he needed the income and one could easily tell it wasn't his favorite work, preferring trading his thoroughbred and eventually quarter horses.

We had several neighboring fields and rarely ever saw him look behind at his implement and initial setting it. He used an old John Deere D so probably could hear much of anything going on behind him and with the torque of the two lunger probably could feel much, but he lost the tailwheel off of his one-way. He didn't know it nor discover it until coming upon it at the location where it had broken off.

 

[slaveToHorses]

I admitted it and they went... "Well, that was stupid". And i said "Well, it was buried in blackberries" and that was the end of that. I guess I pay for it in my high phone rates.

I sliced the trunk line with a ditchwitch. Their monument had a cable direction indicator that was 90 degrees off. I had no idea there was a cable running down the middle of my driveway (like 600' of it). The indicator was pointing down my other driveway, which made sense because that's where the cable and power lines run.
They didn't charge me anything. The two guys they sent to fix it only had a shovel. Since this was a 40+ year old gravel driveway they were sure happy when I pulled the backhoe out of the shed!!

 

[slaveToHorses]

We had several neighboring fields and rarely ever saw him look behind at his implement and initial setting it. He used an old John Deere D so probably could hear much of anything going on behind him and with the torque of the two lunger probably could feel much, but he lost the tailwheel off of his one-way. He didn't know it nor discover it until coming upon it at the location where it had broken off.

My neighbor took out all the mail boxes on one side of our street one day. He was transporting his disks from a field. They are really wide (wider than the road) and I guess he had the air and music on. Sheered all the posts off right at the ground. Never felt a thing.
We all got new mail boxes the next day

 

[jasperab]

This was a fun thread a few years back, lets start it up again.
My find this week, 64 Morel mushrooms thursday, another 9 friday. Supposed to rain tomorrow (again) so hope there will be more Monday.
East Central Missouri.

 

[Trafficman]

Seems like the only thing I find are deer horns, usually with my tires.

woodlandfarms,
I work for a local Gov't. We have those tombstones. When they get bush-hogged we know immediately. The Contractor gets billed for the Tombstone ($250), cable ($25ft+), labor($75h+r) vehicle ($15hr+). It can add up fast esp if our fiber is involved.
T-Man.

 

[jimgerken]

Mine: Three-tine pitch fork head, with front tire of one-day old tractor.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I find lots of beer bottles (worth 5 cents each!); our land borders a recreational trail which ATV yahoos frequently (and illegally) use.
BOB

 

[Soundguy]

you shoul;d put up a recycling bin.. one for aluminum.. the other for glass..



soundguy

 

[beeforty]

Tree cutters for electric company are always dropping off chips when clearing for power lines. Found a Stihl 24" bar yesterday when spreading out some. To bad it had been in the pile for 18 mos

 

[moored4]

Sometimes you can draw the moisture out of an assembly like that by putting the object in a sealed tin with common white rice for a couple of days. The rice is hygroscopic and absorbs moisture, and will eventually clear it up. I've used this trick on old mechanical watches (anybody remember those? anybody still wearing one that you have to wind up )?

I wear my grandads old pocket watch! Just on Sundays! During the week I wear my Dads!

 

[dixstir]

working in the yard on day on a truck after the job was done I pick up my tools and walking back to the shop there was a piece of paper laying one the ground so I looked at it and it was a counter check with my dads name on it I was schocked I have lived here 35 years and pops had passed away before I bought our place still got the check dont have a clue how it got here.

 

[The Haymaker]

I never find anything cool.
My Dad was tilling a few years back for a customer and fetched up on something solid. Tried going forward, then back, then lifted and whatever it was let go...... Revealing the main water shutoff for the house..... Never seemed to leak, but it is much higher than it used to be.
My older sister has a knack for finding things. She can be standing there talking to you and find one four leaf clover after another on the ground. When she was a kid, she came home from a 150 year old family cemetery that sits not far from here. In her hand was a 4" tall lead relief of a mans face. VERY detailed and intricately carved. So detailed, in fact, that you can see the stitching that cover his eyes and mouth. Freaky, no idea if it is indian (we are right on the Kennebec) or "white man".

Anyone have ideas? It is kept in a secret place OUTSIDE my dads home. We are all uncomfortable with it being too close at hand. Story is my Dad had some indian blood friends and he showed it to them. They said "get rid of it" as they were headed out the door and never came back.

Odd.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Wow This thread still going? I guess so!

Any way, we've had 3 days without rain. That, after 19" of rain in 16 days. It was time to mow 2 weeks ago. Today was a no brainer.....I HAD to cut a couple fields along the back of my property. You never expect to find anything new on ground you've mowed 100 times, but something caught my eye and I got stopped just in time. I backed up, got out of the tractor, and checked the cardboard box wrapped in plastic that seemed so out of place sitting along the fence row. Good thing I did. 9mm Glock that looked like it had already been hit with a bush hog, 2 screw drivers, 3 cell phones, a couple large rings full of keys, a mag light, and a police scanner. Some kids burglary kit.....

Called the police. They kindly took it off my hands.

 

[milkman636]

last week, a manual transmission from a volkswagon. It was about 95% sunk into the ground from being there for a loooong time.

 

[Soundguy]

Wow This thread still going? I guess so!

Any way, we've had 3 days without rain. That, after 19" of rain in 16 days. It was time to mow 2 weeks ago. .

3 days and no rain.. wow.. down here in fl.. it's been 3 months with no rain.. grass is dead.. and I'm still feeding out hay

send some rain down here please..

soundguy

 

[Redneck in training]

New Idea pull behind PTO powered mower. Some parts might be salvageable if anybody needs them. I also found bunch of stainless steel shims of various thickness, old shoes, jacket, 10 feet of multi fiber telecom cable, lots of barbwire (that is a b@tch to get out of bush hog), golf balls, big bearing housing of locomotive engine size.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

last week, a manual transmission from a volkswagon. It was about 95% sunk into the ground from being there for a loooong time.

My father-in-law, God rest his sole, collected Volkswagons. He also had an old TD9 IH crawler loader. When he got too many junk parts laying around, he would dig a big hole in his back yard, shove the old parts in, then cover then up with dirt.

A couple years after he passed away, my mother-in-law wanted new clothes line poles put up in her yard. I dug a dozen holes before I could get 2 far enough in the ground to hold the poles. Kept hitting Vee Dub fenders, hubcaps, floor pans, engine blocks, ect...

 

[Farmwithjunk]

3 days and no rain.. wow.. down here in fl.. it's been 3 months with no rain.. grass is dead.. and I'm still feeding out hay

send some rain down here please..

soundguy

It's a wonder some of this water hasn't found it's way down there yet....! We've got water standing in places where I've NEVER seen it. No rain in the forecast today. THat's unusual.....It's Kentucky Derby Day. Usually foul weather on first Saturday in May.

 

[woodlandfarms]

This fall I found a car buried on the property. Crushed up somewhat flat then attempted to bury. Had been covered in blackberries. Thankfully this time no brush hog involved in the find. Am going to pull it out this summer when my buddy comes up with his Deer Dozer.

Carl