What Have you unexpectedly found when Digging?

[Chris527]

Hi All,
All of us who own tractors naturally love to dig, turn up ground and make holes (sometimes for no good reason). I proudly admit when my tractor was new i love to make holes with my backhoe out of boredom and for practice.
I have dug up some weird looking stuff here on the old farm and no clue what it may be. I will post pic here and I think it would be fun to hear other folks digging stories of unexpected finds, hopefully not in the 220 volt range. So lets hear them guys. These seem to me made of hard clay with somthing brittle in the middle

Chris

 

[Thomas]

Morn Chris.
Interesting find you got there...looking forward to answer.

I mostly find pieces barb wire everynow and than horse shoe...lot of rocks tho.

 

[jbrumberg]

Chris527:

My tiller found a statue . Jay

 

[jinman]

These seem to me made of hard clay with somthing brittle in the middle

Chris

Large buttons? Maybe they are just the base and were covered with some type of upholstery? They look to be large enough for a coat...just a wild guess.

 

[Grrrr]

Hi All,
All of us who own tractors naturally love to dig, turn up ground and make holes (sometimes for no good reason). I proudly admit when my tractor was new i love to make holes with my backhoe out of boredom and for practice.
I have dug up some weird looking stuff here on the old farm and no clue what it may be. I will post pic here and I think it would be fun to hear other folks digging stories of unexpected finds, hopefully not in the 220 volt range. So lets hear them guys. These seem to me made of hard clay with somthing brittle in the middle

Chris

We had a dutch barn put up on the side of a hill. The old owners of our farm had allready levelled the site outbut never got round to put up the barn. The people came in to put the barn up and started digging holes and kept hitting metal things. Like peices of sheet metal 3' or 4' down. Turns out the old owners had burried an old combine harvester under the pad for the barn

 

[Clarke]

I think they might be Alien Eggs.

sg

 

[bluetc30]

i have found all kinds of old bottles,medicine jars,perfume bottles old horse yolks everything was buried back then since my house was built in 1740 i am still finding things

 

[Bill Barrett]

Those **** utilities LOL

 

[ToadHill]

Two weeks ago, getting gravel from an old stream bed, found a nest of turtle eggs. Left them in a big scoop of gravel and the grand kids are keeping an eye on them until they hatch.

 

[EddieWalker]

One time while digging up some old logs I came up with a possum in my bucket. I kind of froze when I saw it in there because my brain couldn't comprehend what it was. After a moment, it jumped out of the bucket and took off into the woods.

My biggest suprise was when I took out an oak tree and water shot out into the air. I was well into my land and knew there wasn't a water line there, but that water had some preasure to it and it was crystal clear. It settled down to a steady flowing spring after a few minutes and to my knowledge, several years later, its still flowing. I dug a small 1/4 acre pond to catch the water and sold the land. During two years of drought when everyones ponds were drying up that pond never droped an inch.

Sand pockets have been a suprise. Most of my land is clay with a few viens of iron ore. In one area that I was digging in, I broke through the clay and hit sand. The locals call it sugar sand and I know some people have it all over their property. Kind of odd finding it several feet down.

Eddie