Does anyone ever find missing parts off their tractor?

[PA hayseed]

I cannot tell you how many pins, bolts, nuts, pieces, etc I cannot find in my field. Maybe I need to get a metal detector. I've had some rather large pieces of metal "disappear" in my field. I've had three people look in the area where the piece fell off - self disassembled. The worst one was the pin on my telescoping arms fell out (how does that happen) and I lost a big piece of that. Of course the dealer ordered me in a new piece, but where did it go? Tractor fairy? Gremlins? CIA?

 

[KiotiKowboy]

It is probably hidden beneath some pallets stacked in the field.

There are plenty who will understand - lol

 

[stuckmotor]

I lost the cap to my tractor's fuel tank, gave up searching for it, and bought a new one. The lost cap turned up in the pasture, yesterday.

 

[murphy1244]

Lost my exhaust pipe first week I owned it. Wife found it in the pasture.

 

[Wnc3]

1st day mowing with with a new tractor and pull type shredder. I went to back up and the tire started spinning .
The lower arm had dropped and dug in like a plow because the linkage was not locked and it unscrewed. I was missing the center piece. I was determined to find it and 30 minutes later I did.

 

[oldpilgrim]

They're with all my lost socks.

 

[Panik]

I've had the knob for the throttle lever on my tractor on sabbatical at least three times. First time i found it about 3 weeks later, second time it was gone a week. I think this time its gone for good. Probably hanging out somewhere with the case of the dog's tennis balls that have disappeared.

 

[/pine]

remind me not to ever consider buying a kioti ...TIA...

 

[rd_macgregor]

The only parts I've managed to find have been those that fall off in the driveway. Anything lost in the wood or fields would have to be a pretty big part for me to find it again. As for metal detectors...I bought one to locate expensive horse shoes lost/shed in our pastures. Unfortunately, on an old farmstead like ours, the metal detector beeps all the time at small bits of metal (bits of fence, nails, screws, who-knows-what) and makes it very time-consuming and frustrating to even look for a specific lost bit of metal.

 

[oosik]

I've dropped all sorts of nuts, bolts etc while working on the tractor. Its next to impossible to find anything like that in my lawn. I use my metal detector - very successfully - to find this stuff. Out beyond my lawn where the old homestead was - my metal detector goes berserk. I have a distinct feeling that the original homesteaders NEVER bent over to look for anything dropped!!