Ever uncover anything interesting while digging?

[Tractor Factor]

After my post a couple days ago about finding a long forgotten, overgrown pile of top soil:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/169216-struck-black-gold-morning-while.html

I thought it might be fun to hear what kind of stuff some of you have come across while plowing or excavating.

 

[Thomas]

One corner of my land been finding sheep fence,small iron wheels,axles,every now and than sheep and cow bones.

 

[lawn_king]

I found a 1901 silver dollar! Lots of old bottles, marbles,etc.

 

[mustangsallysdad]

After my post a couple days ago about finding a long forgotten, overgrown pile of top soil:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/169216-struck-black-gold-morning-while.html

I thought it might be fun to hear what kind of stuff some of you have come across while plowing or excavating.

Found a wheel off of a rail road car...well, actually it found me while bushhogging...it found my hydraulic filter too! Thing had to weigh 800-1,000 lbs. and it was over a mile from the closest road and up on a hill. I didn't try to move it...dug a hole and hooked it to the truck with a chain and dragged it into the hole and buried it.

 

[Redbug]

I don't know Mustang...I believe I would have dragged it back to the barn. Who knows what uses it may have in the future...a wheel in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

 

[mustangsallysdad]

I don't know Mustang...I believe I would have dragged it back to the barn. Who knows what uses it may have in the future...a wheel in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

I actually thought about putting a spindle on it and making a rotating welding table out of it...with the price of steel nowadays I may have to go dig it back up and haul it to the scrap yard. Still wonder what it was doing back there...at some point someone must have thought they could use it for something.

 

[Tractor Factor]

Cool stuff! 10 and 20 miles from here there were two mastodon skeletons discovered not too long ago during some digging. The first one, in Avon, NY was found while excavating for a golf course:

"...a nearly complete skeleton of a Mastodon was unearthed. This is one of the most complete skeletons ever found in the United States. The skeleton was discovered on the pond side of the 18th green in 1991. The remains are currently on display at the Rochester Museum and Science Center."



The other one was in East Bloomfield, NY (that's not far from you, Radioman!) on some homeowners' land:

"In August of 1994, Vaughan Buchholz of East Bloomfield, Ontario County, found he couldn't keep his swimming pool where he was raising trout free of algae, so he decided to dig a pond on the wettest acre of his 13-acre field. He and his wife, Becky, suddenly and unexpectedly joined an elite group of property owners when a backhoe operator uncovered bones of a mastodon buried seven feet below the surface of their land."

Can you imagine?

 

[firefighter jim]

Other than a couple bodies, nothing.

 

[two_bit_score]

I actually thought about putting a spindle on it and making a rotating welding table out of it...with the price of steel nowadays I may have to go dig it back up and haul it to the scrap yard. Still wonder what it was doing back there...at some point someone must have thought they could use it for something.

It'll probably work its way back to the surface in a decade or two.

 

[RadarTech]

Aw come on guys,, with all the tractors, excavators and backhoes on here.. I was truly expecting to hear that someone found Jimmy Hoffa!!!!!!!


Well, I have found rocks, phone lines, roots, and even a long fogotten culvert..

where I used to work, they were digging a foundation for a plant near the VA line in NC and they found the remains of a Model A Ford... 20 feet down!..
no bones, but they sure looked...


J

 

[LBrown59]

Found a wheel off of a rail road car...well, actually it found me while bushhogging...it found my hydraulic filter too! Thing had to weigh 800-1,000 lbs. and it was over a mile from the closest road and up on a hill. I didn't try to move it...dug a hole and hooked it to the truck with a chain and *dragged it into the hole and buried it.

*-That's it reburry it some place so somebody can say what's that in the future. :laughing:

 

[LBrown59]

*Other than a couple bodies, nothing.

Dead or alive?:laughing:

 

[Boondox]

No, but I often bury things in arrangements hoping that hundreds of years from now somebody will dig them up and think, what the..?

In the SW corner of my lower meadow is a 1957 Dodge pickup about ten feet down. In the SE corner about six feet down is an old flush toilet facing a 30" television set. My wife is a packrat and the only way to ensure that things stay out of my garage is to bury them when she's not home. :laughing:

Pete

 

[Tractor Factor]

I found a 1901 silver dollar!

That's something you don't just dig up every day.

where I used to work, they were digging a foundation for a plant near the VA line in NC and they found the remains of a Model A Ford... 20 feet down!

Umm, that too. :shocked:

Surprised nobody mentioned arrowheads, they're still fairly common round here. Some places you can still find Civil War artifacts, too.

 

[Tractor Factor]

No, but I often bury things in arrangements hoping that hundreds of years from now somebody will dig them up and think, what the..

Wow, kind of like those 8,000 terra cotta warriors they dug up over in China.

Ok, maybe not exactly like that...

 

[mustangsallysdad]

No, but I often bury things in arrangements hoping that hundreds of years from now somebody will dig them up and think, what the..?

In the SW corner of my lower meadow is a 1957 Dodge pickup about ten feet down. In the SE corner about six feet down is an old flush toilet facing a 30" television set. My wife is a packrat and the only way to ensure that things stay out of my garage is to bury them when she's not home. :laughing:

Pete

That's a good idea! Similarly, I augered about 375 post holes for our pasture fencing 2 years ago, now, I'm diabetic (stay thirsty) so I drink Diet Pepsi (I know, I should be drinking water) to the tune of a case a day when it's hot out, so everyone of those holes has an empty Diet Pepsi can standing guard in the bottom of it.

 

[Tractor Factor]

BTW, if anyone ever digs up what he thinks might be a piece of a meteorite, even a small one, hold on to it...there are folks who pay tens of thousands of dollars for those critters!

 

[Grateful11]

We recently put up a new mailbox and had to move the post closer to the road
and found a large piece of chrome trim off of a car or truck about 18" down.

 

[coreshot]

That's a good idea! Similarly, I augered about 375 post holes for our pasture fencing 2 years ago, now, I'm diabetic (stay thirsty) so I drink Diet Pepsi (I know, I should be drinking water) to the tune of a case a day when it's hot out, so everyone of those holes has an empty Diet Pepsi can standing guard in the bottom of it.

Dang, that's alot of Diet Pepsi. I thought my wife drank alot. She says thank you for your patronage(she works for Pepsi):thumbsup:

 

[RayCo]

I found and ripped through some 4" PVC that my roof water passes through underground, apparently not as deep as I'd hoped/thought. That's about it.