Found this while mowing

[Overtaxed]

I thought for sure this thread was going to have a picture of an engine block with chunks out of where a bush hog "found" it. <disappointed>

 

[Diggin It]

^^ Yeah, I was holding back about 'finding stuff while mowing' ending up with a bent blade, shaft or busted something or other.

 

[ovrszd]

Here's a pic of me pulling an older version of a similar rake. Summer of 1959. 8 years old. Driving an 8N Ford tractor with homemade cab. Those were the days.

 

[BRMyers]

Another weekend and another item.



Might be a little hard to see, but it is an old manure spreader. Going to have to eventually drag it out, but for now it is out of the way.

 

[Jstpssng]

Another weekend and another item.

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Might be a little hard to see, but it is an old manure spreader. Going to have to eventually drag it out, but for now it is out of the way.

That one is going to need some chainsaw work. Take some more pictures first though, some people will pay more for a picture of the tree growing through the machine than anybody would for the implement in working condition.

Interesting finds, it's always fun to look at the old things. They may be outdated now but there was a lot of hay put up with what you're rediscovering.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My dad had several old things stuck in the woods. But when scrap prices were high, he sold them..

 

[Jstpssng]

My dad had several old things stuck in the woods. But when scrap prices were high, he sold them..

There was a lot of stuff going for scrap back then which probably had more value as something else. One day I followed a pickup laden with old horse drawn implements until he pulled into his driveway... I was going to offer him what he would get at the yard but it turns out he was a collector. :thumbsup: I was glad to hear that as I don't know what I would have done with it after I bought it.

 

[DJ54]

I have an old IH rake similar to that as a back up. That one may be new enough, that like my IH rake, will also ted hay, flipping the lever to engage the drive, in another notch, 180º opposite in the raking position.

If you have any Amish in the area, they maybe interested in that horse drawn mower, if you have no use for it. A lot of people looking for them also for yard art.

That manure spreader doesn't look to be in that bad of shape, unless there is something I can't see. Most, the sheet metal will rust out in the beater area. More than likely, the apron chain is broken. Lots of people out there looking for fix'er upper stuff like that. Been there myself..!!

 

[aczlan]

If you have any Amish in the area, they maybe interested in that horse drawn mower, if you have no use for it. A lot of people looking for them also for yard art.

I had an Amish guy buy the one just like it for $350ish this spring.

Aaron Z

 

[BRMyers]

Working at the farm again today, another item found as we cleared more.


If you look in the brush, you can see what we found today


Here is a better picture, a 4 bottom plow that we pulled out from the brush.