So what strainge objects have you found while doing roadwork?

[paulharvey]

Found two 16ft x 16ft x 3ft deep cast concrete cattle water troughs in the tree line we where clearing for a new road.

 

[Grant1]

I found a 150lb steel anvil while digging a hole to bury a horse. The anvil was under 4ft of earth. I pressure washed as much of the rust off as I could but still cant find the markings on it. Not sure how old it is but I am using it

 

[paulharvey]

How about a Cat D400E 40 ton haul truck.

 

[stuckmotor]

- Recently forming up a new farm road we hit with a 200hp FEL what we first thought to be a large rock, the bucket cutting lip threw one huge spark & made that screaming sound like fingernails being dragged down a blackboard...... What initially looked like a c.3T rock just below the surface & the only rock we've encounter for miles around in this shale clay area turned out to be (the more we dug around the perimeter with an excavator) a petrified tree trunk of 20ft+ & c.36" diameter, needless to say we left it alone & rerouted the road slightly

My cousin used to dig up an occasional petrified tree trunk while doing bull dozer work.

 

[cockeyedMFer]

A portion of our wooded land must have been the dump for the family that owned the land decades ago...glass bottles everywhere, a couple old Delco batteries. Always finding leather and rubber shoe soles from the 50s-60s when we dig up the soil to plant something. Further back in the woods along a drainage creek I've found the rear portion of a touring car body from the 20's and a large exhaust manifold from a 6 or 8 cylinder teens car. Haven't found the rest yet but I'm looking!

 

[powerpace]

A frame for a single-wide mobile home and everything that was inside it when it burned. Previous owners covered it with dirt from a cut in the hillside.
Two hundred feet of wellpipe laying in the trees.
Tons of scrap metal from a old truck shop.

All this was found on ten acres that everyone denied had ever had any structures on it.

 

[powerpace]

A frame for a single-wide mobile home and everything that was inside it when it burned. Previous owners covered it with dirt from a cut in the hillside.
Two hundred feet of wellpipe laying in the trees.
Tons of scrap metal from a old truck shop.

All this was found on ten acres that everyone denied had ever had any structures on it.

 

[Depmandog]

Well lets seen now .50BMG are what about $4 to $5 each now?... Yeah, a pretty good trade!

Well, Midway has them on sale for $344 / per hundred plus shipping....but still a "good" trade!

 

[OldMcDonald]

1972 and 1976 on two farms 25 miles apart I found almost identical pieces of petrified giant horsetail. Moving to Australia in 1979 I was left some pieces of petrified tree by the previous owner and told where they were found. Never did find any more. Here, I have found numerous stone axe heads and hand tools (no arrow heads) - I have a collection of them, plus the most bizarre phallus shaped stones, everything from weeny 3-inchers to a couple that most folks could only dream about. Did women in those days use dildos? I am not joking, unless they are not particularly good tent pegs I cannot think of another use for them. Napoleon's army was camped on this place for maybe three nights during the Peninsular campaign, but I doubt even the Frogs would have tent pegs made of stone.

 

[sweep]

I bet he did, repeatedly.

Not doing roadwork but got a kick out of this.


I got into the walking habit 3 years back and walk every day down our rural road. Was walking one day last spring and noticed a small UPS box on the side off the road..partially open via chewing...figured the neighbor's mongrel dog who runs loose grabbed it from somebodies house as it does all the time. Picked it up and it was addressed to the divorced neighbor woman who lives on the other side of us...yep..inside was a new vibrator.

Died laughing..decided to carry it back and placed it inside of her mailbox at night after showing my wife..She died laughing too.

And I know what you are thinking..No I wouldn't ...fat and unattractive

 

[ovrszd]

No I wouldn't ...fat and unattractive

The vibrator??

 

[PHPaul]

More than a little thread drift here, but...

When I was a volunteer firefighter, we got a call for what the homeowner thought was an electrical problem. The wall behind her washing machine was "buzzing".

Long story short, the master bedroom was on the other side of that wall, and the buzzing was coming from a...ummmm..."personal massage device" in her nightstand drawer.

Several firefighters, myself included, sustained minor internal injuries from stifling the laughter until we got outside...

 

[woodlandfarms]

The vibrator??

Darn you. laughed so hard knocked a glass on my keyboard....

 

[300UGUY]

Not doing roadwork but got a kick out of this.


I got into the walking habit 3 years back and walk every day down our rural road. Was walking one day last spring and noticed a small UPS box on the side off the road..partially open via chewing...figured the neighbor's mongrel dog who runs loose grabbed it from somebodies house as it does all the time. Picked it up and it was addressed to the divorced neighbor woman who lives on the other side of us...yep..inside was a new vibrator.

Died laughing..decided to carry it back and placed it inside of her mailbox at night after showing my wife..She died laughing too.

And I know what you are thinking..No I wouldn't ...fat and unattractive

Was it a really big one?