Things found in the field

[Wagtail]

A couple of years after moving in to my property I 'got around to' cleaning up a corner area of the acreage. The bloke who built the house (owner/builder) used that area as his supply dump for the roofing material = "colourbond" corrugated metal. I was able to salvage 4 sheets of it and it cleaned up nicely for other projects.

There was also some long-rotted roofing insulation which needed to be cleaned out and the only way I was going to get it up was with the bucket on the tractor, so I drove it up to the 'mess' and hopped off to survey the best approach... when I stepped on an upright tine! (safety boots to the rescue!) Further investigation found that it was a full rebar flooring section and that the front tyres of the tractor were 2 inches away from being punctured!

I swapped from the bucket to my forks and removed that section out of there right away as it was one of my horse paddocks. I then cut it up into smaller sections that would fit in the back of my ute and disposed of them at the local tip.

 

[rhunt]

I've got a little under 12 acres here, mostly wooded and since owning it, have found and removed 39 tires, mostly large truck tires. Some where almost totally buried. Must have been here for at least 40 years. Every time I think I've finally rounded them all up and brought them to the recycle center, I find another while using my backhoe. Bob

 

[PILOON]

I have a decent depression where my drive meets the road.
Woke up one AM to find 9 truck sized tires dumped there, that was B4 the gov't added recycle fees to purchase price.
So now that it is prepaid the yards/dumps are obliged to accept at no charge.

 

[Old Guy in Tenn]

40 years ago - bird hunting, walking through a never ending series of small identical hills a few feet from the marsh surrounding a small lake. Worked up a sweat and stopped to remove sweatshirt. My (then) wife was along to take some pictures, and somehow dropped her light meter, size and shape of a large key fob, while changing shirt. Walked another hour, then headed for home after completing walk around lake. Discovered missing meter an hour later when got home.

Was almost dark, so went back the next day to look for it. The hills all looked the same, so we searched every one of them. We had searched one more and had pretty much given up, when a large blue racer darted out of the grass. We watched it as it moved between us and crawled right over the lost meter.