Things found in the field

[Soundguy]

my phone line was laid like 3" under in some spots


soundguy

 

[JIGBUILDER]

Part of my 40 acres was a watermelon field farmed by work horses back in the teens and '20s/'30s. Every couple of years I dig up a old large worn out horse shoe some where on the property. The bigger ones are about 8" across.

I hang them in the tractor shed for good luck. :thumbsup:

 

[Soundguy]

i hit a horse shoe with my mower now and then. 10ac of my 13.2 ac was an old w-mellon field too.. I every now and then unearth a piece of a disc blade... usually with a tire..

soundguy

 

[gengine]

Maybe a little off topic, but while grading a road in souther Iraq, I watched something roll over my blade and disappear into the windrow. The first thing to cross my mind was a land mine. I stopped the grader, called E.O.D., (Explosive Ordinace Disposal) or "Bomb Squad", they came out after 4-5 hours, dug it up, and it turned out to be a torque converter. As for the field, nothing but old barbed wire.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Wow Gengine that could have spoiled your day if that had been a landmine

 

[LarryD]

Maybe a little off topic, but while grading a road in souther Iraq, I watched something roll over my blade and disappear into the windrow. The first thing to cross my mind was a land mine. I stopped the grader, called E.O.D., (Explosive Ordinace Disposal) or "Bomb Squad", they came out after 4-5 hours, dug it up, and it turned out to be a torque converter. As for the field, nothing but old barbed wire.

I've got friends in EOD, I call them Migrant Bomb Pickers.

 

[Rickstir]

Neat thread. Let's see... A complete axil from what I don't know. Looks to be an old wagon but there are brakes on one of the wheels. The head of some kind of engine, looks to be 4 clynder. Strangest thing was an old railroad car wheel found along side an old road. (our place had been vacant for 50 years before we bought it). This wheel was filled in with concrete and had a threaded attachment that would accept a metal pipe. An old timer said people used to put their mailbox on these things. Assorted iron pieces. We have an old corn sheller that has a large cedar tree growing up through it. Out back there is some type of grass cutters with trees grown up through them too.

 

[moored4]

Part of my 40 acres was a watermelon field farmed by work horses back in the teens and '20s/'30s. Every couple of years I dig up a old large worn out horse shoe some where on the property. The bigger ones are about 8" across.

I hang them in the tractor shed for good luck. :thumbsup:

Do you hang them pointing up or down??

 

[JRobyn]

Old horseshoes MUST be hung open-end-up, otherwise all the good luck will spill out!

 

[NickTaylor]

Mowed my new pasture for the first time a few weeks ago, came across a flat piece of steel on the ground. Flipped it over, turns out it was the front door off an old safe. Looked around for the rest of the safe, no such luck. &)@"#{|!!!

 

[Grayson Klassen]

Okay it isn't in a field and I certainly didn't run over it but this is behind my shop and I need to drag it out and deal with it some how.

The old codger who lived here before and built this would have been welcome on TBN I am sure.

 

[looknlearn]

Okay it isn't in a field and I certainly didn't run over it but this is behind my shop and I need to drag it out and deal with it some how.

The old codger who lived here before and built this would have been welcome on TBN I am sure.

Do I see a small tracked vehicle?

 

[jimmyj]

Lots of neat stuff and some interesting stories. When we were kids we lived along the Grand River near Caledonia Ontario. We have a family farm there going back to the 1700's and my ancestors were on very good terms with the local indians.

My brother and I would find arrow and spear tips and broken bits of pottery on the land from the indians. I'd love to go back and excavate the old latrine and ash piles for bottles and other stuff. There was a mill and several homes and barns, I bet the dirt is full of stories.

 

[arrow]

We were digging a water line at my bil's farm with a Ditch Witch in Paris ,Ky. I was about 3 feet down in the middle of a grassy field and the machine spit out a chunk of clay that looked like a rock. It was not a rock but an encrusted piece of a fossilized animal that look as if it were some type of bird because you could see the feather indentations in the hardened part.
I cannot figure how this thing would be where it is as this was in a field that had to be 300 years old so there was nothing to build up a vegetation layer such as leaves and such. It must have been just the grass and once upon a time forest that sunk it that deep. I wanted to stop and do a "dig" but my bil just wanted water out to the horses so we'll never know if it was just a chicken or a Dromaeosaurus.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

We were digging a water line at my bil's farm with a Ditch Witch in Paris ,Ky. I was about 3 feet down in the middle of a grassy field and the machine spit out a chunk of clay that looked like a rock. It was not a rock but an encrusted piece of a fossilized animal that look as if it were some type of bird because you could see the feather indentations in the hardened part.
I cannot figure how this thing would be where it is as this was in a field that had to be 300 years old so there was nothing to build up a vegetation layer such as leaves and such. It must have been just the grass and once upon a time forest that sunk it that deep. I wanted to stop and do a "dig" but my bil just wanted water out to the horses so we'll never know if it was just a chicken or a Dromaeosaurus.

Your own little Jurassic Park right there in Paris! :laughing:

 

[Dr_Zinj]

When I was a kid my father got hurt and couldn't work for a few weeks and the neighbor plowed our field. The next spring I was working up the field and found the neighbors wallet with $80 in it. That was about 40 years ago and it was a lot of money back then. I returned his wallet and from then on my three brothers and I were the only ones this guy let hunt on his land.

I like it!

Proof that honesty IS the best policy!

 

[Dr_Zinj]

...

I know I can't shoot it-- spoke to wildlife officers! but I can scare it off.
I just hope he/she does not happen up on me when I am out on the tractor!

...
Jim

You can shoot the bear if it actually attacks.
Castle Doctrine also applies to dangerous animal attacks, regardless of if they are protected game or endangered.

Hmm. Bear spray is supposed to be cayenne pepper or capsicum concentrate. I suppose you could load the first shell of your 12 gauge with cayenne, followed with a pair of slugs if the pepper didn't work.

 

[Grayson Klassen]

Do I see a small tracked vehicle?

Yes you do, metal frame plywood body no engine. and home made tracks

 

[rd_macgregor]

Pisses me off to find it, makes me want to pick it up and drop it in the front yard of those that left it behind.

I know the feeling! I haven't gone quite that far, but once I found a phone bill in a trash bag dumped in our woods and called to find out the woman who answered had sent her husband to the dump with the trash (this time, the trash disappeared the next day!!). Another time, I found a UPS wrapper with an address in a pile of trash and sent a letter informing the residents that they should know that somebody was dumping their trash on our property (I never heard back from them, though).
The police (RCMP) are almost no help at all; they devote their limited resources to more serious issues than trespassers and litterers.
Trespassers and litterers are pet peeves of mine, in case you haven't guessed.
BOB

 

[Soundguy]

Yes you do, metal frame plywood body no engine. and home made tracks

quite interesting...