Things found in the field

[Jeepnford]

I don't remember ever billing anyone for bush hogging a pedestal. I believe we were supposed to but people usually didn't come running to admit doing it. Since most of them were along ditches I never knew if the landowner,state DOT or county did it and I wasn't much good at playing Dick Tracy. If someone was digging however and cut a cable that was harder to let it go since it was usually easy to figure out the guilty party.

 

[greenbeanman in Kansas]

I haven't had any spectacular finds but I have to tell a story on my uncle. He only farmed because he needed the income and one could easily tell it wasn't his favorite work, preferring trading his thoroughbred and eventually quarter horses.

We had several neighboring fields and rarely ever saw him look behind at his implement and initial setting it. He used an old John Deere D so probably could hear much of anything going on behind him and with the torque of the two lunger probably could feel much, but he lost the tailwheel off of his one-way. He didn't know it nor discover it until coming upon it at the location where it had broken off.

 

[slaveToHorses]

I admitted it and they went... "Well, that was stupid". And i said "Well, it was buried in blackberries" and that was the end of that. I guess I pay for it in my high phone rates.

I sliced the trunk line with a ditchwitch. Their monument had a cable direction indicator that was 90 degrees off. I had no idea there was a cable running down the middle of my driveway (like 600' of it). The indicator was pointing down my other driveway, which made sense because that's where the cable and power lines run.
They didn't charge me anything. The two guys they sent to fix it only had a shovel. Since this was a 40+ year old gravel driveway they were sure happy when I pulled the backhoe out of the shed!!

 

[slaveToHorses]

We had several neighboring fields and rarely ever saw him look behind at his implement and initial setting it. He used an old John Deere D so probably could hear much of anything going on behind him and with the torque of the two lunger probably could feel much, but he lost the tailwheel off of his one-way. He didn't know it nor discover it until coming upon it at the location where it had broken off.

My neighbor took out all the mail boxes on one side of our street one day. He was transporting his disks from a field. They are really wide (wider than the road) and I guess he had the air and music on. Sheered all the posts off right at the ground. Never felt a thing.
We all got new mail boxes the next day

 

[jasperab]

This was a fun thread a few years back, lets start it up again.
My find this week, 64 Morel mushrooms thursday, another 9 friday. Supposed to rain tomorrow (again) so hope there will be more Monday.
East Central Missouri.

 

[Trafficman]

Seems like the only thing I find are deer horns, usually with my tires.

woodlandfarms,
I work for a local Gov't. We have those tombstones. When they get bush-hogged we know immediately. The Contractor gets billed for the Tombstone ($250), cable ($25ft+), labor($75h+r) vehicle ($15hr+). It can add up fast esp if our fiber is involved.
T-Man.

 

[jimgerken]

Mine: Three-tine pitch fork head, with front tire of one-day old tractor.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I find lots of beer bottles (worth 5 cents each!); our land borders a recreational trail which ATV yahoos frequently (and illegally) use.
BOB

 

[Soundguy]

you shoul;d put up a recycling bin.. one for aluminum.. the other for glass..



soundguy

 

[beeforty]

Tree cutters for electric company are always dropping off chips when clearing for power lines. Found a Stihl 24" bar yesterday when spreading out some. To bad it had been in the pile for 18 mos