Things found in the field

[moored4]

Sometimes you can draw the moisture out of an assembly like that by putting the object in a sealed tin with common white rice for a couple of days. The rice is hygroscopic and absorbs moisture, and will eventually clear it up. I've used this trick on old mechanical watches (anybody remember those? anybody still wearing one that you have to wind up )?

I wear my grandads old pocket watch! Just on Sundays! During the week I wear my Dads!

 

[dixstir]

working in the yard on day on a truck after the job was done I pick up my tools and walking back to the shop there was a piece of paper laying one the ground so I looked at it and it was a counter check with my dads name on it I was schocked I have lived here 35 years and pops had passed away before I bought our place still got the check dont have a clue how it got here.

 

[The Haymaker]

I never find anything cool.
My Dad was tilling a few years back for a customer and fetched up on something solid. Tried going forward, then back, then lifted and whatever it was let go...... Revealing the main water shutoff for the house..... Never seemed to leak, but it is much higher than it used to be.
My older sister has a knack for finding things. She can be standing there talking to you and find one four leaf clover after another on the ground. When she was a kid, she came home from a 150 year old family cemetery that sits not far from here. In her hand was a 4" tall lead relief of a mans face. VERY detailed and intricately carved. So detailed, in fact, that you can see the stitching that cover his eyes and mouth. Freaky, no idea if it is indian (we are right on the Kennebec) or "white man".

Anyone have ideas? It is kept in a secret place OUTSIDE my dads home. We are all uncomfortable with it being too close at hand. Story is my Dad had some indian blood friends and he showed it to them. They said "get rid of it" as they were headed out the door and never came back.

Odd.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Wow This thread still going? I guess so!

Any way, we've had 3 days without rain. That, after 19" of rain in 16 days. It was time to mow 2 weeks ago. Today was a no brainer.....I HAD to cut a couple fields along the back of my property. You never expect to find anything new on ground you've mowed 100 times, but something caught my eye and I got stopped just in time. I backed up, got out of the tractor, and checked the cardboard box wrapped in plastic that seemed so out of place sitting along the fence row. Good thing I did. 9mm Glock that looked like it had already been hit with a bush hog, 2 screw drivers, 3 cell phones, a couple large rings full of keys, a mag light, and a police scanner. Some kids burglary kit.....

Called the police. They kindly took it off my hands.

 

[milkman636]

last week, a manual transmission from a volkswagon. It was about 95% sunk into the ground from being there for a loooong time.

 

[Soundguy]

Wow This thread still going? I guess so!

Any way, we've had 3 days without rain. That, after 19" of rain in 16 days. It was time to mow 2 weeks ago. .

3 days and no rain.. wow.. down here in fl.. it's been 3 months with no rain.. grass is dead.. and I'm still feeding out hay

send some rain down here please..

soundguy

 

[Redneck in training]

New Idea pull behind PTO powered mower. Some parts might be salvageable if anybody needs them. I also found bunch of stainless steel shims of various thickness, old shoes, jacket, 10 feet of multi fiber telecom cable, lots of barbwire (that is a b@tch to get out of bush hog), golf balls, big bearing housing of locomotive engine size.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

last week, a manual transmission from a volkswagon. It was about 95% sunk into the ground from being there for a loooong time.

My father-in-law, God rest his sole, collected Volkswagons. He also had an old TD9 IH crawler loader. When he got too many junk parts laying around, he would dig a big hole in his back yard, shove the old parts in, then cover then up with dirt.

A couple years after he passed away, my mother-in-law wanted new clothes line poles put up in her yard. I dug a dozen holes before I could get 2 far enough in the ground to hold the poles. Kept hitting Vee Dub fenders, hubcaps, floor pans, engine blocks, ect...

 

[Farmwithjunk]

3 days and no rain.. wow.. down here in fl.. it's been 3 months with no rain.. grass is dead.. and I'm still feeding out hay

send some rain down here please..

soundguy

It's a wonder some of this water hasn't found it's way down there yet....! We've got water standing in places where I've NEVER seen it. No rain in the forecast today. THat's unusual.....It's Kentucky Derby Day. Usually foul weather on first Saturday in May.

 

[woodlandfarms]

This fall I found a car buried on the property. Crushed up somewhat flat then attempted to bury. Had been covered in blackberries. Thankfully this time no brush hog involved in the find. Am going to pull it out this summer when my buddy comes up with his Deer Dozer.

Carl