Things found in the field

[IXLR8]

Is there any chance the magnet would mess up the cell phone any? Thanks for the link, when I get my new phone I am going to be looking for one hopefully with a snap lock.

My contractor has one, loves it, no issues with the phone. My realtor had one, seems every time he pulled the ringing phone out of the holder the magnet would cause it to 'accept' the call and by the time he got the phone open... the call was disconnected. No issues since he got a holder with a velcro 'latch'. I am guessing it is phone dependant. I am looking for something similar. The contractor has a Motorola phone, no clue what the realtor has.

 

[Rowdius]

Let's see:

About ten years ago I was working for a company mowing the state right of ways in Taylor county. Along side of I-20, my 15' batwing found two chains, each about 15-20 ft long. It made just a little bit of noise.

Later, same company, different county I found what appeared to be 20 miles of barbed wire. Whoever replaced the nearby fence didn't even roll it up to throw it in the ditch, just cut loose from the posts and let it lay. Looked back and saw something snaking through the grass. Of course it had to happen on the center hub of the shredder. Took forever to unwind/ cut off.

Same job, in shackleford county a coworker found a dead body in what he thought was an abandoned car.


In 2000 I was running a D6 dozer and 325 trackhoe just north of Ft Worth. Would find all sorts of different sized fossilized shells. Tried to dig a huge one (about six feet across) out with the trackhoe, but it busted.

My father was running a D8 dozer on a wind energy project near here and found an unexploded artillery shell from WWII. The sight is near an old practice range, and all the operators had to carry books showing the different types of shells used over the years on that range.

 

[JSharp]

I can relate to finding a wallet. I was filling some holes in the drive last winter during a thaw. Just back blading some rock in and smoothing things out. I noticed a dark object on a couple of the passes. No big deal right?

Then I notice a friend who had been watching me standing there with my wallet in his hand that he'd pulled out of the puddle I was filling.

A couple weeks later I'd been out plowing snow and taking some pictures. I realized a spare camera battery I had in my coat was missing. Walked the drive and the length of road I plowed but no luck finding it.

2 weeks later when the snow melted there it was. Dried it out and recharged it and I'm still using it...

 

[Egon]

The wallet stories are interesting.

Not on topic with tractors but some years ago working on a company project there was a wallet incidence.

There was a plant revision going on and one of the welders [ 25 or so contract welders ] working on a 24 inch 160 schedule flare pipe lost his wallet. Later on when we were pressure testing the line and blowing it down His wallet popped out the top of a 150 foot stack!

 

[rox]

lets see...ive found plenty of chains, a few old metal buckets, railroad track, i found an old pair of logging tongs and skidder cable with my tiller, an old john deere 1 row planter buried about 3 inches under the dirt in one of my fields, and my most precious find- while clearing some trees with the brown tree cutter back in the woods i came across some old pieces of metal. nothing special i thought. i keep cutting. a few minutes later i come across a tree and notice some chain hanging down. i look up and about 18 feet up in the limbs is an old horse drawn hay rake. i was amazed. it mustve been 8 feet wide. two trees had grown through it and carried it up there. i had to have it so i borrowed my buddys cherry picker and crane and cut the son of a gun out and it now resides in the open part of my yard across the driveway from the house.

That is a pretty cool story. A pic would be fun to see of that.

 

[pitt_md]

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.

 

[slewisma]

So far I've been doing the opposite. Haven't found much yet but seem to have a knack for losing things and, I think, burying them for me or someone else to find in the future.

Was removing a stump and filling the hole it left behind when it got cloudy last week. Cloudy enough that sunglasses needed to come off. I stuck them on the brim of my hat and kept working. At some point they came off. I've walked the area and the path from garage to there and they are nowhere to be found so I'm pretty sure their at the bottom of the hole.

Nice Oakley's but older and scratched so I'm not going to spend time trying to dig them up without damaging them.

After that I lost the nut and bearings from the seat in the BX24. Dealer didn't locktite 'em the first time around but they sure made sure to do that when they came out to replace the lost parts on a free service call.

 

[AlanB]

Oh, I did find 1/2 of my sons carbon arrow he lost in the mulch pile with the front loader They found the other half the next day doing mulch.

 

[334 lawn co.]

That is a pretty cool story. A pic would be fun to see of that.

ill get pics of it next time i head up there.

 

[Scotman]

Interesting 334, though I question your theory on how it got up there. My understanding is trees don't really grow "up". New growth is up, but existing growth stays at the same height (arborists, feel free to confirm/deny this theory). In any event, I wonder if your tree-bound rake was tossed up there by a tornado/hurricane some-time back and never got rescued?

Cool find, no matter how it got there.

You are correct about the growth of the trees. If the rake was 8 feet in the air when found, it was 8 feet in the air when lost. Tornado or some very serious wind of some sort was most likely the cause.

I harvest trees and mill lumber as a hobby and you'd be amazed at the stuff trees have within their bark.