Things found in the field

[slowzuki]

I've found most of my stuff bushhogging, cinder blocks, old doors off ovens, wire etc. When landscaping my septic I did find a mess of old iron/steel bits and leather horse harness. I think someone had burried it all years ago and we unearthed it on one of the trenches.

 

[jbrumberg]

I have returned cinder blocks (previous owner) back to cinders, a cow femur that one of my dogs brought home which really messed up my rotary cutter as it made bone meal, and the most exciting was a yellow jacket hornets nest . I wish that I had at least one more higher gear range . Jay

 

[tallyho8]

I have returned cinder blocks (previous owner) back to cinders, a cow femur that one of my dogs brought home which really messed up my rotary cutter as it made bone meal, and the most exciting was a yellow jacket hornets nest . I wish that I had at least one more higher gear range . Jay

Or a cab!

 

[studor]

I have "found" all kinds of things with the rotary cutter, box blade, fel and snowblower.
Antique bottles that survived being dug out with a high hoe and run over with a box blade, old machinery parts that are harder than cutter blades, teeth from my own bucket, chainsaw case (with the snowblower don't ask), single gloves, rabbits nests, beaver skulls (very big orange teeth!!), dead deer, bolts and nuts, beer bottles (not mine), full packs of cigarettes (usually wet -- when I smoked), old wire (with both the blower and the cutter of course!!), gun parts (a full clip!!) and other things I try to forget.
Unfortunately of all the things I have "found" none seem to equal the cost of "finding" them.

 

[RobJ]

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.

I agree with Rob, had that discussion many times. a limb 4' off the ground is always going to be 4' off the ground. It will get bigger around.

Interesting find for sure.

 

[AlanB]

Same thing as when folks carve their names in the tree, they stay at basicly the same height.

 

[easygo]

I have found about four or five spoons on various pars of my property. Two of them were unearthed by the tiller and looked rough but most certainly old. Two or three others I found while working in the woods. They are the kind that are rather deep by today's standards and were all silver coated. Some of my woods were pasture long enough time ago that there are some 15-20" diameter trees grow there now.

 

[Gary Fowler]

A few week ago while bush hogging, I ran under some low hanging limbs and got swiped in the face for my effort. I continued working for a couple of rounds and finally realized that I no longer had my glasses on. I knew about where to look and luckily I found them but only after I had ran them over with the tractor. They were all bent up but not broken and one lens popped out. I took them back to the Walmart store and amazingly the straightened it all out and put the lens back it. It was not even scratched. That was a $400 find.

 

[Egon]

There was a Farmstead on the Play farm. Many a year ago the house burnt down. I've been finding all kinds of iron and glass/ceramic materials as I till.

 

[dbdartman]

I guess I've been lucky. The only thing I've found in my field besides weeds is holes. Found a spot where (I assume) one of my idiot neighbors buried a truck up to it's frame in the mud a few years prior. After hitting this spot 3 times, & taking out the shear bolt on the mower 3 times, I filled & graded it. I know this was done by a stuck truck because you could see the tracks in & out on satellite photos! Found a couple other holes (by "holes" I mean areas about 6'X10'X almost 1' deep) close to the idiot neighbor's place. These didn't take out the shear bolt, but would scare me when I fell in them. My brother was watching from the back deck while I filled those. He was surprised, & shocked, that it took me 3-4 FULL buckets of fill each before he saw any of the fill after I dumped it.

Oh, the only other thing worth mentioning found while mowing the field was just last month when I discovered a large area of raw septic run-off, again from the idiot neighbor's place! Called the county health inspector first thing Monday morning, a couple days later he came out, looked it over, & had a talk with the neighbors. A week later one of the local septic guy's truck was parked there for hours. I guess it'll be another week or so before I get back out there to see if the problem has been addressed.

BTW, the reason I call them "idiot neighbors" is because their land survey shows a PROPOSED 50' right-of-way NEXT to their property. They assumed this gave them the right to use this 50' piece as their own. They removed our survey stakes, TWICE, then the woman that lives there cursed (like a drunken sailor) the guys working for me when they were setting the survey stakes back in place again in preparation for installing a fence. Police were called, yadda, yadda, yadda, then it took more than a year before the township attorney would say, "That is YOUR property line, you CAN put up your fence there." (see fence in attachment)