Things found in the field

[MikeD74T]

While bush hogging I found a hide-a-bed couch a previous owners tennant burned to save disposal fee. I had to remove the disk to get all the wire out. MikeD74T

 

[Gravdigr]

My property was logged a number of times. My finds only cost me money. So far I have 2000' of cable, maybe 5 20' chains of various thickness, tons of fenceposts and sheepwire, a few mailboxes, a culvert and this bad boy. A rake from a d8 dozer. That cost me a new set of blades. All of this is buried deep in the blackberries and brush, and my mower is on front so it finds things first. Oh and last week I killed the phone line for the whole road. Amazing how far those metal phone boxes will fly and all those tiny tiny wires they have inside...

There is a body somewhere on the property. Doubt I will find it with the mower, but the archeological inspector (some guy who checks to make sure your property is not a burial ground before you construct) told me that if you find mocassins on the feet stop, if you find Nikes on the feet keep going.

I find bodies every time I mow my yard

I generally find the usual stuff when mowing the fields: bunnies, baseballs, tennisballs, arrows, cans and bottles....glass bottles explode wonderfully.

 

[jasperab]

I always liked Paul Harvey's stories when he did the ads for Alladin Stanley Steel thermos. A woman wrote in to say her husband lost his thermos while plowing and found it the next year, good as new.
The best story however was the lady who claims her husband was asleep in the deer stand and awoke to find a large buck standing under the stand. He reached for his gun, kicked over the thermos, and the last he saw of it was as it went over the hill on the deer's antlers.
Pauls reply, " and I'll bet you're going to tell me that the next year he shot the same deer, recovered the thermos, and the coffee was still hot".

Most interesting field find I ever recovered was an "indian" artifact. About 8" long, 3/4" in the middle, and tapering on each end. Made of green hardstone.
I tried for years to find someone who knew what it was for, and finally I showed it to a collector I know in St. Louis, and he started laughing and said he knew exactly what it was. Not Indian! When he was a boy he cut hay with a hand scythe, and it was a sharpening stone for the blade.

 

[leftybob]

A few years back my Father in law owned a city block in a small river town in Missouri. The city got on his case about high weeds so I had at that time a Farmall Cub with a brush hog type belly mower. So I drove over to mow for him. The first round the front wheels ran over a car wheel next a car hood. Luckly I didnt hit it with the mower. The next pass I was'nt so luckly I wraped a braided rug around the mower blades. What a mess. It took some time to cut that loose. I guess the people living there thought the high weeds was a good place to ger rid of their trash.

 

[zionview]

For years I managed a 1,500 acre prison farm. We found horseshoes for workhorses every year. Once, we pulled up what I believe was a flathead Ford engine block that was buried. Back in the seventies, we bought half the neighbor's farm. We took out the fencerows so we could farm on the contour. We found medicine bottles, old coins and an ink well.

 

[backdoor]

I found a round thing one time when I was disking some newground that had recently been cleared. I saw it in the disked area as I made my next round. I guess it is a marble, it is about one and one half inches in diameter and seems to be made of unglazed crock material. It is fairly smooth, not chisled out of rock or such.

 

[sunnyside360]

I've found stone arrow heads, horse shoes, small hammer (for fixing horse shoes), lots of animal skeletons, parts/remnants from school desks from old one room school house.

 

[EddieWalker]

I found two old trailers, one I just left there and is still rusting away, the other one is in my shop storage area. It was a real gem and a great find tucked into the trees. I found both of them by bush hogging areas between planted pines and old growth hardwoods that was very overgrown. From the condition of the tires, it had been sitting there for quite a few years.

Eddie

 

[Gravdigr]

I dunno about out your way but around here 1 call to a scrapper and if that buried trailer has any weight to it they will take it out for you. Up here in the hillbilly mountains scrapping is pretty serious business. I actually have a job waiting for me, about 10 ton of rusted farm equipment needs cut and hauled. About $1,600 worth of scrap give or take.

 

[actionaj]

Many years ago I was mowing an empty lot that had a bunch of junk construction equipment on it. The lot had been cleaned up the year before I got the job mowing it. I hit a buried cable and it wrapped around the blade sucking the mower to the ground. I had to dig under the mower to get to the cable to cut it. It stopped the tractor dead cold and took rest of the day to get it free. Steal cables are bad thing to hit especially half buried ones.