Things found in the field

[Gary Fowler]

Gravedigger: 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.

I dont know about cutting old farm equipment up for scrap. Look at some of the used equipment places on the net. Some of that "junk" is worth big bucks regardless of the condition as long as it is complete or semicomplete especially the old 2 row equipment that is so hard to find for CUT nowdays. I have seen old rusty 2 row cultivators selling for $500 and probably dont have over $80 in scrap value.

 

[horsebroke]

Back in the mid-80's, I bought a small farm in northern Virginia. Bush-hogging the field, I found a piece of metal sticking out of the ground. Started digging around it - and it was ATTACHED - to the "owner". It was the exhaust stack! Dug for several days, then called the local police. What it turned out to be was a Peterbilt Truck!

Police called in specialists and recovered it. Fully intact!. The VIN number reveiled that it was reported STOLEN by the previous owner of the property. Seems he bought this truck, hoping to make a living doing long hauls. Got in WAY over his head, and couldn't make ends meet, went broke, and owed over $50K on the truck and couldn't pay. So - he dug a hole, drove the truck into it, covered it up, planted grass, and reported the truck as STOLEN.

He went to jail as a result of my "find".

 

[vtcoyote]

Back in the mid-80's, I bought a small farm in northern Virginia. Bush-hogging the field, I found a piece of metal sticking out of the ground. Started digging around it - and it was ATTACHED - to the "owner". It was the exhaust stack! Dug for several days, then called the local police. What it turned out to be was a Peterbilt Truck!

Police called in specialists and recovered it. Fully intact!. The VIN number reveiled that it was reported STOLEN by the previous owner of the property. Seems he bought this truck, hoping to make a living doing long hauls. Got in WAY over his head, and couldn't make ends meet, went broke, and owed over $50K on the truck and couldn't pay. So - he dug a hole, drove the truck into it, covered it up, planted grass, and reported the truck as STOLEN.

He went to jail as a result of my "find".

wow what a story, the most notable thing i have found gave the hogger a nice little ding or two. it was a 2-1/2 foot tall by 8 in. diameter concrete cylinder, the worst part is that i had put it there "out of the way" a couple years back.

 

[capt jack]

I found a nest of ground hornets one time while shredding, Then 5-6 of them found me!

Jack

 

[jasperab]

Back in the mid-80's, I bought a small farm in northern Virginia. Bush-hogging the field, I found a piece of metal sticking out of the ground. Started digging around it - and it was ATTACHED - to the "owner". It was the exhaust stack! Dug for several days, then called the local police. What it turned out to be was a Peterbilt Truck!

Police called in specialists and recovered it. Fully intact!. The VIN number reveiled that it was reported STOLEN by the previous owner of the property. Seems he bought this truck, hoping to make a living doing long hauls. Got in WAY over his head, and couldn't make ends meet, went broke, and owed over $50K on the truck and couldn't pay. So - he dug a hole, drove the truck into it, covered it up, planted grass, and reported the truck as STOLEN.

He went to jail as a result of my "find".

I can relate to that! When I was clearing brush around one of the ponds I found frame parts from several motorcycles. The guy who rented the farm from grandpaw had stolen and stripped them for parts.
Also found some Model-T body parts, but too many bullet holes and rust to be useable.

 

[ChuckinNH]

A number of years ago I had a spell of finding broadheads that bowhunters had shot at deer feeding in my yard. I found a half dozen, or so one year. I kind of spread the word around that hunters were welcome, but my lawn made a poor deer stand, and the problem went away. Luckily, I never found one with the tires on my riding mower.

 

[Abe460]

These are some incredible finds. Thanks for sharing.

I live in Southwest Louisiana. I moved into this house with 22 acres (built in the early 1900s) two days after hurricane Rita came through. We couldn't even get to our home in Lake Charles at the time and our current home is 35 miles North East. I'm the fourth owner, last had it repoed, one before tried to remodel to make a few bucks and the first homesteaded it in the 1800's. Nobody had it more than a few months since the first owner.

Just bought the right tractor (3 weeks ago yesterday)to start fixing up the whole place. The previous year of research is what directed me to this site and it really is a priceless database of great information.

In a large pile of dirt and trash next to an old pig barn we've found lots of old china and bottles. My Mother researched some of the china and even chipped and broken its worth about $100 per piece. Too bad I can't find all the pieces or I'd super glue them back together for ten bucks. Found some really old soda bottles.

The very back of the property seems to have been a dump site for many, many years. There's alot of scrap oilfield pipe and other metal and an old rv. An axle from something I can't even begin to figure out since it's got wheels larger than my tractor and the axle is about 2' thick at the wheels. It was used behind something since there is no area for a driveshaft or connections to anything pto wise. An old guy down the road thinks it was built out of an old tractor to be towed as a sprayer...but whatever.

The most interesting find is something I thought had been there for years from the neighbors. About a year ago I found an old storage building 4x6 type with wood floor and sliding door. It is all collapsed and slightly mangled. I picked it up a little while walking the far pasture before brush cutting the 3' high brush. I first discovered the really large wasp nest and thought I was going to visit the emergency room that night. I came back the next evening armed with alot of insect spray and fixed that problem. The next weekend I turned it over with a chain on the truck and discovered various tools. Lots of loose sockets and screwdrivers an old hand saw, an oil change tub, shop towels. The only thing worth keeping was a large handheld circular grinder. I have no idea how this could have gotten there other than the hurricane. Nobody put it there with any kind of vehicle that I know of since I check fence every weekend. Since the storm took down my barn and put metal in alot of trees around here I just assume. Oh an the grinder still works...I've sharpened my lawnmower blades a few times.

 

[Chuck_Lind]

When I was about 12 years old a friend and I were messing around on some sand dunes near Lake Erie. We found a couple bones and took them back to his dad, a doctor, he said they looked human. We called the mounties and they sent someone out, it seems we stumbled on an old indian burial ground.

Ran across some bones while brushogging...thought they were Jimmy Hoffa's; turned out to be Jim Morrison's.

 

[THB23]

We were baling hay this past year in about a 12 acre field. I had just got done raking and my cousin brought our new square baler (New Holland 575)out for the first time. As he started baling I was walking beside it adjusting it as it was making the first few bales. Got about two rounds done and realized my cell phone was missing out of my clip on my belt It had been on vibrate so I couldn't call it and listen for it. Needless to say I was mad at myself for not putting it in the toolbox. Got done baling, and was walking back to the 3600 to go to the barn and get the bale wagon and stepped on my phone What luck

 

[LBrown59]

Mowed last nite.
Didn't get done.
Was mowing this morning to finish up and spotted a baby rabbit in the clippings from yeaterdays mowing.
I'd hit it with the mower blades while mowing yesterday.
I neve saw it yesterday.