What Have you unexpectedly found when Digging?

[BrentP]

We dug up some old Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer cans (PBR) with the old "peel off" tops. Also some bullets, old coins, railroad spikes, and weird pieces of metal.

 

[cp1969]

cp I woulda found brown shorts after that experiance

It was exciting--it sounded like a stick of dynamite. A laborer was standing pretty close to the hole and he took off running, didn't stop until he was about 100 yards away.

I knew it was there--somewhere. But I was not expecting it to be that shallow, not in conduit, and among tree roots.

The power company came out and fixed it. About three feet lower was a 169,000 volt line, but a least it was in a concrete conduit.

ps: Not just the shorts--I think my jeans were brown as well.

 

[Farwell]

I dug up what was left of an old wooden manure spreader. Lots of square chain and several gears that the chain rode on. Most of the wood had rotted away.
Lots of rock from an old barn foundation. The barn had burned years ago according to one of the original owners children.

 

[D7E]

No bulls@#t , when we lived in england i rented some extra potato land that had been in pasture for as long as the owner could remember , while plowing 14 inches deep i turned up an unexploded german shell left over from world war 2 , Whole farm got zoned off and bomb squad got called in ?

 

[Grrrr]

No bulls@#t , when we lived in england i rented some extra potato land that had been in pasture for as long as the owner could remember , while plowing 14 inches deep i turned up an unexploded german shell left over from world war 2 , Whole farm got zoned off and bomb squad got called in ?

Dunno if there are any Belgium members here, but the Belgium farmers plow up lots of unexploded stuff from WW1. They just pick the things up and take it to the side of the field and pile it up. Once a week a man comes along with a van and picks it up and takes it away for detonation.

They have so much stuff that if they didn't find anything else ever thge controlled explosion people would have enough stuff to detonate to keep them in business for the next 20 years.

When I went there they were doing some roadworks and there must have been 40 shells piled up. One of the workmen picked one of them up and showed it to us.

Pretty regular occurence there.

 

[Dougster]

Not nearly as exciting as buried electrical lines or WW1/WW2 ordinance... but I got quite a surprise when I dug up an old set of painted, plastic composite shutters dating from when my house was built in 1975. All the shutters were taken off the house shortly after they were put up due to hornet nests and other difficult bug problems at the time and never put back up. They've been stored in the basement ever since.

A few years ago, we thought about putting them back up... but we were surprised to find we were one set short!

Guess I found them... CRUNCH!!!

Dougster

 

[pycoed]

<Tongue in cheek>
Mate of mine, a builder in Wales was working on converting old barns over in Devon, which is only 50 miles as the seagull flies (across the Severn estuary), but about 150 by road.
One day he dug up an old brown bottle in the floor of a mediaeval barn he was restoring. He pulled the stopper out & shazzam!! up popped a genie.

"Ooo arrr ooo arrr ooo arr!" said the genie(they do that a lot down Devon way), this is your lucky day, 500 years I've been awaiting someone to let me out of that old bottle, now I'll grant ye any wish ye care to name"

"Great" said my mate " Every week I have to drive 300 miles to get to these barn jobs, what I really want is a bridge across the water - it'll save me a fortune in diesel"

"Oh my Gawd, now then, have a bit of sense" said the genie "50 miles across the second highest tides in the world, 52ft rise on a big spring, facing straight into the Atlantic, biggest winds in Britain,what a job! Be reasonable, man, go on have another try"

"Well" my mate thought "I've been married now for 28 years & I've got two daughters 19 & 25, & I still can't understand women. Do you think you could tell me the secret of knowing what they want?"

" Bloody ****!" said the genie " How much concrete do you think this bridge is going to take then?"

 

[RichNJKubota]

You guys find all the good stuff. All I ever find is ROCKS!

 

[weldingisfun]

Pycoed, now that was funny.
Thanks!

 

[MossRoad]

I had a small depression in my yard that kept getting deeper. The neighbor said there was a spetic tank there that was collapsing. I started digging and found an empty suitcase, a toy baby stroller, a couple empty paint cans and a plastic ketchup bottle. Under that was the lid of a perfectly good septic tank that the kitchen sink still uses.

For some reason, the previous owner piled all that stuff on top of the lid and burried it. Weird!

 

[shvl73]

I found 2 55gal drums filled with rocks. Not too exciting and I want to keep it that way. If I start finding body parts, I'm moving!

 

[LBrown59]

I don't fool with any thing other than gold silver and diamonds.
So far I haven't had to fool with any thing!

 

[LBrown59]

13,000 volt power line. Buried loose in the ground, about 4 feet deep alongside a hedge row.

Had you called before you dug?

 

[Kendall69]

My land sit in the middle of the Desert, 30 some feet BELOW sea level. When I was back hoeing I came across a layer of sea shells, thousands of them , strange being hundreds of miles from water. The whole area was once under water.
Then in another area I hit what looked like an old dump site, and dug up hundreds of very old bottles in strange shapes and weird colors, some seemd like perfume bottles, all in perfect condition, because they were just in sand.

 

[Ductape]

Hmm...... i can tell you what the next guy is going to dig up out behind my barn !!!

 

[cp1969]

Had you called before you dug?

Yes. As I said before, we knew they were there.

 

[RichM96067]

Hi All,
All of us who own tractors naturally love to dig, turn up ground and make holes (sometimes for no good reason). I proudly admit when my tractor was new i love to make holes with my backhoe out of boredom and for practice.
I have dug up some weird looking stuff here on the old farm and no clue what it may be. I will post pic here and I think it would be fun to hear other folks digging stories of unexpected finds, hopefully not in the 220 volt range. So lets hear them guys. These seem to me made of hard clay with somthing brittle in the middle

Chris

Looks like white rubber tires, hardened from age. Old cast iron toys (cars/trucks/motorcycles) had these white rubber tires. I have lots of em.

 

[pat32rf]

We bought our place when the bank repo-ed it from a rather shady family. The man of the family was in jail at the time and his wife explained that the dodge motor in the barn was her brothers and didn't come with the deal. Sure enough, at closing date the motor was gone and I forgot about it until I got my hoe and found a complete P/U truck frame burried behind the barn, about 6" down. The next year I was moving a brush pile for a bigger storage area and found the cab. Still haven't found the box.....

 

[MossRoad]

My land sit in the middle of the Desert, 30 some feet BELOW sea level. When I was back hoeing I came across a layer of sea shells, thousands of them , strange being hundreds of miles from water. The whole area was once under water.
Then in another area I hit what looked like an old dump site, and dug up hundreds of very old bottles in strange shapes and weird colors, some seemd like perfume bottles, all in perfect condition, because they were just in sand.

There's a place like that south west of South Bend, Indiana. It was a swamp until the 1800's, when it was drained. The area from here all the way to the Illinois border only has an 11' drop in elevation. At one time, it was a sea bed. If you go down 4-8' below the muck soil, there is a layer of sea shells about 4' thick, then sand. Pretty neat.

 

[Highbeam]

Besides the fairly common cable choker that was used to log in this area I have managed to find a four cylinder flat head. Cylinder head only from some sort of engine. Way out away from where people had been so it must have been being farmed/cleared/etc.

Oil filters and oil cans from an "in-the-field" oil change.