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!