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Growing TOOLS instead of crops.

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Mark J. in Mi

08-09-2005 11:24:38




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I was cultivating with my 1949 Farmall M and to my surprize I unearthed a draw bar pin I lost 4 years ago. Now I have cultivated that area several times and figured it gone. Curious what items have you guys found under the ground. Suprize! Surprize! Surprize!




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P White

08-11-2005 23:05:33




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
Plowed up an old rusty lantern a few years back. Looked like it had been there a long time. It was still burning. Forgive me~~~~I have a bad habit of telling lie's.



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Jimmy King

08-10-2005 05:34:39




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
My Dad and I had bulldozed out a fence row 25 years ago and while building the new fence found a civil war belt buckel.



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GordoSD

08-09-2005 20:39:30




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
Lost my wallet while discing a few years ago. Got the 4 wheeler out and went MILES looking for it. No luck. Next morning went out to run the tractor and there it was , lying on top of the left rear axle. God is with the good guys.

Gordo



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bruce christian

08-09-2005 19:42:42




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
well my brother-in-law found a big rock. it took my neighbor's backhoe to get it out. once out we noticed that there was two sticks of dynamite, decayed, and old sitting underneath the rock. cool as you could see the perfect outline of the dynamite sticks and paper fragments that were left from years of sitting.



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RayP(MI)

08-09-2005 18:05:29




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
Son plowed up a John Deere lug wrench this spring. Went to my dad"s "47 JD B. I grew up with that tractor, and it never had the factory wrench, in my memory. Figure it was lost for over 50 years, maybe more. Yes, it"s a little rusty, but it still fits the proper bolt heads. We now have a restored "49 that son did coupla years back, to compare it with.



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Was plowing with a Farmal

08-09-2005 18:08:23




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to RayP(MI), 08-09-2005 18:05:29  
Son was plowing with a Farmall 200 when he dug up the wrench. That should qualify for this board!
RayP(MI)



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Dellbertt

08-09-2005 17:15:23




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
I keep turning up red and white pottery. Lot"s of it. Parts of butter churns. BUT, I still can"t find my favorite grease gun I left on the plow rail.



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John M

08-09-2005 16:50:55




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
Found a handcrank for my M that Dad lost some 20 yrs ago, a hammer that I thought was long gone, but my mst important find ever was a few years back when I was bushhogging, a human skeleton.



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Redmud

08-09-2005 18:17:22




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to John M, 08-09-2005 16:50:55  
OK John, some of us want to hear about the skeleton. So what happened with it?



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John M

08-10-2005 18:06:40




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Redmud, 08-09-2005 18:17:22  
I had been out bushhogging for about 4 hrs and was nearly done except for the "ditch" near the road. I ususally leave that for last as well as about 15 ft or so on my side of the ditch.I do that because there are two old driveways and a couple of power poles so I go near those slower.Anyways,I have made the pass on the road side of the ditch,turned around and was coming down my side of teh ditch,I just happen to look down and see what I first thought was a deer skeleton,as we have quie a few deer get hit here.I stopped,cut off the PTO,idled the M down and climbed off.there it was, a human skull,and other peices not really scattered but not together(Not fully decomposed,but nearly). Local law,SLEd,coroaner and a few others I dont rememebrr were all out there.COme to find out the guy had beem missing for about 5 months.Coroner said that he had to have been hit by a car by the amount of damage to his bones. I was on the news and all!

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scotc

08-09-2005 16:32:24




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
fuel caps. Pins. old pipes when clearing ground. Just dug up a peice of old pipe that ran from the spring back in the woods to our barn. Taking part of a wall down setting up shop in the barn we were able to keep I knocked a peg (not on a critical structural post, one that held the old wall in place) out of a beam. It's a bit wierd thinking that the last person to hold that little peice of wood or that length of pipe has been dead for decades now.

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workhorse

08-09-2005 16:25:27




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
The famly story on my great aunt was while plowing with a steelwheel 10-20 international, she came upon a plow in the furrow ahead of her. after looking behind her tractor, she discovered her plow missing. She was a old maid school teacher and had many stories in her history



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Paul Shuler

08-09-2005 15:52:36




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
When my dad was a kid , him and his older brother found a bone handled folding knife following my grandpa while he plowed with his mules. I still have the knife and a box of arrowheads and spear points and black smooth rock with a sharp edge on one end. Looks a little like an ax head. Dad was 6 or 7 when the knife was found and he is 83 now. Most of that good bottom ground is under Stockton Lake now in S W MO.

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Dave_Id

08-09-2005 14:39:24




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
I was busting virgin ground with a tiller, and I found a large pile of wire from bales. Not fun untangling that mess.



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44JIM

08-09-2005 14:32:11




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
A WALLET PLOWED UNDER THE PREVIOUS FALL IN THE SPRING. STILL INTACT WITH THE $90 I HAD IN IT WHICH WAS RECOGNIZABLE AND I TOOK TO THE BANK AND GOT THE $ REPLACED.
ALSO MY WIFE'S SHIRT FROM THE PREVIOUS SPRING WHEN SHE WAS PLOWING WITH THE OTHER TRACTOR AND WANTED MORE SUN. IT FELL OFF THE BACK OF THE SEAT AND SHE PLOWED IT UNDER. SHE DID HAVE HER BRA ON. SHE WANTED ME TO GO DOWN THE ROAD 2 MILES TO GET HER ANOTHER ONE BUT I MADE HER DRIVE HOME AND GET HER OWN. 30 YEARS AGO. AHHH YOUTH.

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dean hamer

08-09-2005 13:05:41




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
I have a shelf heading down to my basement where I keep my stuff. The farm has been in the family for over 40 years now, I'm the second generation now. I have added pliers, railroad spikes, small glass jars, Hammer heads, and most recent, A phillips 66 metal quart oil can. Pretty cool!



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Andy Martin

08-09-2005 12:55:36




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
I lost my checkbook while building a 2 acre pond with my TD-14A. Looked and looked and finally determined I had covered it up. Two hours later I saw it shining. It was dirty and had a growser mark on it but otherwise unhurt.

I like to find old horse-drawn parts in the fields. It is a conneciton to those who have gone before. Harness rings, cultivator shoes, mule shoes and horse shoes are the most common.

When you find an old hoe head in the middle of a field you know somebody else has spent a lot of time in that same field.

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Peabody

08-09-2005 12:46:31




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
I'm still looking for a checkbook that fell out of my pocket while discing with an M about 12 years ago.



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KenSWLA

08-09-2005 12:41:05




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
In an old garden spot I find something everytime I turn the dirt over including broken glass, plow parts, cast iron stove parts but most commonly petrified wood.



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Bob M

08-09-2005 12:32:33




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
A a few tools and a bunch of other stuff:

- 18" crescent wrench (cleaned up nice!)
- Vice grips I'd lost the previous fall.
- A 20' x 3/4" chain (HEAVY! - apparently accidentally buried when a petroleum pipeline went thru the field 20+ years earlier)
- A digital watch and a Stanley thermos lost the year before by my father in law (the watch was only off by a couple minutes, but the coffee had gotten cold)
- A radiosonde (NOAA weather balloon instrument package)
- A couple flint arrowheads and a spear point
- Double bit axe
- A brassiere (size 34 C)....but somewhat disappointingly no trace of it's owner
- A 2 way hand held radio lost and squashed flat on the previous round by my son.

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VanO

08-09-2005 17:33:53




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Bob M, 08-09-2005 12:32:33  
While busting ground here in northern Arkansas I looked down and saw the decapted head of Santa Clause himself. He hade this black eye and his head was mashed flat. To this day I weep when thinking that I'll not get any more Christmass gifts. I wanted a coulter for my #8 little Genius plow. I took his little head in the house, washed it off and its on the window seal to this day. Sorry Santa.



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Galen

08-09-2005 14:40:43




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Bob M, 08-09-2005 12:32:33  
Back when I was a Highway Constuction Inspector, one of the contractor's breakdown roller operators dropped her Stanley thermos between the rollers. Squashed it flat, but never broke the seal. That night we worked the stopper out and she still had hot coffee. I sent it in to Stanley (with the story of how it met it's demise) and they sent me a brand new thermos. Tried to give it to the girl who lost it, but she'd already bought a new one.

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harnessbc

08-09-2005 13:00:54




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Bob M, 08-09-2005 12:32:33  
..... ..thanx for your humor, bob..... .." A digital watch and a Stanley thermos lost the year before by my father in law (the watch was only off by a couple minutes, but the coffee had gotten cold)"..... .gee, i remember when the stanley thermos would keep drinks hot for a good spell..... ...best wishes, bill

..... ..btw, is the steam show in canandaigua clearly marked with signs for those who haven't attended previously????? ..... .

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Bob M

08-09-2005 17:47:53




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to harnessbc, 08-09-2005 13:00:54  
My beat up old Stanley still keeps stuff hot (or cold) despite an unplanned trip beneath a bush hog about 10 years ago. It sure looks ratty however...

The Canandiagua steam show this weekend is clearly marked. If you are on US 5 & 20 between Canandaigua and Geneva it's hard to miss. As just watch for the signs - or look the plumes of coal smoke on the north side of the road!



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Missouri Boy

08-09-2005 16:16:16




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to harnessbc, 08-09-2005 13:00:54  
How does a Thermos bottle which drinks to keep cold and which ones to keep hot without any way of setting it or telling it?



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Jon Bottum

08-09-2005 18:29:34




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Missouri Boy, 08-09-2005 16:16:16  
On the same lines, why does your morning cup of coffee get cold & your afternoon soda get warm when they set for awhile?



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scotc

08-09-2005 16:22:29




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Missouri Boy, 08-09-2005 16:16:16  
Maybe its alien technology forced upon us by our oversized federal government



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scotty

08-09-2005 12:51:43




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Bob M, 08-09-2005 12:32:33  
Bob, I love your humor!

scotty



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old

08-09-2005 11:58:11




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
Was gradeing my drive way a couple months back and found a chain. It was rusty but still good enough to use, about 10 foot long. Also a couple years ago was tilling a garden spot and tilled up a pair of vise grips



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john d

08-09-2005 11:30:47




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to Mark J. in Mi, 08-09-2005 11:24:38  
Old horseshoes, harness rings (one right on the end of a plow point) bolts, a couple of old drawbar pins, a very rusty adjustable wrench, and some arrowheads.



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Stickler

08-10-2005 09:20:49




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to john d, 08-09-2005 11:30:47  
Horseshoes, harness rings, shotgun shells, lead balls, traps, a jack-all, axe heads, tampon applicators (they're everywhere in the garden, I think a previous owner maybe dumped the septic field sludge there as organic fertilizer?), lots of deer antlers and a couple complete skulls, a cow skull with horns, an 1893 survey marker, a pocket watch, a ring of very old keys, a 3 point scoop buried in an old manure pile, glass insulators, chains, a 10' tandem disc (previous two owners were there 13 years and 20 years and had never found it. My wife hit the damned thing with the ZTR mower and knocked a blade off it. Can you hear the CLANG from where you are?) a John Deere Model 19 chain saw, and I think the bra-less woman was on a world tour! I found a 34C bra in my woods too. Nice lacy black one. I would have liked to meet its occupants too!

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Janicholson

08-09-2005 20:23:13




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 Re: Growing TOOLS instead of crops. in reply to john d, 08-09-2005 11:30:47  
Cultivating (two row mounted) on our SH in 4" high Soybeans I noticed a pare of wide flat lips in the soil just ahead of the front shovels. Clutch in, stand on the brakes, got it stopped in time. Idled down, neutral, jumped off and looked. At first they seemed to be mummified, but I then saw that they may have been eating something. My single blade Case knife pried them open. It was a twenty dollar bill!
The lips were the abused and weathered corner of my cousins wallet lost 4 years earlier making hay. He has learned to keep it in his front pocket. There was 72 bucks in the wallet, he gave me 20. not bad for 1966.
Jim Nicholson

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