Things you find plowing

Charlie M · Jul 17, 2010

I was out plowing yesterday, getting ready for a fall seeding when I just happened to look down in the furrow and see a crank handle sticking up. Turns out to be a crank that would work on my M. I've been plowing the field off and on for 30 years - its surprising what turns up one day. I've found wrenches and plow points but this is the first time for a crank. I didn't loose it so its been there longer than 30 years. I wish someone would plow up the wallet I plowed under back in 1972.

Jeff Z. · Jul 17, 2010

You just never know.

JimB2 · Jul 17, 2010

Hi Charlie, the good news is the crank didn't end up in your tractor tire. Happened to my Dad once, an old hoe head into a wagon tire!!!

JimB

steve706 · Jul 17, 2010

In the spring I pulled up 2 full coils of barb wire(that fell to pieces)broken glass jars and a 10 ft iron rod. After using a metal detector I gave up on that chunk of land.

Hill-Billy Rock-Star · Jul 18, 2010

Im up in Michigan 30 miles west of Ann Arbor plowing along a creek bottom in black muck soil got off the tractor to take a leak look down and seen a rectangel shaped rock looked strange to me because most rocks around here are round. Look like a axe head even had a ring around it where there was a handel at one time. Took it over to U of M natural history museum. Turns out it was a tomahawk head anywhere from 500 to 10000 years old.

Absent Minded Farmer · Jul 18, 2010

I hope to find the Zippo & 2 Bic lighters I lost while plowing. Well, at least the Zippo. It was a '62! >:v(

pete 23 · Jul 18, 2010

About 65 years ago, our neighbor found a tomahawk stone while plowing by Minn Lake, Mn. I don't think he took it to any historical society for identification though, I believe it was authenticated at the Bears Den in town.

Larry B 1486 · Jul 18, 2010

Back in the early 1980's rented some ground and went in there with a plow and hit a old kitchen cast iron stove that someone buried years ago for some reason. Went a little further and hit some sort of what appeared to be a old feed grinder and other iron. Learned a little later there was a old house and barn that stood there in the late 1800's - early 1900's so I guess someone dug a hole and buried everything.

Rootsy · Jul 19, 2010

Been there done that.... Have turned up all kinds of items plowing and disking where old barns once stood... Long before I was even a thought...

Have a piece of flat stock iron sticking out of the ground right now not too far behind the house that I need to get the shovel around before I stick it through a tire...

IH fan · Jul 19, 2010

I can remember when I was a kid, Dad lost his wallet while cultivating corn and found it the next time through... the odds againt that had to be pretty high. All he knew was, it was in that 20 acre field. The whole family had walked all over it the day he lost it.

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