Anonymous-0
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Was plowing with my Farmall M and unearthed an old draw bar pin. It wasn't mine. Great shape.
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John G. Hasler
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Found a nice logging chain baling. I cannot for the life of me figure out how it got there. The field had been in hay for years. I also once found a (working) Timex watch while discing. I never seem to find any of the stuff I lose, though.
When I busted up my hayfied, previous it was timbered, but never came back... people called it the stump farm. I found several ax heads, parts of chains, hooks, cable. Everything associated with logging in the early 20th century. It was a part of the 1910 burn in N. Idaho.
Anonymous-0
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Dad had same experience with a log chain.
Hi: I plowed up a couple areas that had been used by the Rail road crews back in the 1890's when this local rail line was built. This pasture was never plowed and was about 10 acres of a small town that never grew. Lots of bits and pieces of pottery in what had to be a cooking area and iron items likely left by a blacksmith near the cooking area. None of the locals seemed too interested since they had heard of small items others had found also.. Gotta understand that the early white people first homesteading this area believed in Littering.. I suppose since the railroad was paying for everything, why not waste anything that gets in the way... The Railroad companies were big business in the late 1800's somewhat like big oil companies now. Google the mess stured up NorthWest of here by oil companies now in Western N. Dakota.
I found a horseshoe of my grandfather's, also a set of tire chains I lost off the back of a harrrow(used for weight) best thing was Craftsman 1/2 drive ratchet I lost about 3 years before while mowing the field. Cleaned it up and it works better than the new one I got to replace it only a couple rust spots where chrome chipped. Also lost a sledge hammer off the plow to find next time or for next generation.
GRAPE-DRANK
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I have heard stories of guys with metal detectors roaming fields in Hanover County Virginia finding tons of civil war era bullets, buttons and the occasional saber and buckle.
Several years back someone was working on Jimmy Dean's river plantation in Henrico Virginia had an unexploded cannon ball that was lodged between tree branches.
Several years back someone was working on Jimmy Dean's river plantation in Henrico Virginia had an unexploded cannon ball that was lodged between tree branches.
CenTex Farmall
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Instead of finding treasures, I'm leaving them for future generations; electric gate openers, hitch pieces, tractor bits, forgotten tools, pin from the loader and whatever else I haven't noticed missing yet.
Peculiar Farmer
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Turtle
Over the years, we found lots of arrowheads, stone axes, etc. When I was a kid, I had a "collection" of about 120 or so horseshes that had been found during tillage. One time, we had a plow that suddenly refused to stay in the ground. Found an old harness ring wedged onto the plow point! Wasn't easy to remove!
John Fulton
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Have found glass insulators from when phone line ran through field 50+ years ago. Also mule bits, shoes. The old fellow who used to farm this land has now passed on. Fields had gone to pine, I logged and cleared land. Numerous arrowheads also. All fields now in grass, so seldom find anymore treasures.
Anonymous-0
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Year's ago my Dad and Uncle use to pick corn together, my uncle had the corn picker and Dad bought an elevator. Dad lost a 12" crescent wrench one fall and my Uncle found it 7 or 8 year's later. It was rusted and pitted, but dad got it back to usable condition. After he passed away I got the wrench, carried and used it for a number of years and guess what I lost it, and have never found it. Also lost a brand new Diamalloy electrican pliers building fence, traced my steps several times and never found it either. So I guess I am better at losing than finding.
There was a regional saw mill on the farm I was raised on that ran back in the late 1800's. The field behind the farm stead was a mill village for the logging and saw mill crews. The mill was complete with tram roads and access to the railroad for shipping lumber. We plowed up everything from old bricks and pottery to 2 x 2 sheets of boiler plate. The rest of the farm was timber until my dad cleared it in 1949. For a dozen years we found so many arrow heads and flint axes that we almost considered them to be common rocks. Other than that the most common thing we hit was heart pine stumps.
William Eccles - Jardine
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Having lived in Ontario Canada between Sarnia / Port Huron crossing and London areas Here are several items that have been found Flint arrow heads in the area just east of Sarnia plowed up on different farms including my parents. Just the other day here at our Christian Camp grounds 12 miles east of London Some one
unearthed a rear axle and spring set for a buggy [ this had been a farm ing the early years of the twentyth century.
Dad { while he was alive} and I found coins and other items as well.
Wonderful to read what others have found. Some may be EXTREAMLY valuable //might even pay off that nagging loan. Hopefully!!!!!
unearthed a rear axle and spring set for a buggy [ this had been a farm ing the early years of the twentyth century.
Dad { while he was alive} and I found coins and other items as well.
Wonderful to read what others have found. Some may be EXTREAMLY valuable //might even pay off that nagging loan. Hopefully!!!!!
I never seem to find anything, but my dad lost his wallet the first time through cultivating corn... walked the field for hours and didn't find it, but found it cultivating the next time through. I'd bet half the tools he had were found on the roads... he'd be driving along and suddenly slam on the brakes and back up and there would be a Cresent wrench, rachet or something.
A gold watch.
We broke up a new garden plot on the edge of our yard and found the ground full of metal bits and pieces. An older lady relative who worked for the people who homesteaded our farm in the late 1800's-early 1900's, said that was those folks place to fix machinery. Among the metal bits to come out of the ground, was the center case and rear inner cover of a gold pocket watch. The steel watch movement was rusted away, but of coarse the gold was still shiny and intact.
A relative who is a watch and clock collector looked at that watch case and says it is a pre 1862 lever set watch. He could tell this by the lever set notch in the case.
I used a metal detector to search for the other watch covers, hoping one might have engraving that would identify the owner, but no luck. The ground is so full of metal that moving the metal detector one ft produces a dozen hits.
The metal detector gives a different tone for non ferrous metals like brass or gold, and I have found some of that in the form of door knobs and plates and shell casings, but no more gold watch parts. I suspect they are right beside or under a big chunk of iron / steel, so the detector is telling me that what is on that spot is iron / steel.
We have since let the garden plot go back to grass, so I suspect those other watch parts will never be found.
We broke up a new garden plot on the edge of our yard and found the ground full of metal bits and pieces. An older lady relative who worked for the people who homesteaded our farm in the late 1800's-early 1900's, said that was those folks place to fix machinery. Among the metal bits to come out of the ground, was the center case and rear inner cover of a gold pocket watch. The steel watch movement was rusted away, but of coarse the gold was still shiny and intact.
A relative who is a watch and clock collector looked at that watch case and says it is a pre 1862 lever set watch. He could tell this by the lever set notch in the case.
I used a metal detector to search for the other watch covers, hoping one might have engraving that would identify the owner, but no luck. The ground is so full of metal that moving the metal detector one ft produces a dozen hits.
The metal detector gives a different tone for non ferrous metals like brass or gold, and I have found some of that in the form of door knobs and plates and shell casings, but no more gold watch parts. I suspect they are right beside or under a big chunk of iron / steel, so the detector is telling me that what is on that spot is iron / steel.
We have since let the garden plot go back to grass, so I suspect those other watch parts will never be found.
Paul from MI
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Lost a wallet plowing as a kid, plowed it upp a year later. My $3 was still ok, but my drivers license was not very good. Lost a log chain one year discing, plowed it up three years later. A bit rusty but usable. Still lookin' for the $3million I lost, anyone seen it?
scott mcintosh
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This spring i plowed up cultivator spring tooth,last year I plowed up a log chain I lost about ten years ag
ther goodies I have plowed up are vise grips,hitch pins and a hammer.Five years ago when plowing up CRP ground for hire that came out I plowed up a three foot piece of four inch channel iron,cultivator shank,implement jack,plow coulter,some old hydraulic hoses and lots of other junk man what a mess.Scott
ther goodies I have plowed up are vise grips,hitch pins and a hammer.Five years ago when plowing up CRP ground for hire that came out I plowed up a three foot piece of four inch channel iron,cultivator shank,implement jack,plow coulter,some old hydraulic hoses and lots of other junk man what a mess.ScottJohn Fulton
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As long as the thread has changed to LOST items, I will fess up that I lost my wedding ring years ago by washing my hands with hand cleaner.... never found it even with a metal detector. My bride wouldn't let me off that easy, though, and soon put another on my finger!! LOL
State of Jefferson
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Found about four old, BIG handmade horse shoes when I was working up the yard around my house. Old farmstead.
Lost a $80 Wright Spud Crescent a couple years ago plowing a field. That'll raise he!! on a tractor tire if someone finds it spud-end-up!
Ben
Lost a $80 Wright Spud Crescent a couple years ago plowing a field. That'll raise he!! on a tractor tire if someone finds it spud-end-up!
Ben
NoNewParts
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garden is on an old barn site.
turned up countless foundation stones.
tools, metal fullsize fenceposts, bottles, pails, barb wire,
and luckiest for me was a 3' ancient pry bar, badly corroded,
with a needle sharp point. Glad I saw it on the next pass.......
turned up countless foundation stones.
tools, metal fullsize fenceposts, bottles, pails, barb wire,
and luckiest for me was a 3' ancient pry bar, badly corroded,
with a needle sharp point. Glad I saw it on the next pass.......
MDpullerman
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Lost my wallet raking hay one spring, luckily i was 14 and didn't have a license yet, but did have 20 dollars worth of ice cream money in it!...The following winter the guy i worked for's daughter left me a small box in my book bag it said found this in a flake when feeding..i kept the 20..FINDERS FEE!!!
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