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Bob

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These pictures need no explanation to anyone who's ever run a hoe drill, or if a disc drill is your thang you know about fence staples.

What are the chances of washer "A" impaling itself on hoe/opener "B"?

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Someplace out in my rocky ROCKY field there are a couple of broken off JD disc blades, sharp as the dickens, just waiting. Lurking, I've told the boys someday they'll find them, and I have apologized already. Not the same as finding Pop's horseshoes, I have a collection of them.
 
I can't recall ever picking up a washer, but when I ran the manure injector every day, I did pick up a few horse shoes on the shanks in my 12 years of doing it. It always made it feel like your lucky day. All I could think is if I found one, how many are still out in the dirt.

In all the acres I covered, I unearthed all sorts of stuff.

Brad
 
Hopefully by then the rust will have taken the edge off. The straight coulters were always breaking off my Glencoe chisel plow. I'm sure that made for some sharp points.
 
I've caught lots of hardware. Usually though, an old chain link, or loop, much bigger than your washer. Once a pair of fertilizer opener discs stopped. I found the open end of a busted chain link clipped over the edges just like a clothespin!
 
The problem around here is tires "finding" old railroad spikes. This country was all logged in the 20's, and they did it all with rail cars hauling the logs out of the woods.
 
The odds are astronomical but none the less similar things seem to happen often enough to make a guy wonder how much junk is in the dirt he farms. Years ago Dad and I were plowing in the same field and he waved me over to show me a drag chain from a drill with the end ring hooked over one of the plow points. Later in the day I hit a horse shoe just right and it was wedged on a plow point. Drove over to where he was and said "top that Pa" We had a good laugh.
 
A plow coulter and bracket fell off the plow years ago. Somewhere in 40 acres. Looked and looked, it musta go buried in a furrow.

Next spring watched real close, didnt see it after field cultivating, planting, spraying. Must be buried.

Combined beans that fall, was getting dark and the dust was so thick I couldn't see, just follow what row you could make out and hope the header flex was keeping up with the height.

Looked over to the side, and there flat on the ground was the plow coulter, completely on the surface laying flat, the header slid right over it the previous round no problems......

Oy.

Paul
 
Picked up a lot of things on field cultivator points, especially in old bulldozed farm sites and the fields nearest the farmstead. People didn't have fancy mowers to cut the grass in farmsteads so a lot of metal parts got lost in the tall grass.

Farmers also tended to spread manure close to the farmstead with the old horse drawn spreaders, so those field yielded metal also, especially metal harness parts. Some farmers back in the day lost a lot of metal things related to horses. Found some horseshoes but none that gave me trouble.
 
Found a nose weight for a JD 40T, 420T tractor with the chisel plow a few years back. Just so happened that dad's buddy had been looking for one, and was helping us farm, so I put it in the back of his truck. Boy was he excited! Dad lost a brand new 3/8 X 20' grade 70 chain a couple years ago while we were opening up some land that had been in CRP for 25 years. Hoping we would find it with the chisel plow or field cultivator, but haven't yet in the last 2 years...
 
I have found magnets stuck on a disk blade a few times. I have no idea why they would be in a field. Not big ones, just pieces. The last one was a couple weeks ago. About as round as a pencil, about 1/2 inch long. Stan
 
I caught a left handed plow share last fall with the combine head,near edge of the field.I looked for more pieces;my BIL did not know where it could have came from.Mark
 
were the magnets from a cows stomach? Maybe someone buried a cow,or left the guts from a cow butchered? I have found more than one log chain with the field cultivator.
 
Hi
When I worked at the seed plant we had a seed hawk zero till drill. round here there was a harrow or something that used to have a kinda 3' ring on them for something, many years ago. quite often we had those caught over the shanks. when the boss started custom work for other guys, we started finding them in fields 30 miles away to,sometimes you'd get 4 over the width of the machine.

The oddest luck I ever had was when Dad ran one of those Hesston badged as caseIh 8440, i think it was, junk balers with the narrow belts that nobody liked. it wasn't built strong enough and used to pop bearing collars off in the field. He lost 4 over the years randomly walking across the field for various reasons, I picked 3 up when i near stepped on them. this is over a big area of land to not like 5 acres or so in one field either, that just struck me as real luck.
Regards Robert
 
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