what have ya tilled/plowed up?

every year I till the garden or plow the fields I end up with some piece of scrap heavy steal or something odd. Year before last was a piece of plate steal about 1 inch thick and 1 foot long by 2 foot wide and a water shut off made of cast that was about 6 inches round?  Last year a horseshoe (no horse attached) a lever from shaker grates on a coal furnace and a 9 inch long spike that was bent in the shape of a U.  Not to mention lots of glass.  Wonder whats next, hopefully I'll till up a parts tractor for the 5020..

I never seem to plow up the money I lost from the year before.  guess it's better than finding a body.

I plowed up about 5 acres with my 8N a couple weeks ago, and I plowed up the lid to a 55 gallon drum and a license plate from 1968. 

Speaking of horse drawn...grandpa had a track scratcher hooked on while sowing a few years ago, and one of the points caught a hook from a double tree! Never in a million years would everything line up like that again I bet. 

Subsoiler deep as she would go couple years ago brought up a perfectly round piece of steel plate 18" x 1-1/2 thick. Also a 20' length of 3/8 chain, hooks and all that now get's used.

Wore out horseshoes and broke plowpoints. Oh yea , my neighbors billfold. He lost it plowing and I used a field cultivator until I pulled it up. Got his pictures first then he dug with his hands till he found it. Happy neighbor.

I've found the typical wrenches and chains plowing and tilling, but the most common thing by far that I see our brushhogging fields are golf balls!

Stan R wrote: Every few years might find a Native American Indian Arrowhead.

that'd be nice. instead of all the junk I find

old homestead I had buried 16 years ago yields old iron. Plowed up a 6' long piece steel off the countys bridge that had washed out years ago. Plow caught it just right, picked it up with the front moldboard and layd it over. I think the gov opened up a bit on that 1.   

Bad day is finding deer antlers in the rear tractor tire bush hogging.Been putting in a deer plot on the site of an old cabin that was abandoned in the 1920's and then rotted down have found horse shoes,hinges,ax heads etc.Also pulled up about a 400 lb rock with the D15 subsoiling the garden last week.Took the skid loader down to get out.

Was tilling up a new spot last summer for a garden and pulled up a pair of ih 4 bolt front wheel weights

Well, I didn't plow it up, but last fall I plowed Pa's claw hammer down..........

Set it on the shelf on the back of the WD, forgot about it, went to plowing. Got back in the yard, and noticed it was gone.

Told him about it, He said "That's O.K., that kind of thing happens."

As I was leaving, I thought "Man, he took that pretty well."

When I came back the next week, I told him I brought him a new hammer.

"You lost MY hammer!?!?"

Hopefully the renter finds it with his tire, before I go back out to play in the fields and find it with mine.....

the big green farmers tiled up the Indian encampement here to farm it. the University has been working there for years finding all kinds of artifacts. and where it's at, they won't gross $5. on that ground at harvest time! but they do no wrong you know! PffffT!

VAfarmboy wrote:   A Civil War cannon ball.  A Civil War relic collector came out and got it and took it home and defused it.  Unfortunately several years later he was working on one and it blew up.   http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/02/virginia-man-killed-in-civil-war-cannonball-blast.html

My dad, I and my brothers have found many horse shoes. I have an agate rock, or I think it is. It's about the size of a girls soft ball and is marbled red and black. Most stuff I've found while picking stones. Plowed up an old cab door off something. I think it was left from the 1970's when a gravel outfit was crushing gravel out of our pit. Also found in the same area, a long piece of steel 4" x 1/2" maybe 10 or 12 feet long. I plowed up a couple old sickles from a horse mower. My combine sickle seems to find an old steel fence post once in a while where Dad used to have a pasture fenced off.

When I plowed where my yard is today, back in about 2003, I pulled up an old steel toy airplane, a steel toe truck, a once silver or gold plated copper crucifix, a 3/4" marble, a couple plastic toy cowboys. All I think were from the 1930's because no one had lived there since then. I also found a "Healey and Bigelow Kickapoo Indian Cough Cure" bottle. Not a nick on it. Somewhere in my front yard is a fender from a model A Ford. I remember seeing it sticking out of the dirt years ago when I was a kid and my yard was then a cow pasture.

Dad found an old fair token with one of the presidents from the 20's on it and he found, back in the early 70's, in a stone pile, a radium ore lined Revigator water crock with spout. I have that safely tucked away. 16,000 year half life if I remember correctly. The geiger counter does a lot of clicking when you put the probe in the crock. Still looking for the lid if I ever get to clearing the rest of that rock pile.