what have ya tilled/plowed up?
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Topic: what have ya tilled/plowed up?
Posted By: dt1050
Subject: what have ya tilled/plowed up?
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 12:27pm
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  .------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
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Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 12:31pm
| random pieces of steel and short pieces of chain |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 12:42pm
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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. My uncles have found grease guns before.
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Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 12:44pm
| I still get pieces of iron something from the horse farming days on our farm fields! a cultivator has found a lot of it. found a lot of old cultivator shanks with it too...glad my tires didn't finds them! |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 12:52pm
| 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. |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 12:55pm
know what ya mean. Tires are pricey ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
shameless (ne) wrote:Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 1:00pm
| 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. |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 1:03pm
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be nice to plow up something useful like a chain.
------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: allisrutledge
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 1:49pm
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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. ------------- Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns |
Posted By: Scott B
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 5:11pm
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Didn't plow it up but found an old horse drawn john Deere planter half buried and surrounded by trees out in the wooded part of 40 acres; including the classic cluster of trees growing through the wheels. Been there a very long time. Spent quite a bit of time, a lot of tree clearing and finagling a path to get it out in open ground. ------------- D17 Series 1 Allis B- 1939 Allis B- 1945 |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 5:11pm
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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! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 5:24pm
| Every few years might find a Native American Indian Arrowhead. |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 5:26pm
that'd be nice. instead of all the junk I find ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 5:32pm
| Oh yeah, we get junk too. Broken bottles, rusty iron, etc..... But just in one area of the field. My father told me that when he was young, a house was in that spot. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 5:52pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Arcs and Sparks
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 6:36pm
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Also not a plowing story but during my summer months off I worked for a local farmer. He was having an old pasture tiled using a wheel machine and clay tile. I was riding the tile wagon loading the shoe with tile when all of the sudden the machine started jumping violently. We had to stop with the tiling machine and using a backhoe we excavated an old root cellar. I live in oil country where they blew many surface wells with nitro glycerin which was often stored in earthen cellars to keep it cool. No nitro in this one but a few bottles of some pickled home delights. I was young and foolish but not foolish enough to sample the goods. No one could ever remember any house or shack being in that location so we could not date the vintage of the "find". About 3 miles north of this location there is still the entry point to a nitro cellar. It blew up in the late 1800s and it remains as it was then, including the reminents of the crater it left.
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Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 7:36pm
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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. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 7:54pm
A buddy of mine in NW OK has 3 Gleaners (L3, and two M2s), and the tires on them are good at finding antlers, sadly. We lucked out last year though! All the days we cut, we didn't "find" any.
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Posted By: chuck (WI)
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 8:08pm
| Was tilling up a new spot last summer for a garden and pulled up a pair of ih 4 bolt front wheel weights |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 8:23pm
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I was chisel plowing one evening and noticed the engine bog, looked back to find a wad of dirt about 8 feet around and 3 foot high trying to lift the plow out of the ground. well, once I unrolled the 20 foot log chain from the rolling basket, it pulled much better. I found a perfect Deere and Mansur cast iron planter box lid in the same area. Maybe I uncovered it by draggin the log chain for 30 feet? I've also found a pretty good claw hammer, a crescent wrench, not to mention a few large pieces of concrete that got hauled out with the manure spreader. Dad and most of the neighbors probably picked up most of the Indian artifacts around, back when you rode behind a horse, went slower, and covered 1 row at a time. With minimum till now days, it's hard to see a little piece of chert in the dirt. Specially if you're going 8 mile an hour and covering 30 feet at a pass. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: littlemarv
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 8:36pm
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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 mechanic always wins. B91131, WC23065, WD89101, CA29479, B1, Early B10, HB212, 416H |
Posted By: VAfarmboy
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 10:03pm
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The septic tank drainfield for a landlord's farmhouse. (they forgot to tell me it was in the field) Oops A telephone line. (must have been an old one that was not in use because I never heard from the phone company.) A rust encrusted chunk of metal that turned out to be one of the clamps that hold the Unverferth snap on duals on a tractor that dad lost years earlier. (glad we didn't find it with the combine) Lots of Native American artifacts, one farm we used to work back when I was a teen was literally full of them. There was one field that we called the "arrowhead field" 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" rel="nofollow - http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/02/virginia-man-killed-in-civil-war-cannonball-blast.html |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 11:26pm
| 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 $5. on that ground at harvest time! but they do no wrong you know! PffffT! |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 11:31pm
Tell me about it....you give them facts, statistics, etc, and all you get is, "JD is better because....uh....it's JD!" Lol
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Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2017 at 11:34pm
Oh geez....what a sad way to go.... I have a civil war cannon ball, but it's solid iron. No black powder, luckily. My old WWII history teacher told me about a D-Day vet who visited the site a few years ago, and while walking off the trails through some trees he took a step and heard a click. He knew he stepped on a land mine, and he thought, "Those d@** Germans are going to get me after all!" He stood there for a while, then finally decided to just hit the ground, and hope for the best. He did, and luckily it didn't go off. He stayed on the trails after that.
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Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 4:22am
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@#$# stepping on a land mine, tilling up a live cannon ball. I guess I shouldn't be complaining about the junk I till up, at least it will only give me a flat tire, not blow up!! ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Ky.Allis
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 6:39am
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Full size Pop(Pepsi) vending machine from back in the 1970's. The idiot city slicker who bought the farm buried it in a small pond(oversize mudhole) and told me there was at least 30" of dirt over it. First time it just tripped 1 bottom back. Next pass it tripped 2 bottoms and ripped off a chunk of sheet metal that had "Property of pepsi cola co." stamped on it. I plowed around it and let him deal with it. full size pop(pepsi) machine
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Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 7:32am
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why kind of ac ya have that can pull a double 30 inch plow!!!
------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 7:34am
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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. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 10:12am
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I forgot about the cement block ! When I bought this place, there was a small fenced in "pasture" on the east end of the barn. I pulled what was left of the fence and plowed that patch up while plowing the other 2.5 acres. Cruising along at WOT in second gear, the 45 came to a sudden halt and stood the front end up at about 45 degrees. The back plow share just barely caught the hole in the block that was standing on end. I had to get a shovel and dig around it to get the plow out of the ground. I have also found large chunks of limestone while plowing Dad's pasture up. It seems back in the 20's and 30's, there was a barn in the middle of that 1 acre patch. I was on the 8N then and the plow just slipped over or around the big pieces. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2017 at 11:19am
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Nothing cool except arrow and spear heads and a couple of stone axe heads. I would always go back after the first good rain to see what was washed off. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: VAfarmboy
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 3:49am
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This kid in Denmark found a WWII Messerschmidt and its long deceased German pilot buried in a field. Must have been a really wet year in Jutland back in '44 when that plane crashed if it buried itself so far below the surface that they never plowed it up. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/europe/denmark-wwii-plane-trnd/" rel="nofollow - http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/europe/denmark-wwii-plane-trnd/
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 4:52am
Might be fake news, LOL |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 6:03am
Wow, now that's a find. If I find something like that there's gonna be some explaining on how a German Fighter plan crashed in a small town in central pa... Fake news......  ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 6:52am
| Found a Indian medicine bowl in potato patch. It was about the size of a tennis ball with the bowl part being about the size of a hen egg. It also had finger and thumb grooves so it could be held firmly. |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 7:01am
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Didn't plow it up, but plowed down my wallet in 55, In spring of 56, I disced it up. My money, (5 or 6 dollars was still intact though slightly worse for wear. The bank replaced the bills with no questions. Felt pretty good about that. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 7:08am
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One of my uncles plowed his down. Not sure if he found it atleast it kept his wife out of it. ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 7:17am
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Guy I know was blading around a rental farm house he has for better drainage from the rock foundation. He found his septic tank lid when the 8N went through it. |
Posted By: olivetroad
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 7:21am
| I was discing a field on the first pass along a terrace. I got off to pee and then walked around and grabbed some dirt to see how it was working. I took my Barlow out and cleaned my fingernails, and hopped back on tractor. That night, I discovered I lost my knife. A year later, my dad was working the same field, stopped to pee, and when he did, he washed off my knife with his pee stream. Crazy deal...... |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 7:30am
Heredity is an amazing thing. |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 7:31am
they put public sewer through about 4 years ago, when we put our new trailer in we put it 250ft away from the public sewer so we didn't have to tap on. there was an existing septic we used....sewer authority was not happy about us beating the system. I'm sure if I'd plow the lid off our tank, they'd be there to shut me down...lol olivetroad: hope ya washed that knife before ya picked your teeth with it..lol ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 10:28am
Good place fer an 8N... Ain't never found nuthin exciting, One time was tilling up some land below our lady of the light rail, in Linthicum, fer gardens, found several old train parts, mostly brake drums. Later in the day I found a grounding rod, from an old tower, It wrapped around the tiller axle, neatly, and I hadda make a run to the hardware store, and buy a hacksaw, to cut it free, so I could go home. Later, I hadda burn it off with the gas axe...
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 5:56pm
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A guy I worked for in the 80's was plowing up some virgin pasture one day. He had me picking up branches that had fallen from a near dead oak tree while he was turnin dirt. I was walkin along the edge of the furrow when a branch fell and hit me on the head! The next few steps, I seemed to be looking down, kinda bent over, while rubbin the bump and there in the furrow was something brass. I bent over and picked up a small thin lighter. It was a bit dirty and needed a new flint, but worked fine after cleanin it up a bit. It said "made in Korea" on the bottom.
It looks like this reproduction.  ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 6:30pm
| Worms |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2017 at 6:36pm
Crow prolly picked it up, and put it in their nest. they likes shiny things...
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Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2017 at 4:12am
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sure'd be nice to plow up the money I lost farming the year before!
------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2017 at 7:32pm
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Didn't happen to me, but I read a story about a guy turning the soil of his river-bottom land, and he found a bracket for a bell from an old steamboat... and on the next pass, found the bell... and the pilothouse... and part of the deck railing... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2017 at 9:56pm
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I have about 6 inches of new snow on the ground so far this afternoon and evening. Come on over and till away. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 7:04am
| I was plowing once, going down hill and all of a sudden the tractor stopped RIGHT NOW! killed the engine. I was wearing the seat belt cuz it was rough and I thought that thing about cut me in half. after gaining my senses got out and found the plow bottom had tripped, and I dug down a ways by hand and found a big ole rock. I couldn't get the bottom to reset, so I went back home, and put the scoop on the tractor. the more I dug on that rock the bigger it got! when I saw it was about the size of the tractor and still growing, I covered it back up and put a marker there. whew! |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 7:22am
We had about 8 the other day, what a pain, the week prior it'd been near 70 and the ground wasn't froze. today it was 2 degree's and there calling for over a foot tonight!!! gonna be plowing enough. ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Sandknob
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 7:31am
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Engine block, brake rotors, cylinder heads, big truck front axles, tires. One field I farmed for a few years used to be a car junkyard and everytime I worked it something new would come up. Supposedly there is a 1960s Ford truck and a jeep buried out there as well - I haven't found them yet! Adam |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 7:39am
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the boy tilled up the neighbors garden house. neighbor left it out all winter, the rye grass was over a foot tall so he couldn't see it. took a bit of cutting to get that thing untangled from the tiller. ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 10:43am
I high lights "after gaining my senses" I wasn't aware that that had happened yet Then I LMAO! Darrel
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Posted By: DennisA (IL)
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:02am
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I plowed up 3 suitcase weights for the AC 8000 series.
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Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 3:07pm
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that's a good find
------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 5:21pm
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Well, I guess I can add another to this post as I figured I'd do some cleaning up with the SC blade before taking it off. While peeling some dirt away from a liquid feed tank for drainage in the barnyard, uncovered the BIGGEST pair of woman's underwear I have ever seen. Did not know they made em' so big and don't think I'd want to have met that gal! At least she wore em' with lots of rows of frills . . . . |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 5:44pm
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good thing you found em and not your wife..lol
------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 8:34pm
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I have turned up a few wrenches,a lot of them only good for wall hangers. But some are good stuff like a Snap On 3/4 10 inch extension,and a Proto 15/16 deep socket. And they where lost by other people. I did have distant cousin give back a little Vise Grip that had my name on it from a place I use to farm,took some time but does work today. Had a neighbor loss a brand new 15 inch Crescent wrench harvesting for a friend and I was to farm it the next season. He told me I had to give him the wrench back when I found it. That was back in the 80's and still have not seen it,and he has been dead for more than 10 years. Lost more than I find,but did find a 3/4 end wrench real close to where I knew I had left it better than 10 years before. Even had a retired friend that liked to play with a metal detector look for it with no luck. Hay Shameless I have a lot of that kind of rocks. That is why there are no plows used,and not many chisel plows ether. I have remove a lot of big rocks with my old D6 Cat, but have got some you get that you get 4 to 5 feet uncovered and there is no wiggling of rock, you have to decide how bad you want it out. |
Posted By: mcm
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 8:52pm
| Back in the day, I pulled up the stake and flag marking an intake, plowed past it, then removed my wristwatch to pound it back in. Found it 2 years later going through the same process. It still worked! mcm |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2017 at 12:49am
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I found a IHC spark plug for a Farmall M in grandma's garden once after my grandpa plowed it. At my great-great-grandparents' place I found a Champion spark plug with "For Ford tractors" printed on it!
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