what have ya tilled/plowed up?

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.

Might be fake news, LOL

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.

One of my uncles plowed his down. Not sure if he found it atleast it kept his wife out of it.

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......

fixer1958 wrote: 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.

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


Edited by dt1050 - 10 Mar 2017 at 7:33am

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.

Crow prolly picked it up, and put it in their nest.  they likes shiny things...

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...

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!

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

that's a good find

good thing you found em and not your wife..lol

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