Kinda O/T.. Horseshoes

Hey guys,

So the other night I was thinking bout a post from a while back about what you've pulled up while tilling.. and it got me thinking.. Well, today, I hung another horseshoe on the shop wall (I'm pretty sure this was #8)

For those that don't know, my job is manure injection (simply put anyhow).. Our injection toolbar is based on a DMI subsoiler that has been modified..

Seems like once every few weeks or so, I find a horseshoe "stuck" on one of my shanks.. One field I was in a couple weeks back I found 2 "hitching a ride" in one day.

I keep telling myself when I toss the crap out of my truck I need to post a picture of the "treasures".. In the last year or so, I have pulled up a plow jointer, a manure spreader slat, a few horseshoes, 25' log chain (which looked to be a pretty fresh loss.. hardly even rusty), what looks to be a drawbar from a Farmall tractor, several "flat" chains, copper wire, chunks of foundation.. Oh, and LOTS of rocks.

Just wondered if anyone else finds horse shoes very often? I always find it cool when one latches on, as the shanks are 30" apart, and ya got to hit the shoe just right for it to latch on, as opposed to some of the larger stuff I've caught.

Brad

I'm guessing you are working in some well established/old fields. At least you aren't catching them with tires.

How deep are you applying?

Rick

Rick,

Yep, most of our fields have been "in production" for a while.. A few years back we did a somewhat freshly cleared field.. NEVER again if I have any say, we tore up a lot of stuff trying to do it.

We usually apply around 14".. sometimes shallower, sometimes deeper.. Depends on the Farmer's wants, and of course, shallow tile and such.. Tile repair can get expensive for my employer, and quick.. We hoked a shallow tile when I was a relatively new hire (it was never mentioned to us in the field).. So now, I just ask.. Cover Your A** as the boss calls it.

We have to maintain 95% (or better) coverage, and the deeper it's applied helps with this in most soil types. Believe it or not, sand seems to be the hardest to maintain the coverage.. Never makes sense to me.

As for catching stuff with tires.. We find lots of nails, screws, bolts, and a occasional sickle section or deer antler with the rubber.. Can't prove it all comes from the field, as we do a lot of road traveling too.

Brad

Just stands to reason that in time on old time fields some one will find a horse shoe.That rather small semi circle of iron represents a part of history.some tired farmer passed that way with his team of work Horses pulling a tillage tool and a shoe came off a horses hoof.When? Only history knows that. I remember when I was a little kid I would stand and watch the Horse shoer we called him ,in the spring checking all the big work horses shoes making sure they were ok for the coming spring work. Once in a while a shoe would come off while the horse was working in the field and dad would go to town to ask the horse shoer to come out and put a new shoe on the horse. No one ever got upset about it,I guess it was part of farming with horses.Some time after the WW2 the horses went away and it was sort of lonely around the farm for awhile. In 1948 a new shiny little Ford 8N came on the place and I got to learn how to drive it and the memory of the horses got dimmer until it became only an occasional thing which passed quickly,but even now 50 years or so later I can still see that horse shoer practiceing his craft on our work stock,back on the farm I grew up on.