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OT:What is the most interesting thing found while plowing?

RBnSC

RBnSC

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I was planting A field this week on our new hunting club. It had rained since we cut the field last week. The owners rep had told us that there had been a plantation house in the field many years ago. Which is nothing new to me the Island I grew up on was all cut into plantations and even a few of the houses are still there.{Sherman Did leave a few} There also had been a great many Indians particularly on our family farm. After a rain shower we would go out in the fields and pick up pieces of pottery and an occasional arrow head. While in this field this week I saw lots of broken pieces of blue willow pottery,old broken bottles,brick pieces, Indian pottery. I was just wondering if there was anything interesting Yall have have found plowing.
Ron
 
WAAAAAAYYYY back in my dad's childhood, early 40's, He was with his Uncle and aunt down in northern Indiana, when they plowed up a skull with an arrow through it. I guess most of it was still in tact. I'll have to ask him about it, but I can remember him saying that he BARELY remembers it.
 
I fine alot of arrow head and bannerstone and stone groove axe on my farm.Oh yes in a antique cub we have plowdays at my place. I have use my old john deere
 
When the government moved out of Camp Breckenridge here in the 50's and people started working it people were always plowing up old mortor rounds. My granddad used to talk about how some were live rounds that had not gone off and when hit with a plow would blow up. I don't know if any one got killed or not but he said some plows got blown up. He was a "camp refugee" so he always said the people who bought it form the government got what they had coming to them.


Dave
 
I found a log chain that had been lost years before. One of the hooks caught on the last bottom. Rusty and pitted some, but still very usable.
 
A real nice 30' long log chain. Couldnt have been more than 3-4 years old, but know one claimed it, so I still have it, that was 23 years ago.
 
Found a balloon with a note attached to it that had been sent out by some sixth graders in central Minnesota. (farm was in western Wisconsin) Sent it back to them and in return got a map showing where all the ballons had landed that anyone had responded back from.
Not as cool as indian relics but it was interesting and I remember it well to this day.
I did find a jack from a model T in the middle of my front yard when I was digging....
 
Never found any arrow heads,but I did find a 16' chain (lighter than I'd use to pull out a stuck tractor, but OK for light stuff), the remains of a foot-powered sewing machine, and a 1" x 10" piece of moldboard that had broken off the bottom edge of the 3rd bottom of my plow years earlier. Welded it back on and used it until the moldboards were worn out. Occasionally find sheds (deer antlers), too.
 
Plowing with the M and a 3-14 plow, all of a sudden the rear plow was refusing to stay down in the ground like it had been. Tripped the plow to take a look, and an old harness ring had slipped over the point on that rear plow. It was on so tight that it had to be taken off with a hammer.
 
I was plowing up some land that was in crp for 10 years,ended up plowing up a snake pit,garter snakes,must have been 100 or more,some real big ones close to 4 feet long they were crawling around everywhere never seen that many snakes in one bunch ,didn't know they lived in such a big group,strangest thing I had ever seen !
 
My dad told a story about 'way back when, my great uncle plowed into a nest of yellow-jackets with a walking plow.

He was bit up so bad, he was in bed for a couple days.
 
Wasn't plowing but tilling a friends garden and found the remains of a single shot shotgun. They weren't living their long and said an elderly lady lived there before. chris
 
Plowed up a partially exploded Hotchkins rocket from the civil war. About a foot long. Still can find bullets(drops) with a detector.
 
Another plow! Yep, dad rigged a (2) plow hitch for the MM 705. Late at night, young...bored. I'd gotten used to the same ole routine at the corners, rear tire hits the furrow...pull inside hydraulic lever, wait pull the outside hyd. levr....never even needed to look back. So when the front tire of tractor starts up in the air between corners, and then "Bam" down she comes and then the rear tire.....

Looked back and there was the rear plow.....bolt in clevis broke, so did hydraulic fittings...a hard one to explain to Dad.
 
not plowing, but i was mowing my hay field and in the very high grass was an old single moldboard plow for a small tractor and i ran right over it before i knew it was there. lucky i did not bust a tractor tire. that was the very first cutting on that field about 12 years ago. nothing found since.
 
I was discing in some tall weeds, and ran upon a chevy V8 motor, I thought it was a large rock until I got off and looked. Just about every farm in my area has a colledtion of grind bowls left by the Indians that lived in our area years ago, and a lot of stones used to grind with. I was digging a hole for a fence post and was down about 2 ft and I found a hand made digging fork. The area was a stage stop years ago. Stan
 
Our farm had been in Cantonement for Camp Adair. We would find old ordinance when we plowed. We would just set them on old concrete building foundations until in the 60's. A young boy was seriously hurt and the government came around and they picked it all up. Old houses around were used for target practice and you could see holes in the walls and roofs, most were made into barns. We would find a lot of indian stone bowls, pestals, arrowheads and other stone tools close to where the streams ran into the Little Luckiamutte River. The Calapooia Indians used the land and river for food, mussells, acorns and roots. They would lean the bowls up against a tree for later use. When we leveled land you would find a lot of it. There were indian burial mounds around. One neighbor lost an eye when limb hit him when mowing around a field, he always said it was because he dug into a mound and disturbed them....James
 
Wasent plowing,but found a burning airplane,ran out of fuel 10 miles from airport.Brand new Balanca,totally distroyed.Also while plowing ,saw four engine plane ,with one engine stopped ,another smoking,headed for me but made it safely to airport.was ww2 b24 type with single tail like they used for water bombers.
 
When I was about 17 I plowed up a billfold. It was mine that I had plowed under the year before. It still didn't have any money in it.
Paul
 
A neighbor was plowing a field next to mine one day when he stopped,got off the tractor and was looking around on the ground.I walked over and he showed me a 100 dollar bill he just found.They caught a bank robber near his farm a couple days before that.We looked,but didn't see anymore.
 
Found a baloon launched by a church group in surburban Chicago. Sent back their card with a note, and a map, showing exactly where it was found (central Michigan). Never heard back from the church.
 
After WWII, my dad bought a JD B tractor, with serviceman's priority. I was born the previous year. I never remember the proper lug wrench with that tractor. Always had a hardware store bought combination (open end/closed end) wrench.
so that takes us back to about 1950... About 5 years back, my son, (Dad's grandson) plowed up that lost lug wrench. Rusty, but still servicable! Hangs in our polebarn now.
 
Never found a dang thing myself, but when I used to follow Dad behind the walking plow I found a bunch of arrowheads.

Stan
 
No arrow heads, but I did find a little plastic indian toy. It's probably been in the field for a few decades. I have also found a tire iron, a couple cultipacker wheels, and some Model T axles.
 
I uncovered a nest of turtle eggs once. The plow lifted the soil off of them; clean white eggs, not one was broken.
 
Wasn't plowing , but I was mowing with a pull behind brushhog on the old Nikula farm in Interlaken N.Y.with a Case model D..Saw something moving a couple of hundred yards away...Before I could shut it down , I had a quarter mile of barbed wire wrapped around the mower spindle...Took several days to clear all that wire with wire snips....No torches available....
 
I thought of something else I found while plowing. Wasn't much, just a cover chain from a grain drill, but it had a special meaning to me. I plowed it up in a field that my father was planting wheat in the day I was born. He said it was wet and he never did get the whole field planted. Not positively sure it was lost the day I was born, but kind of neat to think it had been there 40 years.
 
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer derived from the B-24.Navy used for seach and rescue if I remember right. bill m.
 
Friend of mine was plowing with a Ford 6000 when all of a sudden the tractor stopped dead,almost threw him off the seat.the plow had hooked onto a logging chain that was still attached to a buried stump.Chain was still usable.Bill M.
 
Thats right Bill,it was a privateer.Sat at local airport for years until they repaired it and I watched it fly away,spposedly to convert to water bomber.
 
I found an old well that had been filled in some 50 years early by the previous owner. My dad said that there had been a old home stead there and could still see some of the old house as a boy. Inever new this , plowing along and all at once the one side of the tractor drops. We pulled it back and was amazed to see a hole 15 feet deep and all stone cribed.
 
i once plowed up a wheel wrench for a john deere tractor.
another time while plowing with a 4520 and 5-16 plow i hit something with the plow tractor came to a sudden stop i hit the steering wheel with my chest and belly. i started the tractor and killed it again.
i raised the plow out of the ground and walked around the plow jammed between the 4 th and 5 th bottoms was a huge rock.
how it fit between the bottoms without breaking the plow i'll never know.
 
A turkey nest with 8 eggs, busted four were just yolks. The other four went in the incubator and hatched 7 days later. What were the odds of breaking four duds and missing the four good eggs?
56 Ford truck sheet metal almost rust free buried in clay. A highway yield sign and post.Several sets of cultivator feet/springs.Horse bridal.A horse shoe.And a shoe the same size as Jimmy Hoffa wore.
 
Where I live, the M-K-T rail road had a old diversion line and occasionally I'll dig or plow up a old locomotive part, rail car part or some old rail industry part.
 
Was plowing with some friends two years ago, kind of a private plow day. I was following a friend with a crawler and a 5 bottom JD plow, and saw a coulter and shank standing up in the plowed ground. Stopped to pick it up, and there was another one buried right under the first. Both shanks broke off. Figured one hit a rock, and the other hit the buried coulter to break it off.
 
about 8 years ago was plowing in an area that was logged off and turned into pasture in the early 80's and plowed up a crowbar. wired brushed and painted it and still using it today.
 
haven"t found anything but a chain while plowing but I found a missing jack-all while cultivating. Had lost it likely 5 years ago and after a bunch of oil and some fixing up it works as good as new. The weirdest thing is that that field had been cultivated likely 8 times in the five years(multiple passes)
 
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