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Was driving the tractor today and I had to stop and pick up a really nice mule deer shed.
It got me to thinking and wondering.
What is the weirdest, silliest, craziest thing you have ever found in a pasture, field or elsewhere?

Mine was one of those bolt on light bars that are on the side of a tractor or truck. Had no idea who owned it, wasn't ours nor anybody else; at least who would claim it. It was in the middle of a wheat strip.
Father in law found an obsidion spear head.
Son found a bone saw/hunting knife set out in our pasture. None of our hunters claimed it or reported one missing.
 
A ten foot log chain my Dad lost 15-20 years earlier. I told him I found a log chain plowin', he remembered exactly where he lost it and told me exactly where I found it before I could tell him.
 
I found an old Hudson Bay axe head, a few arrow heads and a spear head, but mostly I find things I've lost myself like hammers, wrenches, coulters, drawbar pins, baler belts, etc.
 
Pliers, Usually ones I have lost. We found two not quite matching spurs. The strangest were a pair of glasses that were so thick that the poor fellow that lost them must be still out there on his hands and knees. :lol:
 
Just this summer we were out on the ATV's riding across a meadow about a mile and half from home,,,when I spotted the dogs ball! I thought it had fallen into a ditch of water around the house and had been missing for most of the summer...I know for a fact that the dogs never have been in this meadow let alone take a ball there,,so we guessed that a hawk or bird of somekind thought it was food and picked it up then realized it wasn't and dropped it...Jade sure was glad to have her ball back...
 
I found a mans wedding band. Kept asking anyone who came to the yard if they had lost one. Had it for 15 years before the owner claimed it one day while we were having coffee in the kitchen where it sat on the window sill.
 
I found the handle thingy you use to take the 'eye' out of a wood stove....layin in the sand in our drive way. We don't have a wood stove. There's never been a house where ours sits. So, someone years ago, durin a move of some sort, musta lost it.

Other than that, I haven't "found" anything. But I do gather up lots of odds and ends that I "find". Recently went thru hubby's grandad's old barn, and I came home with old bits, single trees, etc. LOL But they weren't "lost".
 
This isn't more about what I found rather than what I ran across. A neighbor and I were moving cows in the spring and ran across a badger carrying something in it's mouth. We rode up to the badger and the badger dropped the object in it's mouth and hightailed it out of there. Low and behold that object was a very very small baaby badger,cuter than hell.

Every oldtimer I have talked to say they have never seen a baby badger.
 
When I was a kid I found an arrowhead close to the creek on our place. Man it was pretty, a real testament to the hours of labour it must have taken to chip it to it's nearly perfect shape. It was made from a very smooth-feeling piece of rock, almost oily feeling on the surface.

I took it to school to show my buddies and that was the last I saw of it. It disappeared out of my desk.
 
I found a Lost hunter one time he was so pannicked when we ran into him it was kinda funny.I was 15 and he had to be in his 30's crying like a baby running thru to woods full tilt soaking wet in tennis shoes.We gave him a ride back to his camp he was 3 miles cross country from his camp and 7 miles by road.

My cousin found a new shotgun one time it was just leaning agaist a tree.Turned out the owner had leaned it agaist the tree and walked about 10' to take a dump and somehow got dissconnected from the gun it was kinda funny.

I always stop when there are boxes and junk laying along the road I've found new bladder tank's for my well new ridge cap for a tin building gas cans fence post etc etc etc.

The funniest thing I've ever heard of was our neighbor found a car on his land with 2 naked teenagers in it.Turned out the girl was his daughter.
 
Found a Turtle while I was spraying for grasshoppers way out in a middle of a field. He was one you find in a creek so I think He was lost. Put him in the cab with me cus I didn't think he should be eating grasshoppers that I just sprayed. Gave him a ride to the creek after job was done.
 
I found a wallet one year. it was lost two years before. seems we are always picking up remnants of horse collars on the duck feet of the field cultivator.

about 10 years ago or so, a neighbor kid was discing after wheat harvest and found a body!! they got the cops called, KBI, the whole nine yards, and the dad made the kid keep working ground so they didn't fall behind!
what an ash! that kid was pretty shookup !
 
I found a nice lil tent in the middle of a very large pasture, that I knew none of our hunters had been across. It must of been a hunter that was trespassing, although he had some rough terrain to get thru in order to get to and from his vehicle. He never claimed the tent and I have used it for several years now.
 
Another thing I found was a nice insulated coffee mug in MY tree stand on MY farm! :mad: I'm thinking it would be kinda fun to use it at neighbourhood get-to-gether to see whose eyes light up when they see it!!
 
When I was in college I worked for a farmer during the summer. On the last day of work before heading back to school I was moving to a new field with a rod-weeder and lost a drive shaft for the implement while en route to the new field. It was about noon and my boss said to go back and see if I could find it in the field that I had driven across, as he was heading to town to do some business. If I couldn't find it then I was to quit and call it a season. Needless to say this falls into the category of "didn't find". :lol: I've since straightened out into somewhat of an adult, but I still feel quilty. I'm sure he found it quite easily the next day and probably wasn't too pleased. :oops: Like I said, still feeling guilty for acting like a punk on that one.

HP
 
Husband found a brand new cresent wrench in a field, still had the price tag on it. He dung up a pry bar with the culivator.
I found a weather balloon once. :lol:
With yesterday's antler that makes 5 I found this year.
Son found the culivator shank my FIL lost.
 
Half of a head stone in a blowout. The last name was King I can't remember the date. I think my brothers kids run off with it when they were little I can't find the dang thing anywhere.
 
old plow points and a turning plow in one of the old hay fields, now its a subdivision.
real silver fork and spoon in different spots in the pasture at our house.
porcelean electric fence insulators in the middle of nowhere.
stolen cars in one hay field because it never had a fence around it.
old mason jar in the fence row near a gap.
watkins medicine bottle in the middle of the woods.
couple of grave sites on top of a ridge.
but the most things that i find are golf balls, no matter what hay field or pasture i go into there is one in there somewhere. even where there are not any houses around.
dad found a leather bound book in an old abandon farm house, titled "the family advisor or a plain and modern practice of the physic: calculated for the use of families who have not the advantages of a physician, and accommodated to the diseases of america" by henry wilkins, md
published 1818.

G3
 
Our Battle River land we find lots of native artifacts...arrowheads mostly.The odd buffaloo skull.

On the crop and hay land we find tools gregs dad used to blame the grandkids with running off with,prob. right where he left them when fixing machinery...... :lol:
 

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