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What have you found?

Lost my machete 4 years ago, found it this spring in a mudhole right along the fenceline where I'd been slashing brush 4 years ago.

We've found all kinds of trinkets over the years. Old licence plates from the 20' and 30's, old tools, medicine bottles, White Horse Whiskey bottles, native artifacts, thousands of deer sheds, and several trespassing hunters.

Found one big ole boy from Tennessee one time. Didn't know where he was at all. Said his guide had dropped him off and told him to walk until he came to a road. He'd been out all day and it was -25. He was glad to see us.
 
I was helpin' a friend haul small bales with his balewagon. The field was pretty rough and somehow my cell phone fell out into the feild. I should have left it home cause i never got service down in that area before. Well i looked and looked and decided it was history. My friend and his wife pulled up to see why i was walking around. She had her phone and called my phone and suddenly i hear "I'm the son of a third generation farmer" (My ring tone) from across a forty acre hayfield! Yipeee!!!! On my own place i've found arrowheads, pottery and grinding stones. Once, high on the mountain, i found a rock bowl used for gringing seeds by the indians. It was cool! I loaded it and me and made it to an area i could stash it and went back later with the truck and brought it home. It is part of my mom's rock garden and is a great piece of art>
 
PureCountry said:
Lost my machete 4 years ago, found it this spring in a mudhole right along the fenceline where I'd been slashing brush 4 years ago.

We've found all kinds of trinkets over the years. Old licence plates from the 20' and 30's, old tools, medicine bottles, White Horse Whiskey bottles, native artifacts, thousands of deer sheds, and several trespassing hunters.

Found one big ole boy from Tennessee one time. Didn't know where he was at all. Said his guide had dropped him off and told him to walk until he came to a road. He'd been out all day and it was -25. He was glad to see us.
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We have a White Horse whiskey bottle as well. :D

This has been a fun thread :-) It has reminded me of a lot of other thing I have found and lost, :(
 
While riding in Wyoming, I found a nifty old mustache cup. It has been a pencil holder for the past 38 years. An old "bug juice" bottle with an antique lid, that used to hold a chemical to eradicate pine beetle bugs, now sits on top of our refrigerator. Clear up in the Teton Wilderness Area, I found an expensive set of Bausch and Lomb binoculars. The only identification on them was "Paul Nelson." I asked at every camp if they had a Paul Nelson among their hunters. Finally, a man said he knew Paul Nelson, and had borrowed his binoculars but had lost them. I just happened to have them with me and gave them to the man. He was quite happy to get them back. Ironically, Paul Nelson was from Martin, South Dakota, one of our neighboring towns here in the Nebraska Sandhills. At the time, in 1971, he ran the movie theatre in that town. The best part of the deal for me was that Paul wouldn't let me pay to watch another movie for as long as he owned the theater. :-)
 
I don't know if any of you get the John Deere magazine "The Furrow", but they had an article in there recently about paddle boats that hit snags in the Mississippi River and sank back in the 1800's. Over the years the river has changed course and areas that used to be river are now farm land in Missouri. Well they are finding these paddle boats and the one the article featured was found 45 feet deep in this farmers soybean field. They said everyone survived but it sank so fast and was covered in mud so quickly that nothing could be salvaged so they found everything, perfectly preserved after all these years. Things like china, thimbles, pipes, even silk fabric was found just like new after they washed off the mud. The paddle wheel and spoked steering wheel made of wood were some other things they pictured. That find would have been worth a fortune but the farmer and the company that discovered it put it all in a museum. I thought that was one of the most interesting articles I have ever read. They are now trying to locate a Confederate War supply boat that was loaded with supplies for the army.

Anyway, this thread reminded me of that story.
 
Found this horseshoe, in a hayfield.
It was in the middle of an ant hill.


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Some older locals around here talk about how one blacksmith would "weld" the back of the shoe together like this one. He used baking soda.

This shoe was on the left 'cause of the wear.
 
Big Swede said:
I don't know if any of you get the John Deere magazine "The Furrow", but they had an article in there recently about paddle boats that hit snags in the Mississippi River and sank back in the 1800's. Over the years the river has changed course and areas that used to be river are now farm land in Missouri. Well they are finding these paddle boats and the one the article featured was found 45 feet deep in this farmers soybean field. They said everyone survived but it sank so fast and was covered in mud so quickly that nothing could be salvaged so they found everything, perfectly preserved after all these years. Things like china, thimbles, pipes, even silk fabric was found just like new after they washed off the mud. The paddle wheel and spoked steering wheel made of wood were some other things they pictured. That find would have been worth a fortune but the farmer and the company that discovered it put it all in a museum. I thought that was one of the most interesting articles I have ever read. They are now trying to locate a Confederate War supply boat that was loaded with supplies for the army.

Anyway, this thread reminded me of that story.
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Yes that was a very interesting story. :-)

Didn't they even find barrels full of whiskey?
 
Yes, I think they did find barrels of whiskey. I couldn't believe the condition of all the entire boat and it's contents. But they said when the mud covered the whole thing and eliminated all the air it sealed every thing up tight and nothing deteriated or rotted. I was telling my parents about the story and ended up giving the magazine to them to read.

It also showed a picture of the hole in the field, it was the size of a fooball field and 45 feet deep with about 20 irrigation pumps to keep the water out. If I ever get to that area of Missouri I'm going to look up that museum.
 
Big Swede said:
I don't know if any of you get the John Deere magazine "The Furrow", but they had an article in there recently about paddle boats that hit snags in the Mississippi River and sank back in the 1800's. Over the years the river has changed course and areas that used to be river are now farm land in Missouri. Well they are finding these paddle boats and the one the article featured was found 45 feet deep in this farmers soybean field. They said everyone survived but it sank so fast and was covered in mud so quickly that nothing could be salvaged so they found everything, perfectly preserved after all these years. Things like china, thimbles, pipes, even silk fabric was found just like new after they washed off the mud. The paddle wheel and spoked steering wheel made of wood were some other things they pictured. That find would have been worth a fortune but the farmer and the company that discovered it put it all in a museum. I thought that was one of the most interesting articles I have ever read. They are now trying to locate a Confederate War supply boat that was loaded with supplies for the army.

Anyway, this thread reminded me of that story.
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http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2006/grade5/read/text/passage3.txt
 
While riding checking cattle I've found old ax heads, chain, pieces of steel some 4' long and last year a metal stirrup or part of one with 'US" on it. Most of the stuff was after a rain, a neighbor found a Colt cap & ball pistol or what was left of it in a creek crossing, he dug a heck of a hole with a backhoe looking for more stuff but never found anymore.
 
per said:
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.
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So, I want you to tell the story. PLEASE??????
 
Not much of a story. I found the ring in the yard between the house and the shop one day while walking across it. It was a nice male wedding band with several small diamonds in it. Took it into the house, cleaned it and hung it on the crank of the kitchen window. We asked everyone who sat in the kitchen for coffee for years. Finally one day we were visiting with my sister and brother in law and were talking about the ring that was hanging there. My sister looked at it and said my that is just like the one he lost many years ago. Upon closer inspection it really was. They had made a new one and forgot about this one. Now he has one for each hand. I suggested that maybe they should visit more often!
 
per said:
Not much of a story. I found the ring in the yard between the house and the shop one day while walking across it. It was a nice male wedding band with several small diamonds in it. Took it into the house, cleaned it and hung it on the crank of the kitchen window. We asked everyone who sat in the kitchen for coffee for years. Finally one day we were visiting with my sister and brother in law and were talking about the ring that was hanging there. My sister looked at it and said my that is just like the one he lost many years ago. Upon closer inspection it really was. They had made a new one and forgot about this one. Now he has one for each hand. I suggested that maybe they should visit more often!
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AAWW you could have made up a better story then that. :wink:
 
I thought about it BMR but at my mid life age the truth is hard enough to remember let alone embellishment. I never added however, that they only live 10 miles from me.
 
I found an old hand auger while raking some pine needles when i first bought my place it's 3foot tall and 2 inch diameter.Not sure of the age but it's old,maybe from the mining days here in the sierras.My wife lost her ring at the resort where she works about two years ago an one day about a month ago,her brother whom also works there,was walking down the dirt road where the guest drive to there cabins and have been doing so all that time,saw a glittering thing down on the side of the road and there was the ring!Pretty amazing,really.
 
I've found car parts and bodies sticking up from the ground, hames, horse shoes, lots of nails, glass, wire, meat hooks, old buggy pieces, hinges, sheet metal, old branding irons, tires, just about everything including a kitchen sink! :shock: Nothing surprises me here! Can't wait till next spring for a whole new bunch of surprise packages!! :roll: :lol:
 
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It's a jingle bell sitting right in a wolf track. We've never had a jingle bell on anything around here. The tracks came in from the east, milled around in the road a while and kept on going west. No blood or mess or anything. My best guess is it came from the wolfs dinner (someones dog), but how it got there???

I also found a golf ball by one of the salt feeders, 1/4 mile from the road, 1/2 mile from any house.
 
NN Ranch said:
I also found a golf ball by one of the salt feeders, 1/4 mile from the road, 1/2 mile from any house.
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Well I don't wanna sound like I'm braggin' but I did lose sight of one I hit that direction last week . . . . .






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