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acd21man 
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 5:02pm |
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how many people have lost fuel caps in the field while working iv done this several times
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 5:07pm |
If you keep plowing the field, they'll eventually show up....lol
It took 6 years for my neighbours car keys to shine on top of a furrow one sunny Spring day !!
He'd sold the car the fall before......sigh....
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GT in Indiana
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 5:46pm |
Yes.
Also gloves, sunglasses and very shiny, almost new 3/4 ratchet. You would think they would be easy to see, but no. We now refer to them as offerings to the Orange Gods.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
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Gerald J.
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 5:51pm |
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The germination rate of steel seems to be very poor. So far in 20 years of farming, nothing I've lost has sprouted. Or been plowed up. I did find a crescent wrench in the road one time, it was scarred but still works. I think a 14" so its almost been useful.
Gerald J.
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RSponenberg
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 6:02pm |
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Lost the hand crank for my CA ,still missing after 2yrs!!!
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 6:09pm |
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count me in. Don't even have an exact count on the stuff I've planted that don't grow. Darrel
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TMiller/NC
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 6:11pm |
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Did a small garden for neighbor paid $35, plowed under $165 glasses.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 6:41pm |
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I found a nice log chain once with the rolling basket of a Landoll soil finisher. When the Deere started to bog down I noticed the basket wasn't turning and had a pile of dirt in front that could bury most any car. When I got the pile leveled out I found a cast iron lid from a Deere and Mansur corn planter. I got to keep the lid, boss took the chain. I found a decent Cresent wrench in cornstalks once while walking. I've been meaning to give them to the land owner one of these days.
Dad lost the oil fill cap off the 8N and wired the new one on so he wouldn't forget to replace it again.
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Lonn
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 6:48pm |
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Lost the fuel cap for the E Gleaner last year and didn't notice until Oats this year. Not all the gas had evaporated. Lost the bar for turning the 390 haybine backwards to unslug it. Found it 2 years later in the dirt along my driveway. Mowed over it many times before I noticed it. Planted many tools but none ever grew.
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Alberta Phil
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 7:29pm |
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Lost the gas cap from my WD a couple of years ago when plowing snow. Replaced it with one from a parts tractor and found the original next summer when mowing. I remember many years ago my brother lost his wallet when plowing one spring. He turned it up two years later when cultivating the same field. The money in it was the same amount, hadn't grown at all!!LOL
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acd21man
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 7:46pm |
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weve got to do better than this people this stuff gets and sounds expensive found 5 dollars once, found tools and a chain to. plough points. daddy found a pair of oakley sunglasses turned out to be a 200 dollar pair of glasses he whar them for like a month then they told him that they were a 200 dollar set now he whars them like once a year lol
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 7:57pm |
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I got off the bus from school once and saw a flash of red and green in the snow. I turned around to take another look as the bus drove off and found a scrunched up Pall Mall pack with 2, 5 dollar bills in it. I was glad that guy littered cause I could buy something for family for Christmas. Beings it was when JFK was president it would have been like finding a couple hundred in today's money.
Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 24 Nov 2010 at 7:58pm
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kip in cny
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 7:58pm |
We have plowed under the hand crank for the CA too. Dads wallet, tools, But every year or so I find arrow heads, a Fleshing stone and we have about 30 1890's pennys I find a few a year. They say a erie canal boat was robbed in our area and the robbers didnt make it far.
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TomMN
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 8:24pm |
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A very nice rear tire found an old pitch fork where the barn used to be on our place. We hope to not find any more of those, at least not using that method.
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acd21man
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 9:06pm |
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ya we find lots of arrowheads here in gods country which is in the valley lol
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Unit3
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 9:18pm |
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Never lost a fuel cap, but the farm has claimed Craftsman plier before. The V ripper finds alot of old horse items. It brought up a horse shoe this year. Would you call that a ringer?
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David Maddux
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 9:33pm |
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Ask JW Wiseman about loosing a tire chain in a plowed field!
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morton(pa)
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 1:18am |
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Lost the radiator cap for a B earlier this year.
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Leonard
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 3:19am |
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Dad found an old axle for a horse drawn wagon with the plow one year.Still have it out by the pasture.
Leonrard
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BobHnwO
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 4:29am |
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Lost half of a cultivator shank with a 9" sweep on it 2 years ago,hope I don't find it with a tire!!
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Brian S(NY)
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 8:24am |
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I've lost them while trailering to parades.. but never in the feild. Although we do seem to plant alot of draw pins.
Edited by Brian S(NY) - 25 Nov 2010 at 8:30am
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Iowa Farmer
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 9:41am |
The hired man (at that time) left the fuel cap off the 200 and went and disked corn stalks all day. Didn't notice until the tractor started running rough and acted starved for fuel. Ended up hauling it home and I don't know how many corn schucks and how much dirt we dug out of the tank. This was 11 years ago and it still haunts us today, every once in a while the "L" fitting out the bottom of the fuel tank will become plugged with some junk and the lines will have to be taken off and everything cleaned.
On another note, this fall we had a large crescent wrench out in the field while hooking back into the bean head. My uncle laid the wrench on the back of the header and forgot about it. Got the header attached and he started the machine and didn't hear anything unusual until that cresent wrench made it to the chopper and then exited through the spreader. The R-62 handled it real well, just one bent knife in the chopper. The wrench was marred up and now has a "half moon shape" from its trip through the rotor.......
Happy Thanksgiving!
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 11:01am |
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Alberta Phil-
Your fiscal security was much better in it's farming investment, than if you would've dropped that wallet in front of the door of the old King Edward Hotel...
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 12:25pm |
 David Maddux wrote:
Ask JW Wiseman about loosing a tire chain in a plowed field! |
Dave I had typed this same thing and then cleared it before posting it, But now that its out. lol
I was glad he found it under the dirt. Just knew I was going to put the subsoiler on and run over that part of the field before it was going to show itself to us again. lol
Don
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Skyhighballoon(MO)
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 2:28pm |
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Don - was thinking the same thing. I'm glad he found it too! Mike
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1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex
1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 6:29pm |
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Leonrard, If you lean old buggy axles against a small tree, some one like me might come along 80 years later and find it inside the old tree with his brand new chain on the old chainsaw. Don't ask how I know this.
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D17 owner
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 7:40pm |
Five years ago I built my house in the middle of a 40. There is three acers in the one corner that is low land just brush in it. I was power raking the lawn and looking for a place to throw all the sod so I threw it in that little three acre patch and hit a tire. I got a chain and pulled it out and here it was a chariot. I brought it home and dad said where did you get that. He never seen it there. I thought that was neat.
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 8:18pm |
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I remember dad hitting a wrench with the lawn mower once. Seems some nameless individual had made a few bike repairs in the yard...
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Pa'sOldA/C
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 8:58pm |
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We find car parts every summer and fall, Dad and Grandpa put in a junkyard on the farm in the 60' till the 70's. I'm waiting to find a whole car.
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Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 10:27pm |
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Plowed up a drawbar 2 years ago on a farm I lease, me and my daddy been tending this place since 1965, was off a CA, the mans son still has the tractor.
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