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Topic: how many people
Posted By: acd21man
Subject: how many people
Date 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 ------------- 2 wd 45,2 D-17 diesel/gas 3 pt, 220,d21, 4020,2 4430s used daily http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudh8Xz9_rZHhUC3YNozupw |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 5:07pm
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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.... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: GT in Indiana
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 5:46pm
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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!
Gerald ------------- 1955 WD45 we like to call Ruby |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date 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. |
Posted By: RSponenberg
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 6:02pm
| Lost the hand crank for my CA ,still missing after 2yrs!!! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 6:09pm
| count me in. Don't even have an exact count on the stuff I've planted that don't grow. Darrel |
Posted By: TMiller/NC
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 6:11pm
| Did a small garden for neighbor paid $35, plowed under $165 glasses. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date 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. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Lonn
Date 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. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 7:29pm
| 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 |
Posted By: acd21man
Date 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 ------------- 2 wd 45,2 D-17 diesel/gas 3 pt, 220,d21, 4020,2 4430s used daily http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudh8Xz9_rZHhUC3YNozupw |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date 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.
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: kip in cny
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 7:58pm
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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. ------------- 160 CA 920diesel 5020 HD-3 |
Posted By: TomMN
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 8:24pm
| 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. |
Posted By: acd21man
Date 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 ------------- 2 wd 45,2 D-17 diesel/gas 3 pt, 220,d21, 4020,2 4430s used daily http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudh8Xz9_rZHhUC3YNozupw |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 9:18pm
| 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? |
Posted By: David Maddux
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2010 at 9:33pm
| Ask JW Wiseman about loosing a tire chain in a plowed field! |
Posted By: morton(pa)
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 1:18am
| Lost the radiator cap for a B earlier this year. |
Posted By: Leonard
Date 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 |
Posted By: BobHnwO
Date 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!!
------------- Why do today what you can put off til tomorrow. |
Posted By: Brian S(NY)
Date 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. ------------- God made man.Sam colt made man equal. |
Posted By: Iowa Farmer
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 9:41am
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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!
Iowa Farmer
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Posted By: DaveKamp
Date 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... |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 12:25pm
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 ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
David Maddux wrote:Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date 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
------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date 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.
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: D17 owner
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 7:40pm
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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. |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date 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... ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: Pa'sOldA/C
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 8:58pm
| 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. |
Posted By: denwic
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 10:27pm
| 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. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2010 at 11:54pm
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My latest was losing 6 almost new points on a disk chisel. The ground was incredibly hard from people walking on it picking their pumpkins. Hope to fine them in the spring but hopefully not in a tire. I lost a cylinder wrench from a JD 4400 combine a few years ago. Knew it was within one acre, have disked, chiseled and walked the field still haven;t found it. Did find the 3 point end this spring that was lost about 8 years ago. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: Mike(SEIN)
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 7:33am
| Back in the 1970' I lost a drawbar off a 806 when plowing with a fast hitch plow,bosses son found it 6or 8 years later.Same feild bos and I were cultivating corn, he lost a whole shank when we were fall plowing that fall he found it with a brand new Armsrong. I'm still glad it was him that found it. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 9:05am
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Found a copper crucifix, a large glass marble, some old coins from the early 1900's, several horse shoes including one with a rear strap for a tender hoof, a toy metal airplane from the 30's and a toy metal tow truck from the 30's (they were both real rusty), a plastic cowboy that looked real old, and Dad found a Revigator radium ore water cooler in a stone pile about 35 to 40 years ago and it was undamaged. It was almost completely covered by stones like someone had purposefully buried it there. He gave it to me a few years ago. The Revigator is identical to the one in this link >.... http://www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?ItemId=69382 - http://www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?ItemId=69382 only I'm missing the lid. I haven't gone through the stone pile yet to see if I can find the lid. There used to be an old car fender sticking out of the ground in my yard but I pulled it up. Looked to be from the Model T era. My grandpa buried a car on his place back in the 50's. I don't know what it was but I know where it is cause as kids in the 70's we dug down to the roof top once then got in trouble from Grandpa for digging a hole where he would drive to dump trash. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 10:14am
| Have lost pins, clips, caps and plugs, lost a 1 1/8" wrench and never found it, pulled up a single bottom horse drawn one season, almost totally rusted away but identifiable, even found a chisel harrow also horse drawn while mowing a "new" piece of brush to open a field, luckily it was spikes down but it did hose up the mower! |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 10:25am
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Back in the 80's I was picking up dead falls from an Oak tree in a pasture that the boss was plowing up. A gust of wind came up and blew another out of the tree landing smack in the middle of the top of my head. As I was bent over holding my head I noticed something gold colored in the last furrow. It was a Korean war era brass cig lighter. We were more than a quarter mile from any buildings and I always wondered who lost the lighter. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: ALinIL
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 10:35am
| Yep - Have planted many and have not harvested any. The last planting was a brand new drawbar pin. Hadn't even taken off the tag. However about a year ago while tilling the garden I found my grandmother's wedding band that she lost about 7 years ago . |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 8:07pm
| Dave Kamp: How do you know about the notorious old "King Eddy"?? I've tipped a few in there in the far distant past!! |
Posted By: rw
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 9:45pm
| We lost the cap on the 190 years ago and never did figure out how it got off the tank and it wasn't laying anywhere around the spot where we do the fueling. I got a good used one and used it for years and years. One day years later, I looked in the tank with a flashlight and saw an object. Kind of didn't think much of it until one day I fished it out with a magnet and found that the rivet that holds the two parts of the cap together had failed letting the inside part fall in the tank and the outer fall on the ground somewhere. I guess I did put the cap on tank after fueling up all those years ago RW |
Posted By: Andrew(southernIL)
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 9:46pm
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Had some fence rows bulldozed out this fall and was putting new fence up today and in a small hump of dirt we found the missing suitcase weight for the 175 that has been missing for probably close to 20 years.
------------- If fishing is a sport your looking at an athlete |
Posted By: AC Tundra
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2010 at 11:15pm
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After we built our house, I was leveling out the ruts left by the concrete truck and saw something metal sticking out of the ground. I found what was left of a single action revolver. Grips were gone, hammer back but it wasnt loaded. Makes you wonder what other treasures are out in the old back 40. ------------- What do you mean another tractor, honey? That tractor has been here for years. |
Posted By: acd21man
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2010 at 8:48pm
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i posted this the other day then yesterday i gave my dad my case knife to cut a feed sack and he left it in the troft and thought he told me to get it but he really didnt and i stayed all day and the calfs were playing and eatn and they pushed it in the mud and i couldnt see it so daddy was gona buy me a new one cause he lost mine then this afternoon i found it, proud i did. but then i think of the other knife i could have got lol ------------- 2 wd 45,2 D-17 diesel/gas 3 pt, 220,d21, 4020,2 4430s used daily http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudh8Xz9_rZHhUC3YNozupw |