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Started by slowzuki, December 01, 2003, 09:04:44 AM

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slowzuki

I have read about people finding chainsaws etc.  Let's keep to to man-made objects:

Myself, only old farm equipment in the middle of the woods and things like hats.

What have you found? Lets hear some interesting ones!

Ron Wenrich

Old cans & bottles from old dumps, camping equipment stashed under rocks (never figured out why), condom machine, porno mags (not the same place  :D), abandoned cars, cannon balls, and WWII airplane.  I had a partner that found a body.

Then there are the typical dump-alongside-the-road items.  Refrigerators (found one of those in a creek), sofas, chairs, stoves, beer cans and anything too big for the dump.

There's probably others, but those are the better ones.
Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Gus

Did a cut on private property once where there was an old logging camp back in the white pine hay-days of Northern Minnesota. Found the dug well and a chain grown into the crotch of an old red oak. The chain was hand forged. I'm sure it is still there, was imbedded deep.
Another time I found what looked to be a hand-made knife with bone handle stuck into a tree about 5' off the ground. I spotted it off the skidder. It took along time to dig it out but I still have it somewhere.
Gus
"How do I know what I think unless I have seen what I say?"

Bro. Noble

About 30 years ago I was quail hunting with a friend.  We were walking along an old fence and he remarked that the old woven wire fence looked like the ones that were woven on the site.  I had never heard of such a thing.  He proceded to describe how the wire was woven and the machine that did the weaving.  About that time we came across an old rusty fence weaving machine and the fence stopped :o
milking and logging and sawing and milking

Viking

ive found mostly all farm still, the stuff that horses would pull tillers and the stuff that puts the cut hay into a line, fdunno what they are called haha :), a few older trucks "here on my property, they are from the 50's there was some logging on my property back them, ummm alot of pop bottles and cans, an old husky chain saw, couldnt tell what kinda it was it has grass and everything growing throguh it haha, i just tossed it out. i think, thats about it.

slowzuki

I forgot a really interesting one, it was a very old piece of machinery, turned out to be a bottling unit for a Coca-Cola outlet that was there before WWII.  The building was long gone but a neighbour has some of the crates that were used to carry the bottles.

Scott

 I have a small collection of stove doors and legs from old logging camp dumps. I haven't found much in the way of farm equipment or anything very good. i found an old coleman stove, an ice fishing pole, 2 rowboats, an old bread truck that was made in england and one time i found an old caulked boot. I've stumbled across a few drug growing sites as well. I found an old 30's car with a straight 8 in it too.

Kirk_Allen

While stationed in MS during my first hitch in the Air Force I was deer hunting in an old forest area north of Biloxi.  I was on an old logging road and tripped and fell on my face.  I thought I tripped on a root but when I kicked it, after getting up of course, it didnt budge.  After some curious digging, it turned out to be the top to a complete hyraulic jack.  A really big One!  8) 8)

I still have it today and although I dont know the capacity, I have used it to lift our farmers combine to change a tire.  

Most recently, while recovering cherry logs from a local area, I found an old pick/axe.  The type you see an old gold mine using.  How did I find it ::)  You guessed it.  I tripped over the handle.  At first I thought it was just another branch in the pile.  I guess when they pushed all the trees into the piles this thing got uncovered in the process.  

Although the head has some rust its still quite usable.  


Tom

I have found lots of "dump" type stuff but a beer can was the most amazing.
We had been riding motorcycles in the woods NW of Athens Georgia.  We were in an area where the last human had to have been visiting a neighboring Neanderthal or Cro-magnon.

I ran out of gas.

We didn't have anything to transfer gasoline in and had picked up one of the bikes and were trying to turn it upside down over my bike when someone hollered, "Here's a beer can".  It was too.  It was bright and shiny and just been dropped.  We couldn't figure it out and I haven't to this day.

Don P

Fire extinguisher,farm junk, still foundations, 6" tip to a saber in sheath (I buried it back on the old homesite we were planting), an old A model with a 12" tree growing where the engine was supposed to be.
And a bunch of funny rocks ???


etat

I like the rocks.  Great find.  Do you know  anything about the folks that might have dropped them?  I've never actually found any indian artifacts, but have found quite a few chunks of limestone with cool fossel shapes in them.  They come out of a creek I used to play in.  Lost em sometimes in moving over the years.  There's a LOT of shells in limestone around here but the bunch that come out of the creek had some really cool lookin shapes embeded in the limestone, some of em was in color.
Old Age and Treachery will outperform Youth and Inexperence. The thing is, getting older is starting to be painful.

pasbuild

A buddy of mine picked up 35 acres next to his place an old still came with it. There is an inland lake up my way that has no road to it, very thick brush, when we get there we find two old car hoods welded together to make a boat.
  There is a lot of float copper also
If it can't be nailed or glued then screw it

Kirk_Allen

I didnt give it any thought until Don posted the arrow head pics.

My dad has two shoe boxes full of arrow heads he found on his farm as a kid.  

You have to be careful with exposing some of those finds though.  There are some native orginazations that will try to lay claim to not only the artifacts but the land they were found on.  We recently had such a situaiton in our eara that only made the lawyers money.


Tom

I found an axe that belonged to Abraham Lincoln.  It was stuck in the side of a cherry tree.  The handle was rotten so I replaced it.  The head broke when I put the new handle on so I replaced it.  Now it looks real good and bright and shiny leaning up in the corner of the barn. ;D

Buzz-sawyer

A little bit of everything ...old homesteads,arrowheads from long gone hunters,well pumps,bones once a jaw bone eerily human!
plow,albino racoons 3 with normal colored mom.
hunters I saw who didnt see me...a beaver dam shaped like a heart...much much more.....
Don
    HEAR THAT BLADE SING!

Ed_K

Two summers ago, I was helping a forester mark a cordwood lot. We found an old TD 18 dozer, had a 12 dbh blackbirch growing between the radiator and blade. while later we found an old radio flyier (little red wagon).
 I was talking to the forester this last summer, he mentioned the land owner got the dozer running.
 Yrs ago, I was doing a land leveling job in Quana Tx. We found an old model A junk yard, there was no roads near it.
 One thing you don't do is run a skidder over an old dump,
 DanG near lost it when an old buried car collapsed  :o.
Ed K

burlman

how about an arc welder. yes brand new still in its plastic wrapper. I was driving along a soft back road one spring, I gues someone in a car perhaps got themselves severly stuck and needed a jack or something they took the welder out set it on the side of the hill, I guess they were alittle tired when they finally got out, that they took off and forgot the welder. I first suspected it was stolen. It had a serial no. so I informed the police, and put an ad in the local paper. the police said if I had no response witin 2 weeks it was mine. I'm not much at welding so I sold it. I also found an ice auger while deer hunting one fall. It was in apiece from a trout lake, I suspect some poachers were  trying to get a little snack mid winter, perhaps thet heard the helicopter or snowmobile, suspecting it was the wardens they pitched the auger back in the bush, and didn't go back for it.

Paul_H

That's how I got my parents a Christmas tree one year.
I was still living at home,and drove my Dad's truck up in the bush to check his machines.The truck was a 1975 GMC pickup that was a similar green to the Forest service trucks.

My freind Guy and I drove up around a corner and saw a group of people dive in the bush.We drove up honking the horn and stopped by the trees left alongside the road.We could hear twigs snapping as they ran away.

We loaded up the trees and left.They had very good taste in trees.

Ron W,
could you tell us more about the WWII plane?
Science isn't meant to be trusted it's to be tested

Gus

This thread was a good idea.
Bro. Noble, that woven wire machine is by far the most interesting to me. I had no idea someone made a machine that tied the wire as you went down the fence row. 8)
Gus
"How do I know what I think unless I have seen what I say?"

L. Wakefield

   I just recently dug up what I believe is a stone hand tool for skinning. It's too lightweight to be a hand-axe (I think) and is not likely to be a tomahawk head, but there are finger notches that fit the hand exactly for a tool just about shaped right for skinning.  We had a great time passing it from one person to another to see what their hands did with it and what it said to them. It almost looks like a Flintstone era windshield scraper..I may try it out when it's time to skin the deer Mike got on Saturday just about last light. Got it in under the wire and won't be going muzzle-loading after all.. lw
L. Wakefield, owner and operator of the beastly truck Heretik, that refuses to stay between the lines when parking

Bro. Noble

Gus,

It is an interesting thread 8)

I don't remember much about the fence machine,  but have recognized  the woven in place fences a time  or two since then.  Rather than rectangular spaces between the wires,  they are triangles.

Just thought of another find.  An older neighbor was showing us where there had been an old sawmill on his place in the late 1800's.  Said the engine blew up and scattered metal and operator all over.  On the way back to his house my son found a piece of grate from the firebox of a steam engine.
milking and logging and sawing and milking

isawlogs

  Found an old splitting axe , chainsaw chain stuck in a branch... ( my dad later told me who put it there... him in the 50's...) a few horse shoes.
   While I was hunting a few years ago I found an old boat on the bank of the river a mile or so down from my hunting camp.It was near a logging camp, that was in use a long time before I was born. I told my dad of it and he than told me it was the same type they used when they did the river drive . He then told me about the logging camp and who had worked there. He had worked a few miles from there, back then it could of been 100. Found an old lamp in the ruble and it's in my camp now.
A man does not always grow wise as he grows old , but he always grows old as he grows wise .

   Marcel

woodmills1

On my own property I found 2 old cellar holes along with a doodle bug, which I think is a model A turned into a tractor, along with lotsa bottles and junk.
James Mills,Lovely wife,collect old tools,vacuuming fool,36 bdft/hr,oak paper cutter,ebonic yooper rapper nauga seller, Blue Ox? its not fast, 2 cat family, LT70,edger, 375 bd ft/hr, we like Bob,free heat,no oil 12 years,big splitter, baked stuffed lobster, still cuttin the logs dere IAM

Frank_Pender

One of the things I have found on this Tree Farm took almost 3 years to identify what it was and how it operated.   Since I married this place (already in my wifes hands)  I felt somewhat like an interloper, much of the time.  

Anyway, after digging this critter out of 25 year old natural Fir reprod I set it up in all kinds of positons to determine what it was.  On one end was a cam that was the hardest thing to dcide the what for issue.  

One summer a friend had loaned me his John Deere 450 for building a pond and we had to do some welding.   He came out to help and brought a friend.   I showed the friend the contraption I had been looking at for thre years.  He immediately said, "I know what that is!   I have one just like it."

I said, "Ya, right" and laughed.  He procededto set it in working positon and explained its workings.   I turned out to be a military well driving rig that was designed to be parachuted froma ricraft in Europe to establish fresh water supplies for the troops.   They had been designed to operate off the pto of a duce and a half.
Frank Pender

Stephen_Wiley

Tom

I think that axe belong to George Washington before Abe got it !
 :D :D :D 8)
" If I were two faced, do you think I would be wearing this one?"   Abe Lincoln

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