Got a new place, I'm still exploring the property and will be for a while. Yesterday I was looking at one of the old holding pens for the cows and I saw several old metal roofing panels that had been covered in high grass and weeds when I saw the place last. Can you say, "free stacks coverage?" Anybody found something cool/ lost after the grass dies down/ brush gets cut back?
This isn’t from when grass died down but when bay was cut. A guy I used to work with told me he thought he’d had his Oldsmobile Cutlass stolen. Then fast forward a month or so he’s cutting hay in a field and darn near run over it. He’d forgotten he had drove it to the field last time then drove tractor home and had completely forgotten about the car he left.
Well, push the grasses aside and stand those puppies up. Let's see what they really look like. Good find, BTW!!
with the property we got im always finding stuff while we clean, and the poor mower finds every thing :-( , kids found old saw blades , nails , & garbage , mower found steel wire , string, chunks. theres been many blade replacements. i dont get it just chuckn stuff all over, the all owner did that like mad. so sad
The old owner of my house works at Allen Edmunds hoes, he threw hundreds of Allen Edmunds engraved shoe horns in the brush/ burn pile that I turned into a garden. I've been finding those stupid shoe horns every year in the soil. I didn't plant a garden this year, and all the weeds that grew make me regret it, even worse than not having my own vegetables. Here's the weed mess ( nee garden) in front of my recent stacking job.
Back when I was a young entrepreneur (16 years old mowing grass for all the neighbors) I found a wooden ball bat with the riding mower. It made a bang and threw 2/3's of the bat about 150 feet across the property...like a boomerang! ...WOW!! Surprisingly it didn't hurt the mower!
Sounds like you bought the same farm property that I did! Seriously though, that isn't funny at all and I curse the previous owners often. I get it, farmers have junk piles, maybe two or three, but ours is ridiculous, tractor transmission housing, bathtub, pickup truck bed, Quonset hut pieces (1,000 feet away from the Quonset), empty beer cans, poly bailing twine in hundreds of yards dumps half buried, new packages of roof shingles that have sunk into the ground, and all of the broken glass.... ugh!
That would definitely be frustrating!! Clean it up a little at a time and eventually you'll have it looking good (and safe) again.
It's a good thing that scrapyards are again paying something for scrap steel. I've got a trailer load to haul away.
The folks that rented my place after my grandparents passed away, and before I moved in a decade later, used to fix pianos. I found the cast iron piano interior sections buried all over the yard with piano strings every where. These are big heavy chunks of iron. Also, they would throw their used oil filters in the brook. I coulda killed them as we drink well water.
My brother in law does commercial HVAC and has several piles for various metals. He will let them sit, and sit, and sit. Until the day the scrap metal prices come up out of the basement, and he can go with a couple thousand pounds at a time. Nice retirement savings account, on his back acreage!
I lost a $3k. hearing aid in the grass around one of my stacks back in September and I never did find it.
