A friend of mine lives pretty much in the middle of now where, 20 miles to the nearest small town. He was cutting his field that he had kind of let go for a while...then Wham! He hit a metal shopping cart on it's side. How did that get in the middle of a field...kids or a neighbor with a grudge...hmmm.
I was asked to clean up a fence line for a farmer one time and what ever trees i cut i could have, one day while working along the fenceline i stumbled over something in high grass and when I looked at what tripped me,i was shocked to find a stihl 048 av. I should it to the farmer and he told me he thought it was stolen 5-6 years ago
Sorry, no pics, but I found an old rusty drag harrow during some grading for our horse barn. It was pretty mangled up, but could probably still be useful if needed. I'd bought a new chain harrow from Tractor Supply a couple years ago so right now it's just yard art. Also have found a HUGE pile of old glass bottles in a pile out in some property adjacent to ours as well as what looks to be a small homemade liquor still. I do have a pic of that I'll try to post. But the bottles! Like several feet deep. I saved some cool blue Phillips bottles, but most are just random glass containers. Must have had a good customer base for the shine whoever lived around here earlier!
the top end was full of water and full of gunk, i put am top end on it while the crank got cleaned with new seals and bearings , carb kit,all new filters and to finish it off a new exhaust. I kept it for a while before i sold it, i fully regret selling it as it was a animal when in large timber
It's pretty bad the way some people use their property as a trash heap. Jill and I spent 2 years cleaning up 2 fire pits from glass and metal. That crap is like rocks in a garden, you think you have it all, next year there's more. Our story isn't as bad as some I've read here, or heard of elsewhere, but still. I've found beer cans and bottles in the weirdest of places here. There is a spot across the road where I dump bark/branches/cleanup from around the splitter and other compostable materials, and underneath is some bricks and large rocks. But it's not in a place that anyone in their right mind would mow, plow, or otherwise recreate. I don't consider my property a trash heap or the 'dump', and I won't treat it that way. I'm a smoker and I field strip my cig's and require that others do as well. The only butts allowed on my yard better have something living attached. Chaz
I had to google that. We had llamas, (we housed and cared for them but it was joint with our friend, we owned one and him the other ), he would visit a few times a year and did that with his smokes. I was always curious about it, learn something new every day, thanks.
Your very welcome, I guess I didn't realize that I was once again using phrases that are not very commonplace. In the military you learn to field strip cig's quickly, or you get to go around base with your pockets filled with rocks and pick up EVERY butt you see. It only takes seeing someone have to do that to hammer home the message. Also, I don't want my yard (or my woods) to look like an ashtray. I try not to be a jerk about it if I have company, usually we are up by the fire pits with a bonfire going, so I politely ask that they throw the butts into the fire, or on the pit if it's not burning. Friends all know better, and most of them have carried the practice on at their homes. Chaz
My property in Maine was a 1/4 acre, with a house and barn on it, in the middle of a neighborhood of similar lots. A previous tenant had still managed to turn the tiny yard into a junkyard. No matter where I dug or raked we were always coming up with car door handles , trim strips, and random metal parts
