Posted by JDseller on May 22, 2011 at 20:51:37 from (208.126.196.144):
Did not want to high jack K. Peters post about plowing his keys under. I have lost several things over the years plowing/disking.
The biggest was the draw bar out of a Ford 6000. The weeds pulled the retainer clip out and the draw bar slide out and was plowed under. That draw bar was about five feet long. I knew within a few acres but not exactly where. I listened while disking and even when I plowed the same ground the next year. Found it with the corn planter two years after losing it. It got side ways in front of the shoes and drug a big pile of dirt.
The most expensive "almost" plowed under happened to my Maternal Grand Father. He had gotten a new TO-30 tractor. He was share cropping on a farm. He was moldboard plowing this big bottom. The land owner stopped by to see the new tractor. The Land owner had just sold another farm and was on his way to the bank. He had the cash money for the farm in his wallet. He drove the tractor for a few rounds and left. My Grand father took back over. Half way through his first pass his eyes caught something going under the rear tractor tire. He stopped and got off to look. The wallet was just behind the rear tire in the bottom of the plow furry just about to be turned under. Grand Dad took it over to him that night. He gave my Grand Dad a $100 bucks for finding it. This was in 1952. That was a lot of money then. Don"t remember how much money was in the wallet but I know the farm that sold. It was 300 acres of rolling hill ground. It would have brought $200-250 per acre then on the low side. So that would have made it $6000-7500 dollars then. That would be like a $100,000 today.
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