Some of you guys find cool stuff like arrowheads, while I rarely find anything except maybe an old bottle, an old stone adze that was pretty cool, but not often. oh, the turtle shell was a neat find, and an occasional animal skull and bones.
today i was doing a little staking for a potential encroachment issue. my client put a fence up in 1996 and did include a portion of the abutters land at one corner, pretty significant for arond here, about 10' x 20' at the corner... It's a little difficult communicating for me because the owner is Pakistani and i have a real problem with accents.(except boston and southern) one of te nicest guys I've met though even if it's hard for him to understand adverse possession in MA. He kept saying, "I told the fence company to put it half a foot inside my property!"
This is a small town 🙂 I know the fence guy and have worked for and with him on numerous occasions, but this was 15 years ago and no on complained about the fence then.
I also know the abutter that's complaining about the fence and have served on a town committee or two with him. We go back about 20 years, have kids in school together etc..not great friends but friendly with each other. He came out and we chatted, and I explained what I saw and potential issues with the both of them. The abutter had their common lines staked by another company (my previous place of employment actually) and there isn't any question about the location of the record lines, shoot there's a monument at every corner!
But my real story is about the path I followed into the back woods, just out of curiosity... sure enough there was a bunch of junk, including an old willy's covered in vines, propane tanks, grills, just crap all over the place, including this find!
The keys worked and moved easily so i brought it home. Scrubbed enough to find it's an American Trumpter made in Elkhart Ind. Oh, it's a cornet in case you don't know horns.
Funniest part about this is that i just started playing the Cornet again last year! I picked up an old trumpet last august and started back into palying and then picked up an old Cornet this winter cause I like the sound a little better. Even though this horn that i found in the woods is in rough shape cosmetically it actually sounds sweeter than mine!!! i'm going to get it really spiffed u p and use it!!
SWMBO thinks I'm crazy, now with four horns including my old bugle from boy scout days. hahahaha
But dang, finding a playable cornet in the woods with at least 20 years of junk growing in around and on it??
"The keys worked"?
Surely you meant valves, no? 🙂
Things we find in the woods>Duh
yup, my error... the slides were a little stiff but I was able to free two of them so far.....the pistons are spotless ???
Things we find in the woods>Duh
Don,
I'm guessing the felt will need to be replaced, though.
I played cornet in jr. high band, way back when.
Things we find in the woods>Alan
Wanna buy a cornet? LOL... yeah the felts are shot, but the pearl inlays are beautiful!
I, too, played Cornet in jr High and my first year of HS...
What have you found in the woods?
It's amazing what you find on public lands.
JRL
On one survey I wish I'd have never been involved with I found this nice young lady who was curious. I was pretty curious too, so we eventually took care of that curiosity.
Fast forward about 8 years to our divorce. I guess she didn't like seeing all those other cool things you find that I'd bring home to share with her: match box cars, CD's & cassettes, assortment of tools, snake sheds, nasty poison ivy..... even found a porn video once.
but still looking for that perfect monument...
My mistake, that should read "American Trumpeteer"
Things we find in the woods>Alan
I find golf balls all the time...In the middle of nowhere.
Maybe birds pick them up and eventually drop them.
Things we find in the woods>Alan
Don,
Probably one of my favorite finds was when looking for a control monument set by the Trinity River Authority back in 1962. I pulled the data sheet for the monument, loaded up in the truck, and set out with all intentions of finding it. After about 20 min. or so of searching I saw a faint outline of something about 30 feet or so in front of me in the brush. Once I got to the object of interest, I found it to be an old aluminum section of lining rod, still stacked as a sight, over the monument I was hunting.
Over the years have found many articles that were out of place in the middle of nowhere.
Last week while looking for a hub we came across an ancient bolt from a rifle that had been in the ground a long time. Going to take some time to get thru the dirt crust to see what it may be from.
The most memorable things I have found was a working still up river from Caddo Lake back in the 70's.
I agree about the golf balls, they can show up most anywhere. I have even found golf clubs, crow bars, chains, whiskey in stumps and several stolen cars.
my first year of surveying i was running the gun on a asbuilt. while set up on the road i found a vhs tape with no label. i knew i had something good! i was living with 3 other guys at the time in a bachelor pad. all of my roommates were at home watching tv when i got home. i explained what i had found and we eagerly threw the tape in waiting to see what we had found. the tape started mid scene. just as i had suspected it was porn alright. TRANNY PORN! now i had heard of such things but had never seen it first hand. i liked to have never convinced my buds that i had actually found that video and not bought it. "i swear its not mine guy€s"
Here are a few of my findings.....
Have 15 more cases....Florida, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky points....
> my first year of surveying i was running the gun on a asbuilt. while set up on the road i found a vhs tape with no label. i knew i had something good! i was living with 3 other guys at the time in a bachelor pad. all of my roommates were at home watching tv when i got home. i explained what i had found and we eagerly threw the tape in waiting to see what we had found. the tape started mid scene. just as i had suspected it was porn alright. TRANNY PORN! now i had heard of such things but had never seen it first hand. i liked to have never convinced my buds that i had actually found that video and not bought it. "i swear its not mine guy€s"
How did the movie end?
> How did the movie end?
The butler did he/she/it
Things we find in the woods>rberry
15 more cases!!! WOW!!! you must have a special eye for them!
Found a wooden rowbout wedged into a cave-like split in the cliff on the beach on the South Side of Pt. Sal. The bottom of the boat was probably 8 ft. off the ground, so I couldn't see what, if anything was in it. Must have been quite a storm to drive it in there and wedge it against the ceiling.
DJJ
Things we find in the woods-Don
Always on the lookout for them (probably should be looking out for snakes, etc.) Did a lot of construction staking in Florida, big commercial sites, lots of lakes, on Hillsborough River, always had my sifter with me and would sift the big stockpiles of sand that was excavated...Hillsborough River always a good site for artifacts...same as the Suwanee and Ichentuckee Rivers.....Kentucky is full of points...major artifact state.....
Don,
Was the mouthpiece by any chance with the cornet?
Things we find in the woods>Alan
Nope, but I have three anyway... I was thinking of going back and looking though 🙂