Ever dig up anything good?

[lawndog]

I was thinking the other day about all the times I dug holes for plants,etc.,and all the dirt I moved in the last twenty or so years,but I've never discovered anything of any value.Say like a gold nugget,well it sounds good.Any lucky finders out there, and if so what?

[Runner]

I found a 20 dollar bill in a pile of wet leaves once while doing a cleanup.... Does THAT count?

[bob]

Last summer I stopped by a drainage ditch for a quick 5 minute job. My son was with me. He looked down and found a $20 bill sticking out from a rock. I had been to this area lots of other times and never found anything.

[chrisbolte]

The only things I ever dig up cost me money! Those dumb telephone lines.

[Mark]

I was picking up road trash before i started mowing and found a ten dollar bill in a milkshake cup. I guess thats not digging but even that ten dollars put a smile on my face, some gas and lunch.

[MOW ED]

Years ago I was helping a friend landscape his brothers townhouse in the historic old Pullman section of Chicago and I dug up an old silver dime and a penny from 1881. Don't know what they are worth but its pretty interesting.

[Greenkeepers]

I'm always finding kids toys dog bones etc.... I found $5 once blowing around a lawn that I was at. Luckily I've never dug anything up. My luck it would be a casket!!

[Turfer]

I dug up an axe head with a broken handle and after I cleaned it off I could read "craftsman" on it. I took it to Sears and got a new axe !

[Turf Cutters]

I dug into a miss mark power line last year. It was about twenty feet from were it was marked. Luckily we were digging by hand.

[JML]

My cousin is a contractor/excavator. On a job that they were clearing the land on they kept digging up these rotted black boxes. Turned out to be caskets from the 1800's. No one had known about it and it didn't last that long since they grinded everything up.. True story

[beck]

When I was attending college and working for the maintenacne department. A contractor that was digging up a sinkhole in the parking lot hit the main power line coming into the campus, with a jackhammer. somehow the guy was not killed.

They decided to dig without checking for utilities.

[BUSHMASTER]

while working with a local trailer park replaceing some water pipe,, lets see first there was a frig,stove,an old truck..etc etc etc but nothing worth money seems the previous owners of the park burried their major waste and saved on the land fill tip fees.

[cantoo]

I'm not sure if this counts or not but a few summers ago after a two day rain we were going really quick and long hours to get back on track. I was cutting in a cemetery and was half asleep, there was a freshly filled grave and I drove right over it. Needly to say it was alittle soft, I sank and was buried in seconds, we had to get a tractor to pull it back out. I sure wasn't expecting this. If I had of went abit deeper I probally would have found something.

[cbuck]

hundreds of marbles, almost half the landscape jobs i've done i find a marble. But never a shooter, i don,t know if that,s anything good but it strange.

[Eric ELM]

Welcome to LawnSite cbuck. I noticed you have been a member since August and your first post is in December. I see it took you a while to post, but glad your finally did.

I dug up several arrow heads in SD when I was plowing fields. I also found an indian sledge hammer, about a 5 lb. rock with a grove all the way around the upper part so it could be tied to a handle. We lived on a hill near a creek, so I guess there must have been an indian villiage there at one time.

[CCLC]

We have never dug anything up (other than phone and cable lines) but we had a mowing forman find $240 in cash a couple of years ago while mowing a business. It was a big banquet hall so we owners know but no one claimed it. He got a $230 bonus that week. He bought lunch.

[bob]

I almost forgot, ealier this year I found a check made out for cash in the amount of $460. I called the woman up and she had me tear it up.

[moonarrow]

When I was mowing apartment complexes in Dallas Tx I used to find money all the time one day as much a s $78, rings earrings, and necklaces, but as far as digging I guess the most valuable thing I have found is a 1880 silver dollar, and other coins like 1901 pennies and antique bottles

[gene gls]

I was restablishing a drain area across a customers lawn and uncovered a small cannon ball, about 4lbs in size.

[cantoo]

Okay guys this may sound crazy but it's something I have been thinking about since last year. I cut ball diamonds and soccer fields and some other high traffic areas. Would it be possible to mount two or three metal detectors to the front of my deck when cutting these areas? Last year I went to the soccer field to cut it, there was 6 people there in the one field looking for a diamond ring that a girl lost. I cut the property with a Walker with GHS, I likely sucked the ring up and dumped it in the mulch pit. hmmmmmmm

[Vandora Lawn & Landscape]

It sounds possible, but my bet is the deck and all the metal of the machine would throw the machine off.