dumbest question ever posted

[Anonymous-0]

What would be the best way to find a digging iron left in a hay field I'm pretty sure i had leaned on my bale basket and it most likly fell over when i took off now i cant find it ive had 40 years would spend a litte money ie metal detector if i thought it was possible thanks in advance

 

[Anonymous-0]

Run an expensive , rented lawn mower over the area, in question, if it's there, you will kill the lawnmower, dead, when you find it! Be sure to buy the liability insurance!

 

[Jim in Ma.]

Look or ask around your area, Someone mey have a metal detector. Offer the guy a reward if he finds it for ya.

 

[Allan in NE]

I walked a mile and a half this summer looking for a wrench that fell off the baler.

I "knew" it was out there somewhere and finally found it three windrows in from where I thought it should have dropped. :>)

Allan

 

[JRSutton]

Get a bunch of kids out there and offer them a cash reward to however finds it. You'll get it back.

I lost the gas cap to a friends M and spent about an hour with my kids shuffling our feet through the cut hay looking for it. As usual in those cases, it's JUST when you give up that you finally find it.

 

[rrlund]

Yep,my suggestion was going to be something like that. You'll find it for sure if finding it will destroy something valuable.

 

[Tim(nj)]

My suggestion would have been a discbine . . . . anyway, I once borrowed a metal detector to find something, and found every horseshoe, broken bolt, link chain piece, insulator nail, cultivator point and broke-off plowshare tip in the area, but not the part I was looking for!

 

[Ralph Bauer]

If you can find a big electric magnet (what the have at the scrapyards, you can pull it and DRIVE the field....
BUT in any case, I ,started spending a little money on fluorescent paint or a bright regular one, orange, yellow and paint my breaker bars, chains, etc. makes life sooo much easier when you do loose them. And when a neighbor borrows one, you know if he returned it or not when you see it on his place...lol

 

[TomH in PA]

I found something like that unintentionally when I ran a spring harrow over the field.

I'm pretty sure the synthetic aperture radars that are flying over us on satellites could detect it (they can spot land mines that are buried), but that's a multi-billion dollar option.
SAR

 

[Ultradog MN]

A few prayers to St. Anthony - patron saint of lost objects and missing persons might help.

 

[tim(in)]

If you can borrow a magnet from a trucking company and drive slow over the field it might be too heavy for it to pick up but they hang them on the front of the yard dogs'trucks' to pick up nails and sharp metal objects that normally seem to find their way into truck tires.

 

[rrlund]

I found Dads wallet in a hay field one time with a New Idea CutDitioner. He'd lost it moving round bales off the field with the loader tractor. I was cutting second cutting and it flipped right up on top of the swath. This was AFTER he had gotten all of the important contents replaced of course. At least he got back the few bucks that were in it.
He and the kids had walked all over that field looking for it after he lost it.

 

[Farmallb]

I once lost a crank to an F-30. Thats been over 10yrs ago. Havnt found it yet. Once I came in from plowing, and there hooked to the plow in the back was dragging a log chain I had lost.

 

[Richard G.]

Found a safety stand off a Gleaner combine head yesterday while notill planting wheat. Gave it to my son who uses a Gleaner.
Richard

 

[farmerjohn]

That's because when you find it you can give up.

 

[Jimmy King]

My Dad lost a grease gun one time, about 10 years later he plowed the same field and plowed it up. Greased the plow with it,then kept on plowing.

 

[redrounhead]

I just lost the fuel cap from my Fox Super D; I took it off, stuck a calibrated stick in the tank,and then started to finish chopping. Noticed it gone after 1/2 round. I walked that whole field; now the chisel plow has buried it!

Sad day!

 

[David G]

I have found that new tires are the best metal finders. Put a new set of tires on and drive around the field. You will find metal shortly.

 

[JDseller]

What is a " digging iron"???? As to finding it. The other posters have just about covered all the bases.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Metal Detector!!!! It works but will take time. My father lost his wedding ring when we were cutting beans. I found nails,wire,steel, a wrench, right when I was ready to call it a night, frozen to the bone, I found the 40 year old ring!!
I also found a logging chain we had lost about 3-4 years ago by plowing it out of the ground. It was dragging behind the plow when I got to the end of the field.