Weirdest thing found in a pasture

[CowboyRam]

Craig and Meeker West of Steamboat before you get to Dinasaur or are they kind of North of Steamboat close the the Colorado/Wyoming state line ? Or am I completely wrong ? Would guess probably completely wrong.

Dinosaur is about 87 miles west of Craig. Go north about 45 miles and you are in Baggs Wyoming. As a teenager we did a lot of fishing on Steamboat lake north of Steamboat; hunted for Elk past Hahns Peak. I have been all over northwest Colorado; Browns Park, Dinosaur, hunted for mule deer out on the Great Divide. Been to the dinosaur dig at the Dinosaur National Monument. There is a pretty nice Dinosaur museum in Vernal Utah. There is a bank in Vernal where all the bricks for the bank was delivered by the US Post Office; it used to be a sleepy little town, the when I was through there last year I didn't hardly recognize it.

 

[CowboyRam]

I didn’t know that but now that you mention it there is a Gold mine South of DelNorte Colorado where I was Elk hunting but they were stripping it. And another place North of Alamosa there were some I think Turquoise mines. They had shafts hand dug into the sides of the mountains on those. I knew a man that worked in those and saw a documentary of the same location showing them mining for that Turquoise and it looked like as if they were digging pay and running it through a Slues.

In the late 80's early 90's there was a guy that had a big gold mine going north of Craig out on the Great. It all flower gold out there. Well any how I think he was just a great big front, and took a lot of money from some investors. He started out as the janitor at the high school. Dad did a bunch of remodeling on his house, and he eventually blew town. I never heard if he got caught for bilking all those investors. My grandpa and a friend of his had tried to mine for gold out there on the ranch grandpa had north of Craig. Dad said they get it and then lose it right away, so they never made any money on that venture.

 

[greybeard]

Oh Ok. In the South East corner Region There used to be and probably is still there a walking drag line named big Brutus. It’s control room best I can remember is a couple stories high and it’s bucket is big enough you could park a ford ranger pickup in it. Probably can find it on google. I think the state of Kansas made it into a state park and seems like people have had weddings at it. It was used to dig coal with I think.

When I first saw that picture I thought maybe that’s what the picture was of. But big Brutus is probably 2 maybe 3 times the size of that drag line and drilling rig combined. It’s one of two walking drag lines I have seen in my life. I would love to see it walking. I bet it would be something interesting to see.

Like this one? It was used to build the Mississippi and Red River levees in the 40s-50s and was abandoned in place up near Jonesville La. I was on a drilling rig nearby in 1987 and we all walked thru it. All the machinery is still inside (or was then) along with the huge bucket laid out at the end of the mast. I could have driven my truck into the bucket. All mechanical clutches, operated by steel linkage and cables with big return springs. No air clutches and no hydraulics anywhere. It had a big compressor driven of the front of the engine's crankshaft by belts and an even bigger air tank. It was likely barged down from Illinois, then walked along the river. The underneathlooked more like the bottom of a huge flatbottmed boat, with perforated steel ribs running all over. When they got to a digging site. they lowered the thing right down into the muddy land and when they got ready to move..walked, the legs needed help breaking suction from the mud. That's what the air was for, to pressure down thru the ribs into the muck and break suction from the mud.

 

[coachg]

Finally ! If you look close you can see mushrooms as far as you can see !

 

[coachg]

 

[504RP]

Like this one? It was used to build the Mississippi and Red River levees in the 40s-50s and was abandoned in place up near Jonesville La. I was on a drilling rig nearby in 1987 and we all walked thru it. All the machinery is still inside (or was then) along with View attachment 62243the huge bucket laid out at the end of the mast. I could have driven my truck into the bucket. All mechanical clutches, operated by steel linkage and cables with big return springs. No air clutches and no hydraulics anywhere. It had a big compressor driven of the front of the engine's crankshaft by belts and an even bigger air tank. It was likely barged down from Illinois, then walked along the river. The underneathlooked more like the bottom of a huge flatbottmed boat, with perforated steel ribs running all over. When they got to a digging site. they lowered the thing right down into the muddy land and when they got ready to move..walked, the legs needed help breaking suction from the mud. That's what the air was for, to pressure down thru the ribs into the muck and break suction from the mud.

Man that’s a big drag line for sure. I was mistaken about the one called Big Brutus in Southeast Kansas. Big Brutus is an electric Coal shovel that is about the size of that drag line. I was thinking it was a walking drag line.

 

[ctadmin]

2 pallets of snow shovels, 40 miles North of Houston Texas..

Snow shovel?! :unsure:

 

[ctadmin]

I found a deflated balloon with a note that said, 'Please let them know how far the balloon traveled.' I contacted them by email and sent them a picture of the balloon and told them my location. It had been released by a kid and his parents over on the East Coast.

Cool they replied!

 

[ctadmin]

Technically about 20' from a pasture. It's the skeleton of a coyote pup hanging in some branches.

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What in the?!!! :eek:

 

[hillbilly beef man]

I found a pair of women's underwear, an empty whiskey bottle, and a used rubber in a tobacco patch while cutting. Someone had a wild night on the farm. Whoever they belonged to must have not known what tobacco gum was.

 

[Rafter S]

A few years ago I had a rent pasture beside the road that was on the outside of the first curve for ten miles or so, just over the top of a hill. It wasn't uncommon for drivers to let that curve catch them by surprise, over correct, and go through my fence.

One afternoon I got a phone call, so I drove out there so I could fix the fence after they got the car out. I got to looking around and found a half dozen or so cans of beer scattered around twenty or thirty feet from the fence.

Yes, I picked it up and put it in my cooler.

 

[kenny thomas]

I found a pair of women's underwear, an empty whiskey bottle, and a used rubber in a tobacco patch while cutting. Someone had a wild night on the farm. Whoever they belonged to must have not known what tobacco gum was.

And you call that weird?

 

[hillbilly beef man]

Yes, it was store bought whiskey.

 

[Ouachita]

I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there

 

[bvf]

as a kid i found a 1964 impala with the motor running in our pasture, in a high volume drainage ditch , 6 ft deep 8 ft wide, tile for the road at one end, 45 degree curve at other end, guy could not or did not get out of car, stayed 36 hrs, freezing cold, for entertainment he would crank it up and drive about the ditch about the width of a 20 acre pasture-660 ft i guess, just for a change of scenery and to stay warm, only found him due to the condensation from his exhaust rising in the morning(or the second day} air. He was below ground level.

 

[ClinchValley86]

60 year old female meth head. Barefoot, looking for her mobile home and sister. . I swear on everything. Told me it should have been right there. I saw her coming from the property next door and intercepted. She kept on going. Was crazy.

 

[Shuttle50]

I guess the weirdest thing ever found in my pastures is me. It’s hard to stumble onto my place by accident.

 

[1982vett]

This tread reminds me again,,,I need to get the truck tire out of the pasture at the highway. I get one every now and again. Sometimes it’s just a tire but this time it’s the whole thing.

 

[greybeard]

This tread reminds me again,,,I need to get the truck tire out of the pasture at the highway. I get one every now and again. Sometimes it’s just a tire but this time it’s the whole thing.

I once worked for an oilfield company whose yard and office was on the frontage road of I-10 west bound lane, just before the highway rose up to an overpass. One night while I was doing dispatch duty, (mostly meant sleeping until a phone rang) I heard a racket up on the interstate and seconds later an entire 18 wheeler dual tires and wheels came crashing thru one of the office windows, crushing one of the desks and service counter off a truck. The truck never stopped.
Scared the crap out of me...thought a bomb had gone off.

 

[mwj]

Does anyone still find weather balloons? In the fifties and early sixties they were a common find when fixing fence or checking cows. Little cardboard box with instruments inside. Mailed them back no charge, just put them in the mailbox as they were addressed.