What are your Tiny Treasures?

[Tango]

So the other day I found a feed bucket in a trash pile. It used to be green but now is a nice aquarmarine. The handle was missing so I tied a rope for it.I didn't have a feed bucket and now I do I found a great dog line that I can use to tie up my pup when I'm outside working. Its a wire line with a metal clip at each end- about $20 - $30 in stores but free on my land. Found a bunch of good mason jars without lids and a slew of tin cans I'm going to use to protect my seedlings when they get planted. Slowly filling up my workspace with things I used to have but no longer have.... but now I have again not to mention the copper and scrap metal. What are you finding in your trash heaps?

[Fire-Man]

I guess one of my Many trash items turned into something useful was back in the 1980's a neighbor had a old, big copy machine that was going to cost more to repair than it was worth---so he loaded it up heading to the "dump" He thought about me and swung in to see If I wanted it. Sure---I made a nice motorized Dixie Lee Pea sheller---all the parts came out that old machine. I still got it to this day---even shelled some peas with it last garden season.

One thing I call recycled was some trees that the utility company cut down for a power line right of way--they would have layed there and rotted---I contacted the land owner---got permission to get the trees---brought them home and sawed them into boards and built a 23x32x14high tractor shed closed in on 3 sides. There are Many things ---But I want bore you!

[Vosey]

We are still finding pieces of fencing on our property, have been useful for many things, especially for tomato cages! Otherwise, now that we've cleaned up all the old mattress springs and kiddie pools, all we're left with is the Keystone Light cans that just pop up out of the earth : )

But when I first started reading your post I immediately thought of one of my most treasured finds at a yard sale - a little metal pail someone had painted yellow and then painted a crude Robin on. It's been my favorite berry bucket for years, even though it doesn't hold much. I'll bring a big bucket to dump the little one into just because it makes me so happy.

[cginpink]

I could go on forever about my roadside treasures.

When I was shopping around for another horse, we drove past a huge heap of junk. Didn't buy the horse but on the way home we stopped at the pile and found a saddle rack, horse blankets, saddle pads and misc horse stuff. My SO found a jacket as well. Everything cleaned up nicely. The blankets came in handy when I got my project horse. He had been starved and the blankets came in handy during the cold snaps. I passed it on to his new owner.

I also love my Donald Duck topiary frame, the kitchen cart I got two days ago, and numerous other things. More than half the stuff in our house are roadside finds.

I just wish my dad could have gotten the old 50's jukebox he seen. He was alone and had no way to load it.

[Kasota]

I have a little hand made wooden garden seat of the kind that one would use while weeding. It is very old. At one point someone painted it green. The top is made of two pieces of wood and they cut 1/2 an oval in each one so that when they were put together it made a hole you can slide your hands into in order to move it. It was going to be thrown away because it had gotten wobbly and the person didn't think it was pretty enough.

I think she is simply lovely. Her wood was still sound and she just needed a little tlc to make her sturdy again. I imagine someone made this for a loved one who was getting older and would find it easier to sit while weeding the garden...an act of kindness and necessity all at the same time. I envision some woman who was so grateful to have a place to sit while tending her garden. Just think of the stories the little seat could tell if only she could speak. I love her dearly and somehow think she is glad to have a place and a purpose again.

[where I want to]

Until I moved to my current home, I love finding marbles. It's evidence of generations of family.
The place I have now was only pasture after it was logged over. I did find a couple of very rusty iron bars partly buried in an old growth redwood syump but that's all.

[ronbre]

don't really find non organic things on my land any more, there was old barbed wire but I've removed most of that

[Bret]

I have lost my marbles. They will be fun for future homesteaders to find.

[Tango]

yesterday i found pieces of blue glass, would be lovely to find some vintage glass in good condition.

[LoonyK]

I found this mirror in a garbage ditch nearby, somehow wasn't broken when thrown in, was just begging for a second life.

[Rustaholic]

When I was probably 2 it was when Mommy was planting the vegetable garden and I was playing with her garden rake. I remember letting go of it and it fell over with the tines up.
Mommy told me that was a good way to get hurt and to turn it over. I did. Then I stepped on it until all of the tines were sunk down in the soil. I walked to the end of the handle and picked it up over my head and walked up towards the tines coming out of the ground. The tine just to the left from lining up with the handle came out of the ground with a penny balanced on it. It is a 1907 Indian Head and it will forever be special to me.

[Rustaholic]

Another one I bought ten or twelve years ago at a swap meet.
It is just like this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlL7WG_5F5Q
Mine and this one are the only two I know that are still around.
I was looking for what I had seen on a web page but those were later ones with the frame made from sheet metal around 1912 and later.
Mine is 1908 and I have the reproduction 1908 Sears catalog that shows it.
On the bottom of mine there was a note written in pencil.
Happy Birthday Bob. October 6, 1908.
On that YouTube link my comments can be seen.
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