A Farmer Kept Hitting Metal While Plowing — What Experts Pulled From the Soil Stunned Everyone

By The Handy Tips and Tricks Team · in Various

Every farmer knows their land has moods. But for three growing seasons, one corner of Tom Brennan's field had a habit that drove him to distraction: something solid just beneath the surface that snagged his plow at exactly the same spot, year after year. He had assumed it was a boulder and farmed around it.

One dry summer, with time on his hands, he decided to settle the question for good and dig the thing out. A few feet down, his spade struck not stone but metal — broad, flat, and unmistakably made by human hands.

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