Posted by kcmelancon on September 04, 2014 at 06:56:22 from (184.97.196.29):
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Thanks to all for your thoughts and comments. Well, the lost flywheel is now found. After dozens of hours by many people probing with no success, my neighbor rented a metal detector and began sweeping the deep bull rushes. After several more hours with no success he threw in the towel and started walking back to his house. Of course the easiest way back was through the brush-hogged ditch, where he hadn't looked because it was "cut so short no flywheel could be hiding there". The metal detector went off, and to his surprise he found a Come-Along in the ditch that must have fallen from someone's trailer or vehicle as they passed by. After routing this out of the weeds the detector went off again and as he looked down could see the sheen of the flywheel edge under some weeds - EUREKA!
The bottom line is…. from the point of separation from the tractor, the flywheel came to rest in a wet soft roadway ditch about ~ 50 yd forward and about 10 yards to the left of the tractor's line of travel. The stand of weeds that the flywheel traversed would have to be characterized as extremely thick and heavy, and the ditch being "boggy", could also absorb significant flywheel energy. At any rate 50 yd is the distance it covered.
So, to those that said "look 1/4 mi away only to find it in your yard" or "get a metal detector, it should be easy to find", hats off to you, and hats off to all the others that offered a voice in the matter. Thank you.
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