'lost' tool funny one.

[zing]

While its not a tool
I worked for the railroad and we were spotting cars at an industry one day in the winter it was nasty out & when I went home I had to snow blow
When I got finished around 11pm I realized my gold bracelet was gone from my wrist.I looked everywhere for it finally around 1 am I gave up
Fast forward to May of the next year and we were again spotting cars at the industry as I got off the rail car I looked down to see were to step and noticed something laying under the ball of the rail the sun made it shine yes my bracelet it had laid there for 5 months unharmed.
Never again wore my bracelet at work.

Hey, that is a very similar story to mine.

When they build in the subdivisions near here they will sod the whole lawn and then later on someone comes along and cuts out the patterns for hedges and flower beds, etc. The trimmed sods are piled in the lots that haven't been built on yet, to get bulldozed in as fill. They aren't square, but they can be jig-saw puzzled together if you are cheap like me. After I finished the addition to my house I had to redo my lawn so I backed into one of these lots and levelled off the back of my truck with sod pieces. Then I went home and laid it. The next day I noticed my wedding ring was not on my finger, and of course I have no idea when or where it came off. Searched the house, farm, work and everywhere else I cound think of for days with no luck. In response to my highly agitated wife's question "Where did you take it off?" all I could say was "I did't take it off! All I can think of is that it came off when I took off my work gloves." Extensive searching of the back yard and floor of the shed revealed nothing so back we drove to the building lot about a week after I had been there, since after loading the truck I must have taken off the work gloves so I could drive home.

I backed into the approximate middle of the 3/4 acre lot full of gravel and rocks the size of a fist, and stood beside the truck feeling like it is hopeless. Wifie walks around to my side of the truck and says "Where did you take off your gloves?" I respond "I don't know, somewhere around here." So I look down and there is my wedding ring shining on the ground directly between my feet. :confused3: :shocked: :shocked: :cool2:

 

[Soundguy]

of a similar concept.. how come my horse can throw a shoe, and i can walk the entire property and not find it.. and then pull the mower out of the garage, engage the blade as I start to make 10' of my first pas and whang.. i hit the horse shoe, making an impressive divot in a used-to-be-sharp mower balde that cost 28$

 

[flyerdan]

It's the same magical force that allows a dropped socket to roll to the exact center under a vehicle.

 

[SPIKER]

I lost my wedding ring having snow ball fight at my sisters house with a young girl (NOT THE WIFE) and later in the day noticed it was gone Looked for 2 DAYS it was Christmas time and I was staying with sister was about to give up when I found it setting in the snow bank gleaming in the sun... Needless to say the wife was NOT happy with me, said I was FLIRTING with a 19yr old girl ah what could I say sorry...

 

[Redneck in training]

I know a guy who has buckets of hand tools in his garage. He is a guy who never owned a car. He rides bicycle or walks and picks every tool he sees laying on the road.

 

[k0ua]

I see tools lying in the road all the time, but who can stop, when traffic is whizzing along in front and in back of you at a fast clip.. I just have to let them go. For safety's sake.

James K0UA

 

[Tig]

My mechanic in Ottawa was a good man, but his guys always left tools in my car after they were done.
Since I usually work on my own vehicles, when I have time, I always took time to inspect their work. One day after I brought the car home from a brake job, I found great big pair of vice grips clamped on a front caliper bleed screw.
I brought the tool back, like I always did. Just smiled and handed it to him without saying a word.

 

[forgeblast]

I lost my favorite pocket knife, nice assisted opening kershaw, in my lower field that had brambles. I borrowed my dads metal detector and set off to find it. I keep getting beeps but there was nothing there. Gave it back to him thinking the thing was broken when I realized the steel toe boots I was wearing keep setting off the detector.
I found the knife when I was out walking my dog, it was just sitting there on top of a rock.
I have found in my field a half burried crowbars not sure why the previous owner left it there by I found it with my mower blade. Found an ax double bladed left in a stump (i think their kids were left it).

 

[crowbar032]

There is currently a 12' log chain buried somewhere in the middle of a 5 acre hayfield. It bounced off the tractor when Dad was plowing one year. I searched with a metal detector, but couldn't locate it. The first time Dad plowed after he bought the farm, he plowed up a draw bar. I'm sure it was the same story, bounced off the tractor and got covered up. Still using the drawbar on the TO-35. Mowing hay with a NH 451 sickle bar, the metal fingers on the end that sweeps the hay came loose and was lost. Found that with the baler, so I learned to sharpen the knife.

 

[NormL]

Here's another lost wedding band story but it does relate to tools. Here's how: I was helping with the late Fall harvest at my parent's farm and one evening discovered my wedding band was missing. Where do you begin a search when it could be anywhere on an eighty acre field or in a bin full of hundreds of bushels of grain? Long story short: my younger brother, bless him came in off the field a few days later and presented it to me.:jump: Told me he found it in the tool box of the combine. I guess it slipped off my finger as I reached in for some tool or other. The days had been pretty cool and that is when rings will fall off numb fingers.

 

[turnkey4099]

Funny you should say that, my brother did in fact build a 2 seater and we joke that it's "for parties."

Back in the day 2 seaters were the only thing going. I can only recall single seaters at country schools.

Harry K

 

[OldMcDonald]

Harry, Funny the places some folks turn up is it not?

Anyway, I knew a farm where there was a 3-seater. Two adults and one kid sized.

 

[SPIKER]

Harry, Funny the places some folks turn up is it not?

Anyway, I knew a farm where there was a 3-seater. Two adults and one kid sized.

Reminds me of that show guys w metal detectors looking for lost treasures went searching in OLD outhouse locations :stinky: :x ya not what I would do normally hahah they did find a few rings and such tho I guess back when the rings were lost the owner didnt want to WIPE them off

 

[rustythe4x4]

My BIL had just gotten married, and was still not used to his ring. He was driving through Saskatchewan with his equipment in tow for work, and stopped at a gas station to check his trailer. He found something wrong, and proceeded to right the wrong, but didnt want to get his ring greasy, so he took it off and placed it on the fender he was working beside. When they were finished, he packed up and continued on their travels, not realising he had left his ring on the fender until later in the day. in a panic, he called his sister who was scheduled to take a similar route to our place in Saskatoon. She stopped at the gas station over a week later, asked herself where she would work on a trailer if she were her brother, walked up to the spot, looked down, and found the ring laying on the gravel!

To make this tool related, I was using a 13mm socket under the hood of my van, when it fell off the extension. I looked and looked, but assumed it had fallen into the exposed boxed frame rail, and was gone forever. I bought a replacement. A few months later, I was working under the hood again, but this time was removing the battery, and there was my socket, tightly packed against a corner under the battery tray!

 

[Stihlrunner]

One cold, rainy winter day the kids and I were repairing the pig pen. Several days later I was cleaning up shop and realized I was missing my almost new Milwaukee 14.4V impact driver. I searched high and low and couldn't find it. Retraced my steps to the pig pen and happened to look into the wheelbarrow that was full of rain water and frozen solid. There encased in ice was my impact driver! Thawed it out and it worked perfect.

Fast forward another year. We are replacing deck boards on our dock. I swing my foot around and kick same impact driver into about 18' of lake water! We can see it down there but don't have enough breath to make it to it. My buddy makes one last attempt and makes a grab for it. He hits the trigger while scooping it up and the drill runs under water! Used it for several more years!

Tough tools and a careless operator!

 

[Renze]

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most!

+LIKE+

 

[mjw]

Non-Tool- My family used to boat in michigan, many of those in the marina drove in from illinois. SOP for most was to stop at the dumpster on the way out on sunday and drop off the trash. More than once we arrived home to find the trash still in the car. Got in the habit of putting the trash on the hood, less likely to drive off an forget it.
Many of the boaters (us included) packed dirty clothes in garbage bags for the trip home. More than once the guard would get a call to check in the dumpster for some ones bag of clothes, they had taken the garbage home and thrown out the clothes. We never had to call, but I may have thrown the clothes out once and then retrieved them and made an exchange.
Lost Tools- I was working in my folks garage one time and got mad (think I stood up under the lift and cracked my head) and threw a tape measure. Calmed down and looked for the tape. Couldn't find it, looked every where. Even moved stuff, including the clothes washer that I had stored in there. Looked for that tape every time we cleaned the garage. Several years later I moved and needed the washer. When I went to move it, the lid was propped open by the drain hose. Popped open the lid and in the drum was my tape measure. It had managed to fly across the garage and make it into a 1" tall opening.

 

[zoubala]

When I was a kid, my father had a few old pieces of machinery on his hobby farm and was always tinkering or fixing them. At one point he started to lose tools and stuff and was getting upset with my 4 older brothers and me thinking we where messing around in the garage taking his tools and not bringing them back. Of course once we all went under the interrogation light and no one confessed, we were cleared but still on the suspects list. To make a long story short one day as we were working in the garage and father put down his hammer on the floor when he went to pick it up again it was gone. All he saw was our dog going around the corner leaving the workshop. We hurried to catch up and the dog was going in his dog house with the hammer. There was the jackpot wrenches, sockets, ratchet, measuring tapes, a chalk line, gloves, a boot , an old jacket, plastic flowers and so on. Some of the stuff was not ours. Father kept the dog for many years. He made a place in the garage for the dog to sleep so it would not go around at night to raid the neighbour's properties. In time it stop stealing and if something was missing, we would just go have a look in the dog's ''tool box''.

 

[k0ua]

When I was a kid, my father had a few old pieces of machinery on his hobby farm and was always tinkering or fixing them. At one point he started to lose tools and stuff and was getting upset with my 4 older brothers and me thinking we where messing around in the garage taking his tools and not bringing them back. Of course once we all went under the interrogation light and no one confessed, we were cleared but still on the suspects list. To make a long story short one day as we were working in the garage and father put down his hammer on the floor when he went to pick it up again it was gone. All he saw was our dog going around the corner leaving the workshop. We hurried to catch up and the dog was going in his dog house with the hammer. There was the jackpot wrenches, sockets, ratchet, measuring tapes, a chalk line, gloves, a boot , an old jacket, plastic flowers and so on. Some of the stuff was not ours. Father kept the dog for many years. He made a place in the garage for the dog to sleep so it would not go around at night to raid the neighbour's properties. In time it stop stealing and if something was missing, we would just go have a look in the dog's ''tool box''.

Thieving old Mutt! I have heard of crows and magpies stealing stuff, mostly shiny things, but what on earth would make the doggie do that? Do you think he might have fell in with a "bad pack" when he was a pup? Or maybe he was just wanting to do a little remodeling on his doggie house?

James K0UA

 

[muddstopper]

Not enough bandwidth to mention all the stuff I have lost.
Lost billfold bushhogging. Started walking in the mowed rows until I found it. Dropped knife in lake while fishing. Went looking for it when the water level dropped, never found knife, but did find a 17jewel Elgin wrist watch. Lost floor jack out of back of truck with no tailgate, never found it but sure someone did. 40plus years ago, Dad found a old doublebarrel hammer ear shotgun leaning up against a tree in the woods. Stock pretty rotten, but metal in decent shape. Had gun restored and I still have it. Gun will shoot, but its just a wall hanger for me. I wont go into missing tools after backfilling basement walls. My mine likes to forget those sorts of things. I did loose my cell phone while prepping a site for seeding. Buried the phone in the ground. Had to make a few finishing passes before seeding and turned the phone back to the top. Phone still worked.