Things you have lost...

[ToadHill]

I never "loose" a tool. Sooner or later they all show up at the home of one of my kids. I keep telling them I'm going to do what my dad did, put a chalk board on the basement wall that they have to write on every time they "Borrow" a tool.

I know it won't do any good, I never listed any of his I borrowed.

He used to come to my house for a visit every now and then and cup his hand around his ear and ask it I heard that wimpering. When I'd ask what he was talking about he'd say "It's my ---- tool crying to come home."

 

[RoyJackson]

I never "loose" a tool. Sooner or later they all show up at the home of one of my kids. I keep telling them I'm going to do what my dad did, put a chalk board on the basement wall that they have to write on every time they "Borrow" a tool.

I know it won't do any good, I never listed any of his I borrowed.

He used to come to my house for a visit every now and then and cup his hand around his ear and ask it I heard that wimpering. When I'd ask what he was talking about he'd say "It's my ---- tool crying to come home."

Might try a $25 deposit...

 

[pennwalk]

This winter I got a metal detector. I thought in addition to getting rich digging up treasure it would be handy to find all the parts that have fallen off the tractor. I haven't found any tractor parts but I did wonder about the drunks who left pop tops everywhere.:laughing: I did have a little spare time the other afternoon and dug up 99 cents in coins so I figure I have $214.01 to go to pay it off.:laughing:

About painting the handles of tools florescent orange. I think it is a good idea. I have a ball peen hammer in my tool box that is painted that way. I don't know who's it is but that color helped me find it out in the field.:thumbsup:

Chris

 

[ultrarunner]

I removed the license plates from my Jeep CJ just minutes before giving it a coat of DuPont Centari Acrylic Enamel.

Never did find the plates again... they just vanished.

Suspect it was one of several of the neighborhood kids watching me paint that gave the plates legs?

 

[rtimgray]

I've had the opposite problem...

I don't know how many times I've left my (manual) post-hole diggers lying in the back of my truck while making trips to town...

and they're always there when I come back for them. I just can't seem to find a thief that is motivated to dig holes....

 

[slowzuki]

I paint a lot of my tools that are outside, hot pink. My buddies don't want to borrow them, and they show up well in grass.

 

[forgeblast]

Ha with the metal detector out I was searching for a knife i dropped. I kept getting hits of metal but could not find anything. I did learn that when using a metal detector dont wear steel toe boots.

 

[chucko]

my Mind

 

[Ridgewalker]

I do at least one canoe trip each spring on different rivers in Missouri and Arkansas. One of my favorites, Jacks Fork near Eminence MO, has the double bit axe I earned as a youth working in a forestry program. I was very proud of that axe and miss it to this day.

The Jacks also has my GPS and a new Canon digital camera that I lost when the big boy in the front got nervous and tunked us as we were going thru a small rapid.

After that I bought the rig below, if I am going to tunk again it's all on me!

 

[NativeSon]

I hate losing stuff, too. Most of my tools that I use outside get painted with fluorescent orange paint. The tool handles, (rakes, bush axes, etc.), also have my name stenciled on them. It's not as easy to overlook the tools left laying in tall grass, anymore.

I like that.....Think I'll use Kubota orange!!!:thumbsup:

Charlie