My brother in law lost a mighty mule gate opener for about a week while mowing with his riding mower. Yesterday he brought it to my shop for me to remove and sharpen the blades. While I was doing that, he cleaned underneath and removed the grass around the top deck pulleys. He found the remote nestled next the the left side pulley.
I wasn't so lucky with my remote for the gate opener that I had clipped on a piece of flatbar at the top of my Kubota RTV windshield. I keep all my door openers there and 2 of my grandsons were hot rodding it around an it came back without the remote. No idea how it fell off of course and it would have fell in the drivers lap.
I was cutting off a limb from a felled tree that was across a waist deep creek and it came down knocking off my glasses that fell into the creek. My Grandson searched with a net for landing fish and didn't find anything. Finally I got him to wade off in the creek and feel around, he found them with his foot while wading in. He fished them out with his toes and miraculously, they were not even bent. ($400 saved by a toe)
We are still looking for BIL's 20 foot x 3/8" chain that disappeared after last use.
A friend lost a gold chain necklace and found it a year later. It had slipped from his neck and fell into the grass next to the driveway. Luckily he didn't chop it up with the edger.
I was disking up the pasture to smooth it up and cover some rye grass seed. I finally noticed some popping and stopped to look behind me. I had lost the outside axle nut, the outside spacer, 1 disc blade and next spacer. I found them all lying in the outside furrow. I had to walk two rounds to find it. The noise I had thought was the disk blades hitting rocks was all the axle loosening up. Man was that lucky to find the nut and even the bend tab that is suppose to secure it, and I found them all in less than 5 minutes.
My Dad lost his billfold with a large sum of cash in it. He turned it up the following year when disking up the field that he was plowing the past year. The cash was moldy and some had partially rotted but it was enough that the bank could send the money to the FEDs and get it all reimbursed. Very lucky on that one.
