'lost' tool funny one.

[chopped]

Hard to even think of a title for this. but I got a few good laughs from it and then thought about over the years how its happened before.
I am in the middle of doing some renovations, and in the process I was eliminating a small closet which backs up to the bathroom. The bathroom will be redone in another year or so,and this closet will add to the space in the bathroom.
So untill then the ''closet' will become an empty 'box' so to say untill I tear out the bathroom side.
Now come the funny part.,I ripped the door and frame and studded it in.Using a 4 foot level to level the studs..Then proceeded to hand the drywall on them, followed bu the jointing and paint trim etc.
Today I need the level and looked everywhere. Can t find it. drove me nuts. a four foot level where could it be..
This evening I thought about each step i took and realized that the level is now inside the wall.:confused2::laughing::laughing:
I will retrieve it in a year I guess when I rip the closet wall open on the bathroom side.:laughing::thumbsup:
Its not an expensive one so im not to concerned. reminded me of the nice vice grips I lost in a fender well of a car, and a nice screwdriver that was left under the hood of another.
Funny how it is with tools that way. Maybe 10 years ago I wanted a good entwistle framing hammer but couldnt afford one. One day My dad hands me one. it found it in the road.:thumbsup:
Anyways hope this makes someone else laugh and not feel like they are alone in these things lol If you have any similiar stories please share them...

 

[moored4]

When I was in high school wood shop I made an inlaid wooden box, about the size of a good tool box, the shop teacher told me to assemble it all and then we would cut the lid off!

Do you know what a mess a table saw will make of a full glue bottle while your ripping the top from the bottom! I had to stay after school for 3 hrs cleaning glue from everything, inside the saw, walls, light fixtures, It went everywhere! Thing is I know I did not leave that bottle of glue inside of that box! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

[Soundguy]

:This evening I thought about each step i took and realized that the level is now inside the wall.:confused2::laughing::laughing:
I will retrieve it in a year I guess when I rip the closet wall open on the bathroom side.:laughing::thumbsup:
Its not an expensive one so im not to concerned. reminded me of the nice vice grips I lost in a fender well of a car, and a nice screwdriver that was left under the hood of another.
Funny how it is with tools that way. Maybe 10 years ago I wanted a good entwistle framing hammer but couldnt afford one. One day My dad hands me one. it found it in the road.:thumbsup:
Anywasy hope this makes someone else laugh and not feel like they are alone in these things lolIf you ahven any similiar stories please share them...

I was just in the attick hanging some cripple studs for hanging rods for some extra clothes storage hangers in the wife's walk in closet.. something stronger than closet maid.. IE.. 1" heavy wall pipe on 3/8" frop rods.. etc.

I used a bat power drill, level, ruler, and marking pencil up there.

left almost ALL of it under a big flap of insulation. went up to get it an hour later.. while looking for it, found another flashlight up there, from 8 ys ago when I had to re-run some wireing to a fire alarm...

 

[rsewill]

Found a purse in the road. A young gal had left it on the top of her car. I suggested next time she put it on her hood in front of the driver's seat so she could see it fall off.

 

[murphy1244]

The chimney sweep left his brush on top of my roof.. I guess it will be there for him when he comes this over this year...:laughing:

 

[CurlyDave]

I found a funny looking cross-peen hammer on top of my garage roof once. It had a hole all the way through it so one could screw the telephone pole spikes into a pole.

I think the power or phone company guy left it there.

 

[herringchoker]

I bought a used F250 4x4 one time. When I got it home and was looking it over, I found a 3/8" x 7/16" box end wrench on a brake bleeder valve.

 

[irvingj]

I STILL remember the nice pocket knife I lost over 30 years ago... a guy tossed it to me, in the attic of a job we were on, and flubbed the toss. It went "POOF" and disappeared into about 15" of blown-in cellulose insulation. Never could find it!

 

[Mace Canute]

I can't find my little 4 inch bearing separator plate....

Can't find a couple of things lately...maybe I really do need to have a good cleaning.

 

[qstott]

About 25 years ago, my 3 year old son was "helping" me tune up my John Deere 214 riding mower. I had removed the spark plug and was getting the new one out of the truck. When I returned I couldn't find my spark plug socket anywhere. I looked and looked and kept asking him about it. He didn't understand what I was looking for. I found some kind of substitute wrench and installed the plug. I don't know if ya'll are aware of this little known fact, but a 7/8" spark plug socket is almost a perfect fit in the horizontal mufflet outlet on a 214.
I fired it up and POOF and out the exhaust flies my socket.

 

[Travelover]

About 25 years ago, my 3 year old son was "helping" me tune up my John Deere 214 riding mower. I had removed the spark plug and was getting the new one out of the truck. When I returned I couldn't find my spark plug socket anywhere. I looked and looked and kept asking him about it. He didn't understand what I was looking for. I found some kind of substitute wrench and installed the plug. I don't know if ya'll are aware of this little known fact, but a 7/8" spark plug socket is almost a perfect fit in the horizontal mufflet outlet on a 214.
I fired it up and POOF and out the exhaust flies my socket.

At least he wasn't playing "gas station" with the garden hose. :laughing:

 

[Mace Canute]

At least he wasn't playing "gas station" with the garden hose. :laughing:

Years ago a friend lent his old Dodge van to a friend of his, a Chinese fellow...as it happened to be. Before the fellow brought it back he thought he'd be a good guy and fill it up with gas, which he did. He also checked to make sure the coolant was topped up which in and of itself was unremarkable except for the fact he had no idea about engines, not a clue and he ended up sticking the water hose into the valve cover and totally filled the engine's crankcase with water until it ran out of the oil fill hole.

 

[chopped]

At my sisters house the cable guy left left a whole tool box filled with all the connectors and some good tools in it.
We called the cable company many time over 6 month period. And they never showed up to get it..:confused2:
So I now have a good supply of stuff.:thumbsup:

 

[SandburRanch]

Finding one's long lost favorite pocket knife in the clothes pin bag that's stored in the cabinet above the washer/dryer is rather odd.

That's a dead give away how often clothes are dried on the clothes line.

Yes I have a clothes line. A sash cord type line tied between two trees so it gives me the feeling I'm camped out at the lake. :laughing:

 

[k0ua]

I ran cable in suspended ceilings for many years, and found many articles left by my fellow tradesmen. Many flashlights, and believe it or not I really did find one still lit. I found and still have 2 nice Rigid Pipe wrenches. and one large no name model. One 50 foot fish tape, a few pieces of pipe and conduit,some dead birds and a few dead rats too

James K0UA

 

[Ken]

Had a Terminix truck pull onto the road in front of my truck and as he sped up a large work tool box fell onto the pavement . so pulled over and had to have help to tow to side of the road. Turned on hazard lights and sat on box for about 10 minutes before a red faced terminex man reappeared. Helped him reload and shut the tail gate. He was greatful.

My father working on kitchen sink lost his 12" cresent wrench . never found it until I was re-do the house and took out the old sink cabinet and on sub floor was a new wrench my Father had lost.
I can sit at work bench and lose a tool cannot locate until go into the house get a cup of coffee and return and the tool is where should be. wife thinks it is funny.
ken

 

[jimmyj]

We were pouring concrete once and my buddy leaned over to look down the hole and his tape measure dropped out of his pocket. It's now with Jimmy Hoffa forever. LOL.

I know somebody who once sealed a cat in behind the drywall and had to open it a few hours later when kitty was meowing.

 

[PILOON]

I did not lose it but once while working on an aircraft I found a 24" screwdriver in the landing gear nacelle right where turbulence could have bounced it and jammed the gear.
In that same aircraft was also a tensionometer lying amongst all the control cables in the rear of the fuselage.
Now that's real scary. Just the sort of thing to cause crashes.
In aviation that is called FOD.

 

[RDrancher]

I was on a jobsite a few years ago and got a phone call right as I was heading into the port-o-potty. I lost my grip on the cellphone and kerplunk...you know right where it went!

I found a few sockets and a couple screwdrivers when I cleaned out the valley between the heads of my Power Stroke. Some of those tools were mine, but a couple weren't. Probably lost in there by the mechanics at the dealership.

 

[radioman]

I was ripping up old tongue and groove flooring at my old house to access the water pipes and a week later I was looking for my trusty red prybar. Could never find it. 12 years later i got soggy drywall underneath from condensation cold water pipe running 24/7 for a week. I removed the drywall and found my prybar! :thumbsup: