'lost' tool funny one.

[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: