'lost' tool funny one.

[dawzie]

My brother has a front end alignment/frame streightening garage. He has found many types of tools. He has also left a couple for others to find :laughing:

I am in the septic tank cleaning bussiness. Several times have been asked to be on the look out for missing rings. I have found a few. It is amazing what you will find in a septic system. At the local elem. school I found a mini football plugging the outlet pipe. How the heck did that get there??? At another elem. school I found a empty two quart size plastic bottle plugging the 6" sewer pipe. It was there for a long time too, years.

When I first started in the bussiness, I "lost" a few things out of my shirt pockets while bending over to lookie in. Verizon "had" a good insurance program when phones got wet and stopped working. lol Stupid credit cards jump out of my shirts to go for a swim.

 

[Bird]

My old boss used to be a service manager at a ford dealership in the 70's. He said a older woman brought her Lincoln in a few days after she bought it new with a rattle coming from the left rear tire. He said they were like "Great, a senile old lady hearing stuff." So one of the tech's take it for a ride and sure enough it has a rattle in the left rear tire area. The tear the rear brakes apart and think they find the problem and send her on her way. Next day she is back with same problem. This time they think its the hubcap. Week later the lady's husband brings it back and says it still isn't fixed and is getting upset. Now Larry(the service manager) determine to find the problem gets in the trunk and rides around while one of the guys drive it around. Sure enough rattle coming from the left rear tire area. They are stumped after many attempts to find the obnoxious rattle. Conversation takes place between Ford and the dealership for several months. Ford ends up saying its normal and its just too bad. Guy who bought the car. although upset, accepts it for what it is. About a year later the car is in getting serviced and while parked in the lot a stick shift truck left out of gear rolls down the ramp in front of the shop and caves in the quarter panel of the Lincoln. Obligated to fix it, the body man cuts the rear quarter panel of the car to install a new one. On the inside of a boxed in area of the rear quarter panel brace, hanging by a wire, is a oem lug wrench with a note taped to it. The note said "YOU FINALLY FOUND ME!"

Maybe that was the problem with my new 1966 Ford sedan.:laughing: It always sounded to me like a loose shock absorber, but that rattle was never found in spite of numerous attempts by the dealer, myself, and others.

 

[Zebrafive]

Plant where I worked was closed. Almost five years later, I and another repairman were recalled to a different plant. While unpacking our tools I had two 9/16 wrenches. One had his initials on it. I still have no idea how it got into my tool box. He still says I stole it from him.

Once at a U-Pull junkyard I spotted a wrench on the fender of a truck in the next row from where I was looking. I am thinking cheap junk wrench, no one takes good stuff to a junkyard. I finally get to that row and check. It's a Snap-On wrench. I gave it a new home.

Pulled a wall fixture down to repaint the room, inside I found a pair of wire strippers. Guessing they were there since the house was built in 1989. Found them in 2011.

 

[sixdogs]

In a hurry baling small square bales about 20 years ago, I seemed to have misplaced my lucky red hat. Thinking back I remembered and when one of the kids said he saw in in the row, I knew right where it was. I baled it. Since we sold hay to fussy horse people, I offerd a $20 "reward" to the finder. Yup, it came back with no cuts but a crumpled bill.

On the plus side, I left my favorite jacknife on the flat part of the rear bumber and took off on a trip. An hour later I suddenly remembered and there it was, still on the bumper. Beats me.

 

[dixstir]

bought and old 48 chevy from a guy in the early 60S ,got it home me and dad cleaned it up got it tuned up ,in the clean up in the trunk was a burr lapp sack and there was a winchester model 61 pump just like new still got it.

 

[The Haymaker]

Yeah, but then you have no one but yourself to blame, it's easier to blame the shmuck who borrowed them!!!

Fixed. Hangs in the hallway leading into the Garagemajal.

 

[The Haymaker]

Not sure anyone mentioned this. I spent a few years as a auto mechanic while drifting around trying to decide what direction I wanted to go. I have MANY spare tools ranging from "chrome vanadium" to Snap-On that I recovered from fender liners, valve covers, etc.

Now, after 16 years of truck driving, I have added to the spare collection even more. Latest find was a brand new Husky jackknife style utility knife, same as the one I have carried on my belt long enough to round off the aluminum handle. Bad part is the purple anodizing, but then, it's a spare, hanging in my work truck. I also found a 6" magnesium spanner, probably from a fuel truck or milk truck, laying on Perimeter Road behind Manchester Airport. I'll never use it, but it looks cool hanging on the wall.

 

[homeputter]

I always have to have a pocket knife on me. About 30 years ago, I was always buying these nice small Buck knives that were easy to carry in your pocket. I kept losing them. I complained to my wife, I don't know how I can lose so darn many pocket knives. I would eventually break down and buy another one.

When we finally had to move to a different city, I was removing the back of my favorite recliner to put in the truck, when I saw about 5 or 6 beautiful Buck pocket knives deep behind the seat. The knives would slip out of my pocket and fall into the recliner.
That made my week.

I Don't know where any of them are now, though. !

 

[Johnp33]

I worked at an engine dealership and we would change the oil pan and find all kinds of sockets and adapters, took a blower off and found a set of Mac small heal bars.
I am forever loosing my keys, the wife finds then right away.
I worked at a truck dealership and the first thing I would do when a new shipment came in was search the truck and frame. Ford had nice tools and shared them. Nuts, bolts washers, all at a good price, Free is good.
I did inspections for insurance companies, they would want plug swaps and the engine checked out to see if the accident was staged. I found a guys finger. I put it in a bag and took it to the office I figured someone would want it. The office did not, the RCMP came over a couple of days later and got it, I put it in my tool box for safe keeping

 

[TBX500]

The company I work for does a bit of service work for Burger King. They were tearing a store down and I was sent to take the front doors out that were installed 2 years before by me. The manager was on site and told me to take any thing that I wanted every thing was to be loaded in to rolloffs by the excavator. So the scrounge that i am found some nice stainless tables and what not and in the back room there was this little toolbox. Ilooked inside some junk tools all covered in bk grease in the bottom I found a flat pry bar, we use them alot in my profession, so I confiscate it. It was completely covered in grease a few days later i cleaned it up low and behold my initials were carved into it under all the grease!