'lost' tool funny one.

[SPIKER]

My two Brothers & myself (much of the family that is) has done or does building construction of some type. When remodeling my sisters home we were cutting out part of a attic wall area to re-frame some. When the sawsall hit something metal. turns out it was framers square (not a normal one) while 90 degrees on outside it had french curves on the inside (turned out to be a Dress Makers Square) in french writing/text on it. The home was originally built in the late 30s to early 40's. The couple were a Eye doctor from Germany and his wife a French Dress Maker whom he had met in 1st world war. the neighbor Doyal had grown up in the house next door and still lived there until now a year ago. The square was green in color ~14x24 or so stamped and well preserved (cept a saw mark we made.) was a keepsake of my sister & brother in law for a good number of years until they passed. We found it somewhere around 1986... Doyal a single bachelor, was still in his home until a year ago when he moved into assisted living his home was bought by a local factory and raised the next day... it had been built by his dad & uncle, there family owned about 40% or the property around the town ran a large dairy farm, bakery & market. very nice person he ate dinner with my sister & brother n law every night shared in the cooking and cleanup...

when expanding her garden out back we found buried probably 200+ pairs of old wire framed glasses. Sure made it hard on the rototiller! yep I was one running it when I hit them... took 30 min plus cutting with diagonal pliers to get them off the tiller.


I like that Hammer Story, pretty good one. We have found a good number of old tools in walls floors and such.. we did a re-model on a childhood home (rental unit) there was a part attic that we played in as kids and a knot hole swallowed one of my fav. hot-wheels. looked but it was no where to be found. The knothole board and a few right beside it was gone replace some time in near past dang I missed that one lol... I think it had been tore out for a ceiling fan in lower unit.

We did a lot of doors & windows and often found old pennies nickles or dimes on door frames ect. usually put them back in and even added NEW one next to the old ones for luck...

Mark

 

[Mean Jean]

Lol When I was over the next few days I called it, he didn't like that. He pulled the blocks out again, said he's going to find it but is still looking for it.!!!

Tell him to drop his charger down there, keep the battery nice and charged!

 

[Depmandog]

When I was 12 or so, me and two friends headed out into the woods to camp for the night. We made camp in a dry stream bed, on a patch of sandy gravel.

I had a brand new case pocket knife that was my pride and joy. I had been using it all evening, whittling, making hot dog sticks, cutting tender, being a regular Daniel Boone .

Recall setting it down beside me as I tended to the fire, reached back for it and it was gone. I scoured every square inch of the campsite - gone. Figuring that it might have gotten pushed into the sand - I looked through the sand too, nothing.

The next morning - in the daylight all three of us looked for that knife. Several times over the next few weeks (till the next heavy rain) I went and searched, nothing.

Three years ago, my son and I was deer hunting the same woods. I found the old campsite - and couldn't help but spend a few minutes looking...still lost.

As I have wised up (or became more cynical in my age) I now figure one of my friends heisted the knife.

 

[Redneck in training]

We had very dry summer several years back. The ground was all cracked but I had no idea how deep some of the cracks were until I dropped adjustable wrench into one of them. Just when I thought it went to Australia I found it about three feet deep.

 

[johnrex62]

We had very dry summer several years back. The ground was all cracked but I had no idea how deep some of the cracks were until I dropped adjustable wrench into one of them. Just when I thought it went to Australia I found it about three feet deep.

:laughing: I had to read that twice. First read I thought you wrote as a joke that you went to Australia and found it three feet deep. :thumbsup: Almost made you a honorary Texan with that tall tale.

 

[smiley]

I'm not sure if it fits here, it's not very funny but is very different, and did involve finding old tools, so here goes.
I was about 12 and my contractor cousin took a job tearing down part of the old Cheney hammer factory in Little Falls NY. He told my father we could have all the lumber we wanted to carry away.
The factory had originally been water powered and an old (dry) canal bed was under the wooden floor. When the canal bed was finally exposed there was a lot of debris in it and one of the guys was poking around amongst the junk and a lot of rusty hammer heads of all shapes and descriptions when he saw something yellowish brown. When he finished digging around it, it was somebody's skeletonized forearm and hand. The police eventually figured it was an amputated arm from an old hospital that had been just up river from the factory that used the river as a dump. I've still got and occasionally use some of those old hammers.

 

[Travelover]

......... I've still got and occasionally use some of those old hammers.

What did you do with the arm? :laughing:

 

[bcp]

 

[smiley]

What did you do with the arm? :laughing:

The police called the coroner and he took it.

bcp -------- You're just a smarty pants. -------- I like it -- but, it didn't have any meat left to model for that photo.

 

[Short Game]

Too perfect!