'lost' tool funny one.

[turnkey4099]

Funny you should say that, my brother did in fact build a 2 seater and we joke that it's "for parties."

Back in the day 2 seaters were the only thing going. I can only recall single seaters at country schools.

Harry K

 

[OldMcDonald]

Harry, Funny the places some folks turn up is it not?

Anyway, I knew a farm where there was a 3-seater. Two adults and one kid sized.

 

[SPIKER]

Harry, Funny the places some folks turn up is it not?

Anyway, I knew a farm where there was a 3-seater. Two adults and one kid sized.

Reminds me of that show guys w metal detectors looking for lost treasures went searching in OLD outhouse locations :stinky: :x ya not what I would do normally hahah they did find a few rings and such tho I guess back when the rings were lost the owner didnt want to WIPE them off

 

[rustythe4x4]

My BIL had just gotten married, and was still not used to his ring. He was driving through Saskatchewan with his equipment in tow for work, and stopped at a gas station to check his trailer. He found something wrong, and proceeded to right the wrong, but didnt want to get his ring greasy, so he took it off and placed it on the fender he was working beside. When they were finished, he packed up and continued on their travels, not realising he had left his ring on the fender until later in the day. in a panic, he called his sister who was scheduled to take a similar route to our place in Saskatoon. She stopped at the gas station over a week later, asked herself where she would work on a trailer if she were her brother, walked up to the spot, looked down, and found the ring laying on the gravel!

To make this tool related, I was using a 13mm socket under the hood of my van, when it fell off the extension. I looked and looked, but assumed it had fallen into the exposed boxed frame rail, and was gone forever. I bought a replacement. A few months later, I was working under the hood again, but this time was removing the battery, and there was my socket, tightly packed against a corner under the battery tray!

 

[Stihlrunner]

One cold, rainy winter day the kids and I were repairing the pig pen. Several days later I was cleaning up shop and realized I was missing my almost new Milwaukee 14.4V impact driver. I searched high and low and couldn't find it. Retraced my steps to the pig pen and happened to look into the wheelbarrow that was full of rain water and frozen solid. There encased in ice was my impact driver! Thawed it out and it worked perfect.

Fast forward another year. We are replacing deck boards on our dock. I swing my foot around and kick same impact driver into about 18' of lake water! We can see it down there but don't have enough breath to make it to it. My buddy makes one last attempt and makes a grab for it. He hits the trigger while scooping it up and the drill runs under water! Used it for several more years!

Tough tools and a careless operator!

 

[Renze]

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most!

+LIKE+

 

[mjw]

Non-Tool- My family used to boat in michigan, many of those in the marina drove in from illinois. SOP for most was to stop at the dumpster on the way out on sunday and drop off the trash. More than once we arrived home to find the trash still in the car. Got in the habit of putting the trash on the hood, less likely to drive off an forget it.
Many of the boaters (us included) packed dirty clothes in garbage bags for the trip home. More than once the guard would get a call to check in the dumpster for some ones bag of clothes, they had taken the garbage home and thrown out the clothes. We never had to call, but I may have thrown the clothes out once and then retrieved them and made an exchange.
Lost Tools- I was working in my folks garage one time and got mad (think I stood up under the lift and cracked my head) and threw a tape measure. Calmed down and looked for the tape. Couldn't find it, looked every where. Even moved stuff, including the clothes washer that I had stored in there. Looked for that tape every time we cleaned the garage. Several years later I moved and needed the washer. When I went to move it, the lid was propped open by the drain hose. Popped open the lid and in the drum was my tape measure. It had managed to fly across the garage and make it into a 1" tall opening.

 

[zoubala]

When I was a kid, my father had a few old pieces of machinery on his hobby farm and was always tinkering or fixing them. At one point he started to lose tools and stuff and was getting upset with my 4 older brothers and me thinking we where messing around in the garage taking his tools and not bringing them back. Of course once we all went under the interrogation light and no one confessed, we were cleared but still on the suspects list. To make a long story short one day as we were working in the garage and father put down his hammer on the floor when he went to pick it up again it was gone. All he saw was our dog going around the corner leaving the workshop. We hurried to catch up and the dog was going in his dog house with the hammer. There was the jackpot wrenches, sockets, ratchet, measuring tapes, a chalk line, gloves, a boot , an old jacket, plastic flowers and so on. Some of the stuff was not ours. Father kept the dog for many years. He made a place in the garage for the dog to sleep so it would not go around at night to raid the neighbour's properties. In time it stop stealing and if something was missing, we would just go have a look in the dog's ''tool box''.

 

[k0ua]

When I was a kid, my father had a few old pieces of machinery on his hobby farm and was always tinkering or fixing them. At one point he started to lose tools and stuff and was getting upset with my 4 older brothers and me thinking we where messing around in the garage taking his tools and not bringing them back. Of course once we all went under the interrogation light and no one confessed, we were cleared but still on the suspects list. To make a long story short one day as we were working in the garage and father put down his hammer on the floor when he went to pick it up again it was gone. All he saw was our dog going around the corner leaving the workshop. We hurried to catch up and the dog was going in his dog house with the hammer. There was the jackpot wrenches, sockets, ratchet, measuring tapes, a chalk line, gloves, a boot , an old jacket, plastic flowers and so on. Some of the stuff was not ours. Father kept the dog for many years. He made a place in the garage for the dog to sleep so it would not go around at night to raid the neighbour's properties. In time it stop stealing and if something was missing, we would just go have a look in the dog's ''tool box''.

Thieving old Mutt! I have heard of crows and magpies stealing stuff, mostly shiny things, but what on earth would make the doggie do that? Do you think he might have fell in with a "bad pack" when he was a pup? Or maybe he was just wanting to do a little remodeling on his doggie house?

James K0UA

 

[muddstopper]

Not enough bandwidth to mention all the stuff I have lost.
Lost billfold bushhogging. Started walking in the mowed rows until I found it. Dropped knife in lake while fishing. Went looking for it when the water level dropped, never found knife, but did find a 17jewel Elgin wrist watch. Lost floor jack out of back of truck with no tailgate, never found it but sure someone did. 40plus years ago, Dad found a old doublebarrel hammer ear shotgun leaning up against a tree in the woods. Stock pretty rotten, but metal in decent shape. Had gun restored and I still have it. Gun will shoot, but its just a wall hanger for me. I wont go into missing tools after backfilling basement walls. My mine likes to forget those sorts of things. I did loose my cell phone while prepping a site for seeding. Buried the phone in the ground. Had to make a few finishing passes before seeding and turned the phone back to the top. Phone still worked.