'lost' tool funny one.

[zing]

While its not a tool
I worked for the railroad and we were spotting cars at an industry one day in the winter it was nasty out & when I went home I had to snow blow
When I got finished around 11pm I realized my gold bracelet was gone from my wrist.I looked everywhere for it finally around 1 am I gave up
Fast forward to May of the next year and we were again spotting cars at the industry as I got off the rail car I looked down to see were to step and noticed something laying under the ball of the rail the sun made it shine yes my bracelet it had laid there for 5 months unharmed.
Never again wore my bracelet at work.

Hey, that is a very similar story to mine.

When they build in the subdivisions near here they will sod the whole lawn and then later on someone comes along and cuts out the patterns for hedges and flower beds, etc. The trimmed sods are piled in the lots that haven't been built on yet, to get bulldozed in as fill. They aren't square, but they can be jig-saw puzzled together if you are cheap like me. After I finished the addition to my house I had to redo my lawn so I backed into one of these lots and levelled off the back of my truck with sod pieces. Then I went home and laid it. The next day I noticed my wedding ring was not on my finger, and of course I have no idea when or where it came off. Searched the house, farm, work and everywhere else I cound think of for days with no luck. In response to my highly agitated wife's question "Where did you take it off?" all I could say was "I did't take it off! All I can think of is that it came off when I took off my work gloves." Extensive searching of the back yard and floor of the shed revealed nothing so back we drove to the building lot about a week after I had been there, since after loading the truck I must have taken off the work gloves so I could drive home.

I backed into the approximate middle of the 3/4 acre lot full of gravel and rocks the size of a fist, and stood beside the truck feeling like it is hopeless. Wifie walks around to my side of the truck and says "Where did you take off your gloves?" I respond "I don't know, somewhere around here." So I look down and there is my wedding ring shining on the ground directly between my feet. :confused3: :shocked: :shocked: :cool2:

 

[Soundguy]

of a similar concept.. how come my horse can throw a shoe, and i can walk the entire property and not find it.. and then pull the mower out of the garage, engage the blade as I start to make 10' of my first pas and whang.. i hit the horse shoe, making an impressive divot in a used-to-be-sharp mower balde that cost 28$

 

[flyerdan]

It's the same magical force that allows a dropped socket to roll to the exact center under a vehicle.

 

[SPIKER]

I lost my wedding ring having snow ball fight at my sisters house with a young girl (NOT THE WIFE) and later in the day noticed it was gone Looked for 2 DAYS it was Christmas time and I was staying with sister was about to give up when I found it setting in the snow bank gleaming in the sun... Needless to say the wife was NOT happy with me, said I was FLIRTING with a 19yr old girl ah what could I say sorry...

 

[Redneck in training]

I know a guy who has buckets of hand tools in his garage. He is a guy who never owned a car. He rides bicycle or walks and picks every tool he sees laying on the road.

 

[k0ua]

I see tools lying in the road all the time, but who can stop, when traffic is whizzing along in front and in back of you at a fast clip.. I just have to let them go. For safety's sake.

James K0UA

 

[Tig]

My mechanic in Ottawa was a good man, but his guys always left tools in my car after they were done.
Since I usually work on my own vehicles, when I have time, I always took time to inspect their work. One day after I brought the car home from a brake job, I found great big pair of vice grips clamped on a front caliper bleed screw.
I brought the tool back, like I always did. Just smiled and handed it to him without saying a word.

 

[forgeblast]

I lost my favorite pocket knife, nice assisted opening kershaw, in my lower field that had brambles. I borrowed my dads metal detector and set off to find it. I keep getting beeps but there was nothing there. Gave it back to him thinking the thing was broken when I realized the steel toe boots I was wearing keep setting off the detector.
I found the knife when I was out walking my dog, it was just sitting there on top of a rock.
I have found in my field a half burried crowbars not sure why the previous owner left it there by I found it with my mower blade. Found an ax double bladed left in a stump (i think their kids were left it).

 

[crowbar032]

There is currently a 12' log chain buried somewhere in the middle of a 5 acre hayfield. It bounced off the tractor when Dad was plowing one year. I searched with a metal detector, but couldn't locate it. The first time Dad plowed after he bought the farm, he plowed up a draw bar. I'm sure it was the same story, bounced off the tractor and got covered up. Still using the drawbar on the TO-35. Mowing hay with a NH 451 sickle bar, the metal fingers on the end that sweeps the hay came loose and was lost. Found that with the baler, so I learned to sharpen the knife.

 

[NormL]

Here's another lost wedding band story but it does relate to tools. Here's how: I was helping with the late Fall harvest at my parent's farm and one evening discovered my wedding band was missing. Where do you begin a search when it could be anywhere on an eighty acre field or in a bin full of hundreds of bushels of grain? Long story short: my younger brother, bless him came in off the field a few days later and presented it to me.:jump: Told me he found it in the tool box of the combine. I guess it slipped off my finger as I reached in for some tool or other. The days had been pretty cool and that is when rings will fall off numb fingers.