'lost' tool funny one.

ENG18LT · Feb 11, 2012

Was using the bucket of an old skid steer as scaffold to work on a soffit, put my cordless drill in the bucket and got down, parked the machine. After eating lunch I proceeded to take the loader over to the gravel pile and began taking gravel to the house where I was backfilling a perimeter drain. Boy was I glad I had the skidsteer to move 100 tons of gravel. The next day I couldn't find the cordless drill... where could I have left it? Yep you guessed it, it's under 100 tons of gravel. That was 12 years ago, it's still there. That story still gets brought up by my coworkers from time to time, I'll never live it down. All the other stupid shat I have done and that's the one story they remember.:laughing:

Bird · Feb 11, 2012

When we were living out in the country in a new double wide mobile home, I went to get my black electrical tape in the shop for something, and it was missing. I was sure I'd had a nearly full roll of that tape, and I always kept it in the same place. Quite some time later, I started to go under the house for something, and when I opened the skirting, there was my roll of tape, along with two or three hand tools. Then I remembered working under there a month or so earlier.

Bird · Feb 11, 2012

And the most expensive "lost" tool incident I ever knew of was when we were building a new auto pound. One of the bulldozers broke down. I don't really know what the problem was since it belonged to one of the contractors. Anyway, a mechanic worked on it and had to pull the head. When he finished and tried to start it, the explosion blew a big hole in the side of the block. He had left a small wrench in one cylinder on top of the piston. Needless to say, it was expensive for the contractor, and a mechanic was sent looking for a job.

chopped · Feb 11, 2012

Ill add yet another one fresh in my mind even after 15 years.
I was working out of state at the time and my wife and kids stayed at the house. So the cat goes up a tree. way up there.I take out my wooden ladder and extend it to max.
I climb up and still couldnt reacht he cat so I took two tuna cans filled with some tuna and used wire to hold it ont he rung...
Left for work for the week. My wife caleld the FD and they sent someone by and went up the ladder and got the litty down.:thumbsup:
Alls well. Thena maybe three weeks later im looking for my ladder.
hmm did it get stolen??Eventually i saw it against the tree in the woods.I went and grabbed it as it swung back the rain water and rotten tuna etc splashed out onto my head:confused2:
Almost as bad as the time i was taking down insulation and as I did several no haired baby mice fell and went down my shirt.( I wear it open and loose). Luckily also not tucked in.. so they fell through and out.:thumbsup:

ruren · Feb 11, 2012

After I owned my used tractor for a couple of years I pulled the sides of the hood off for whatever service I was doing. In the process of lining up the front of them when I put it back together I looked down and saw something red between the radiator and grille. A closer look and I realized it was the handle on a nice pair of large snap-on pliers, slightly rusted. I never owned a pair so they must have been the previous owners that fell down there year's ago. Too bad I didn't have a number for him, it would have been fun to return a tool he lost years ago and probably looked all over for.

gary d · Feb 11, 2012

While working on dental equipment at a dental school I found a long open end wrench 7/16 By 3/8 inch with my name etched into it. It seems I left in in there a few years earlier when I did some work at the school.

Feels really good to retrieve a lost tool you never knew you lost.

ajmbonaire · Feb 11, 2012

Wow, I don't know what to think about all this! I have never misplaced or lost any of my tools.

k0ua · Feb 11, 2012

ajmbonaire said:
Wow, I don't know what to think about all this! I have never misplaced or lost any of my tools.

Uh-Huh.

bullbreaker · Feb 11, 2012

More fun losing tools on our own than by losing them to jerks that borrow them and don't return them ! :thumbsup:

Boone

The Haymaker · Feb 11, 2012

chopped said:
Hard to even think of a title for this. but I got a few good laughs from it and then thought about over the years how its happened before.
I am in the middle of doing some renovations, and in the process I was eliminating a small closet which backs up to the bathroom. The bathroom will be redone in another year or so,and this closet will add to the space in the bathroom.
So untill then the ''closet' will become an empty 'box' so to say untill I tear out the bathroom side.
Now come the funny part.,I ripped the door and frame and studded it in.Using a 4 foot level to level the studs..Then proceeded to hand the drywall on them, followed bu the jointing and paint trim etc.
Today I need the level and looked everywhere. Can t find it. drove me nuts. a four foot level where could it be..
This evening I thought about each step i took and realized that the level is now inside the wall.:confused2::laughing::laughing:
I will retrieve it in a year I guess when I rip the closet wall open on the bathroom side.:laughing::thumbsup:
Its not an expensive one so im not to concerned. reminded me of the nice vice grips I lost in a fender well of a car, and a nice screwdriver that was left under the hood of another.
Funny how it is with tools that way. Maybe 10 years ago I wanted a good entwistle framing hammer but couldnt afford one. One day My dad hands me one. it found it in the road.:thumbsup:
Anyways hope this makes someone else laugh and not feel like they are alone in these things lol If you have any similiar stories please share them...