'lost' tool funny one.

BertZegers · Mar 2, 2012

I lost tools but found many as well.
When I was 20 years old I was drafted for the Dutch army. After a long day training in the woods and sand-dunes we had to sleep overnight in a small 2 person tent. In the morning after a bad night sleep I was late for roll-call. Then I found my FAL 9mm automatic weapon outside of the tent RUSTED AND FULL WITH SAND because of rains! No time to clean the weapon!
On roll-call I was told I was gonne be punished hard. Luckely the sergeant forgot.
Some years later I was recalled for a 3 day rehursal in the army. While marching one day we stopped for a coffee and a sandwich in a small town.
After this short brake we marched on. Then after 1/2 mile I suddenly discoverd that I didn't carry my weapon ( a "Garant" from the 2nd world war ). I had left it behind.
I never before ran the 1/2 mile that fast, and then found my weapon standing behind a tree.
The sergeant didnt mention it.

Soundguy · Mar 2, 2012

i've found quite a few roadside..

jomar215 · Mar 3, 2012

Just recently I was helping a feller switch out an oil tank and got all messed up in #2. My wife's pregnant and I can't even break wind in front of her without her gagging - so needless to say I took my clothes off outside. Well, a few days pass and I can't find my pants, where are my pants - I don't get it. I finally found them when I sucked way up into the second stage of my 2 stage snowblower. Oops.

jomar215 · Mar 3, 2012

Just recently I was helping a feller switch out an oil tank and got all messed up in #2. My wife's pregnant and I can't even break wind in front of her without her gagging - so needless to say I took my clothes off outside. Well, a few days pass and I can't find my pants, where are my pants - I don't get it. I finally found them when I sucked way up into the second stage of my 2 stage snowblower. Oops.

Soundguy · Mar 3, 2012

last time I did something like that I was on the back porch disrobing after doing some greasy tractor work.. took pants off, went to go inside.. door locked.. wife took a nap and locked it to keep the cats in ( they can open doors..

) anyway.. grabbed for pants to go around to truck to get a key.. when one of my dogs ran in and ran back out with my pants... took quite a bit of bribing with some chew-chew treats and milkbones to get that rascal back in..

jomar215 · Mar 3, 2012

A buddy of mine lived out in back settlement for a while. He had a dug pond and went out for a swim after haying a while. Said he got up, stark naked, and started walking back to the house when he realized his door yard was full of a bunch of folks from church out for a saturday drive - and him, in the middle of the field, nowhere to run. Said he hit the ground like he was on fire.

Good times.

Soundguy · Mar 3, 2012

ever feel the need to run out to the barn in yer underwear just to grab a tool real quick.. and about that time the neighbor at the fence calls ya over for a quick question.. and then ups pulls up.. and

btdt, didn't have a tshirt..

jomar215 · Mar 3, 2012

Ok, I don't ant to hijack the thread but I've got to tell one more. So, I was living back settlement too, you know, and getting pretty used to being the only guy around. So, I need an outhouse but didn't quite have enough lumber to complete it, so I figure, "Heck, a seat's all I really need anyway." Right?

So I'm sitting on this outseat and I hear a rustle coming up through the woods. It's the telephone repair man. Here I am with my pants around my ankles and he walks right up to me and starts talking about the phone line. He's talking for like 30-40 seconds or something and I'm thinking, "Well, if he's not freaking out, I won't." when he finally realizes what's actually happening and screams out, "Are you taking a ****?!" After my obvious reply he spins on his heels, takes 5 steps away, stops, shrugs his shoulders, spins on his heels again, and walks right back up in front of me, asks me if I need any paper, and proceeds to finish his story.

Dutch445 · Mar 5, 2012

jomar215 said:
Ok, I don't ant to hijack the thread but I've got to tell one more. So, I was living back settlement too, you know, and getting pretty used to being the only guy around. So, I need an outhouse but didn't quite have enough lumber to complete it, so I figure, "Heck, a seat's all I really need anyway." Right?

So I'm sitting on this outseat and I hear a rustle coming up through the woods. It's the telephone repair man. Here I am with my pants around my ankles and he walks right up to me and starts talking about the phone line. He's talking for like 30-40 seconds or something and I'm thinking, "Well, if he's not freaking out, I won't." when he finally realizes what's actually happening and screams out, "Are you taking a ****?!" After my obvious reply he spins on his heels, takes 5 steps away, stops, shrugs his shoulders, spins on his heels again, and walks right back up in front of me, asks me if I need any paper, and proceeds to finish his story.

wow
that is funny, can't imagine the look on that guys face once he realized
what was really goin down.
so,
what did you lose that time,

oh,
just a bit of dignity huh?
lol

jomar215 · Mar 5, 2012

I lost more than just a bit ... it's a town of 4,000 - I saw him all the time.

Dutch445 · Mar 5, 2012

very funny story,

thanks for sharing,
not sure if I would!

(but then, i'd have gone hiding at the
first sound!)

johnrex62 · Mar 9, 2012

jomar215 said:
Ok, I don't ant to hijack the thread but I've got to tell one more. So, I was living back settlement too, you know, and getting pretty used to being the only guy around. So, I need an outhouse but didn't quite have enough lumber to complete it, so I figure, "Heck, a seat's all I really need anyway." Right?

So I'm sitting on this outseat and I hear a rustle coming up through the woods. It's the telephone repair man. Here I am with my pants around my ankles and he walks right up to me and starts talking about the phone line. He's talking for like 30-40 seconds or something and I'm thinking, "Well, if he's not freaking out, I won't." when he finally realizes what's actually happening and screams out, "Are you taking a ****?!" After my obvious reply he spins on his heels, takes 5 steps away, stops, shrugs his shoulders, spins on his heels again, and walks right back up in front of me, asks me if I need any paper, and proceeds to finish his story.

A more hospitable host would have made that bench a two seater.

jomar215 · Mar 9, 2012

johnrex62 said:
A more hospitable host would have made that bench a two seater.

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

Renze · Mar 10, 2012

Was at a tractor dealer today, who told once upon a time he was fixing a leaky tire and ended up with an extra hammer just like his... After checking carefully, they did see a hammer imprint on the inside of the tire, as well as on the tube...

sparc · Oct 31, 2012

herringchoker said:
I bought a used F250 4x4 one time. When I got it home and was looking it over, I found a 3/8" x 7/16" box end wrench on a brake bleeder valve.

Hey, I lost a bleeder wrench like that 30 years ago. Left it hanging on the bleeder screw and forgot all about it until the truck was out of the shop and gone. Guy never came back. I had to buy another from the SnapOn man a few weeks later after I gave up on seeing it again.

Pops15 · Nov 1, 2012

I don't think I've ever lost any tools. I know right where they are....
Dropped a line wrench down a hole in the cowl of my buddies car. It went down inside the door post. I was in the mood to torch a hole in the car to get it out. He didn't think it was a good idea.
Left the leads to my multi meter in a customer's attic. Next time I went to use the meter I realized right where the leads were.
Found a flat bar on the roof of a building I was working on at Glenview Naval Air Station. Several years later we were packing up the tools after finishing a job in a unusually nasty crawl space I noticed the flat bar was missing. I asked my nephew who was working with me if he brought it out from under the house. He thought I had gotten it. I knew right where it was but couldn't bring myself to crawl back under the house or even send my nephew after it. The house was 30 feet from the river and the crawl space was a mud hole and it was full of coon poop. The bar wasn't worth going after.
I dropped my 4 way screw driver down a customer's register. Everything I did to retrieve it just made it get more out of reach. I thought about going in the crawl space and taking the duct apart but figured I'd spend $20 worth of time to get a $5 screw driver.

I dropped a tape measure in an open can of varnish. Why does everyone but me think that's funny?

My Dad left his trim hammer in a suspended ceiling.
I found a conduit bender in a suspended ceiling.
Dad dropped a tape measure down a block wall. Busted a hole in the bottom block and retrieved it.

A buddy was using my shop and tools. I came home from work just as he was finishing installing a hitch. I did a quick inventory of my tools. I wasn't worried about him stealing anything but knew he sometimes left tools in cars. My 3/4 combination wrench was missing. Got him stopped as he was pulling out. Looked under his truck and saw my wrench still on a bolt.

I bought a truck load of tools at an auction. When I got home and unloaded the truck I realized I was missing a box with 5 or 6 spray guns. Went back to the house where the auction had been. The windows and doors were open, TV on, but no one would answer the door. The seller consigned them to another auction a few months later.

I lost a tape measure in a crawl space. It was the last day on the job. Next day I couldn't find it and knew pretty much where it was. Several years later the customer hired me to do another project. I retrieved my tape measure.

In a few weeks I'm going to be working at the place where I dropped the 4 way screw driver in the duct. Maybe I'll try using a magnetic pick up tool to retrieve my screw driver.

chopped · Nov 1, 2012

Well you have to lok at the other side of this ,If we didnt loose tools like this then we woulnt have the stories f joy when we find some.Its all about giving and receiving.
Consider that you leave a happer on a job site, and then someone comes and finds it several months or years later, They are happy to find something and there is a certain amount of joy from it.So youve done a good deed. possibly made some hapy and smile when they were having a bad day.
Perhaps it was supposed to be lost ..
this can maifest in sevarl ways also. My bud and I were working in a crawlspace, and I was outside wiping off sweat and god nows what. when he yells.(he bashed head on joists) and come fly-crawling out from under with a head in his hand covered in mud. and dirt.He for the moment thought it was real. and did send a chillup my spine.lol
It was a dolls head.LOL I attached it to the lader rack on my truck, LOL
But maybe it is really 'paying it forward' with emotions..

k0ua · Nov 1, 2012

Most of the plumbing tools I own were found by me in suspended ceilings of buildings.. I pulled telephone cable for many years and often went in after the plumbers had done their work, and left their tools

Come to think of it my fishtape was a found item too!

James K0UA

Soundguy · Nov 1, 2012

i have found a nice fence tool / multi pliers hamemr, jaw grabber on the side of the road, inclusing a framing hammer.. many pairs of pliers and dykes and an occasional screwdriver. last one a stuby flat blade snap on in 99.99% condition.

on a walk i found a 1.4" spade bit for wood drilling. had a hair of surface rust on it.. but it drills good..

zing · Nov 1, 2012

buckeyefarmer said:
my dad once laid a pocket knife on the baler, and it fell off while baling. About a 10 acre field, and I found it.

The hardest part about a project is finding all my tools...

I have a border collie like you. I can stand on the edge of a field with chest high hay and chuck a tennis ball as far as I can. A half hour later she is standing beside with ball in mouth and tail wagging, wanting me to throw it again.