'lost' tool funny one.

[aj2n]

When I was younger (say 6-7 or so) I was always out ridin with my grand dad rollin hay. Well it became kinda a running joke in the family that every christmas/father's day/birthday he'd get about 3-4 pocket knifes cuz he was always loosing them. Well they'd done that a couple years and I'd noticed it. and i guess one of those years out on the tractor with him I would watch him climb off the tractor and run back to the baler and cut the baler twine once the roll was done tying. then he'd climb back up on the tractor drop the bale and take off. well he'd climb back up on the tractor and set the knife on the rear wheel fender and never think twice about it. There's no tellin how many pocket knifes our cows came across all those years.

back to present I was pullin square hay from 20 or so years ago out of the loft and found a pocket knife from god knows when. I wonder how many years he'd been doing that.

and I guess the apple's fallen right under that tree cuz I buy utility knife after utility knife and ever hay season I can't seem to keep track of any of them.

 

[Travelover]

.........
and I guess the apple's fallen right under that tree cuz I buy utility knife after utility knife and ever hay season I can't seem to keep track of any of them.

:laughing: I think I lost 3 utility knives when I insulated my attic.

 

[deereman75]

This lost knife talk has reminded me of something. A few summers ago, I was doing some back country horse packing. I had just got a new frost mora bush knife and sheath. I put it in my saddle bags in the sheath before I left for the trip out. After about a 4 hour ride, we got back to the trail head. I went to get my knife out, and in my saddle bags was the empty sheath. I never did find it, although I have a much nicer one now.

 

[ETpilot]

Very interesting reading this thread. Working on aircraft I have found a few lost tools. Of course, it is not the place where you want to find lost tools.

I always account for all my tools when working on a plane. One time I searched for about an hour and a half looking for a missing screwdriver. Tools sure can hide when they want to.

I have a socket riding in the frame of my truck. I lost it when replacing the AC compressor working thru about a 1" hole. Never could find it. Forturnately it does not make noise.

 

[Short Game]

In 1967 I bought a Buck Folding Hunter with a rosewood handle in the Navy Exchange in Yokosuka, Japan. I lost it a few times but always found it. I had carved my initials in the handle and by the early '70s, had already lost it several times, but always found it. Then I lost it again and didn't know where to start looking. I looked but had to give up. A year or two later I took a hike in the woods and walked right up on it on the ground. Stainless steel, brass, and rosewood, all in good order.

I parked it a long time back, as I eventually completely wore it out. The blade is sloppy and that the lock is no longer to be trusted. I wore a hole in many pairs of Levis carrying that big knife too.

 

[Cub 7274]

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.

 

[Mace Canute]

Hey! I just found my little 4 inch bearing separator plate!!

 

[moored4]

and I guess the apple's fallen right under that tree cuz I buy utility knife after utility knife and ever hay season I can't seem to keep track of any of them.

Get a utility knife scabbard and bolt it to the bailer where you use it to manage the baling twine. Mine ie always there and that's the reason why, I got tired of losing my good knife! :thumbsup:

 

[gengine]

I went out on a well armed horse ride last summer. After about six miles of trail we stopped for a snack and a cold drink of water. I grabbed my lunch from my saddle bag, walked to a log, took off my chaps and reached to remove my gun and it wasn't there. Needles to say, my chaps went back on, lunch back in the saddle bags, and down the trail I went, solo. I got all the way back to the truck without finding a gun. It wasn't in the truck either. That's when it hit me. The little horse my wife and I were training had to have a little convincing to cross the creek a couple miles up the trail. When doing so, the lead rope probably pulled the gun and holster off my hip. Back up the trail I went. So, I had already done roughly 12 miles, and was feeling every step the horse took. I got to the creek, the sun was going down and things were getting fairly dark. I just jumped in, boots and all, and started feeling around for it. About this time, the rest of my party came out of the trees and saw me in the creek. They were all laughing, but wouldn't you know it, I found it. Now I ride with my reins in my left hand and my right wrist wedged between my hip and the handle. That way I know right where it is. That was the most expensive tool that I have lost, but I'm sure there are plenty of screw drivers and sockets with my name spread all over the state.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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...