Things you have lost...

[jayste]

I've lost a few tools. Some have been permanantly borrowed and one time I had a garage sale and lost a tool box full of roofing tools that didn't get put behind a partition good enough. Someone walked off with them and who knows what else.
Lost my first wedding ring while canoeing a local river with some of the boys one weekend. That didn't go over too well...

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Yeah...you're losin' it early, CTF...
By the time you're 20, you'll forget about the Deere you own.

Yeah...I did forget about the Deers I own... I'll have to get some pics...:thumbsup:

 

[Taylortractornut]

It kills me to lose something. Im heck with keys lost a loved set of keys off the tractor at work. It was my first collection of keys I got for each peice of equipment I picked up on. Long and short Deere, Hitachi, Komatsu 790 and 680 series keys, Old Forked Cat and the new style, Case , Ingersoll and several others.


I dont carry a knife any more as I always lose them. I like nice tools and learned the best way to keep them was to get the tools that come in a package or sets that way when I pack up a job Ill have them all together and if one is missing I can birddog it right away. Like the other day at work we keep the maintenance shop clean but after a long winter with several needed items built it was getting a little crowded. I alwas put my tools back in their places but a few were out and our new guy piles all the tools up in my othertool box My large tap and die set I had out finally found the 3 missing taps in a bolt bin. All my large sockets when others use them putthem in the wrong place and so forth.


The 75 year old man that works on our trucks his tool loan policy is when you borrow something you pay a deposit of 2 times the tools value. THat way it always comes back.

 

[TR Black]

Lost many things over the years. I started to paint my tools a bright color. It helped when working construction jobs to ID them when someone else liked my stuff more than I did. Just works for me. My wife also said that I just like to paint things. Gee, maybe that came from painting rocks in the Army ?

 

[Eyeshade]

I'm having a small house built on our property. So far the workers have left: 1 tool belt with tools, 4 metal cutters, 1 wheelbarrow, gas pressure gauge, rebar bender, an inflatable plug for testing plumbing vent stacks, hammer, screwdriver, pencils, cans of spray paint, electrical conduit, boxes of nails (8d and 16d), wire cutters, just to name a few. This could be where your tools have gone, my house.

 

[AMR]

a buddy of mine builds most all of my fishing rods, I happen to have a rod that I got for a girlfriend that I had for years and then I had a similar rod made with my wife's name on it

So one day I take a buddy fishing and don't you know he throws the rod with my wife's name on it into the water, now my wife has to fish with my girlfriends fishing rod, oh well, pretty funny anyway

 

[bradm64]

I took a marker and labeled all the spots in my shop where tools get hung up (shovels, rakes, crow bar, hammers, broom, push broom, axe, chains, chain binders, etc) so when my wife or neighbor uses something, they know where it goes to put it back. Eliminates that "don't know where it went, so I'll just drop it by the door"....

Getting ready to use a label maker and do the same thing in my roll around tool box. Hope to keep from accumulating stuff on the work bench that way....

 

[RoyJackson]

I took a marker and labeled all the spots in my shop where tools get hung up (shovels, rakes, crow bar, hammers, broom, push broom, axe, chains, chain binders, etc) so when my wife or neighbor uses something, they know where it goes to put it back. Eliminates that "don't know where it went, so I'll just drop it by the door"....

Getting ready to use a label maker and do the same thing in my roll around tool box. Hope to keep from accumulating stuff on the work bench that way....

There's a system called "5S"...one major component of that system (part of what is called LEAN Manufacturing) is organization.
Using labels, silhouettes or shadows for tools is part of the organization.