Free Snap On Tools!

[dkroth]

Driving back from lunch a few minutes ago I spotted this sitting on the yellow line in the middle of the road. I sez to myself, "Self, that looks like a screwdriver. It might even be a Snap On screwdriver."

Sure enough, it's an orange #1 phillips, SGDP31IRBO. I don't know how long it was out there, but it got run over several times.

No, I'm not going to try to warranty it.

I'm going to sand down the rough bits and put it in my box. Tip could use some clean up too.

Meh, free is good.

 

[4000xt]

Nice find I need a bumper sticker that says I brake for tools. You do as well.

 

[Tom2]

Found an Estwing hammer in the road recently. Definitely pays to keep your eyes peeled.

 

[mrholeshot]

I wondered where that went

 

[SCscoutguy]

I found a 8 gig ipod touch in the middle of the road the other day. I bought a charger off ebay and it works good. It pays to keep your eyes open.

 

[Theloniousmonk]

you got ripped off!



nice find.

found a proto 1/2 breaker bar once, a shopvac w/ a cracked tank, craftsman jack stand, tons of levels and pliers, and a 8ft. ladder.

makes you wonder how stuff ends up in the road, other than just falling off the back of the work truck.

 

[dkroth]

found a proto 1/2 breaker bar once, a shopvac w/ a cracked tank, craftsman jack stand, tons of levels and pliers, and a 8ft. ladder.

Maybe this thread should be expanded. Over the year's I've found:

A nice feeler gauge, a 12" Craftsman punch, a generic flat blade screwdriver, and the above referenced Snap On.

The most odd-ball find is TWO pair of Klein side cutters sitting on the phone junction box in my back yard - about a year apart! The tech left one pair one year and another pair the next. Same spot. Thank you very much. One's in the garage and other is in the basement!

 

[apong23]

Nice find, worth running into the middle of the street for.

 

[seagravedriver]

I found a wallet on a keypad/cardreader box at a cardlock fuel station. (Of course I turned it in)

My son found a large pair of Chanelock waterpump pliers.

A 4 or 5 cell LED Maglight.

 

[ZenMoto]

Awesome find. ...thanks to you that driver will get years more of use!

 

[Beerman]

A girlfriend of mine as a birthday present one year, paid to have an icemaker installed in a fridge in the apartment I was renting (I made a comment one time about always having wanted an ice maker growing up). So she copied the model # of the fridge, then bought and paid for the local appliance repair company to come and install the kit.

Six months or so later, I'm looking for something in the freezer and I find a pair of Klein needlenosed pliers the installer had left there. Tried to return them, but the guy had quit by this time. Still have them to this day.


Beerman

 

[Theloniousmonk]

Somebody owns a very nice set of diag. cutters from w. germany... I left them in a vehicle about 4 years ago... had them for years.


Hey, you find some, you loose some.

 

[fordbroncodave]

nice screwdriver find!

there is a thread about finding tools in the road a while back. search for it

 

[NOTABLAZER]

I think I bought one of my own wrenches that i lost a while back. I was working on my truck and the wrench (it was a 7/16 gearwrench) dropped somewhere in the engine bay and I forgot to retrieve it. Fast forward a few months later and a guy at work comes in and says he found a nice wrench out in the parking lot,down the way from where we work. It was the same one I was missing,might have been mine or just a coincidence,but I gave him $5 for it...

 

[wafrederick]

I find free tools under hoods of vehicles.Once found a 13mm Blue Point combination wrench between a the case of a 1997 4L60E and the safety neutral switch.I still have the wrench and use it.It includes sockets,one pair of channellocks and one screwdriver.Sharp edges of tools can puncture tires and get inside,Ratchets are this way

 

[nate379]

I found a dual 80 ratchet with extension and 10mm socket down the street the other day. I was pretty happy, but once I looked at it closer I realized it was MINE!

 

[demonspeed]

I found a air "blow gun" (not an actual blow gun, but a long thing that blows compressed air, you know what I mean?) under the hood of a jetta I was working on. it was sitting up by the radiator core spport. How someone left a 3 ft silver tool under a hood without noticing is beyond me. Ive found a few other freebies including a 17mm snap-on ratcheting wrench, and a set of craftsman pliers, under the hoods of cars I was working on. Now I always check twice to make sure I don't leave any tools under there.

 

[fatfillup]

I stopped to pick up what I thought was a black hard handle SO driver once, turned out it was a chicrap copy. Kept it anyway.

 

[livey]

nice find!!

i have found a few snap on sockets while working under the hood of customer's cars

 

[FoMoCoPower]

My buddy was driving past Home Depot one day and found a brand new wheel barrel laying in the road in front of him.

 

[kelwar]

My dad got a flat tire in the middle of the night one time. Went and looked at the tire in the morning and found a 3/8'' snap on nut driver sticking out of it lol.... I guess it offset the price of the new tire he had to buy

 

[Racr350]

Best find for me was a Snap-On 3/8" Torque Wrench laying in the middle of a very busy road. Must be i was the only one smart enough..or stupid enough..to jump out and snag it. Have also found a Snap-On 10mm wrench on top of a battery, of a car i brought in for service (i know..super unsafe but it was there), and a Matco Plastic Interior Pry tool INSIDE a dash behind a radio. Im thinking somebody dropped it down in the dash and figured itd be more of hassle getting it out then it was worth. Oh well...

 

[mattwgrizwald]

just last week I saw what loked like a hammer in the midlle of the road I turned around drove like two miles and picked it up it was a sheffield one hit hatchet / roofing hammer looket it up it like retails for $65.00

 

[hedjhawg]

About five-six years ago, I picked up a big blue "wheel" with a hydraulic motor off a busy highway. i had no idea what it was - but I wrestled it into the back of my car and brought it home. Turns out it was a hydraulic fiberoptic cable puller. Sold it on eBay for... $720.

http://www.condux.com/catalog-detail.php?categoryid=54&subcategoryid=60

 

[nate379]

What, may I ask, does a wheel barrel look like?

I think you meant wheel barrow??

My buddy was driving past Home Depot one day and found a brand new wheel barrel laying in the road in front of him.

 

[Buck_nekid]

I found a Tech 2 on the floorboard of a car once. I asked the customer about it. She said that she had a appointment tomorrow and they had it in there data logging a driveabilty problem.

 

[NOTABLAZER]

I also have good luck finding some decent tools at the junkyard,most of it is stuff I use all the time.

 

[DanCo]

My last find was after having a new windshield installed on my 4-Runner, found a brand new Snappy 90 degree cotter pin extractor/pick the large one. Then once after my sis had work done on her car, I was replacing a blown fuse and found a Snappy TML830 ratchet with a SK 10mm socket attached to it. One day after work I was driving to Lowes to replace my busted hammer and in the middle of the road 2 blocks from Lowes, I found a Snappy dead blow ball peen hammer. I work on new Mack trucks so every now and then I find tools, that the Mack techs leave behind. An 3/8" IR air ratchet, an IR right angle die grinder, misc wrenches and a cell phone. I returned the cell.

 

[LawnDart79]

A few years back, I found a Makita circular saw with case and also a framing nailer laying in the road.

 

[Simplespeed]

While breaking down a tire for a tire repair, i found a 10mm wrench inside the tire. It had my initials on it. I let a lube guy borrow it to install a battery and never got it back. He swore he gave it back to me lol. At least i got it back.

Only thing around here to find in the roads are bums.

 

[DrkMtnDew]

I've found an estwing hammer at the gas station, a 24'' cresent wrench, 3-15mm, 2-10mm end wrenches, and various screwdrivers, flashlights, knives, trickle charger, and a pipe wrench.

 

[hofferwood]

Possum

Chuck

 

[poncho_ponch]

Driving down an alley once I saw a ratchet with an extension on it. Turned out it was a great neck ratchet with an 11" snap on extension.

 

[patrickw10]

found a snap on 9/16 combo wrench on side of the interstate while changing a tire.

 

[nismomans13]

I found a dead squirrel once in the middle of the road. Didn't really hold its value quite like a snap on screw driver would though.

 

[Cargo]

A 24" Snappy 3/8 extension. A hydraulic press (and a good deal more force than I thought would be necessary) brought it back to usability from the banana curve it had acquired. Feel sorry for whatever hit it.

 

[tjmonsen5]

Found some channellock pliers in the trunk of a car at the junkyard.

Found a china screwdriver on the road, and lots and lots of bungee cords.

 

[SubaruGreg]

I found a 24" prybar under a hood once. Not sure how that was overlooked. It was made in Taiwan though so maybe it was left on purpose!

 

[930dreamer]

I'm stilling looking for a bag of money. My wife found a cordless drill.

 

[e30bradley]

I found a 1 1/16" 3/4" drive williams impact socket in the road on a bike ride a few weeks ago.. Appears to never have been used. And its probably gona sit in my box for months before I ever need it but free is always nice. good job spotting that.