Road find

[gptom]

I keep finding 1/2" wrenches, including a snap on. I have4 so far plus a couple of sockets & universals

 

[NUTTSGT]

Found this laying in the middle of the road today. I thought it was a piece of tire till I got to it and straddle it with the truck. I can't imagine what kind of damage it could do to a lower vehicle.



Although the handle is rotted off, the shovel head itself barely has any use on it.

 

[ER70S-2]

Long handle, huh?

 

[NUTTSGT]

Long handle, huh?

I'd guess the long handle is somewhere but it wasn't with the shovel head. It's currently hanging in the shed after I replaced the handle. ..$10 investment.


As we were coming back from a mulch fire, I spotted this near an intersection, I had the driver stop so I could grab it and prevent anybody from running it over and cutting a tire.



After cleaning the green paint off of it, I found that is a Pittsburgh 1"x10."

 

[ecotec]

I despise ppl that don't properly secure their loads.

That's what she said.

 

[ecotec]

On the way to Home Depot one night, I saw something shiny in the center of my lane. It was a cell phone, face down, and its camera flash was on. I never would have seen it if the light wasn't on. There were tire tread marks on the screen, but it was not broken. I think it was a Nexus. I picked it up with the intention of calling a contact in the phone to try to find the owner, but by the time I got out of HD the battery was dead and the phone was shut off. Oh well, I'll go home and charge it, I thought. On my way home, I saw a little old lady walking along the roadside in the dark, hunched over staring at the ground as cars whizzed by. I pulled over and handed it to her. It totally made her day.

Awesome!

 

[Milton Shaw]

I found one of those canvas/leather bottom utility bucket once. Brand new not even an oil stain on the leather. Several other wrenches over the years but that bucket was the best.

 

[ecotec]

Good find. It'll last forever OP

It will. I think that everyone should have at least a 24" and a 14" pipe wrench. Now you need to find an aluminum 24" pipe wrench, so you never need to use that heavy thing.

 

[captain14]

Yesterday I found a Husky 15mm ratchet wrench and a Stanley jab saw alongside the road

Wrench was pretty clean, but the saw blade was rusty.

 

[SchwansManDan]

I've picked up screwdrivers & pliers & ratchets & other stuff from the pavement, but my all-time best roadside find was not a tool ... I was driving the work truck back to the office at the end of the day & spotted something next to an exit ramp.

I was going about 70 & couldn't stop in time, so I got off at the next exit & looped back around to pick up a beautiful Taylor Made 9.5 degree driver with a brand new grip. Even though it had a Steelers head cover, I nabbed that bad boy before it got run over.

 

[Caterpillar Cowboy]

That's how I got my 1" impact wrench, Nice Ingersoll one.

 

[bczygan]

Found a nice 8' FG ladder.

Still use it.

 

[Bigblockyeti]

In 03' I commuted daily to college and something caught my eye just off a new side street from the 50mph state rt, it was $27 in cash blowing around on the ground. About a year later the rental house I was in had new water lines run down the street, when they finally finished the project I found an 18" Columbian pipe wrench left in the grass in surprisingly good shape. It must have not been there for very long. In ~2011 after moving I was cycling down a rural road and saw something yellow in the tall grass by the ditch, it was a cheap weed wacker but in perfect shape oddly enough with no road rash. I pedaled home and took the car to pick it up, got it home and it fired right up. It too must have spent little time there or it would have required some work. Last year I found some **** in the road pretty close to the house on a busy road, turn out to be two halves of a black bungee, a pancaked ratchet strap and a Pittsburgh linesman pliers.

 

[Alpine4x4]

Found an early 2000's 4-stroke 15hp Evinrude outboard that had fallen off a boat one day on the highway. Needs a prop, valve cover, and some fiberglass work and she's ready to go.