Rockhead261
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In the middle of a highway near my job. ***** for the guy whose truck it fell out of, but now I have two.
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In the middle of a highway near my job. ***** for the guy whose truck it fell out of, but now I have two.
While it may be unlucky on his part that he lost it, he's lucky it didn't flip in through a windshield in the vehicle behind him.
Crusarius
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Love hate relationship.
Love to find the good stuff someone else dropped.
Hate the fact that someone could have gotten hurt.
I have driven under plenty of flying mattresses in my time. I despise ppl that don't properly secure their loads.
Love to find the good stuff someone else dropped.
Hate the fact that someone could have gotten hurt.
I have driven under plenty of flying mattresses in my time. I despise ppl that don't properly secure their loads.
Richard Cranium
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I also found a 18 inch pipe wrench a few years ago, Still have it with my other pipe wrenches. Love finding what others loose.
C_F
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About fifteen years ago I found a cordless drill on the side of the road. It was in it's green case, with two batteries & the charger. The case had been run over & was ruined, but the rest worked just fine.
I've found a couple sets of pliers and a few other things through the years, but that drill was the best one.
I've found a couple sets of pliers and a few other things through the years, but that drill was the best one.
My wife gets embarrassed every time I stop for free roadside goodies. I haven't found anything really great yet.
I'm with you there. A very large furniture store is just down the road from me, you can about imagine the nonsense I've seen.
I'm with you there. A very large furniture store is just down the road from me, you can about imagine the nonsense I've seen.
On my way to work a couple of weeks ago someone lost a **** ton of their tools in the road, I stopped, and another guy stopped, and we picked them all up, including the 400 drywall screws, and piled everything on the side of the road, hopefully the guy figured it out and came back for his stuff.
Dick in Wisconsin
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I've picked up a three 1" and 1.5" ratchet straps over the last couple of weeks. Some of the ratchets have been run over and bent. But I can buy replacement parts.
Coming back home from tailgating at the Wisconsin/LSU game at Lambeau Field we drove by a full size household dryer sitting between the ramp from STH 172 and southbound I-43. Had the HHR and no room for the dryer.
There are a ton of rubber bungee cords along I-43 both northbound and southbound between Grafton and Sheboygan. But I'm either pulling the trailer or driving the motorhome when I'm alone. Wife doesn't like me stopping on the Interstate to pick up "junk" along the road.
Coming back home from tailgating at the Wisconsin/LSU game at Lambeau Field we drove by a full size household dryer sitting between the ramp from STH 172 and southbound I-43. Had the HHR and no room for the dryer.
There are a ton of rubber bungee cords along I-43 both northbound and southbound between Grafton and Sheboygan. But I'm either pulling the trailer or driving the motorhome when I'm alone. Wife doesn't like me stopping on the Interstate to pick up "junk" along the road.
Very early one day on my commute, as I was exiting the interstate I saw "something" in my lane at the last minute, and swerved. It was the hydraulic ram for a cherry picker! Can you imagine hitting that, or someone else hitting it and flipping it into your lane??
If anyone reading this comes accross some Milwaukee demolition gloves on the side of the road in New Jersey they are kctyphoon's!
As for things I've found (and did not take), yesterday while at a light waiting to turn into Home Depot there was a wig/toupe sitting on the traffic island. Horrorfying.
As for things I've found (and did not take), yesterday while at a light waiting to turn into Home Depot there was a wig/toupe sitting on the traffic island. Horrorfying.
I see the rubber bungees and ratchet straps regularly on my daily commute. I won't stop for them; even though I'm "frugal", they're not worth my life and I don't need them that badly. A few years ago, I saw a tool box and some other stuff during the same commute. These were along the edge of the meridian, close to the left lane. Again, chances are nothing in that box or what was spilled along with it was worth my life.
Empty Pockets
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Maybe someone was scalped?
Sometime ago, I found a Snappy Saltus wrench on the side of the road, and once found a nice Fluke multimeter in a parking lot
I was driving down the highway and saw a massive king size mattress go flying off the back of a truck. A small car ran it over and almost crashed, so I rushed up to the dude (still had mattresses in the back) and was honking and gesturing (my wife was too). The dude then flipped us off, and I thus flipped him off.
You'd think that if you're hauling **** in the back of your truck and if someone is honking/gesturing, the person's instinct would tell them: "Oh shoot! I hope my (unsecured) **** is not flying out of the truck! Maybe that's why he's honking/gesturing?" But then again they were stupid enough to not secure the load, so no wonder they have no idea why I'd be gesturing.
Al Borland
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My best road find so far:
Going to my main office for a pointless monthly meeting to listen to people talk about stuff that doesn't affect me, cut thru a mostly derelict industrial area and saw what looked like a couple dollar bills lying in the road. Worthwhile stop, I figured. Turned out to be 3 $20 bills. Nice crisp new ones in the middle of the road without a soul in sight.
Definitely worth stopping for, (but not tools).
Going to my main office for a pointless monthly meeting to listen to people talk about stuff that doesn't affect me, cut thru a mostly derelict industrial area and saw what looked like a couple dollar bills lying in the road. Worthwhile stop, I figured. Turned out to be 3 $20 bills. Nice crisp new ones in the middle of the road without a soul in sight.
Definitely worth stopping for, (but not tools).
gdocktor3
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You guys are probably going to give me ****, but I found a Dewalt 18v impact wrench on the side of road one day. After I picked it up, I drove past an AT&T guy working up on a pole a few hundred feet down the road.... I did not stop...
They **** us anyways with cell phones, TV, internet, etc.. They can afford one. Oh not to mention they gave my father the golden handshake and forced him into early retirement. Not that he's actually complaining...
They **** us anyways with cell phones, TV, internet, etc.. They can afford one. Oh not to mention they gave my father the golden handshake and forced him into early retirement. Not that he's actually complaining...
orca8589
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Found an entire set of Allen-brand 3/8"-drive SAE sockets in 2006. Started my current tool collection from that.
Found a Victorinox Huntsman Swiss Army Knife in 1993 on a street in San Francisco; missing a scale and run over. I made new scales out of Kingwood, worked the joints, got it working good again, and carried it for 13+ years. Decided to retire it, and just never got around to buying a new one.
Then, driving home in 2007, I find another Vic Huntsman laying in the road.
~Chris
Found a Victorinox Huntsman Swiss Army Knife in 1993 on a street in San Francisco; missing a scale and run over. I made new scales out of Kingwood, worked the joints, got it working good again, and carried it for 13+ years. Decided to retire it, and just never got around to buying a new one.
Then, driving home in 2007, I find another Vic Huntsman laying in the road.
~Chris
Farmall450
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Good find. It'll last forever OP
Ty.
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you guys are lucky, all i ever find are pancaked $5 ratchet straps and one hooked bungie cords, but that wont keep me from turning around and adding to my collection of s hooks
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.
wildbill23c
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Last year a guy turned out onto the highway in front of where I work, he lost a Ridgid shop vac off his truck and just kept on driving. Shop vac works just need to find a hose for it.
Wasn't a tool I picked up but was amazed when I found it. Several years ago I had done some work on my trailer lights and was using my Leatherman Wave and set it on the back bumper of my truck. Totally forgot about it, and drove into town for a couple of errands came back home and realized I never put the leatherman away and figured well **** its gone now. I was amazed it was still on the back bumper, it slid down into the space between the bumper and the truck bed.
Wasn't a tool I picked up but was amazed when I found it. Several years ago I had done some work on my trailer lights and was using my Leatherman Wave and set it on the back bumper of my truck. Totally forgot about it, and drove into town for a couple of errands came back home and realized I never put the leatherman away and figured well **** its gone now. I was amazed it was still on the back bumper, it slid down into the space between the bumper and the truck bed.
DeaconSteve
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I couldn't find sand if I fell off a camel. Well I take that back. Once, I found a pipe wrench that has the swivel head. That was a pretty good find. My next door neighbor finds tools all the time. We were going down the street together one time hauling a boat and all of a sudden he pulled over into this parking lot and asks another guy in the truck to go back and fetch a pair of pliers he saw laying on the sidewalk next to the street. The guy has eyes like an eagle
woody 73
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True story I kid you not...
It must have been in the mid 1980's maybe in 1987 ? that an armored truck back doors came opened and I think they lost a total of something like 1 million dollars. I even remember reading that one guy said he picked up so much cash that he left the state never to return, I do not know if they ever caught him?
It made the world news that day it must have been hell to pay for the unlucky guy that did not lock those doors that day!
It must have been in the mid 1980's maybe in 1987 ? that an armored truck back doors came opened and I think they lost a total of something like 1 million dollars. I even remember reading that one guy said he picked up so much cash that he left the state never to return, I do not know if they ever caught him?
It made the world news that day it must have been hell to pay for the unlucky guy that did not lock those doors that day!
Junkman
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When I was much younger, I found a 50 cent piece on the sidewalk in NYC. Ran back to the room to borrow the money from my brother, and by the time I got back, she was gone... 
Farmall 1066
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Several years ago I was sitting at a stoplight, while a local plumbing company truck made a turn around the corner. Utility box door flies open, big drawer FULL of pipe fittings slides out and detaches itself. Flies out in the intersection showering pipe fittings everywhere!
Laughed my *** off watching it happen!
Laughed my *** off watching it happen!
LawnBoy-5247
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About 3 months ago I was pulling into my grandparents neighborhood and and in the middle of the intersection there was a 5 gallon bucket with plumbing tools and fixtures scattered around it. Me and another guy stopped and picked them up and split the stuff between the two of us. in all I got a 14" Dunlap, a well bent 14" Craftsman, a 14" Rigid E14 curved pipe wrench, 3 10" Rigid's, a 8" Craftsman, and a weird Zurn crimping tool of some sort.
Freakish Mind
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Teenager with old tools
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I found a slightly beat up rigid radio and a snap on 1/4 extension that's it
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Pumpjack86
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Most recent find was a decent pocket knife. But I have found many tools, a like new extension ladder (found the owner and returned it), a stainless 9mm 1911 in perfect condition, a wallet with $2600 cash in it (returned it to owner), several times I have found money in parking lots, also a pair a of nice bolt cutters, There is probably more that I cant remember, but I always have my eyes on the lookout. I often see something and stop and check it out, but turns out to be nothing but it is worth a try.
kiatech
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10 inch proto
DSLTRK
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Ha, damn I always knew a WF made adjustable wrench was tough but not THAT tough.
At least you'll remember that as the 12 dollar wrench that cost $1200.
kiatech
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Best part is its not even damaged... I didn't find it in the road, but the tire did.[emoji23]
Fixin'Stuff
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Knew a guy some 25 years ago that came across an Onan generator set on the side of a freeway. It appeared to have fallen out of a passing RV and tumbled to its resting place. The only serious damage was that the carb was broken off. He put a new carb on it and it fired right up. All I ever find is the occasional socket wrench... 
Crusarius
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Why does it always have to be the inside dual.