Show us the tools you've found

[jmarkwolf]

I'm a big fan of the various "show us your...." threads in this and various other forums.

I've found a lot of tools over the years, most of them lying in the street. A couple of my such treasures are below.

I found both the channel locks and multi-tool literally lying in the street in the last year. The channe locks are a little tattered, but hey, the price was right. The Husky multi-tool was at a busy intersection at which I was waiting for the light to turn green. I simply opened the car door and reached down and picked it up.

Other tools that I've found that come to mind are a maul (small sledge hammer) found lying in the street, and a nice 24" long Snap-on prybar.

I'd get a kick out of seeing tools that others have found.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

You might want to check out this thread:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21216

 

[InPrimer]

Here's a variation of tools, I always look in nooks and crannies in a junk yard (look out for snakes LOL)

 

[wrench409]

I once found a nice pair of Channel-Lock pliers under the hood of a truck. The kicker is the owner had scribed his first name and last initial on them....and it was the same as mine!

Another strange find. A pair of vise grip pliers laying in the street, covered with grime. I tossed them in my truck and cleaned them up a few days later. They belonged to my co-worker! Had his name and DL number etched into them. That was way funny having that conversation with him. Got a free couple of beers too!

 

[bgarrett]

I heard a familiar 'ring' as a flatbed truck passed by and walked out to the street. Nice large Crescent Wrench!

I have a manual tire changer and the tools. Its probably 50 years old. Driving down the street one day I found an identical bead breaker lying against the curb.

 

[Toymeister]

I found a new Yost 33C vise (96 pounds) in a scrap pile in Kandahar. I shipped it home bit by bit 'ala RadarO'Reiley style. The thing details for 1100.00 I couldn't see it going to a Afghani. It was new.

 

[Hotrod barn]

Driving down the street one day looked down and said to myself that's a
Wrench ! Stopped backed up reached out the door and picked up a nice newer 17m SNAP ON wrench,still use it.A good place to look is by a railroad crossing with a nice hump in the crossing a lot of tools fall out of trucks.I have found hammers,tape measures,screw drivers And some broken (ran over )stuff at one crossing.

 

[bgarrett]

A good place to look is by a railroad crossing with a nice hump in the crossing a lot of tools fall out of trucks.I have found hammers,tape measures,screw drivers And some broken (ran over )stuff at one crossing.

Railroad tracks shake out spare tires from under pickup trucks. It had never been used.
I saw a second one as it fell, but the car immediately behind it got it.

 

[charged355]

I found a really nice oil filter wrench on the street once. I also found a snapon ratcheting swivel head wrench in the valley of a caterpillar engine.

 

[4t42]

I found a 15/16 willliums socket in the frame of my IHC pu, misc wrenches in intersections and used cars, and best of all a1/4 dr 1/2 inSnap On socket on I 40 in the middle of nowhere after I stopped to get a soda out of the trunk. I looked down and it was laying in a crack in the pavement.

 

[kesslerbmw]

I've found two things in the road... no pics sorry.

A 3/4 inch drive SK ratchet with a large SK socket like 1-7/8" or something probably worth a couple hundred bucks

A 3 ft long American Made Pipe Wrench

Best thing is, I've found uses for both items a couple times, and both were found lying in the road on different occasions and different locations.

 

[Weekend_warrior]

I followed a guy for two blocks today waiting for the big slip wrench to fall off the cap of his truck bed. It was just sitting there. I did give him a heads up at the first stop light though.

I found a 1/2 drive proto rachet with long extender and like a 3/4 inch socket or something. It was just in the middle of the street. Most recently a nice small LED flashlight in the road. It had been run over. A little polishing and it lives in my truck now.

 

[peterbilt89]

found a 22 ruger rifle in road

 

[ljhhontx]

I found a Stihl chainsaw in the road several years ago, but when I pulled over to pick it up the car behind me found it with his transmission pan, messy.

 

[passatryde]

I once swas behind a truck as it made a right at an intersection and a chop saw fell out of the back. it landed right side up...but i honked until he realized what happened...he pulled over and picked it up. sometimes i wish i hadnt honked and just grabbed it myself but that karma will get ya