Strangest place you have found a tool?

[jakemac]

I have a Lump-In-Law like that. Anytime he asks to borrow a tool I give him one from the junk pile because I know that it won't be returned. And I share a house with him !

 

[FlyingLancastrian]

The strangest place you'll ever find a tool is in the hands of my daughter's boyfriend.
He won't even pass you a wrench.

But no doubt full of pearls of wisdom whilst you're doing the job. That one thing about none engineers/mechanics that really bugs me...

 

[jkwilson]

Had a summer job 30 years ago helping flush a sprinkler system in a huge warehouse. Got near a wall where the hoist wouldn't work so I climbed a ladder to get to the last head. Turned to lay my wrench on the header of the wall, and there was a dust and bird **** covered old pipe wrench laying there. I figure somewhere around 80 years ago, some guy was saying "What happened to my pipe wrench?".

Got off the 4 lane after dropping off a load of cattle at the market one morning. I was in the middle lane of three and saw brake lights ahead of me and people changing lanes out of my lane. Finally saw a big drill with a two and a half foot long 1" auger bit in it. I couldn't change lanes with the trailer behind me, so I grabbed the drill and threw it in the bed. Called the local power company and asked if they'd lost it and then called the police and told them I had it in case anybody called them looking for it. No takers. Broke a handle, but it works fine. May use it to power a gate opener.

Found a socket for an oil pressure sending unit between the intake manifold and valve cover on a Chevy that I never had serviced by a mechanic. Kept it in the tool box for maybe 10 years when I had a sending unit go bad on a different vehicle. Danged if it didn't fit!

Stopped for a bathroom break on a canoe trip and looked off to the side and saw a Case pocket knife stuck in a log. No rust so it had probably just been left.

 

[madison069]

Was working on a 79 Blazer. You could hear a faint ticking noise coming from the valve train valley under the intake. We inspected the rockers and didn't see any issues that would warrant a cam issue so we pulled the intake off and in the lifter valley was a big flat head screwdriver laying across the lifters!

The guy sold the blazer cheap cause he suspected the engine was fixing to give due to the ticking noise.

 

[WhiskeyRanger]

Inside machines is pretty common, I found my current set of 430s in a washer. Find a lot of stuff up in the steel near the roof of the plant too. No one wanders by and picks up a forgotten screwdriver 60' up.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I lost a flat blade screwdriver in the fuel tank of the sheriff's office boat one time.
I have found a lot of tools and knifes at the bottom of a few lakes.

 

[CutterFarms]

Dropped a screwdriver in the bottom of my bobcat and fishing around for it I found a ratcheting gear wrench, never did find the screwdriver tho.

 

[Deej-79]

Found a ford wrench marked 1 and 2 inside a wall of a house we renovated. A screwdriver on the side of the road. A 3/8 extension in a parking lot. Found about 10 carpenters pencils in a car at the pick and pull

 

[PSYKO_Inc]

Had a Jeep come into the shop I worked at for a flat repair, had big 33 or 35 inch mud tires on it. I busted the tire off the rim and found a rat-tail file inside. Also have found a screwdriver and a socket on the road near my house while walking my dogs.

 

[jd_1138]

Found a ford wrench marked 1 and 2 inside a wall of a house we renovated. A screwdriver on the side of the road. A 3/8 extension in a parking lot. Found about 10 carpenters pencils in a car at the pick and pull

Old timey Model T era wrench?

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

My friend had a 300D that drove pretty good, but on right turns if you went in too hot there would be a significant clunk from the left front.
Nothing the least bit loose though.
Eventually I got in there with a bright enough light and found a 6" crescent wrench in the bottom of the spring. It was wedged in pretty good, but if you transferred enough weight over there, one coil wold skip past it. Wrench was a little rusty but for the one shiny spot.

 

[KnurledNut]

Had a Jeep come into the shop I worked at for a flat repair, had big 33 or 35 inch mud tires on it. I busted the tire off the rim and found a rat-tail file inside. Also have found a screwdriver and a socket on the road near my house while walking my dogs.

This reminded me of the tire shop repairing a flat, and finding a 9/16 combination wrench the customer ran over inside.

 

[OCD]

Dropped a screwdriver in the bottom of my bobcat and fishing around for it I found a ratcheting gear wrench, never did find the screwdriver tho.

Was a fair trade at least!!

 

[jd_1138]

I found a brand new set of Snap-On extra long screwdrivers on the side of the road -- still shrinkwrapped. Must've fallen off a truck.

 

[bczygan]

Strangest place I have found a tool?


.........In my toolbox, right where it was supposed to be!

Bill

 

[code4pay]

Strangest place I have found a tool?


.........In my toolbox, right where it was supposed to be!

Bill

Had you been looking for it for half an hour elsewhere before you realised it?

 

[Vbwiley92]

I've posted on similar thread before, but I found quite a few tools walking around the local racetrack after racing was over.

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[JRC3]

I'm doing this large bathroom right now that had his and hers vanities in the middle separated by walls, and had a soffit above it.

There's a flat pry bar in the attic insulation somewhere. Realized it was missing right after I rehung the drywall.

http://i.imgur.com/Ctj2JqN.jpg



I found two heroin spoons in a rental once. The house was a newer renatal and in a very good neighborhood. One spoon was in the attic above the garage and the other was on top of a kitchen cabinet. Funny thing is, I lost a hammer in the attic while running some Romex. Damn attics!



LOL...And addicts. I swear I wasn't setting hat up.

 

[engineer2]

Had a misbehaving Okidata dot matrix printer in a new engine analyzer. Opened it up and there was a screwdriver left inside from the factory in Japan.

 

[Tucko]

I wonder if anyone has found my new Bosch cordless drill I left in their attic 27 years ago....

 

[jt777]

7/8 westward combination wrench on a back road. Extensions in loading docks. And ridiculous stuff in lakes. Sunglasses, filleting knives, screwdrivers, umbrellas and a a fish gaff to name a few. The gaff still worked.

 

[vertguy]

Claw hammer on the roof of my last house. It took me a bit to figure how it ended up there... fairly sure it was from the cable guy as he on the roof a couple months earlier installing a new line to the house. The hammer is still in my box.

When I was a teenager, found a rusty ball peen hammer head in a field behind our house. Cleaned it up and installed a new handle. 30 plus years later and that hammer is still in my box and gets used regularly.

 

[1982fxr]

in the mirror every once in a while!

 

[BQuicksilver]

Old Stanley wooden level on a beam after demoing drywall to renovate my garage.