What was the last tool you found??

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Posted: 2/25/2021 10:23:54 AM EDT

In the past I have picked up a sweet backpack blower....

Found scissors and screwdrivers even a whole set of ratchets in a tool kit....

Latest find was a big pair of pliers.

What do you have?

Red

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:25:19 AM EDT

[#1]

A nice yellow-handled Morakniv along the fenceline. Slightly used and sheath included. Called my neighbor and he said it wasn't his. Guess it fell off an airplane.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:27:13 AM EDT

[#2]

Found a nice Ridgid pipe wrench in the middle of the road a couple years ago. Of course, I started a thread about it but it is surely archived.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:29:00 AM EDT

[#3]

A nice pr of Channellock pliers.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:30:47 AM EDT

[#4]

10mm socket.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:31:07 AM EDT

[#5]

Echo weedeater by the curb early one morning. Took it home and found the fuel filter installed backwards

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:31:29 AM EDT

[#6]

Roofing hammer

1 1/16" wrench

3/4" drive extension

like new 6' step ladder picked up bulk trash day on Monday

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:31:44 AM EDT

[#7]

Yesterday I found a rusty crescent wrench next to the road, I left it there.

Last fall a 30" crowbar, it's in my garage.

I never find 10mm sockets.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:31:59 AM EDT

[#8]

I was cleaning out the gutters on my new house, and I found a wonderbar lying in the gutter.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:32:37 AM EDT

[#9]

I found a new 5' steel frost bar in a ditch. My guess Ameren lost it while working. Those things aren't cheap. I've used it As a lever to pry concrete out of post holes. It now lives in the bed of my truck

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:33:18 AM EDT

[#10]

A snap on double open end wrench in the gutter.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:34:18 AM EDT

[#11]

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I'm calling bullshit.

10mm sockets get lost, usually after rolling to the exact center of the underside of a car.

They are never found.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:38:17 AM EDT

[#12]

About 20’ of logging chain and a load binder still attached.

I hope they made it to their destination without event.

I have already used it to pull up some trees

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:43:12 AM EDT

[#13]

Pry bar and one of those keys to turn off underground water valves.

called the water company who obviously left it behind and told them.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:44:57 AM EDT

[#14]

A few months ago someone left me a drop hitch with a 2" ball on it in the road right in front of my driveway

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:49:37 AM EDT

[#15]

Found this over the summer on a gravel road

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Posted: 2/25/2021 10:50:50 AM EDT

[#16]

Funny this subject came up, yesterday I found this gem, I'm going to list it as a "Police Trade" or some such and start it as a penny auction.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:52:19 AM EDT

[#17]

I find tools almost daily. Mostly sockets,screwdrivers,etc.
This is the coolest tool I’ve found recently though.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:52:56 AM EDT

[#18]

Sheet metal snips above a drop ceiling.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:54:26 AM EDT

[#19]

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I captured a 10 mm deep well socket in the wild while riding my bicycle!

My latest was a combination rasp on the highway . Great shape other than minor rust.

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:56:58 AM EDT

[#20]

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One day I was riding with my buddy through a new construction neighborhood to do a drywall bid.
This motherfucker slams on the brake and says did you see that 10mm socket in the road?
I’m like what the fuck are you on.
He backs up a few feet and hops out and picks up a fucking socket and tosses it to me.
Motherfucking 10mm.
I just look at him like what the fuck?
He says it had to be a 10mm nobody ever loses anything else.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:12:44 AM EDT

[#21]

I find so many hand tools in electrical switchgears shipped from their factories that I don't even bother to remember.

I just give them away to helpers and apprentices.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:13:40 AM EDT

[#22]

Left behind?

Riding down a dirt road one day and saw something on the right side by the brush. Stopped, found a 2.5 lb. shop hammer, screw driver, pair of pliers and Schrade stainless steel 3 blade knife lying in the dirt. Put the knife in my pocket and the tools in a box on the back of the 3 wheeler and kept on riding. Fixed the broken tip on the big blade of the Schrade and carried it for several years. Haven't see the shop hammer or the pliers in years.

Really neat "find" that wasn't lost but my brother didn't know what it was:

Standing in dad's old garden work shed last trip home looking at the torches/tanks my brother will never use (he gave them to my youngest son) when I saw my great grandpa's double bit axe hanging on some nails on the wall. I asked my youngest brother if he knew what that axe was and he told me he'd never even noticed it. I told him it was over 100 years old and who it had belong to (we've all heard the stories of the work my great grandpa did with that axe (and his felling saw, wedges and wooden maul) but I guess I'm the only one that had fooled with the axe as a kid (and got my ass chewed out by my dad for getting it out of an old shed behind my grandpa's house.)

I asked him if I could have it (I'm named after the old man and my oldest son was named after me) to give to my oldest son and he said he didn't care. It wasn't good for anything anyway as worn down as it is and with the cracked handle/shaft. Just gotta get the rust off it and put a handle in it and then my oldest can have an axe that belonged to his great, great grandpa (born in 1871 out in Jackson County, OH, died in 1959 in Greenbrier County, WV).

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:14:56 AM EDT

[#23]

Stanley sledge. I returned it to the landscape worker who left it at my house.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:15:08 AM EDT

[#24]

I found a hammer yesterday.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:15:50 AM EDT

[#25]

Found a cheapo adjustable wrench in the closet when I was checking out the wiring for our cable.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:16:06 AM EDT

[#26]

Found a pair of decent large needle nose pliers and a $5 chinese flashlight above the drop ceiling at work.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:16:44 AM EDT

[#27]

A pressure washer......

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:16:47 AM EDT

[#28]

A claw hammer that I found in a ceiling while doing an IT job thirty years ago. Still have it.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:17:36 AM EDT

[#29]

Klein angle snips, in the road
Echo handheld blower, in a dumpster, w/ a 2.5gal can of gas (full)
Pair of tinsnips, in the engine bay of a used car
Many hatchets and axes, randomly in the woods
RedRider BB gun, in a stream

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:20:15 AM EDT

[#30]

When I wrenched on cars for a living you would occasionally find a lost tool from a previous service visit.
Bonus points if it was a new customer from another shop.
Double bonus points if it was Snapon or Mac from another shop tech.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:32:35 AM EDT

[#31]

A set of Greenlee Fish Stix wedged up in a ceiling. Nobody has claimed them and I've tried. I've loaned them to contractors and they somehow always give them back. Nothing short of amazing.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:35:06 AM EDT

[#32]

USA made vice-grip pliers.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:41:01 AM EDT

[#33]

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A set of Greenlee Fish Stix wedged up in a ceiling. Nobody has claimed them and I've tried. I've loaned them to contractors and they somehow always give them back. Nothing short of amazing.

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Are you a gay fish?

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:50:25 AM EDT

[#34]

I found all kinds of shovels, rakes, and a 24' aluminum extension ladder in the overgrowth of the house I bought last summer.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:52:56 AM EDT

[#35]

I found a brand new ZT still in the box that fell behind my gun safe not too long ago.

Also while cleaning my garage I divided by zero and found a 10mm socket.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:54:14 AM EDT

[#36]

Power washer with a Walmart price tag still on it.

Posted: 2/25/2021 11:55:14 AM EDT

[#37]

A rusty ass pair of pliers in the road near the mailbox. Not even worth keeping.

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:11:46 PM EDT

[#38]

A 12" Aluminum Bronze Crescent wrench on the side of the road. I figured it fell off of a gas company truck.

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:16:00 PM EDT

[#39]

thermo probe left behind by a HVAC tech

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:16:26 PM EDT

[#40]

On a walk I found a neat set of recovery boards, new in package, only dropped off a truck and dirty. Cost me nothing, now I have recovery boards.

(Not the really cool ones that people mount on the outside of their Jeeps, but a narrower set.)

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:20:03 PM EDT

[#41]

I found a whole set of tools but I would have had to go to DC to get them, but I backed out because most of them don't work.

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:24:21 PM EDT

[#42]

I have a camper shell type toolbox on my work vehicle. The back door popped open a couple weeks ago and my bag of essential work tools fell out. I noticed about a mile down the road and went back and looked and have not seen it since. Put the word out on the local whats happening pages and still have not heard from it. I hope whoever "found" it enjoys it.

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:27:03 PM EDT

[#43]

17mm socket like 4 years ago

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:28:13 PM EDT

[#44]

A pair of large snap on linesman pliers in the snow.

ETA; Just remembered, a Fluke 62max IR thermometer in a freezer load at work.

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:29:49 PM EDT

[#45]

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Just one?

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:35:44 PM EDT

[#46]

Found a rusty flathead screwdriver on the heat duct under my house... but I don't know if I "found" it or "bought" it with the house...

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:38:24 PM EDT

[#47]

IIRC, a nice Makita drill but I figured it had to be one of the builders working at a new house construction down the street and must have fell out when he was loading his truck at the end of the day.

Turned out it was his.

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:38:56 PM EDT

[#48]

When I changed the original carpet in my 1966 charger I found somebody’s nice Phillips screwdriver under the driver seat down under the carpet and padding. It had been there since the factory original carpet was put in. If anybody here was working at the Dodge factory outside of Detroit in 1966 And left a screwdriver behind in a charger, I’ve got it.

Posted: 2/25/2021 12:39:12 PM EDT

[#49]

While cleaning up outside around the foundation of my house I found a ballpeen hammer that was buried, apparently lost by someone when I had my house built.
I did a little electrolysis on it and it's now in my toolbox.

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Posted: 2/25/2021 12:39:47 PM EDT

[#50]

I also found a nice German made pocket knife, which had been sharpened many times and was well used, in one of those secret pockets of an AK 74 mag pouch that came from Bulgaria when I bought a bunch of surplus bags from southern Ohio guns years ago.

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