Finding things along side of the road

Anyone get excited on things they see/ find along side of the road ? I see a 6-6 block and say - dam thats a nice trailer block ! Best find was a 4 inch chrome stack that mustve just came off a road tractor  as it was warm yet- then theres rachet straps, tools, seen a shiney vise grips today - thats what sparked this crazy post ! Please tell some of yours

I or me and dad picked up a brand new 12” 3/8 drive snap on ratchet. That was cool

5 gallon gas can found in the pasture by the road. Been using it 7 or 8 years now.

On the interstate a few weeks ago . Saw a lawnmower and it's box several yards apart in the road . Told my wife someone just lost a new lawnmower . About a mile down the road a guy was standing next to his empty trailer with his head in his hands .

I've picked up a couple wrenches, a hammer, and a German Saw. Other than a few scratches the saw works good. Was in a hurry and missed a pancake compressor

i've found about everything in our ditches and driving about, always stop and grab. latest thing was an air compressor, it's hoses, and tools that musta fell off a truck coming outta a Casino lot. musta lost a bunch of his money and sped away! hubcaps, tools, chains, tarp straps, coolers, gas cans, boat cushions, furniture, couch/chair cushons, lumber, beer, machinery parts (new and used), trailer parts, firewood, livestock trailer door, barrels, buckets, tires and wheels, mufflers, wheel barrows, brooms, bull floats, tarps, trash cans, numerous full packages of insulation, steel, lights, just about everything that can be hauled i've found and took posession of. one thing i couldn't pick up was a new zero turn mower that was sitting in the middle of the highway one day. never caught up with anyone pulling an empty trailer. it was still there when i came home, but was moved to the side of the road.      

Best find was an 044 Stihl Chainsaw! Worst was a garbage bag of dirty baby diapers!

When dad used to work road patrol, he picked up a lot of stuff.  Best find was a perfect come-along winch, a beauty with a doubling hook and a long pipe handle.  Still use it on the farm probably 40 years later!

     Me, nothing worth mentioning. Wife has found a really nice heavy duty 50. ft. extension cord, like new ballpeen hammer and a decent 5/16 chain. 

When I was running my portable welding truck, used to find all kinds of stuff.  Best one was a new 50 to bottle jack, still in what was left of the box.  Also got a nice big crow bar which I still use.  The 50 ton jack went with the welding truck when it went down the road.

Always a lot of beer cans and soda cups ( in my ditch) always empty.  But last summer I found 2 full cans of beer.  Not my brand though.

allisrutledge wrote: Found a shoe one time when I was walking to school. 3rd grad,I wished for three years I would find the other one, then I was in the 4t grad

Real nice large slip joint plier. Brand name,not Channel Lock....green plastic on the handles.

Edited by SteveM C/IL - 10 May 2021 at 10:53pm

I found a 1/2 inch wrench signed by Jesse James.  Ratchets on one end.  At one time I would stop and pick up the 4x4x8' oak boards that fell off trailers.  I see a lot of different types of tie downs but I don't need any more so I leave them for the kids that are building a collection.  I've seen some trailers of various types sitting along side the road and wondered if they are fair game!?!?

Guy stopped in Shop 2 weeks ago with a full still sealed up 5 gallon bucket of CAT hyd. oil ,he drove by it for a week until he stopped thought it was a empty bucket .He give it to me.