Finding things along side of the road
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Topic: Finding things along side of the road
Posted By: DougG
Subject: Finding things along side of the road
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 6:51pm
| 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 |
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 7:07pm
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mostly tires and garbage bags... see a 1 gallon gas can or 5 gallon bucket now and then.. maybe a baseball hat. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 7:10pm
| I or me and dad picked up a brand new 12” 3/8 drive snap on ratchet. That was cool |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 7:34pm
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My Dad picked up a Snap on ratchet once, me I pick up my own tarp straps that pop off! ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 8:20pm
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5 gallon gas can found in the pasture by the road. Been using it 7 or 8 years now. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 8:39pm
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Used to be a rural mail carrier, picked up a lot of tarp straps, hammers, wrenched, even an air powered grinder. Fatherinlaw worked for highway dept for 40+ years, said he never bought a tarp strap, also found a bunch on girly magazines. ------------- 1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner) |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 8:39pm
| 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 . |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 8:57pm
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My first bicycle was a ditch find my dad picked up. Have also,found a Snap On ball peen hammer and a rechargeable million candle power spot light |
Posted By: Boss Man
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 9:04pm
| 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 |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 9:29pm
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found a NICE 3 ball sleeve one day (heard it fall of a truck), no one ever came to claim it.. still use am 11 tined fork that fell off a city 'works 'truck... when I had my CJ-5, bent over and picked up a 'road hazard'... an Estwing faming hammer ! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 06 May 2021 at 11:40pm
| 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. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 4:48am
I was drivin along, one day, in glen burnie, saw something sitting on a raised concrete median, I recognized what it was, drove up the street, did a "Rockford" u-turn, and picked up a 5,000 watt wacker honda powered generator, that had fallen offa truck, minimal road rash, since it was covered with a canvas tarp! ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 5:05am
| Best find was an 044 Stihl Chainsaw! Worst was a garbage bag of dirty baby diapers! |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 6:24am
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Through the years I’ve found 2 handyman/ high lift jacks. One time when I was in Colorado I was driving down the hwy and saw a sheet of 1/2” plywood grabbed it went about a mile and found another then another then another. Soon I came upon a truck on the side of the road loading a sheet of plywood. He said he’d lost 6 others. I said what a coincidence I found 6 sheets. We loaded them in his truck and away he went without a thank you. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 7:17am
| 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! |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 7:46am
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Picked up a lot of stuff over the years. Couple of extension ladders, channel locks, tarp straps, various gas cans, etc. Picked up a really nice 10' fiberglass ladder once, got it loaded in the truck, owner showed up! It was obviously his. Gave it to him and said if you were about one minute later if would have been mine. Would have had no way of knowing at that point. Interesting topic.
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Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 8:34am
| 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. |
Posted By: allisrutledge
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 8:57am
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Possums n coons ------------- Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 10:21am
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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. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 12:50pm
| Mostly pop and beer cans. Its a mile and 1/2 from the house to the highway. I think every drunk in the county must drive on this road. Either that or the mail man drinks a lot. I don't think its him, all the mail boxes seem to remain upright. |
Posted By: Dennis(IA)
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 1:12pm
| 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. |
Posted By: allisrutledge
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 1:30pm
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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 ------------- Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 2:40pm
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allisrutledge wrote:Posted By: D19allisowner
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 6:06pm
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Can I have all of my stuff back please! ------------- If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 07 May 2021 at 10:52pm
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Real nice large slip joint plier. Brand name,not Channel Lock....green plastic on the handles.
They are Diamond brand.
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 08 May 2021 at 11:14am
Well who found my Gerber Pocket tool?  Some days you win some you loose. How about what I find in farm fields, doses that count.Had been spraying in the vineyard started at 4 in the morning done at 11 sprayer washed and all. Pickup has a flat tire, had trouble getting tire down with the rusted mud filled ratchet thing. Real sure the tool was left on rear bumper, 2 miles home and where is the tool. Hoping to find it where tire was changed, or along the road. I guess it could still be out in the dirt 10 years later, but figure someone saw the shiny and stopped and said my lucky day.Found a 6 inch long 3/4 drive Snap On socket extention and a no name socket in a rented field. Been looking for 15 inch Cresent the neighbor lost almost 40 years ago in a field I still graze. Found a 20 foot chain off the pavement driving tractor from field to field. I never buy trap strapes. Misc small tools generally the cheap junk ones. My dad did pickup a 9/16 Snap On combo wrench.
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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 08 May 2021 at 4:01pm
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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!?!? ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 08 May 2021 at 4:11pm
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best find was next door... TWO 1/2" ratchets in scrapyard bound pickup. Cleaned them up a bit, took to store, got two new ones free of charge ( lifetime warranty), salesguy gives me BACK the 2 busted one(??..ok...).....yeah,I go to another store,same chain...got 2 more new ratchets..though THAT sales guy kept the busted ones ( ratz.......) I STILL haven't used any of them... prefer 3/8 drive for 99.44% of my work. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 08 May 2021 at 4:44pm
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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. ------------- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless ,still dead. If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED. |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 09 May 2021 at 10:51am
| we have a crarftsman wire feed welder that was in the ditch works fine was there for several weeks now we have have had it several years |
Posted By: Dennis(IA)
Date Posted: 09 May 2021 at 12:30pm
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Ray, that reminds me that we ( Dad and I ) would always find that crescent wrench or vise grip (in the field) after it was too rusted to repair. Several years ago I did find a nice log chain in the east ditch.
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Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 09 May 2021 at 1:57pm
| Last year while running I found a pair of heavy pair of foreman's gloves. Felt kind of bad picking them up but best winter work gloves I ever had |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 09 May 2021 at 7:17pm
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Chain Binders, chains, about 3 weeks I saw a Laser sight in the middle of a busy intersection, building supply store on the corner and safety risk there. I find good tools in the bottom of tractor tool boxes under all the miscellaneous junk, latest was a 3/8 ratchet, also a nice 3/8 torque wrench
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 10 May 2021 at 12:35am
| the old lady....oooops....i mean the loving wife found a tool in the road ditch and handed it to me asking if i lost it? i said no, but a mechanic from Titan Machinery said i stole a tool like that from him. next time i was at their store i took it with me and gave it to him telling him where it was found and by who. no thank you, no nothing, he just grabbed it and walked away! PffffT! i had 2-3 of them so i didn't need it. he was never allowed on my farm again. |
Posted By: dee_veloper
Date Posted: 10 May 2021 at 2:10pm
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I found 2 $20 bills on te roadside one day while out on my walk. Noticed a hamburger sack nearby. Apparently the change was in the bag and when some fool tossed his garbage out the window he threw the money with it. His loss my gain. Another time I found a 4-foot long, 2"x2" x1/4" piece of steel square tubing. Chunk of steel like that is $50 at the local steel yard. ------------- Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are. |
Posted By: EPALLIS
Date Posted: 22 May 2021 at 8:59pm
| Nice log chain one day. About 20 years ago. Still carry it on the WD. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 22 May 2021 at 9:25pm
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Just a couple days ago, saw pair of pink and white panties on the berm, about 2-300 yard further a gray bra. Didn't look to be my size, so I passed on them. Many many years ago, found a porta John in the middle of the DC beltway.......I passed on that one too! ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: EPALLIS
Date Posted: 22 May 2021 at 11:31pm
| Lou: Was that a porta john deere you found? |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 22 May 2021 at 11:41pm
| Remembering things. In July of 1972, we were on the German Autobahn headed for Karlsruhe Germany to get some GOOD beer. Ahead of us pulled off to the side of the road was a VW Bug. Along side of the car was a real cute blond German gal. And she was a typical blond. Her car had "just stopped going". We were all army mechanics, 1st thing is pop the motor cover and check the oil. There was not a drop showing on the dipstick. She had owned the car over two years and did not know she needed to check, change, or add oil. She was headed for Karlshrue too. We dropped her off at her family home. She was a gal that had a type A personality, was a lot of fun to talk to. Her dad was a salesman for Audi, she said her dad would have her car towed. I guess you could say she was found along the road. |
Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 23 May 2021 at 1:24am
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And you picked her up! |
Posted By: Sherman Farms
Date Posted: 23 May 2021 at 7:47am
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Forty seven years ago i saw a young lady along the road mowing her folks yard we have been married for forty six years. ------------- B, C, RC, 3 wc,2 wd,3 wd45, d15, d17, d19, d21, 190, 440, 7040, 918 backhoe, 12 roto balers, 7 60 combines, 40, 66,2 72,90 super, sp100, Gleaner E, F3, 3 L2, R62, and much more |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 23 May 2021 at 8:38am
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NOW THATS FUNNY !!! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 23 May 2021 at 9:27pm
------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 23 May 2021 at 10:19pm
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Lou, U sure it was a deere? http://youtu.be/Uu5hzc2Mei4" rel="nofollow - http://youtu.be/Uu5hzc2Mei4 ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 24 May 2021 at 12:05am
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at one time---girlie magazines were plenty full but not so much lately!Main thing I TRY to grab is tarp straps, maybe an ocasional hand tool---nothing big or valuable. Did pick up a 30 foot 1/2 inch link log chain one time. --- another guy stopped and helped me get it up on my truck! Back when I drove semis there was all kinds of stuff along the road ---- saw a big boat once---it sat in the ditch all summer and nobody ever claimed it. Wasnt hurt any --hitch was broke off the trailer. I wasnt interested in boats so I never tried to get it---told several guys at work about it and one guy retrieved it late fall and still uses it on his lake today! lol! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: Dennis(IA)
Date Posted: 24 May 2021 at 1:22pm
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Back in the mid 60’s I worked at a car dealership in my home town in Nebraska. One day I had to get a stalled car south of town. So I took the wrecker and about 4 miles and there was the car on the side of the road. I lifted the rear of the car because in those days cars were rear wheel drive and automatic transmission. Then I had to strap the steering wheel in place. Got the strap fastened to the steering wheel then I had to fasten it to a solid part of the front seat. Looked under the seat and there was a pair of pantyhose with the panties in them. Got it back to the shop, repaired the car. But I did not get to see who picked up the car, or what she looked like.
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Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 24 May 2021 at 3:16pm
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Not necessarily a she, lol |