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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 9:51 am    Post subject: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

I found a maglight in the road this morning, what neat/useful items have you found for free in/on/near the road?
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 10:25 am    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

Years ago parallel parked, open door and a twenty dollar bill was stuck to the hot tar. Founds sockets, wrenches etc.
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 12:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

I found a real nice pair of diagonal cutters in the road, still use them.

Walking home from a restaurant with Mrs. Cusser, found a $10 bill in the street.

I once found a very large pry bar in the engine compartment of my dad's car, some mechanic must've left it there (sure wasn't my dad, he would not have known which end to hold, or how to open the hood).

At the parts yard, I've found a few hand tools, nothing special.
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 1:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

found many tranny to engine bloc magnetic bolt head stoppers- then big bunch of CD's in a case- My yamaha virago blew a piston and no cheap parts to be found till went to dump and they sold me an entire short block for $5.
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 2:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

I found a VW horn once. When I got home I realized it was mine and that I must have forgotten to tighten the bolts down when I had worked on it earlier in the week. Brick wall
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 3:32 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

Do hundreds of piss bottles count?

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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 3:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

Does off road count? I found a 3'' magnaflow muffler in the desert. Used it on my truck.
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 6:43 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

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Does off road count? I found a 3'' magnaflow muffler in the desert. Used it on my truck.

Sure, it was free & you got some use out of it.
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 6:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

While guarding my buddies broken down 21w on a freeway merge in San Jose a few years ago, I shite you not, I found a VW peashooter that had been squished completely flat- just calling my name. We missed out on Mark Merrill's open house that year. I wrote in sharpie on it and awarded it to my buddy- but he had a better trophy in store.

The message was a quote my good friend said many times, "Yea, I built it, it's an 1835"

On the other side I wrote, "I screwed 5 friends out of Mark Merrill's- 2008"
He did get a proper trophy and awards ceremony at our club meet- with a broken con rod that had the same plaque.
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 6:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

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Do hundreds of piss bottles count?

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I dunno, did you get any use out of them?
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 6:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

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Do hundreds of piss bottles count?

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I dunno, did you get any use out of them?



Didn't he start a "urinalysis DNA data base" to find the clean drivers??? Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 7:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

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Do hundreds of piss bottles count?

I dunno, did you get any use out of them?


Nope. Only disgust.
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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 7:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

Excellent

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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 9:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

Found the big screwdriver on a gravel road near Redding, CA. Mainly cool because it's a good match for the smaller one that was my Dad's. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2016 4:07 am    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

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I found this home made Hammer while walking to work @ 4 a.m., Boulder Co. in 1980, works great as a small breaker bar for a socket wrench too...
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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2016 8:12 am    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

cdennisg wrote:
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cdennisg wrote:
Do hundreds of piss bottles count?

I dunno, did you get any use out of them?


Nope. Only disgust.

You shoulda used them for your front porch bandit, loosen the lids, box them up & set them out.
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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

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Do hundreds of piss bottles count?

I dunno, did you get any use out of them?


Nope. Only disgust.

You shoulda used them for your front porch bandit, loosen the lids, box them up & set them out.


That wasn't me with the bandit problem. It was a guy over in the Seattle area. AWREED maybe?
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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2016 11:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

Found a real cool "Krebster" 3/8" ratchet at the curb while walking to lunch years ago. Still gets more use then my proper Snap on unit that I bought brand new off of the truck.
Also found a nice Linemans Telephone hand set in the street one day. I've used it a few times,but mostly an un needed tool.
Found a complete set of PG&E linesman tools on the side of the road, had a nice Fluke meter in it as well as a Aluminum Ridgid pipe wrench and a gas sniffer and a complete compliment of Klein hand tools. It had a guys name on the bag, I called Pg&E and with in 2 hours the guy was re united with his tools. He tried to give me a $100.00 but I said " No, just pass it on "

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:23 am    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

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Does off road count? I found a 3'' magnaflow muffler in the desert. Used it on my truck.

Sure, it was free & you got some use out of it.


And consequently my 6d maglite is now in that same desert somewhere. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:17 am    Post subject: Re: Found on the road treasures Reply with quote

Found a nice short handle sledge hammer in the gutter in NYC years ago. That BFH served me well, till one of my kids left it somewhere....
Lots of broken craftsman screwdrivers. I just take em in and get a new one.
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