Lost Garden Implements

[SPedigrees]

Who else here loses tools (and other things) on their own land or in their own houses (or out buildings)? My most recent loss is a pair of pruning shears. I've retraced the last times and places where it was used, but to no avail. Finally I gave up and bought a replacement, but still hoping to stumble upon the lost pair. I hate losing things!

 

[ducks4you]

Yep. Been there, done that.
Then, you find them and realize that it made some kind of sense Where you left the tool.
All that I have learned is that when hand tools made or broke your business, people would carefully store their metal tools in oil to keep them from rusting.

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Don't buy oil! It is highly likely that you already have 10W30 that you bought for your mower that has expired and that works Just Fine.
When I find my lost padlock keys, which I lost while working in the south pasture 3 years ago, I will let you know!
Since then, I have put together one springlock with all padlock keys and at least ONE FULL SET of same in another and inside location.
I think if you start analyzing how you transport your tools, you will discover where you left them.
For instance, I usually have some kind of bucket and I have had My Fiskers pruners land there before.
Sometimes our habits land our tools in the garage or in the basement.
The padlock keys really puzzle me bc I tilled an entire area the day the They disappeared.

 

[flowerbug]

usually it is Mom who loses her clippers and we eventually find them in a bucket of weeds or back in the weed pile where she dumped the bucket of weeds. for me i try to always keep my tools in the bucket i'm using or in the same pocket or place in my room so there's only a few places they should be. once in a while Mom has moved them and then i can't find them and have to ask her where she's put them... the most frequent problem i have when weeding is finding my weeding knife simply because the handle is brown wooden and blends in really well with dirt and plants. i can look right at it and not see it until i'm looking more from the side... D'oh!

 

[SPedigrees]

I went through a phase where I wrapped the handles of some tools in reflective tape and spray painted others with florescent paint, but the tape tended to peel off, sometimes leaving a sticky residue, and the paint reacted badly with some of the non-slip handles of others. I wish they made more tools in bright colors.

 

[digitS']

I cleaned the roof and gutter of leaves, yesterday afternoon. Good time to do that – sunny and no wind .

One roof valley collects leaves and to clean it, I use the roof snow rake with its 15 foot handle. Storage for the roof rake is under the low shelf, beneath the garage work bench. I pull the rake and 3 piece handle out and get the job done.

Putting the rake back in a slightly different position, I couldn't push the rake far enough back. Down on the knees, I look under the shelf and pull out a dusty bucket!

During farmers' market days, I had lots of buckets. I know why this one didn't join the stack. It's square and others are all round. It has 2 flower vases inside and a pair of those hand shears that one might use trimming lawngrass.

I don't remember the bucket or the shears! The shears are obviously used and I think that this all must have come home together from some thrift store. How many years ago???

On the way out of the garage, I see the leather gloves in the carport that I misplaced after pruning rose bushes the day before! After finishing the pruning, I thought for sure that I had set the gloves down in the garage while pulling something out of the freezer to take back in the house. I looked everywhere in the garage for those gloves! Apparently not crawling on the floor looking under the bottom shelf past the snow rake .

digitS'

 

[SPedigrees]

I cleaned the roof and gutter of leaves, yesterday afternoon. Good time to do that – sunny and no wind .

One roof valley collects leaves and to clean it, I use the roof snow rake with its 15 foot handle. Storage for the roof rake is under the low shelf, beneath the garage work bench. I pull the rake and 3 piece handle out and get the job done.

Putting the rake back in a slightly different position, I couldn't push the rake far enough back. Down on the knees, I look under the shelf and pull out a dusty bucket!

During farmers' market days, I had lots of buckets. I know why this one didn't join the stack. It's square and others are all round. It has 2 flower vases inside and a pair of those hand shears that one might use trimming lawngrass.

I don't remember the bucket or the shears! The shears are obviously used and I think that this all must have come home together from some thrift store. How many years ago???

On the way out of the garage, I see the leather gloves in the carport that I misplaced after pruning rose bushes the day before! After finishing the pruning, I thought for sure that I had set the gloves down in the garage while pulling something out of the freezer to take back in the house. I looked everywhere in the garage for those gloves! Apparently not crawling on the floor looking under the bottom shelf past the snow rake .

digitS'

You're having better luck finding things these days than losing them.

 

[Dahlia]

Who else here loses tools (and other things) on their own land or in their own houses (or out buildings)? My most recent loss is a pair of pruning shears. I've retraced the last times and places where it was used, but to no avail. Finally I gave up and bought a replacement, but still hoping to stumble upon the lost pair. I hate losing things!

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It seems like the tools made years back were built way tougher and better!

 

[Dahlia]

I just thought of a kitchen tool example of how things built in the older days were better. My mom has a garlic press made out of a really sturdy metal. That thing is still going strong when I go visit her and she was using that tool when I was little. I have been through a few garlic presses that were less that best.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Great stories everyone of lost tools. Many of the same tools lots over the years. And to add other items found.
I found a pair of sunglasses, gloves, seed packets, pots, a pitch fork lost in a huge shrub, water bottles, doggie toys not to mention a pair of underware not mine . There were tractor parts, broken chains and oh a few tires someone had nonchalantly dropped off in the brambles. Ya never know what’s out there

 

[flowerbug]

this is why when you go out we say "Take care!" it's because we know how easy it is to lose our undies...