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Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126362
04/21/24 09:07 PM
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Minnesota
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Originally Posted by Vinke
10 minutes ago


[Linked Image]

At least it isn't used crazy

Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Woodsloafer72] #8126363
04/21/24 09:10 PM
04/21/24 09:10 PM
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NWWA/AZ
Vinke Offline OP
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Originally Posted by Woodsloafer72
Originally Posted by Vinke
10 minutes ago


[Linked Image]

At least it isn't used crazy


Says recyclable on the packaging????


Slightly used Shoes 4 sale,,,,,,May special,,, Act Now... Free Sock with every purchase
Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126368
04/21/24 09:15 PM
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Wisconsin
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Found a 40# propane cylinder in the road at a 4-way crossing on a county highway a few years ago, right before Christmas. I took it out of the road and set it next to the stop sign. The next day there was a piece of cardboard with a note left in its place, said something like “thank you for leaving my cylinder, Merry Christmas and God bless”


I’ve been sayin yes sir all day at work, I’ve been sayin yes ma’am at home…
Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126387
04/21/24 09:46 PM
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Perry, NY
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Ratchet straps, bungee cords, a set of extra large channel locks and a couple years ago I got out of the tractor to open a gate and found a 20 dollar bill that had blown in and got stuck on a piece of goldenrod.

Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126414
04/21/24 10:38 PM
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West Central MN
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Found an abandon police car along the side of the road once, even left his lights flashing. Nice car though...


Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126417
04/21/24 10:46 PM
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Lufkin, Tx.
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Originally Posted by Vinke
Found this as I was looking around,,, Got me a new home screen on the office PC

[Linked Image]

He sure knows how to chew a stick in two. Most have to taper it.


Billy
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Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126491
04/22/24 07:01 AM
04/22/24 07:01 AM
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Minnesota
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Found a Large crow bar ...Yellow pry bar


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Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126506
04/22/24 07:34 AM
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Ratchet straps, bungee cords, gloves, boots, coolers, trailer spares, Ford pickup spares, I know several people who have found guns but the only one I ever found belonged to a friend of mine; I've found several boxes of ammo though.

Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126514
04/22/24 07:46 AM
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Couple receiver hitches with 2" ball, gas can, 5 gallon buckets, ratchet straps, wrenches.
It always irritates me to be traveling in congested traffic like through Denver on the interstate and spot all those bungee straps I cannot stop for. Saw a kayak once in the median, but left it figuring the owner would surely be looking for that one.
Lost my daughter's new life jacket out of the boat, saw it go. By the the time I got turned around, it was already snatched up. Reminded me of hitting a coon in 1982. Hardly stopped sliding before it was picked up.


Nature is reckless of the individual. Aldo Leupold.
Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126588
04/22/24 10:07 AM
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South Ga - Almost Florida
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Originally Posted by Vinke
Found this as I was looking around,,, Got me a new home screen on the office PC

[Linked Image]

Your welcome!


Thank God For Your Blessings!
Never Half-Arse Anything!

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Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126596
04/22/24 10:23 AM
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New York border
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A friend I worked with , his wife stopped by the job one day.

She told him she found a Stihl chainsaw in the road and put it in the trunk. He wanted to see it so he got her to bring it in the shop. She brings it in , decent looking saw. He turns it over and on the bottom it was engraved " town of xxx highway dept "

He tells her to quickly and quietly put it back in the trunk.

I don't think the town of xxx ever seen that saw again......lol


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Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Flint Hill fur] #8126609
04/22/24 10:52 AM
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Southern Illinois
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Originally Posted by Flint Hill fur
driving big farm machinery around to different fields I'm always eyeing the ditches looking for stuff. 5gal buckets,tackle boxes,gas cans,mystery coolers with random stuff inside, lifejackets, chainsaw,flashlights ya just never know what ya might find


Went to cultivate a corn field down in the bottoms where the water gets up and no houses for a 6 mile stretch. I pulled into the field and there out of sight behind the levee and out of view from the highway was a state police cruiser. I cultivated for a couple hours and then another cruiser pulled in and let a lady cop out. She got out of there before I got to the end. Always did wish I would have had a for sale sign to put on that car. I don't know if that was a freebie for him or if it was on the taxpayers time, lol!

Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126619
04/22/24 11:11 AM
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Found a nice stihl chainsaw with a 50” bar one time. Got two weeks use out of it before I tracked down the owner!


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Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126637
04/22/24 12:07 PM
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some wrenches , pliers , water cooler the type on construction trucks , 2 wheel cart.

some good road kill fresh with driver still on scene

a 20 foot section of schedule 80 1inch pvc still with end caps on


America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: newhouse114] #8126644
04/22/24 12:27 PM
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NWWA/AZ
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Originally Posted by newhouse114
Found a nice stihl chainsaw with a 50” bar one time. Got two weeks use out of it before I tracked down the owner!


Highly valuable stuff I try to reunite also


Slightly used Shoes 4 sale,,,,,,May special,,, Act Now... Free Sock with every purchase
Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126653
04/22/24 12:41 PM
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Illinois
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A trophy class 180 buck( got a salvage tag for it) truck tool box, a really strange looking demon statue that stayed right were I saw it, shovels, deer grunt call, money, a fiberglass recurve bow,fishing poles, tackle boxes full of stuff, knives, hammers,


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Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8126654
04/22/24 12:42 PM
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Our neighbors did the “adopt a highway” in memory of a neighbor who passed. We pick up 2.9 miles of Hwy 42 in front of our houses/farms in the spring and again in the fall. Hwy 42 is one of the main roads linking St Louis to the Lake of the Ozarks. You cannot imagine some of the things found. Cell phones, game cameras, cash, tools, life jackets, paddles, all forms of fishing gear, spare tires, sex toys, etc.

Along with a couple truck loads of beer cans/bottles and those little shooter bottles of whiskey.


CK
Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Vinke] #8127168
04/23/24 11:30 AM
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MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes
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Originally Posted by Vinke
Originally Posted by Bruce T
Nice find


Right.....
They used to be cheap until the epa got involved....

Swamp,,,,, My remedy for that situation , is never drain the entire can....

I buy all my gas cans at garage sales for a couple bucks. These new ones are hard to operate, cost too much, and spill too easily.


Must be nice to eat ice cream as fast as you want and not have to worry about brain freeze.
Re: Road Finds!!!!!! [Re: Cragar] #8127701
04/24/24 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Cragar
A friend I worked with , his wife stopped by the job one day.

She told him she found a Stihl chainsaw in the road and put it in the trunk. He wanted to see it so he got her to bring it in the shop. She brings it in , decent looking saw. He turns it over and on the bottom it was engraved " town of xxx highway dept "

He tells her to quickly and quietly put it back in the trunk.

I don't think the town of xxx ever seen that saw again......lol

I found a Husky saw in the ditch one day, had a sticker on it from the saw shop it was sold at... in New Jersey! Set it on a stump on the side of the road in case the owner came back looking for it, the next day when it was still there I figured the owner wasn't coming back and took it home.

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