More than likely before you get the computer set up you'll give up finding that one special tool, then you'll go for a ride and hope to find one laying on the ground.

It is Snap-On all I need to do is take it to them and they give me a new one. I can hammer away.

I will top people setting up that tool retrieval system, I cannot program or write code but I know people who could. However if I was doing it myself entirely I would have a much smaller tool selection.

Most hand tools you can take back and walk out with a new tool, even Harbor Freight will do that, and no one even asks for receipts. Some years back I took a rusty Craftsman screwdriver I found on the ground back to Sears, and they gave me a new one, no questions asked.

When I bought most of my tools, which are a mix of Challenger and SK back in the 70s there was a local tool store where I lived, and any problems just take it back and they would give me a new one, but I never got to exchange any of the tools, they all held up over all these years. Now I would have to send a broken Challenger or SK back to the manufacturer because where I live now there is no dealer for them, kind of a bummer, but since I haven't broken any of those tools in over 50 years, I doubt I will before I die!

An entire bundle of bananas?
A bike fork. No context, no bike.

Night Rider Lumina Pro 1000. Works.

If that battery at some point can't take a charge, or can't keep it long enough to make it useful, you can send that light back to Nite Rider, and for $30 (today's prices) they will replace the battery, check on the electronics and the button, then reseal the light, and send it back to you.

Found a beat up Buck knife … Before picture and after I gave it a little love …
JD, Dallas

Beat up Buck knife

After some sanding and polish …

Nice job there! Out of curiosity, what grade of sandpaper did it take to get those dents out?

Beautiful job!

Hey Jim D
Great clean up job!
I have about 6-10 knives that could use your treatment.

Wow, lots of interesting stuff. I never run into any of these objects except for a dead deer, and you can smell it half a mile before you see it.

On today's ride I found this. I got off the bike and moved the bin straight back, about two feet from the truck's bumper.



green bin ur doin it wrong


And a few days ago.



slow down!

Did you drag the trash can home with you behind your bike?

No, it was still full. Anyway we already have a green bin; those suckers cost $4 a month and we're not about to pay for two.

Recently killed deer lying mostly in the road, on a narrow canyon road with no lane or shoulder markings.

I did stop and drag it off the road.

Lots of tools, nails and other bits of metal, glass, shredded tires. Most of that stuff gets tossed off the roadway if I stop for it, but an occasional tool does get hauled home. Shredded tire wire ruined one of my bike tires, broken glass trashed another. I figure if I can save someone else a bit of hassle, it’s worth grabbing and tossing those bits of metal.

Oh! Glass: I was once riding along a road with an friend and saw a panel truck ahead of me bounce on a bump in the road, and the back roll-up door rolled all the way up. Must not have had the handle latched right. Anyway, a stack of boxes by the door tipped out and slammed on the pavement in front of me, making a loud crashing glass sound. Boxes burst open and shattered glass went everywhere. They were cases of wine bottles! All broken. Spent quite a little bit of time removing the broken glass and boxes from the roadway. A cop pulled up behind us and blocked traffic with his car, and then helped us clear the road.

That was the most glass at once.

You could send it back to Buck. Or least you could once upon a time. I have a nice one around here somewhere..

Nothing but money I mentioned a while back. But did have two good finds at the local thrift this week. Shocking since it's not easy to get anything out of them anymore.....(Very close by, 9 minute bike ride, and that's with waiting at a light)

I think you could send that knife to Buck and they could replace the blade, as a service to owners.

I didn't find this on the road, I found it in my driveway and it's not the first. Neighbors know I like working on junk (literally) and they leave me old rusted up bikes all the time. I try to fix them enough so they can be ridden safely and then donate them. I've had this one about 2 weeks now and have replaced the chain, cleaned and regreased the free hub, front hub and rear hub along with adding fenders and lights/mounts. I'm thinking it will be a foul weather beater for this winter. I still have brake cables and a few other minor things to do to it, but it's currently ridable.

The shift cables are rusty, but with friction shifting it seems to work for now. It's my tinker toy.

I was out riding about a month ago, and saw something on the road; couldn't tell what it was at first. As I got closer, I saw it was a 5 gallon bucket with one of those tool organizer liners, and tools dumped all over the road.
I pulled over, stopped traffic for a minute in that lane while I picked up all the tools and put them back into the bucket.
I stashed the bucket behind a traffic light control box at one corner of the intersection, thinking that maybe the owner would come back later and get it. I planned to come back in 20 minutes with my car and pick it up, otherwise.
When I got back, the bucket was gone. I think someone stole it. Too bad. It was hundreds of dollars' worth of hand tools.

But does it fly?

I found a large turn-buckle on in the middle of the country while riding the TransAm in the 90s. Carried it the rest of the way West on top of my front pannier, then down south a bit and finally flew back home with it. Twenty years later I needed it for a machine I was putting together, and it was just perfect!

I don't think I ever told anyone that before.

That's the kind of story that turns us into hoarders. ;-)

Concrete drill bit and a wrench just the other day.

We had a ridable day today. (It has been Cold and Snow/Rain in my part of the world.)
I found this on the shoulder of a county road 3 miles from the nearest town.
I have 4 of these already!
Would it be bad form to give this as Christmas gift to my gear-head son?