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Several weeks ago working on the truck and somewhere in the process I lost a file. Upset as it was a sharp file. Today in town running some errands and I notice the file setting on the passenger running board front mount. Not sure how many miles it set there, but enough that I was amazed it hadn’t fallen off.
either your truck has the smoothest ride of all SDs ever produced, or the file's shape and texture was just the right "fit" for that space. In any case always to find a tool we think is "lost", it's like winning a scratcher.
Its funny how some things will sit places you do not expect and not fall out. This pic was from this summer, i use this screw driver to pop the cap off the cover on my gimble bearing grease fitting. Apparently i forgot to put it away when i was done greasing the bearing, later that day i hauled the boat 50 miles on roads that were not even that smooth and when i walked around the back of the boat once i got to my destination sure enough i see the screwdriver sitting on the trim tab! could not believe it was sitting there!
I left my hitch pin on the back bumper once. Drove to a friends house about 8-9 miles away and it was still there. That was 20 years ago…haven’t left anything out that I know of since!
Driving back to PA from Florida one year for summer break, I placed a cup of soda from Hardees on the rear bumper of my S-10 pick up in Savannah GA. Hours later, as we pulled in to Lumberton NC, it was still there!
I was hanging out at the beach in Santa Barbara CA in my '69 Vanagon. When I had returned on the 101 freeway, ten miles to home in Goleta CA, I received a phone call from a frantic surfer. He had put his board on top of my van temporarily. It was still there!
I was hanging out at the beach in Santa Barbara CA in my '69 Vanagon. When I had returned on the 101 freeway, ten miles to home in Goleta CA, I received a phone call from a frantic surfer. He had put his board on top of my van temporarily. It was still there!
One winter I stayed busy hauling propane. Dispatch sent me to a loading terminal in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada to pick up a load. Got all loaded, paperwork done, delivered said load to a town in western South Dakota, 400 mile haul. When I got ready to start unloading, I noticed a 14” pipe wrench on the fender of the trailer that the guy that loaded me left laying there! That 400 mile haul included 100 miles of wonderful Saskachewan highways. I think they are the worst in the northern hemisphere! LOL
Another one; when I was 7 or 8 years old my Dad couldn’t find a particular long punch……thought either my brother or I had lost it. One day he decided it was time to change oil in the car and I crawled under the car with him to hellp. There was said punch laying inside the frame rail; been there since his last oil change. I still have that damn punch and am now 77 years old!!!!
Several weeks ago working on the truck and somewhere in the process I lost a file. Upset as it was a sharp file. Today in town running some errands and I notice the file setting on the passenger running board front mount. Not sure how many miles it set there, but enough that I was amazed it hadn’t fallen off.
This makes perfect sense when you think about it. This file storage is known as Under Side Board, or USB for short.
When I was a kid, I was helping my dad hook up to the camper for a weekend up north (over 200 mile trip). I don't remember why he had a utility knife, but he handed it to me and I set it on the bumper of his truck. Forgot it there. Found it when we were unhooking at the campsite.
Couple years ago we took my wife's truck with our flatbed to make a 100 mile run to get a snowmobile (it was cheap and hard to find, needed parts). Kept hearing a rattle the entire way there. I thought it was ice and promised to get it out of there when we got to our destination. Turns out I (for whatever reason) laid the hitch lock WITH THE KEY IN IT on her tonneau cover near the front of the box. It slid up to the back of the cab and nestled in for the ride. When I realized that's what was making noise I was pretty embarrassed, but felt pretty lucky it didn't disappear.
I once lost a pair of vice grips. Used them to secure nuts on the bottom side of the floor while I worked alone tightening bolts from the topside of the floor for motorcycle tie downs in an enclosed trailer.
A friend borrowed the trailer and took it from northern NY state to Daytona for bike week. Those vice grips remained there for the whole trip and I found them several months later when doing something else to the trailer.
You never know.
