Tools you've found

[Randy Winkman]

Simpo Two said:

Randy Winkman said:

This was one of the things in the shed of my house when I moved in 19 years ago. A sort of giant nail about 20 inches long and very heavy. Really useful for garden jobs over the years and I'm definitely taking it with me when I move home next week.

It's a cold chisel, used for splitting stone etc.

Cheers. It is genuinely helpful as along with a hammer, you can whack all sorts with it. Including roots. And use it like a lever.

[dickymint]

Randy Winkman said:

Simpo Two said:

Randy Winkman said:

This was one of the things in the shed of my house when I moved in 19 years ago. A sort of giant nail about 20 inches long and very heavy. Really useful for garden jobs over the years and I'm definitely taking it with me when I move home next week.

It's a cold chisel, used for splitting stone etc.

Cheers. It is genuinely helpful as along with a hammer, you can whack all sorts with it. Including roots. And use it like a lever.

At first glance I thought it was an old 'Star Drill' chisel for manually making holes in masonry.

[TomTheTyke]

Not sure if this counts but my spark plug ‘T bar’ tool is knackered. The rubber insert always ends up staying on top of the plug. To be fair it was a cheapy.

Thought I’d buy another the other day, but then popped round to mum’s before I got round to it. She’s been clearing things out since dad died and she’d got a random box of door handles he’d kept (just in case!) by the door.

But sat on top of the handles, no other tools in there, a ‘Made in England’ spark plug T bar.

Dad had plenty of tools but I don’t think he’d changed a spark plug this century. I don’t believe in that kind of thing but it was a nice surprise, and what are the chances? Cheers dad.

[cliffords]

TomTheTyke said:

Not sure if this counts but my spark plug T bar tool is knackered. The rubber insert always ends up staying on top of the plug. To be fair it was a cheapy.

Thought I d buy another the other day, but then popped round to mum s before I got round to it. She s been clearing things out since dad died and she d got a random box of door handles he d kept (just in case!) by the door.

But sat on top of the handles, no other tools in there, a Made in England spark plug T bar.

Dad had plenty of tools but I don t think he d changed a spark plug this century. I don t believe in that kind of thing but it was a nice surprise, and what are the chances? Cheers dad.

Great story well done to your Dad .
I have a small adjustable spanner. It's black and part of a Jaguar car toolkit. I use it often plumbing and car repairs. I always think of my Dad when I use it . That and a Guinness key ring he used to use that's now on my keyring.

[Astacus]

I dug up the head of this hammer in the garden, so I thought I d re use it! Dropped the head into some Deox C over night then repainted it and added a new shaft

Edited by Astacus on Friday 5th June 15:17

[Jamescrs]

Set of mole grips still attached to the coil spring on a suspension strut on a car my mate bought for doing track days- Clio 197

[ATG]

I had a TVR Chimaera, so of course I found a 10mm spanner inside the door. I reckon the equilibrium level is about three spanners in every door. If you've got your arm through the speaker hole and you fumble your spanner as you're trying to unbolt the door card, you're likely to be able to feel around and find a spanner, but there's only a one in four chance that it's the spanner you just dropped.

And the scissors on my desk, well, I found them 20 years ago stuck in the ground in the verge when I was out for a jog on the ridge above Painswick in Gloucestershire, about 200m up the road from the entrance to the Rococo Gardens. If you dropped them, tough luck, finders keepers.