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37 chief

07-26-2005 21:06:58

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I lost my watch today while discing. Somewhere out in the 40 acre field it is keeping time and no one to see it. My dad lost his wallet in a field one time, and found it again, just saw it laying in the dirt. Has any one ever lost and found something while working. Stan in calif.

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John S-B

07-28-2005 11:11:03

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Just remembered another one. My cousin house was hit by a tornado in the 80's, direct hit. completely destroyed the house with them in it. They found their marrige cert. in Bloomington In. (they were in Allendale Il.) They had bulldozed the site to prepare for the new house and were walking around staking out the foundation when they heard a sound coming from the ground. They dug and found their sons favorite stuffed bear that had some kind of sound device in it. I don't think it was too bad other than being dirty.

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JPatton

07-27-2005 21:32:29

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Yeah. Sometimes we loose sweeps or cultivator parts off the tool bar. We usually find them next year in the sidewall of the tractor tire.

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John S-B

07-27-2005 20:48:02

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

We used to have individually issued fuel cards at work(fire dept.). One day we were out after a run and needed to get fuel. No one except me had a card, but it was in my wallet in my back pocket. I was wearing my bunker pants over my duty uniform so I had to dig out my wallet. When I was done I just put my wallet in the inside pocket of my firecoat. when we returned to the station I forgot to take it out. I set my coat on the intake valve handle on the side of the truck. We got another run and got cancelled on the scene. When we returned I went to hang my coat on the valve and the was my wallet sitting on the valve handle!! It rode all that time and never fell...Lucky Me!!!

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Galen

07-27-2005 20:57:08

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to John S-B, 07-27-2005 20:48:02

I was at a stoplight in Pueblo, CO once. Guy next to me pointed to my hood and told me I might want to get my hammer off it before I lost it (it was on the "vent" right under the wipers, on the passenger side). The last time I used the hammer was the day before - in Grand Island, Nebraska - 530 miles away. No clue as to how it hung on that long.

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Bernie in MA

07-27-2005 17:19:23

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Every Spring my electric fences had to be gone over, trimming brush, replacing insulators, etc. I had my tools in an old bucket and was using the hammer and laid it on the stonewall for a minute. Without looking I reached behind me and picked it up. It felt rough and different in my hand. When I looked at it I realized the one I'd been using was where I'd laid it and this one had been laying there since last year.

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RayP(MI)

07-27-2005 16:36:30

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Best lost & found we have is my dad lost a factory issue lug wrench for his tractor 'bout 50 years ago. His grandson plowed it up this spring! Rusty, but probably usable!

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Sm IN Wi

07-27-2005 15:24:55

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

I lost my wallet one time when i was plowing. I replowed the part where i was sure i lost it, and i worked it out the next spring. BTW no the money didnt grow in the ground! lol

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dr.sportster

07-27-2005 13:58:10

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Rent a metal detector.Oh no I didnt read everyone else yet.Somebody must have said that.37 Chief I hope you find it.

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Steve(OR)

07-27-2005 13:45:01

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Lost a pair of gloves snow camping in the Cascades. Found them on a summer hike back to the same area.

Snorkeling in Hawaii a lady swam up to me and presented me with my wallet that had floated out of the back pocket of my trunks.

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tugboat tim

07-27-2005 12:25:24

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

lost my wife about about a year ago but ain't started to look for her yet

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Nathan in Texas

07-27-2005 11:46:53

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

My dog found the neighbors wallet. Brought it home and was chewing on it in the back yard. (Leather wallet).

Actually they live in town but he farms a 1/2 section that borders my property. All his tractors have cabs so I guess he must have set it on something and it fell off or something.

There were a bunch of checks (made out to him but not deposited yet) and a promissary note for $2,000 to the golden nugget. From the looks of it, the wallet had been lost for some time though, the checks were a couple years old.

Called him up and wife answered the phone and so we brought it over to them. Not sure if she was happy with the contents or not. They said thanks but never heard anything else out of it since. They have never impressed me as being friendly though.

Oh well, was interesting to see the dog out chewing up the wallet and then noticing that it had been lost for a couple years.

FWIW, Nathan

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Rauville

07-27-2005 09:40:09

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Not really a lost and found story, but still a nice tale to remember...Back in the 30's my Grandparents dried out in Western SD, and moved out of their sod house to MN. In the rush of moving, my Grandfather's Winchester rifle was forgotten. Next time any of our family went back there was 20 some years later. By now the cattle had rubbed the house down...but sticking out of the sod was the old lever action Winchester. I brought it home and cleaned it up, and used it for many years afterward. Nobody more honest than those "West River Folks"!

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farmerboybill

07-27-2005 08:50:47

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lost ring in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

My wife likes to tell the story of her aunt losing her wedding ring.

40some years ago, her aunt was at a family reunion at Mud Lake north of Dubuque Iowa. Dunno why but she was in the water at one point and that ring slipped off. They looked and looked but the ring wasn't to be found. Couple years ago, they had the reunion at mud lake again. The aunts granddaughter was playing in the water and came up with that ring. She didn't know anything about the lost ring, just found it by chance forty years after the loss.

What are the odds?

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ejr-IA

07-27-2005 08:37:22

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Picked up a ring on a rotary hoe spike lost by a early settler.Think of those odds.

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jhill

07-27-2005 08:11:59

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

One time while working a rented field I found a log chain, a JD cultivator leg and an S-tine cultivator leg. I felt lucky I didn't put one of the shovels thru a tractor tire.

Jerry

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mike brown

07-27-2005 06:53:40

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Here's another one told to me by my grandmother many years ago.
She grew up in Pa. and was eighteen in 1913. Her father took the family to Gettysburg for the fiftieth aniversary ceremonies on July 1,2&3. The U.S. government paid the travel costs for any veterans of the battle who wanted to attend, U.S. or Confederate. About 25,000 did. The family went to the area of the battlefield known as devils den where a group of confederate vets were shootin' the breeze. One fella told how his dad had given him a new pocket knife when he left for the war. During the battle he had been detailed to take canteens to fetch water and due to the heavy firing had to crawl around the base of the boulders to the rear to find water losing the knife in the process. He was able to remember the way he had gone and the old vets started scratching around in the dirt and found the old now rusty knife where it had lain for fifty years.

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DCM

07-27-2005 06:19:55

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Hi Stan, as a kid in the "60s I went to work for a neighbor plowing on his MF35, was given a nice shiney pocketwatch to keep from going past 5:pm. Plowed it under! So disgusted over it never told a soul, spent 1 days wages and replaced it SAP next trip into the co-op store.(still have it too,not working though)Dan in Alberta

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supergrumpy

07-27-2005 06:17:55

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Re: Lost Watch - Akmed found it in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Akmed says he found your very fine watch over in his yard.

if you send him $3500 for postage and handling, he will ship it back to you

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37 chief

07-27-2005 15:53:05

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Re: Lost Watch - Akmed found it in reply to supergrumpy, 07-27-2005 06:17:55

Thanks, but I will go to Wall Mart and buy another for 5.00. Stan

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AKMED

07-27-2005 10:58:48

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Re: Lost Watch - Akmed found it in reply to supergrumpy, 07-27-2005 06:17:55

Thnk you so very much for relaying that information, yes I will quite generously reward any one that finds my very fine watch, it is quite precious to me as it once belonged to my first wifes second aunts last grandfather, the patriarch of the family. I believe my first wife was wearing the watch at the unfortunate time it was lost, but the reward would be for the watch only.

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mike brown

07-27-2005 06:16:46

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

I plowed a grease gun under getting a field ready to plant hay. When the field was plowed again five or six years later to rotate it out of hay up came the grease gun a little rusty but still functional.

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Fred Martin

07-27-2005 06:03:45

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Uncle Albert came in the shop one day and wanted me to make him a new snout to go on the end of his corn picker rolls. Said he lost it while picking. Dang, it would take some time to make that spiral twist on it....so, I decided to try to weasel out of it by loaning him a metal detector. He was back within hours...said the tractor mashed it in the ground. Musta had a mounted picker,huh? Fred OH

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Redmud

07-27-2005 05:59:33

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

I lost an 18" Crescent, uncovered it several months later, gave it a wash job and a drink of WD40, and it works fine now.

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john-mi

07-27-2005 05:55:15

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

I lost my cheap Timex watch when baling hay. The next winter i found it in the bottom of the manger where the cows had ate all the hay but left the watch. Often thought i should have made a TV commercial for Timex. By the way, it still ran good after winding.

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GeorgeH

07-27-2005 05:51:17

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

I have 3 pair of eye glasses at bottom of 3 different lakes - should not jump in to water ski with them on.

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John (MO)

07-27-2005 05:47:04

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

My dad lost his wallet once while plowing, he finally did find it. I lost a watch once while cutting brush, dad kept looking till he found it also. He wasn"t one to give up.

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Bob/Ont

07-27-2005 05:34:06

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

My dad lost a set of truck keys while we where thrashing grain. Had no idea where. After we finished he was throwing chaff out of the barn and heard a klinking sound on the fork. He looked down and one fork tine had the ring and keys on it.
Later Bob

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tompepper

07-27-2005 05:17:12

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

lost my first wife in an auto accident.got married again and lost my sanity.can"t seem to find it

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steve_ne

07-27-2005 05:16:53

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Brother in law lost his cell phone while working in the field. Tried calling the number the next day but the batteries must have died. Its out there in the field.

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Galen

07-27-2005 04:06:46

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

I lost my eye glasses when I was doing about 65 down the highway on my 1967 BSA motorcycle. I was 150 miles from home - looked for an hour before giving up and going on home (a VERY blurry ride). Drove by the same place six months later and spotted them stuck in the top wire of a fence post.

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Jimmy King

07-27-2005 02:48:03

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

I lost my billfold one time while plowing, my Dad foung it the next day while he was discing. Have nevered carried it on tractor since. My son lost his while raking hay I found it standing straight up on the PTO housing on the 460D. Dad lost a grease gun in the same field I lost my billfold in and years later he plowed it up, picked it up and greased the plow.

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07-27-2005 00:41:37

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Lost a chain off the 8N one year while plowing an 8 acre field.Found it the next year plowing the other way.It was a real PITA having no chain for a year.Did I mention we were poor in '65?

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Joe (Wa)

07-26-2005 22:25:00

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Yeah I found that #@&$#* Stihl 029 chainsaw that I threw down the hill into the woods a couple years ago when it quit on me again. Picked it up and threw it down further.

Didn't get 10 hrs on that saw. Spent more time test running on the dealer's repair bench than it did sawing wood.

You would think with all the hunters that pass through my property, someone would have picked it up. Ha but this is logging country, guess they all know it isn't worth carrying out.

Joe

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Mark - IN.

07-27-2005 18:46:03

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to Joe (Wa), 07-26-2005 22:25:00

Ha Ha Ha Ha.

Had a similar problem with a McCollough gas trimmer once. That @#$*&^%! thing screwed up on me for the last time after put in new string, then wouldn't feed. That's when I gave it my best ever javelin throw while it was running. Hit the ground, most of it went one way, the engine went another, and was spinning like a top, still running. The kill switch broke off, so only way to kill it was pull the plug wire, or kick it a few times. I kicked it a few times, and it quit. Went over and sat down at the table wear I fixed it, and there was the spring that I forgot to put back in it, the one that would've made the string feed, if I hadn't forgot to put it back in.

Mark

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Rickstir

07-27-2005 12:04:29

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to Joe (Wa), 07-26-2005 22:25:00

Had a Stihl 026 for ten years, never has given me any problems.

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Joe (Wa)

07-27-2005 16:48:59

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to Rickstir, 07-27-2005 12:04:29

The 026 is in a different world. Don't doubt that most 029's are good homeowner type machines, just got a bum one.

Joe

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Don-Wi

07-26-2005 21:39:36

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

This year alone I found a twisted shovel from a chisel plow we rented a few years back, a grease gun that fell out of our chopper's tool box a few years ago, and a hammer that fell out of the same tool box in the same feild, same year. both are still functional. I also found a jack that fell off the *borrowed* v-rake into the middle of the windrow within the first 10 minutes of looking.
Donovan from Wisconsin

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TDK

07-26-2005 21:36:31

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

Dad lost the hand crank out of our Super A about 30 years ago while plowing. Found it about 8 years ago. Twenty- some years underground had really eaten it away.

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old

07-26-2005 21:28:15

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to 37 chief, 07-26-2005 21:06:58

I've lost a couple pairs of vise grips and then found them years later

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Chris Vangel

07-27-2005 06:14:55

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to old, 07-26-2005 21:28:15

I lost my wedding ring once, missing for two weeks. Didn"t want to say anything. While mowing the grass with my snapper hi vac mower, I look down and stare right at my ring. Now normally the snapper will suck the chrome off a trailer ball, but my ring stayed put just under the blade depth. Picked it up and put it on. Didn"t loose it anymore.

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Galen

07-27-2005 06:21:19

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to Chris Vangel, 07-27-2005 06:14:55

I lost my wedding ring sometime in the past 3 weeks. I had one that had gotten mangled somehow, so I replaced it a couple month's ago. Now the replacement skipped town. Told my wife I was going to party - that's when she got the hog ring pliers..... ....

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Bret4207

07-29-2005 04:03:25

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Re: Lost Watch in reply to Galen, 07-27-2005 06:21:19

I lost my wedding band once foe several hours. Turns out I had put it on my right hand when cleaning the grease off my left so I wouldn't loose it. Did I mention I never did go to college?

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