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Just siting here and was wondering of others stories of lost and found items.

A friend of mine was working on a baler as a repair man. He never found his class ring. I think 33 yeas later the farmer that now owns the farm was working on his corn planter and found the ring. It was less than a month later the ring was returned to the righful owner.

Another friend also lost his wedding ring while plowing. A few years later he was disking and noticed something shinny behind the disk, (just for a second) before it disapeared under the disk. He dug around and found it to be his wedding ring.

My closest story involves me hunting in the woods for deer when a timber phesant took off almost under my feet. Within a half hr I found my shot gun, and a clean pair of pants to wear.

I know this is a lame post, but spring will get here soon and all will be well again.
 
The diamond setting fell out of my wifes wedding ring a few years ago. She didn't know exactly where it fell out. She was distraught to say the least. Two days later, as I was leaving for work. I looked towards the rear wheel of my truck and noticed something in the gravel that caught light and made a little bit of flash. I walked back there and looked closer. It was that tiny little diamond. Some things are just meant to be.
 
My wife's diamond came out of her wedding ring while in church. We did't notice it till about an hour later. We tore the car apart, looked in the parking lot of the resturaunt we were at, everywhere. We decided to go back to the church. It was in the evening. There was a nun still at the church. They got to looking on the floor and in the pew. The nun found it on the floor.

My son was on his honeymoon in Mexico. His wedding band came off in the surf. That was 8 years ago, it's still there or in some fishes belly.

Gene
 
My father was a dairyman back in the '50's. He received a Bulova wrist watch as a gift. One morning it was gone and he thought he must have lost it in the barn. He looked all through the gutters and everywhere without success.
The next Spring, he spread the daily manure on a field, ran out of gas, and was walking across the field towards home, when he saw the watch! He wound it up, cleaned it up and wore it.
 
my boss at work lost his wedding ring before i got hired he was dying of cancer so they saw no reason to replace it i found it on the floor in a corner not knowing he lost it i turned it in and found out it was his he died 3 months later and was able to wear his wedding ring in the grave
 
my grand father was plowing and put his teeth in his bib overall pocket, they fell out and got plowed under, he got some new ones that never fit right, 2 crops later my uncle was cultivating corn and stopped to take a leak, he looked down and there was the teeth, grandpa took them in got them cleaned and went back to using them! True Story
 
My son was mowing hay for me with a MoCo.....got the field cut and couldnt find his cell phone in his pocket. Went back to the field that evening with another phone to call his phone.....did not find it.
I go there the next day and tedder the hay, rake it when its fit.
He and I go bale it into small squares, directly onto the wagon.
A few days later we are unloading the wagons onto my gooseneck trailer when he finds his phone sticking out of the side of a bale. In perfect working order!! True story!
 
I had a pocket knife that I bought when I was a 13 year old, carried it till I lost it working in the yard at the first house I bought when I was 24. Four years later we bought a house out in the country and sold the first house. I was taking the last of the trash out of the old house and would not have any reason to return. I found that pocket knife laying on the ground in the middle of the yard like I had dropped it there that day. Twenty years later I still carry that pocket knife.
 
I lost a 12 in adjustable (new one) off the tractor in the spring, looked for it for days and never found it. That fall while cutting beans I found it with the combine. Seen a flash hit the clutch and killed the machine, To late it hit the cylinder, what a noise it made. Opened to cylinder door and out fell that 12 in adjustable, in working order and a little scuffed up. Good thing I found it I needed it to close the door back shut and latch it. Bandit
 
I had a school class mate that was out swathing with a tractor and pull behind. The guy plugged up the swather and got out his big bowie-sized pocket knife to get the thing unplugged and promptly lost his pocket knife. He spent about an hour looking for it and finally gave up. He found it a few seconds later when he tried to drive off and the thing went through the rear tractor tire and actually ruined the rear tire. Talk about bad luck.....
 
3 yrs ago , found my cell phone in a 40 acre field after i mowed it for hay ,,current wife and i called it at 1 am in the ALL QUIET NITE , took 12 attempts working a grid across the field .. nearly 20 yrs ago , 1st wife's Mothers ring had been misplaced for some 2yrs . she was distraught/ BUT , refused another one ,(she thought one of her messed-up sisters took it ?/?)and might have a change of heart someday? .NOT..... 2yrs later , found it while pushing snow , just layed up PRETTY AS CAN BE ,. wife often put her rings on the fire place mantle . best i can figure ,it must have fallen to hearth and was accidentlly shoveled into fireplace ,,, and was discarded with the ashes into the flower bed along the driveway.... 1st wife had forgot abou t ALL ringS, and me too ,and we were in a hellish divorce that was killing my Soul. when i found the ring .. I THOUGHT IT WAS A bLESSED oMEN FROM GOD , and gave it to her, with HIGH HOPES /..she thought I had the Ring ALL ALONG and had KEPT IT FROM HER for 2 whole years ! ..SHEESH.! Sometimes a GUY can't WIN !
 
Little things count too. I burrowed my brother's test lead wires to check some wiring on a trailer. I lost one of the plug on alligator clips on the end of one of the wires. That may seam like no big thing to others, but you don't know my brother. He has mostly Snao-on tools and only the best of every tool he buys including the test wires. He wasen't too happy about the lost wire end. I was walking in the yard yesterday looking down as always, there was the special wire clip, which was immediatly returned to it's owner. Stan
 
When I was a little kid maybe 3 or 4 my dad was working in the front yard of our old house. As a kid we do weird things so I took his 12" adjustable and dropped it in a hole. My dad didn't notice and it was buried. He was angry when he couldn't find it and I kept my mouth shut because I have done strange things,but I wasn't stupid. That was forty years ago and dad is gone and I still feel guilt today because as I grew up I learned the value of tools. I wonder if the new owners would mind me digging up their yard?
 
An aunt gave me a little Buck pocket knife for high school graduation in 1974 and I started carrying it in my pocket. One day a month later I looked for it and couldn't find it. In 1980 when I moved to Africa, I sold my 68 Mustang to my brother and in about 1984 he was refurbing the car and found the knife under the drivers seat when he took the seat out and it still looked new. I had forgotten all about it. Fast forward..it's still in my pocket today.
 
I have an office in town that is sandwiched in between the bank and post office. Last summer I walked outside to go to the post office and noticed what I thought was a pay check laying in the street gutter. Sure enough, it was a local guys paycheck for $800.00 endorsed and all. I tried to call him but couldn't reach him. I knew where he worked so I drove there to return it to him. He wasn't there at the time so I gave it to his boss. I never heard a word back. Not one. Didn't even call to say "thanks". Next time, I'll have me some darn good beer money.
 
I was fishing one night and lost my lantern overboard,it went strait to the bottom, the following year I was fishing in the same spot,hooked onto something and pulled it up and low and behold it was that lantern,and best of all it was lit up !! Ha,ha,ha Jim in N M
 
The year I graduated my sis took me on a car tour of the west - visited 3 1st cousins we had on the west coast.

On the way back we stopped at one of the tourist traps, a gold panning station in Colorado. We knew it was setup, you pay your money & swish a pan of gravel around & they put the few bits of gold in a vial & send you on your way. But what the heck we were tourists....

So I put my new gold class ring in my pocket, so it doesn't get dirty for the panning. We do our swishing, get back in the car, & I drive my sis' Citation for about 15 miles down the road. Huh, I'm not looking at my ring on the steering wheel... Oh yea, in my pocket.... Nope, ring not there. Oh, oh, I remember hearing 'thunk' when I took the car keys out of my pocket to leave the gold panning place. I musta dropped it in the grassy gravel parkinglot.

So I make a Uturn, my sis asks what I'm doing. Going back to get my ring. She has a kaniption, that's long gone, why'ed you do that, etc.

We get back, I pull up in the grass, get out, look about 10 seconds, and there was my ring.

For decades my sis would tease me about panning for gold to get 25 cents worth of gold, but losing my gold class ring for a bit....

--->Paul
 
I generally use mechanical devices to find lost stuff. Found a lost logging chain with a Howard rotovator (also found out that the slip clutch worked). Lost my glasses out of my pocket when I was rototilling the garden with BCS tiller, but not to worry, the tiller found them on the next pass.

Lost contact lenses (and presumably, diamonds) can be found by putting a piece of pantyhose over the end of a vacuum cleaner hose.
 
Maybe the boss spent it.
I had a similar situation about 15 years ago. My wife and I were in a store parking lot in a huge metropolis and found a signed paycheck with a lady's name on it. Luckily she didn't have an unlisted phone number, as we looked her up in the phone book and gave her a call. We met her in a public place and she thanks us many times over. I made sure to look at her ID to make sure it was her and not somebody else. I'm not sure why the check was endorsed. I always do that right before I cash it.
 
Lost my watch while chasing a neighbor's cow out of our hay field. Was in the field a few days later and heard the hourly chime beep. Took awhile but I found it.
 
I bet that was noisy!:^) We plowed a chain under one year and turned it back up the next when I was a kid. It fell off of the tractor step right into the furrow.
 
I was cleaning a tractor and it had a grille gaurd on the front. I wanted to get behind it so I took out the 2 pins that hold it on and set them on the hood, and took the guard off. I cleaned some crap out of there and without thinking I took the pressure washer and blew the pins into the manure pile. I looked and looked but couldn"t find them. Later that year I found one in the mud beside the manure pile and the other one in a hay field. Nothing valuable but the chances of me finding one are next to nothing. I can"t believe I found both of them. They are about 3/8 x 2"
 
Drank about 40 beers once and left my wallet on the juke box with 300 dollars in it, got the wallet back with 200 still in it, I thought it was a miracle someone didn't take all of it. I suppose they felt they needed a finders fee. I have cut back on the drinkin since then:>)
 
I lost my wedding ring one day hauling hay and assumed it came off when taking my glove off. I got a metal detector and looked at a few places I might have taken my gloves off. That day I had also swept the leftover hay that had fallen from the bales onto my trailer into a pile off the side of my trailer. A couple months later my wife was pulling a little hay from that pile for kindling to start a fire on a burn pile and found the ring. At the time I had never thought the ring was even in that area.

My wife had also lost her diamond when we were helping pick up items for a community garage sale and a ping pong table half fell on her gloved hand while loading it on the truck. She never looked at the ring, because she was more concerned with the pain on her finger. We talked to the owner a little while then left. She looked at her ring later and noticed the diamond was missing. We went back and found the diamond laying in the driveway where we had talked to the owner and apparently she had taken the glove off and the diamond had fallen out.
 
I lost my check book one time so I called the bank and had the remainder of that book of checks cancelled , they did somthing else also to protect my account and cost me 30 bucks then my wife found it the next day raking a 25 a. hay field . Try to remember to put it in the truck box now .
 
My dad had his sticking knife (sharp on both sides). No one was ever allowed to touch it, end of sentence.

We had a bunch of neighbors that all butched together, the biggest amount in one year was 13 beef, and 36 hogs. Long hrs and alot of BS, plus very good food and meat sampeling.

Dads sticking knife turned up missing. Fast forward next summer while cultivating with the 60 JD and the new rear tires that were put on in the spring--cut the crap out of that tire. Must have gotten dumped with the bones and guts in the ditch and a fox or dog carried it up 80 - 100 ft up into the field. As best I can remember, it wasn't ever considered dads fault in his eyes anyway.
 

Almost a daily occurance for someone with CRS (me).....

I've lost knives, drawbar pins, and have a real bad habit of leaving the little spring pins for the 3pt hitck laying on the fender. Always finding stuff like that. I've got a Stihl lockblade knife that has orange handles that I loose and find several times. Was looking for a bag of Tpost insulators today and found a hoof rasp, nippers, and some other tools that I had given up on finding.....

Dave
 
I was working at the firehouse when we got a run. After it was over we stopped at a gas station to get diesel for the engine. At the time we each had our own city fuel card to use, but the driver had left his wallet at the station. I had mine, but I was still wearing my bunker pants, so I had to dig it out of my back pocket. When I was done I put it in the inside pocket of my turnout coat. We got another run before we got back to the station so I had to get dressed again. By the time we got back to the station I had forgotten all about the wallet, and I hung my coat over the intake valve handle on the side of the truck. (the handle was horizontal on this truck)
We got another run and I put my coat on again and jumped in, and off we go. After getting back, I went to hang my coat on the valve, and there sat my wallet, right on top of the valve handle. It had rode there on the run and back!
 
Now, see, that wouldn't have worked for me. Wouldn't have been able to hear the chime over the noise of the approaching tractor, and also would have missed the sound of vaporizing the watch with the disc mower blade.
 
My tilt-bed trailer uses the 3 Pt. spring pins to hold down the front. More than once I have removed them to tilt the trailer, laid them on the step back bumper of the truck, and forgot about them. But they will apparently ride back there forever, because there are always still there when I get to my destination. Go figure.
 
A few years back I ran a reconstruct/paving job on a city street in my home town, working for a large Bay Area contractor at the time. On the last day of paving, my apprentice screedman was going to have to put a crown in the paver screed for the last pass down the center, and being a rookie, didn't have a wrench. So I loan him my 15" Crescent and laugh "don't lose it". Sure enough, end of the day, ummm, sorry, I lost your wrench...
So a couple weeks later our dispatcher calls and says come by the office when you get a chance, we have something for you. So a couple days later, I stop in, and on the dispatch counter is a 1' x 2' x 2" neatly sawn chunk of asphalt- with my wrench flush in the middle of it. It had fallen off the screed, and been just under the surface, and exposed itself after about a week's traffic. We had gotten the punch list for the job, and Item #3 was "Remove wrench from southbound #1 lane at Stonehouse Drive". The labor foreman went out to work down the punchlist and cut it out and patched the hole. They realized it was mine when they saw my initials engraved in the head of the wrench, and saved it for me. Still have it out in the shop, in the chunk of asphalt
 
I work at a berry farm that used to have an MD farmall. I saw pictures of it and saw that it was tractor fifteen. The mechanic gave me the original manual for it and told me all about it. A couple weeks ago I was at a friend of a friends house and saw an MD, He is a MM guy, I went and looked at it and it had a number fifteen at it and it had a number fifteen. I asked about it and it was the same tractor. I"m workin on the guy to see if he will sell it.
 
I lost my wallet cultivating corn in 1951. Cried to my folks that I lost five dollars and my wallet. I must have been effective because they gave me five dollars to help. (A fiver was a LOT of money for a 12 year old then!)

Fast forward one year. Got home from school and dad gave me a whippin'. I didn't even know what for. Seems he was cultivating corn and found my wallet which had a one dollae bill in it!!!

I watched my wallet pretty close since then.
 
I lost my high school class ring in a cave at a 4-H camp on the other side of the state. It was found 2 years later by a lady who lived about 50 miles from me and found me by calling the high school, the lady who answered the phone is an old family friend.
 
I was fixing fence one time, had a pail with insulators, clips, fence pliers, etc in it. I laid the hammer I was carrying down on the stonewall behind me while I got an insulator out of the pail. Got it in postion and reached behind me for the hammer and the handle felt strange. Looked at it and it was one I had left there the year before.
 
I lost my wallet while leveling off ear corn in the double crib with a driveway full also.

Well as a high school boy You was always prepared for a event just in case a event was to happen. Also when you opened your wallet for your lunch ticket the girls got to notice the round impression in your wallet, us real men (assumed) the word would soon travel,thus improving your ranking on the cool scale.

My dad comented to everyone how I had taken such a intrest in shoveling ear corn out to the pigs, and grinding feed that year. Finaly one day I noticed part of my wallet that the pigs had destroyed, and after looking around, the hogs had the --object--- I was so concerned about, tore and laying in the snow and hog manure.

I had to have missed it myself, and dad never found out. So I let my brothers share the feeding chores from that day forth.
 
Only way to find something is to buy a new one. Lost the keys to an old Dodge pickup, waited 3 weeks, finally called a locksmith, found the key next day.
 
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