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Latest trove of road-found items. - pH
Well today I was headed back down a road that has a stretch of "no man's land" in that there is no possible area for a car to pull over and stop and really not for a bicycle, either.
Well, right along this stretch, right there by the guard rail was a new pair of Fiskars brand loppers. The handles are 28" long...I had a heck of a time affixing them to my rack so they would not migrate anywhere while on my way home. When I got home I decided I'd empty my handlebar bag of my accumulated road booty, so including the loppers: o New Fiskers loppers 1-1/2 inch capacity on label 28" long handles o pliers, same day as loppers -- no name but labeled "forged - usa" (guess a counterfeiter made 'em while writing bad checks. silver, plain, slip-joint o no-name hole-in-car-tire rasping tool for prepping to install plug on a flat tire--has handy small flat screwdriver tip, too o 13/32" 1/4" drive socket, that's an unusual size, (about `10mm, metric) o 3/8" socket on hexagonal shank for using in a drill (must have a real name, but I don't know it) So that's the extent of the pile. What have you guys found lately? pH in Aptos |
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On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:07:17 -0700 (PDT), pH wrote:
Well today I was headed back down a road that has a stretch of "no man's land" in that there is no possible area for a car to pull over and stop and really not for a bicycle, either. Well, right along this stretch, right there by the guard rail was a new pair of Fiskars brand loppers. The handles are 28" long...I had a heck of a time affixing them to my rack so they would not migrate anywhere while on my way home. When I got home I decided I'd empty my handlebar bag of my accumulated road booty, so including the loppers: o New Fiskers loppers 1-1/2 inch capacity on label 28" long handles o pliers, same day as loppers -- no name but labeled "forged - usa" (guess a counterfeiter made 'em while writing bad checks. silver, plain, slip-joint o no-name hole-in-car-tire rasping tool for prepping to install plug on a flat tire--has handy small flat screwdriver tip, too o 13/32" 1/4" drive socket, that's an unusual size, (about `10mm, metric) o 3/8" socket on hexagonal shank for using in a drill (must have a real name, but I don't know it) So that's the extent of the pile. What have you guys found lately? pH in Aptos I found a 5 baht coin the other day - about US$0.06 :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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Latest trove of road-found items. - pH
On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 3:16:27 PM UTC-7, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:07:17 -0700 (PDT), pH wrote: Well today I was headed back down a road that has a stretch of "no man's land" in that there is no possible area for a car to pull over and stop and really not for a bicycle, either. Well, right along this stretch, right there by the guard rail was a new pair of Fiskars brand loppers. The handles are 28" long...I had a heck of a time affixing them to my rack so they would not migrate anywhere while on my way home. When I got home I decided I'd empty my handlebar bag of my accumulated road booty, so including the loppers: o New Fiskers loppers 1-1/2 inch capacity on label 28" long handles o pliers, same day as loppers -- no name but labeled "forged - usa" (guess a counterfeiter made 'em while writing bad checks. silver, plain, slip-joint o no-name hole-in-car-tire rasping tool for prepping to install plug on a flat tire--has handy small flat screwdriver tip, too o 13/32" 1/4" drive socket, that's an unusual size, (about `10mm, metric) o 3/8" socket on hexagonal shank for using in a drill (must have a real name, but I don't know it) So that's the extent of the pile. What have you guys found lately? pH in Aptos I found a 5 baht coin the other day - about US$0.06 :-) -- Cheers, John B. Can one actually purchase anything w/ a 5 baht coin? Back when I was a kid (dirt had just been invented) I could get a tootsie roll (the big kind) for a nickel. pH |
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Latest trove of road-found items. - pH
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 20:27:35 -0700 (PDT), pH wrote:
On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 3:16:27 PM UTC-7, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:07:17 -0700 (PDT), pH wrote: Well today I was headed back down a road that has a stretch of "no man's land" in that there is no possible area for a car to pull over and stop and really not for a bicycle, either. Well, right along this stretch, right there by the guard rail was a new pair of Fiskars brand loppers. The handles are 28" long...I had a heck of a time affixing them to my rack so they would not migrate anywhere while on my way home. When I got home I decided I'd empty my handlebar bag of my accumulated road booty, so including the loppers: o New Fiskers loppers 1-1/2 inch capacity on label 28" long handles o pliers, same day as loppers -- no name but labeled "forged - usa" (guess a counterfeiter made 'em while writing bad checks. silver, plain, slip-joint o no-name hole-in-car-tire rasping tool for prepping to install plug on a flat tire--has handy small flat screwdriver tip, too o 13/32" 1/4" drive socket, that's an unusual size, (about `10mm, metric) o 3/8" socket on hexagonal shank for using in a drill (must have a real name, but I don't know it) So that's the extent of the pile. What have you guys found lately? pH in Aptos I found a 5 baht coin the other day - about US$0.06 :-) -- Cheers, John B. Can one actually purchase anything w/ a 5 baht coin? Back when I was a kid (dirt had just been invented) I could get a tootsie roll (the big kind) for a nickel. pH I had to ask my wife. She thought for about 10 minutes and said that she couldn't think of anything that one could buy for 5 baht :-) The Local departments shops calculate the sales tax into the sales price of groceries and you do need, even 1 baht coins for them :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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Latest trove of road-found items. - pH
On 8/5/2019 5:07 PM, pH wrote:
Well today I was headed back down a road that has a stretch of "no man's land" in that there is no possible area for a car to pull over and stop and really not for a bicycle, either. Well, right along this stretch, right there by the guard rail was a new pair of Fiskars brand loppers. The handles are 28" long...I had a heck of a time affixing them to my rack so they would not migrate anywhere while on my way home. When I got home I decided I'd empty my handlebar bag of my accumulated road booty, so including the loppers: o New Fiskers loppers 1-1/2 inch capacity on label 28" long handles o pliers, same day as loppers -- no name but labeled "forged - usa" (guess a counterfeiter made 'em while writing bad checks. silver, plain, slip-joint o no-name hole-in-car-tire rasping tool for prepping to install plug on a flat tire--has handy small flat screwdriver tip, too o 13/32" 1/4" drive socket, that's an unusual size, (about `10mm, metric) o 3/8" socket on hexagonal shank for using in a drill (must have a real name, but I don't know it) So that's the extent of the pile. What have you guys found lately? Wow, come to think of it, it's been a very bad year for road finds. I can't remember a single tool found on the road this year, and that's unusual. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:07:17 -0700 (PDT), pH wrote:
What have you guys found lately? Not much. When we lived in upstate New York, I found interesting things all the time. Once I stopped to pick up an open pocket knife just because it might puncture somebody's tire, and lo, despite having been run over it was in perfect condition and I took it home and used it. I thought it odd that I found a few teaspoons, and once I found a table knife, but I never found a fork. Aside from a few coins -- I once saw a dime and *didn't" pick it up; it had been embedded in the asphalt -- I don't recall picking something up other than to get it off the road. My range is much shorter than it used to be, but I think I find fewer things because I now live in town and ride to the country, rather than the other way around. When I ride to Leesburg, I never honestly get out of town, save for a train-length of Old 15. I picked one item up out of sheer puzzlement. It looks like a buckle, but the blob in the middle of the bar would prevent it from being used as a buckle. The edges are rounded on top and square below, like a knock-out, but I'm sure it was never knocked out of a hole (if you don't count the hole left when it was die cut). So I brought it home, but my spouse didn't recognize it either. I stuck it onto one of the magnets on the fridge and forgot about it until today: http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/LOC/PUZZLE.JPG Warning: I didn't bother to scale the image; it takes a while to download. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGESEW/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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Latest trove of road-found items. - pH
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:07:17 -0700 (PDT), pH wrote:
What have you guys found lately? On my way out of town yesterday morning I saw a usable-looking nut and, a few feet farther on, a flat washer. On my way home in the afternoon, I saw a bolt that looked as though it would fit the nut and washer. I didn't pick any of them up. While checking my wallet to get ready for the farmers' markets this morning, I noticed a curtain hook stuck into the change-catcher beside the safety pins. I remember sticking it there, but not when or where I picked it up. It fits the curtain I was standing beside. I'll check for missing hooks before I get down the curtain-hardware ammo box. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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