Tools you've found

[Ian10261]

Seems a logical follow on fro the lost tools thread, stuff you've found under floorboards, back of cylinder cupboads, under baths etc.
To kick things off with i've found 3 of the old footprint pipe wrench's to date.

 

[cdodds2004]

22mm pipe slice, underboards screwdriver in boiler. best find was last year went to service a combi in a loft and old cylinder was there kindly offered to remove it for customer was all disconnected so lifted out of loft and straight to scrap yard, customer thought i went the extra mile i earned £120 quid for service and weighing in a cylinder lol

 

[quality]

I have found loads off bits and bobs of tools. Its the other things I have found which make my day !!!!!

 

[mfgs]

Set of 18" stilsons under floorboards just below a gas meter. A couple of allen keys left in the adjusters on a gas valve of a worcester boiler.

 

[tamz]

If anybody finds an Estwing in a loft in Roslin it is mine!

 

[dontknowitall]

Stubby screwdriver is all I've found. Use it nearly every day (great for turning isolating valves on/off.)

 

[AWheating]

brand spannking new pair of pipe slices (15,22) on a tank stand in loft....... it was good timing as my 22mm slice had just started to tramline

 

[quality]

Forgot about this thread

10.30 break for most folk I was allowed access to the server room today (computer server room) all clean and smart to start with but after we finnished and cleaned up There were a pair of pants bigger than a parachute stuffed behind the panel

 

[Resolute]

Forgot about this thread

10.30 break for most folk I was allowed access to the server room today (computer server room) all clean and smart to start with but after we finnished and cleaned up There were a pair of pants bigger than a parachute stuffed behind the panel

Male or female pants?!

 

[Dannypipe]

Found the odd spanner, and a tub of plumbers mate or 3. Most of it is rubbish.

I did leave a lovely new Bhaco wide jaw 8" spanner under the floor of a bathroom. I realised it was gone as the tiler started...which was too late. That was the worse bit, knowing where it was and not being able to get it back!

 

[Dannypipe]

PS - Bathroom was in a bungalow, so no way to get at it from else where!

 

[stevetheplumber]

i lifted a ceiling tile in an office and found a pair of 24 inch stilson stil clamped round a pipe must have been ther 10 years as nothing had been touched since it was built

 

[Dannypipe]

Who forgets they left two foot of stilsons clamped to their work, and buggers off home?

HAAAAA!! Brilliant.

 

[tamz]

Last time i lost my Estwing was about 25 years ago.
I had cut the hole for the balanced flue and had my claw hammer sitting in the hole. I turned around and bumped it and look on in horror as it fell down the cavity!
I got the heavy hammer back out and cut a hole in the wall at ground level to get it back!
This time i lost it in 2ft of glasswool. I just looked back up through the hatch, scammed around and thought .........ah fk it.

 

[Dannypipe]

My Estwing is engraved, seriously.

My brother did it for me as a gift, as our birthdays are a day apart and I'd commented on how nice his Estwing was.

Shame its all rusty now as you can't read it!

 

[tamz]

He probably did it so you wouldn't nick his I always envied the joiners with their nice shiny estwings while mines was rusty looking. I don't think they looked upon my shiny footprints in the same light.

I bought another one on Saturday. Monday night i was buffing the claw down. It wasn't sharp enough. (probably for some elf n safety reason no doubt).
It doesn't feel quite the same and will take a while to wear in. It is nice and shiny tho...for a wee while anyway.

 

[Dannypipe]

When you've used a decent hammer, you understand why you can buy a crap one for a fiver. Still it is a bit of a luxury for a pipe strangler like me to have.

If I ever lost mine, I'd probably buy one of the orange rubber handle B & Q specials for £5 and sulk about my loss!

 

[Dannypipe]

Oh and nicking my brothers tools is mandatory, engraved or not. Don't worry it cuts both ways. He borrows (nicks) plenty back.

 

[tamz]

If I ever lost mine, I'd probably buy one of the orange rubber handle B & Q specials for £5 and sulk about my loss!

You best buy a box of them then. You'll keep throwing them out the window

 

[Ian10261]

Who forgets they left two foot of stilsons clamped to their work, and buggers off home?

HAAAAA!! Brilliant.

Probably someone who's not self employed and uses the firms tools and hates his boss.

 

[stevetheplumber]

Who forgets they left two foot of stilsons clamped to their work, and buggers off home?

HAAAAA!! Brilliant.

its easy done if your working of steps nowhere to put anything so you hook the stilsons on to a pipe turn round to do something else then get down ive used two pairs of 36s and a board to sit on probably not advised now due to elf n safty police

 

[SafeGasInstall]

pipe cutter adjustable that go to 2" , hammer,screwdrivers,lots of scrap copper which I rip out to the last small bit (only if is really really impossible to get out ,**** magazines , really fancy lady's underwear ,coins,old packages of old fittings ,emty pack's of cigarettes from 30 years ! when worked for the cancel void property's loft r my favourite place where is many many old things

 

[Dotty]

When you've used a decent hammer, you understand why you can buy a crap one for a fiver. Still it is a bit of a luxury for a pipe strangler like me to have.

If I ever lost mine, I'd probably buy one of the orange rubber handle B & Q specials for £5 and sulk about my loss!

Been there, it's nice the way the B&Q special's head is machined at a strange angle so whenever you try to wallop something it skids off and destroys your thumb for the 10000000000000000000000000000000000th time that day.

you leap around turning purple and regret not forking out the extra for a new estwing. And then go and hit your thumb again.......

 

[Dotty]

Was working in a blokes house once years ago, went up to his bedroom to replace his radiator.

Moved his bed and found a big pile of gay mags and a big black rubber sex toy that resembled a baby's arm clutching an apple.

needless to say I didn't claim them (never confused!) and was out of the place as quick as I could!

I was suddenly aware as I drove home of how he always seemed to be behind me as I was bending over!

 

[BLOD]

and was out of the place as quick as I could!

You just never know

While back I went to quote to replace some cylinders in the cellar of an old house, you got into the cellar through a trap door in the hall floor and down a ladder. As I was leaving I noticed it had a padlock latch on it & all the way home I couldn't think why you would need to lock it.

That week the news showed the girl in Holland (I think) who'd been locked in a cellar for like 18 years

anyway, took my lad with me to do the job and made sure we were both never in the cellar at the same time !