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B26240 
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 6:24pm |
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About 10 years ago I bought a brake pin puller ( WD / WD45 ) from Agrimson tool. and for the last 5 years or so have been unable to locate it. I at some point had loaned it to a couple of friends but was sure they had both returned it. Well in the doldrums of a long cold Minnesota winter my wife decided to do some deep cleaning and found a box with some valuable tractor stuff in it under our bed no less and in it was the brake pin puller. Sure sign of old age wondering where it was and then sleeping about two feet above it. At any rate I'm happy to have found it!!
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 6:31pm |
Every time I lose something, it's always in the LAST place I look that I find it  Sometimes I have to look in the same place 3 or 4 times before I find it though.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 6:33pm |
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I was thinkin I might sleep good tonight myself. No nap today and I spent some time this morning and this afternoon cutting wood for my brothers. Probably haven't cut that much since 07-08 winter when I could still do it fairly well.
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Billoh
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 7:12pm |
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I am glad I am not the only one that does that.
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Ranse
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 7:21pm |
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I am the worst! I can't get anything done because I spend all my time looking for tools. I can lay one down and not move from my tracks and I can't find it when I go to pick it back up.
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 7:33pm |
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Tools and parts under the bed? That seems odd to me. I can't find stuff either but it's all in the shop somewhere.
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JC-WI
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 7:40pm |
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You know how dear the brake pin puller is to him... LOL
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The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that."
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wekracer
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 8:07pm |
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In June 2015 we move to our house on the farm. The fall before that I bought an $80 case skinning knife. I had not been able to find it since and this fall while getting my hunting gear together I found it in an old boot. I was just about to go buy another. That was a good day
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DanWi
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 9:20pm |
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I put it some place safe now if I could only remember where that is.
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jiminnd
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 9:36pm |
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Sure glad you found it, I know I borrowed it but that was more like 12 or 13 years ago so I think I returned it in a timely manner. Thanks again for its use.
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1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner)
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shameless dude
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Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 9:55pm |
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one year a few years ago I bought the old lady.....ooooops....I mean the loving wife a big ole tool box and filled it with "pretty" flowered tools for her when she needed something and so she would leave my tools alone! just the other night I needed a screw driver to change an electrical outlet in the house, went to her tool box and WTF? all her toold was gone and a bunch of my tools was in there, some I also had been missing! when I asked her about it, she says "them ain't yours, they're mine"! PfffffT...how do ya win?
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B26240
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 6:17am |
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Jim I was sure you had returned it and at times was frustrated i can't seem to keep track of a nice tool like that.
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Bull
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 9:44am |
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I had a furnace repairman tell me when I was a youngster to never lay your tools on a shelf, furnace top, etc or they would be well distributed over town. He would lay them on the floor in plain sight. That was good advice. These days I try to make a point to hang everything up as I go or I spend to much time hunting for stuff.
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WD45 Diesel, RC,CA,IB, B, G, 616, Early B-10, D-10, Terra Tiger, 95G spreader, SC blade
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 9:57am |
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About 8 years ago I 'lost' my Craftsman 3/8 drive, 1/2" deep socket,over 40 years old, THE socket for small engine repairs...I finally found it ! Great... less then 2 weeks later it was MIA,again....aaarrrrgghhh. I KNOW it's in the garage 'somewhere', hope it'll show up soon.
I've never found the 10# sledge hammer that 'grew legs' or the brand new,in case $400 Milwakee skilsaw.....
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Ted J
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 11:31am |
Mark, that's GREAT!!  Most times you never find it....and if you do,
you kinda ignore it cause you don't need it and then you forget where it
was you saw it in the second place.... 
NOW,,,,,,,,,,,,Can
you let me borrow it?? If you bring it down, you can show me how it
works!! And then take it back home to store it again..... Works for
me...
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"Allis-Express"
19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 1:53pm |
I always find the one I lost after I buy another one.
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drobCA
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 2:39pm |
for seldom-used tools, I picked up a term from the railway museum, where volunteers share the same set of tools for various projects at various locations. they are too often "where last used". every once in a while we would run a "tool return day" and go around collecting and returning all abandoned tools.
I've gotten pretty religious about "tools away" being part of every job finally, but gloves? that's another story. the Beatles song "here, there and everywhere" comes to mind...
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3 Ford 8N's I loan to neighbors, but the '52CA, '41B and little B1 I do not.
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Ted J
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 6:25pm |
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DON!!!
I've got at least 2 pairs of gloves for every tractor I've got. 2 or 3 pairs for the garage, another pair by the welder and half a dozen just laying around.
I USUALLY put them on the tractor seat when I get off it for the day. If not, there is the pair in the tool box. OK, on the shelf where the fuel gauge (wood dowel) is laying. Maybe by the chain saw stuff. By the hay mow ladder,,,,,on the shelf by the back door,,,,,,,what piece of machinery I worked on last,,,,,,,?????
Do you THINK I CAN FIND ANY of them!?!?!
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"Allis-Express"
19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 6:30pm |
My problem is that if I need a certain tool at the house it is down at the farm and if I need it at the farm it is at the house.  I have duplicates of the more commonly used tools so I don't have to haul them back and forth. But if I don't put as tool back in its place as soon as I get through with it I may not find it again for months.
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Brian S(NY)
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 7:23pm |
I've been cleaning my shop... its amazing the stuff I'm finding that I thought was long lost :)
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 8:17pm |
 Brian S(NY) wrote:
I've been cleaning my shop... its amazing the stuff I'm finding that I thought was long lost :)
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 Maybe I should try to clean mine, naw, never mind. I can still follow the path from the front door to the back door 
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TimNearFortWorth
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Posted: 21 Jan 2018 at 9:40am |
Reminds me of the old phrase "the first thing that goes is your memory, can't remember what the second thing is". Have always made a point to hit the two pawn shops in town occasionally, maybe every year or so to pick up any 7/16", 1/2" and 9/16" wrenches and sockets (Proto or Craftsman) as they seem the most likely "to grow legs and run away". Finally took the time this winter to go through the entire shop, all tractor toolboxes and the Yamaha cart I use on the place so now I have an abundance of those sizes in the two main rolling tool boxes, enough to fill one entire drawer . . . . .
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