Lost & Found....

[sparky_pdx]

1 of my biggest pet peeves is losing my own tools.
Attics full of insulation seem to be particularily problematic.
Course I've found a fair # of other people's tools in attics too...

 

[ultramegabob]

I have no idea how many screwdrivers I have gone through in my career, I carry them in my back pocket and dont always feel or hear them fall out, I have also found tools laying on top of equipment when I go back for another service call, sometimes they have been laying there for over a year.

 

[roger]

I can relate, I remember one in particular about 20 years ago, I lost a new 25' tape in blown-in insulation one day after I bought it.

I also have a pair of 9" side cutters somewhere in my own attic

Roger

 

[ptonsparky]

It almost pays for me to hire an apprentice to follow behind and pick up my tools. Didn't use to be so bad when I had a decent tool pouch, don't like the new fabic ones. That & being a CRS sufferer.

 

[electricmanscott]

I hear ya!

I'm on my third $45.00 flashlight in the last couple of months. I very rarely loose stuff and just figures it is something pricey.

 

[brian john]

I left an $18,000.00 monitor on a site and forgot where (I did not follow procedure and write it down). I was dying, 5 months later a customer calls me and asked when he can get his report. WHEWWWWWWWWWWWW.

 

[electricman2]

Glad to know I'm not alone in this. The reason most of my hand tools look so new is because they are.:grin: I know a retired electrician that still has most of his hand tools from his apprentice days some 40 years ago.