So this is what we have been reduced to?

[Cheeto303]

Ah, life is all about simple pleasures. Good find. I keep a collapsible magnetic mechanics bolt retrieval tool in the center console of my Jeep. When at traffic lights I scan the road and pickup worthy targets of opportunity within reach of my magnet. I also find a lot of tools.

[Land Owner]

OT - don't you just love finding free "Intersection Tools"?

[JM7.7x58]

I have a real nice Proto 10” adjustable wrench that was just laying in the gravel waiting for me to walk on by!

[lightman]

Like I said back in post #10, its gotten to be a game between me and a few friends. Last week we picked up a total of 53 lead weights and 1 lead anchor. The concrete type anchor that is. There were 2 Zinc weights and maybe 5 steel weights. Its amazing that the % of lead from street corners is higher than what I get at the tire shop!

[Hossfly]

I find a lot of empty plastic buckets along the road banks, found 1, 5 gallon yellow diesel can and 1, 5 gallon gas can with 1/2 full of gas. People are in a hurry and don’t tie down there stuff. I even lost a new Stihl weed eater on I-20, found it next trip smashed to bits only handle left. I tie everything down now.

[scotner]

I had a large pool chemical bucket that I had filled with rubber mulch for a bullet trap. Used it mostly for testing PC coating and used to recover some cast lead when I was shooting for group size. I finally put a few rounds through the sides and needed another large bucket. I found this one beside the road. After a couple of months looking for a replacement I spotted one beside the road again. I had passed it several times over a two day period but it was in a location that was less than favorable for stopping beside the road. I finally slowed down on a trip out and noted exactly where I could stop on the return trip and get completely off the road. Approaching that location on the return trip some thirty minutes later I slowed and looked for my planned stopping point. The problem was my bucket was gone. Best laid plans...

[fiberoptik]

Its gotten to be a game between me and a couple of buddies to spot them at intersections and scoop them up. I even found a Lyman Ingot at one intersection!!! I would like to know the story on that!!!

Hey, I wondered where I dropped that! Just mail it to me ……


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[fiberoptik]

I jump out at red lights and grab them. SIL always says he’ll leave me if light turns green.


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[lightman]

We have gone off and left each other at exit ramps or intersections and come back when we could turn around. One of my friends says he feels like a homeless guy, standing on the corner! I even had a homeless guy (panhandler) pick a weight up for me once! Didn't I say it had gotten to be a game to us?

[fredj338]

LOL! I pick up spent bullets all the time at the range waiting for my turn to shoot. Over time it adds up.

[WinchesterM1]

The worst is when I found a big truck weight about 6” long but it was embedded into the asphalt I tried to dig it out but I couldn’t I even used my pocket knife luckily it was in a Walmart parking lot so I did t care if I dug it up

[fiberoptik]

Made my SIL go around the block to pick up a 6” one. He thought I saw something big. I did!


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[psweigle]

I guess next April 1st I should just take a bunch of zinc wheel weighs and leave them at random spots on the road?

Now that's just mean! Funny, but mean.

[gwpercle]

If you see older guys , wandering around parking lots , looking at the ground not at a cell phone...
It's just a older boolit caster .
We keep looking for that big one.... the big rig wheel weight that weighs a pound ..
those are so sweet to find ! I found one and now I "Got the Fever"
Gary

[Winger Ed.]

Years ago, a buddy worked for a bus company and gave me a wheel weight about the size of a banana.
He asked, "We have a bunch of these, can you use them".

I thought I'd found the holy grail of wheel weight sources.