Road "hazard's" . . . . .

[Randyzzz]

So many goodies… pliers, hammers, a couple mag lights, a Rigid rechargeable drill, a set of patio furniture, a transfer case adapter from a Chevy ( that I ended up using on a build a few years later), a washer bottle from a bad wreck (that I also put to use), a digital volt meter, a 14” crescent wrench, 5 ( if I remember correctly) 4’x8’ sheets of 16ga aluminum, multiple horse stall mats, aluminum step plate off a semi, numerous semi ratchet tie downs…the list goes on and on.

 

[el caminero]

P.i.e. folded, i was patrolling the yard and one pothole went 'klink!', i checked to see if i had run over a busted bottle, but in the slush was 25 feet of what dad called Loggin Chain. It stayed in my scout until i lost that in a dispute over storage, still have it in a 50 cal ammo can. On the road, the list includes a several gerber, buck, and leatherman knives (gave them all away, some guys never had "a real knife" in their life!), 18" concrete saw blade, 12" wiss scissors, several hammers including estwing, 24" ridgid monky wrench, dryvan load straps and lockbars. Today the frightliner ran over a dancing chainbinder that spun my way, i deflected it 2 lanes to my right with my steertire, but traffic wouldnt let me stop...
Hey, that 14" crescent wrench was one of a pair, a co-driver left both of mine on the bed of the towtruck when he borrowed it...

 

[Jeepnik]

I sometimes see stuff on the side of the freeway. But it's usually such a small shoulder it ain't worth dying to get it.

 

[MaxMan]

I've picked up about 30 feet of chain (2 inch links). A couple of hammers. The road to our house was very wash board. Also picked up a number of drywall screws, 8 d nails a wheel alignment an alligator and a snapping turtle. (actually the Mrs., got out and grabbed the gator brought it in the car and let the boys see it up close) put it back.

 

[el caminero]

Coming back from a funeral in texas in dads lil hyundai, kept seeing clusters and scatters of busted furniture and things in the roadside snow, and after a while i said havent seen any more things what fell off that trailer. Mom says, thats cos while you were paying attention to being passed by that wandering wiggle-wagon (a daycab with triples) i saw the whole trailer off the right shoulder, out thru the fence into the field. Wasent much left. Of the load, or the trailer? I ask. Yep, she says.
Year-round, the plastic buckets are #1 roadside sight, well, plastic bags are the absolutely most dominant...but plastic carbumpercovers are next, with tarps, then ladders. Out crosscountry, its bumpers, and tarps (often shredderd) and in summer are in a tie with plastic bins, with or without camping gear, laundry, and sundries. More bicycles than ladders, once yer out there.
The odd 4x4 x8 dunnage beams, and dryvan loadbars, from some ijjit stowing them in the framework of his landing gear and not securing them. One roadside curiosity was to follow w trail of splintered dunnage to a liquid trail to a rig on the shoulder with a reefer tank with part of a 4x4x8 stuck in it, and another he hadent lost yet still up in the gear. In a freightyard, i asked around for the driver of such-n-so truck, his unsecured loadbar in the landing gear was sticking 2 feet out the right side...

 

[xTopGun]

I've picked up about 30 feet of chain (2 inch links). A couple of hammers. The road to our house was very wash board. Also picked up a number of drywall screws, 8 d nails a wheel alignment an alligator and a snapping turtle. (actually the Mrs., got out and grabbed the gator brought it in the car and let the boys see it up close) put it back.

your dry wall screws and 8d nails issue reminded me that our daughter was driving my '88 Crown Vic and picked up some sort of metal mesh, which got tangled up in the front rotor. Along the way it wore thru the brake line then as she's pulling into a mall it sprung a leak which sprayed onto the hot rotor, "POOF", up in flames it went. She and her friend got out ok. But, she had parked between a nice Cadillac and a Volvo, and they all got torched . . . . . ehhh, no one got hurt

 

[LAH]

Chains, rope, tools, evening a nice drill with battery packs. Where I live we mostly encounter deer on the road, both dead & alive along with trees of various sizes.

 

[MaxMan]

Is this a road hazard ?
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=cf7e...ZWdlbmRzLW9mLXRoZS1zdW5zaGluZS1zdGF0ZS8&ntb=1

 

[gonepostal]

"a lunch meeting at a Hooters."! Men of culture, unite!!

I second that motion

 

[gonepostal]

Is this a road hazard ?
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=cf7e...ZWdlbmRzLW9mLXRoZS1zdW5zaGluZS1zdGF0ZS8&ntb=1

Aren't hot dogs on of man's greatest inventions

 

[oldmarine69]

Aren't hot dogs on of man's greatest inventions

Yes!!! Throw on some sauerkraut, bit of mustard, you have yourself a cuisine delight.

 

[el caminero]

And gas cans. Inna summer they almost outnumber the roadside plastic buckets.

 

[t-reg]

So far I have twice observed a lady's purse slide off the roof of her car, retrieved them, and chased the owner down to return them. They seemed amazed.

I hope they rewarded you for your efforts

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I hope they rewarded you for your efforts

They were both so flustered it was hilarious. One tried to pay me, which I turned down, and I escaped before th other one regained herself to think of it.