Miracle in the Woods

[slowp]

A good day. I also found a nice blacktail antler today. Here's the miracle.
Last July, I was hurrying about and lost a pair of prescription sunglasses. I'd been marking out skyline corridors. Today, I'm heading up to the same unit, and the logger tells me that he thinks one of the guys on his rigging crew has found them. I go down into the brush and negotiate the ransom...a case of Icehouse Beer. I then go back and get them out of the crummy, and they are just a bit dusty and dirty, no damage. They survived felling operations and sat there for a while! What a deal. I think that Icehouse is a fairly cheap brand so I'm getting off easy. And on Wednesday, I stopped to cut a jill poke out of a road and there was a shiny quarter right there. I better buy a lottery ticket!
Any other amazing stories of survival?

 

[wood4heat]

I got one for ya.
More than ten years ago I was up snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows. After a long day I'm in the parking lot and realize my keys had fallen out of a pocket that had either come unzipped or hadn't been zipped to begin with. Total panic, really no one I could call so out of desperation I ran into the Lodge to check the lost and found. Unbelievably someone had found them and turned them in. The miracle was that I has spent almost the entire day shredding untracked snow in the back country. :jawdrop:

 

[ray benson]

I got one for ya.
More than ten years ago I was up snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows. After a long day I'm in the parking lot and realize my keys had fallen out of a pocket that had either come unzipped or hadn't been zipped to begin with. Total panic, really no one I could call so out of desperation I ran into the Lodge to check the lost and found. Unbelievably someone had found them and turned them in. The miracle was that I has spent almost the entire day shredding untracked snow in the back country. :jawdrop:

Probably dropped them in the parking lot near your car.

 

[2dogs]

Last Sunday I was dropping some pine and fir trees at a Boy Scout camp in the Sierras and found a 1954 half dollar on the ground where we were working. The camp director told me to keep it.

In August at Philmont I found a nice elk shed. I told a ranger and discovered he had been searching for one all summer. He was very happy!

 

[forestryworks]

Philmont is a beautiful place

got to go there twice back in my boy scout days...

 

[04superduty]

My grandpa goes deer hunting ever year up north. every year they dig a new out house pit. one night probably 10 years ago he was using the facilities and you can guess where his small flashlight went, yep down into the hole. fast forward at least 5 years to deer camp. my uncle was digging a new outhouse pit and found my grandpas flashlight. the batteries where still good and the light still worked. it did need some cleaning up but to this day he still uses that light.

 

[sloth9669]

the same light

what is your address ill mail you the 10 bucks so the poor man does not have to use the poo light:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Kiwilogger]

I've got a beauty.

A mate of mine crashed his motorbike on the top of Orewa Hill here in NZ, in the course of the accident he lost his trusty Zippo lighter which was a genuine Harley Davidson anniversary edition model.

A year and a half later he and I were travelling the same stretch of road when he asked me to stop so he could show me what happened. As he got out of the car, he looked down, and there was his lighter, unmarked except for some slight water staining which later polished off. Totally blew his mind, he hadn't even thought about the lighter in over a year!

 

[Stihlboy088]

Lost items

I used to work for a company called SemFuel as a Service Tech/Maintainance guy, in the spring two years ago I was mowing the lawn at one of the fleet fuel sites and lost my keys while emptying the mulch bags into the stake truck without realizing it. I ended up finishing the mowing and clean up then jumped in the truck grabbed for my keys and found I was without. Only being 17 at the time I was thinkin the boss would poke my butt and call me sally for sure, so after searching through the entire pile of grass in the back of the truck i ended up calling the locksmith and having the ignition changed and getting neww keys cut for everything. Well about a week later my keys turned up, when I went back to mow the lawn again I ended up running them through the mower about 5 feet away from where I parked the truck the previous week.

 

[manual]

I delivered firewood to a cabin back on a two track and lost a hub cap off my 98 3/4 ton pick up.
Now this don't sound bad, But the hub cap was made for a 7 lug wheel
Rare in these parts. I looked high and low for that hub cap.
The next I went a delivered more wood to the same cabin and low and behold there was the hub cap leaning against a tree by the road.
To this day I don't know who put it there. But it sure made me Happy.

 

[Stihlboy088]

Trucks

Hey Manual, I am a Swede too, anyway your trucks is too new 98 3/4 ton try a 1974 International 200 3/4 ton then maybe parts wont fly off. haha.
Stihlboy088