Missing saw Monday morning

[forestgough]

I once managed to get two saws trapped in the same tree,had to leave them stuck overnight.Mate said if he had known he would have taken the bodies off and hidden somewhere just to see my face next morning,when I found just the bar and chains sticking out of the trunk.

[Climbingmagnus]

This thread is bringing back some memories for me! I used to work as a labourer/jack-of-all-trades for a thatcher a few years ago.

 

I'd spent most of the day loading up the Transit tipper with straw we were stripping off a roof. There's a knack to stamping it down just right so you can build a good high stack. (If people don't stop and stare as you drive past, it's only half a load!). It's about 3pm, I've been stamping about in the back of the truck with a pitchfork all day and built a stack that is a good 6ft higher than the cab. I'd better get off to the tip thinks I. Right, where are the the keys. Maybe in my jacket, nope. Not in my trousers. Not in the ignition. It slowly dawns on me that the last time I remember having the keys was in my unbuttoned shirt breast pocket that morning when I started loading. After nearly an hour of looking for the keys and resigning myself to the fact that they're in the stack somewhere I go to sit in the cab to ring the boss to ask him to spend three hours driving out to our site with the spare truck key. Gulp! The phone has just started ringing, I look up and the keys are on top of the dashboard!!!!!