Been for a bike ride this afternoon and there was a starter motor on the road! still nice and warm, someone is in for a suprise when they try to start their car next! It slowed me down as I took it home, works fine has the numbers 96 518 987 and TX 120 on it.
tea / keyboard interface moment there
That's funny ,but let's hope the main starter cable doesn't short on the block if it does they may not have a car later!!!!
Most common thing I find on the side of the road are shoes... pairs or singles, they're quite a regular thing. And not old ones either, some
pretty expensive looking trainers and work boots.
Yesterday I did catch sight of what looked to be a nice 3/8" ratchet in the middle of the road, unfortunately I couldn't pull over and go
back for it.
I picked up a ratchet strap last week.
Funny you mention a rachet I found a nice 3/8 Halfords one also a lambda sensor socket. I guess its just a variation of beach combing. My wife is not
impressed though 
I remember as a bicycle riding kid of 13 finding men's top shelf magazines. Not just one a whole bundle tied up with string at the side of the
road (think they were new, no page's stuck together).
Found a single boot in the middle of a field dog walking this afternoon. I am yet to figure out why I only ever find single boots or shoes, and what decision was made to leave just one behind?!
On another forum, i frequent, one of the guys had posted about odd noises on his 7, that he could never find
untill one day he accelerated away, and his car jumped violiently into the air
He had driven over his own alternator
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I remember as a bicycle riding kid of 13 finding men's top shelf magazines. Not just one a whole bundle tied up with string at the side of the road (think they were new, no page's stuck together
I have found countless tools on the side of the road. The locost makes it really easy to pick them up. Especially having a RHD car in a LHD country!!!!!!
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Most common thing I find on the side of the road are shoes... pairs or singles, they're quite a regular thing. And not old ones either, some pretty expensive looking trainers and work boots.
Back in the days...
Tortoises...
Crabs...
Potatoes..
Pencils.
Not in a distant past:
A boa constrictor (uxcan) in a gas station...
Horseshoe crab at a diner by the sea...
Large block of concrete in the first lane of an unlit motorway in the early hours of the morning.
Unconscious cyclist who'd been riding head down and failed to see a kitchen drawer lying in the road, despite the road being dead straight and it
being broad daylight!
Roll of carpet in the 2nd lane of the M6. Not exactly found - I saw it fall out of the side of a curtainsider and had to dodge around it. As I was in
the kit, with full weather gear, I couldn't put my hand out to try and point him to the hard-shoulder and it took me miles to stop him and tell
him.
Stuck in traffic near tub shelf: lower half of a horses leg, lying there on the central reservation.
I found just over £600 once. That was a happy day.
50 Ton hydraulic jack
Settee and two chairs in a pass - strangely enough all were upright on their legs - truck stopped round the next bend with rest of suite on it.
Dead cow
Rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish.... you're very aware of the road surface on a motorcycle.
Ratchet straps are very common lethality, as are blocks of wood, bricks, shredded tyre fragments and diesel.
The pile of gravel, carnage and crap at junctions.. frightening.
A more recent hazard... Bottles of Urine!!
I found £1 yesterday in the Waitrose car park.
Not enough to shop in waitrose though.
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A more recent hazard... Bottles of Urine!!
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Ratchet straps are very common lethality,
The weirdest thing we've seen was a cow. Not out of the ordinary in rural Devon but this was on Basset Green Avenue in Southampton. Still no idea where it came from or where it was going.
Most useful was a hefty chain and hook useful for the heavy items dangling from the engine crane
Back on the cow theme the worst was a herd of 19 Aberdeen Angus cattle strewn down the road legs in the air dead as dodos then an artic with all the
front stoved in. It turned out that someone left a gate open and they'd wandered out in the middle of a dark night. The driver would have been on
top of them as soon as he spotted them. It's a fast bit of road heading East at the end of the Appleby by pass on the A66. Quite often when
I'm pressing on in the dark I have that scenario in the back of my mind.
nice new set of four legged chain brothers on a roundabout.
i have three snap on spanners from different roundabouts
ratchet straps i have stopped collecting
various sockets and screwdrivers.
the dirty bits at roundabouts a favorite places to find stuff.
best one though was a kids ride on tractor found in a layby, i took it to the police and was given it back un claimed three months later. my nephew
loved it
The M11 and the A14 are littered with tyre carcasses , and ratchet straps .i once picked up a new roll of scanners that fell off the back of a lorry and a pair of brand new Jerry cans left by the side of the road. The worst thing I found was a guys body when I lived beside what was the A604 which is now the M11 A14 junction just north of Cambridge
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nice new set of four legged chain brothers on a roundabout.
i have three snap on spanners from different roundabouts
ratchet straps i have stopped collecting
various sockets and screwdrivers.
the dirty bits at roundabouts a favorite places to find stuff.
best one though was a kids ride on tractor found in a layby, i took it to the police and was given it back un claimed three months later. my nephew loved it
Probably an auto correct! BTW the starter motor seems to be from a Matiz if anyone is looking for one.
Many years ago when I was driving buses found a piece of steel, 5" wide 12" thick and about 3 foot long, lying right on the line in the
middle of the road, thought it would come in handy and its still in the garage..
Couple weeks ago found a road sign, about 6' by 5' lying in the middle of the road, only just fitted in the back of me van, all in the
search of safety!
Trunking up and down the motorways now there's tons of crap falls of tons of wagons and pickups, just last week someone had left a caravan lying
on its side in lane 3
Truck tyres, mudguards Suzie's, brushes, spades, straps and ropes and chains... it goes on and on! In the services the flip flop polish drivers
leaving empty beer cans all over the place, that worry's me a bit...
The alternator fell off my Land Rover once.
I only figured it out a month later, so it's still somewhere in the Cotswold countryside unless one of you "road combers" hasn't
picked it up!
I was once meditating doing the lotus position in the back of a van on the m6
AND I FOUND MYSELF 
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What the f#ck is a four legged chain brother?
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What the f#ck is a four legged chain brother?
Try looking here;
http://www.handystraps.co.uk/2-Leg-7mm-Brothers-Chain-lifting-sling-CS7M1211.html
Definitely not an auto correct or a typo ![
Once when walking home from the pub in the centre of Leicester I found a large farm pitchfork in the centre of the A47. I thought someone could run over that and cause a accident. I picked it up and carried it home. About 10 minutes later the Po Po pulled up along side me and asked what I was doing with a dangerous weapon. I think I was on the verge of being arrested for carrying a dangerous weapon but in the end they decided to take the fork and leave me be.