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  Classic Gardens October 23, 2010 at 7:50am

  We leave everything 
  
  The worst was our hayter all weekend at one of our commercial sites. 
  
  It was still there on monday morning. 
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  Sarah Russell October 23, 2010 at 7:57am

  Oh, don't get me started on this topic!! I must have lost dozens of trowels, secateurs, handrakes etc..... I think our local council should sift the green waste recycling bins for lost tools, bet they would find hundreds!! I lost my favourite trowel two years ago, and was really sad for ages because it was perfect and I couldnt find another the same. But little did I know it was a homing trowel! I dug out the compost heap on a garden I maintain, and there was my trowel, two years later, and perfectly ok!! Trouble is, I have lost it AGAIN..... am now waiting for it to resurrect itself in someone else's compost heap! :( We have actually discovered that if you have lost a tool while you are working, it is actually underneath the pile of weeds you have created. Works every time!
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  Greenlawns October 23, 2010 at 8:13am

  Secateurs getting lost are always a problem, one I lost my mobile phone whilst clearing leaves, had to get a client to ring it and found it in a bin bag in the back of the van.
  
  
  Sometimes I wish a member of my staff would get himself LOST, especially when he does stupid things, which is usually every day, things like using and finishing with the strimmer, and putting it down in the back garden (usually in the path of where I'm mowing) and going back to the van to get the blower, I get real annoyed how hard can it be to take the thing with him and put it back in the van, he's going that way anyway. I could go on about the daft things he does but it winds me up no end. on the plus side though, he's never late does everything I ask of him and he has a good attitude, just that I do the same jobs every week, so I shouldnt have to ask him, cos he did it last week. GRRR
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  Geoff Norfolk October 23, 2010 at 8:57am

  I have painted the handles of a few tools with white paint............ secateurs seem to be the biggest problem and I've had to sift through wheelie bins quite a few times! I reckon there'd be a good market for a really bright fluorescent yellow/green handle covers for Felcos.
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  Jason Felstead October 23, 2010 at 9:05am

  Ive left ladder on a job, tree cutting signs out on the pavement and luckily we went back a couple of days later and they were still there :) ive lost secatures, gloves, trowels, mobile, all sorts
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  Richard@www.seasons-garden.co.uk October 23, 2010 at 9:29am

  Hand tools tend to be the easiest items to lose here, especially weeding forks. Might be an idea to spray them with yellow marker paint or wrap some bright red tape around them.
  Secateurs are always worn and put back in belt holster along with the multi tool & swiss army knife.
  Have got into the habit of grouping all tools together in 1 place wherever I'm working so that they don't get lost and make a note of what's going back onto the van before I leave.
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  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt October 23, 2010 at 12:19pm

  Your felcos go on your belt and the boys use the cheap ones. If you have expensive tools you soon get into a mind set of always knowing where they are. Get the boys into the habit of always putting things back in their correct place in the van. If anything is missing you should notice if they all have their own positions. Think pauls's van - I bet he doesn't lose to many tools!
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  Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care October 23, 2010 at 1:06pm

  Usually try and put things back in my truck rather than put them down as I hate loosing things.
  
  I lost my favourite shovel a few weeks ago, my loppers last week (the customer kindly brought them round to my house with is cheque) and spent an hour looking for my Felco's once.
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  Doug Michael October 23, 2010 at 3:17pm

  My son and i never seem to lose small tools only large expensive ones!
  Seems to happen when i'm working alone!
  
  2 months ago i carried my hand blower and wheeled my alko mower to the van - left the blower by the side door while i put the mower in the back - answered a phone call, got in the van and drove away. By the time i realised it had gone - 30 minutes or so.
  
  2 weeks ago i lost my alko mower - only 1 year old - out of the back of the van. Door was not shut properly.
  
  I heard a clatter but assumed that my grass rake had fallen over as usual. Did some strimming then went to van to get mower only to find that it had gone! Again, by the time i retraced my route, only 2 miles, it had gone.
  
  What a bummer! It has taught me a lesson though - i am now very, very careful with tools.
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  Lawncare-4u.co.uk October 23, 2010 at 4:31pm

  sounds familiar - i have a mate who does odd days/hrs exactly the same ! lol
  
  Greenlawns said:

  Secateurs getting lost are always a problem, one I lost my mobile phone whilst clearing leaves, had to get a client to ring it and found it in a bin bag in the back of the van.
  
  
  Sometimes I wish a member of my staff would get himself LOST, especially when he does stupid things, which is usually every day, things like using and finishing with the strimmer, and putting it down in the back garden (usually in the path of where I'm mowing) and going back to the van to get the blower, I get real annoyed how hard can it be to take the thing with him and put it back in the van, he's going that way anyway. I could go on about the daft things he does but it winds me up no end. on the plus side though, he's never late does everything I ask of him and he has a good attitude, just that I do the same jobs every week, so I shouldnt have to ask him, cos he did it last week. GRRR