Stuff you've found Ductwork

[bmac]

A guy I used to work for told me about a time he was changing out a furnace and a rat came crawling out of the return. He said he killed it with a hammer and about a half hour later a kid came down and asked him if he'd seen his pet rat! He said no.

[woodsman]

A guy I worked with found 13 grand in a paper sack in the return duct of a tear out. Apparently, the old ladys' late husband had been saving for a rainy day and didn't tell her. Had to have been his since he lived there for 40+ years and the furnace was 25. I guess the old lady cried for an hour when she was handed the sack.

[whitesheating13]

A guy I used to work for told me about a time he was changing out a furnace and a rat came crawling out of the return. He said he killed it with a hammer and about a half hour later a kid came down and asked him if he'd seen his pet rat! He said no.

That is horrible. lol

[naysayer]

Whenever I have to pull a dead bird from a duct or a furnace flue pipe the bird will always be an english sparrow. Whats up with that?

[Big]

My wife ,son and few friend were helping move the grandmother , her husband just died and they sold her home. There was a stack of red brick in the garage that she had to get rid of. As she stack it in my pick up truck ,2 ammo boxes appeared . You guess it , the old man had them fill with more
about 30K . So we tore apart the garage and found about a total of 50K . We gave it to the old lady and she began to curse her dead husband.That SOB made me skim on everything and he had all that money

[coolerfixer]

Man, this made me remember way back when I was an apprentice, about 1978 I think. Went to a job in a small outlying town, older home. All I really remember was that on the second day, I went into an upstairs bedroom, found a shotgun blast hole in the wall and a note on the bed. Evidentally, the owners son had done the deed, the ambulance picked up the kid, the door was closed and I got to be the next one in there (years later). Still creeps me out.

[JohnnyB60]

I found an old movie camera. The owners said they never saw it before, but then the uncle came in. He quickly grabbed it out of my hands and ran out the door. I think he knew what it was.

[hvac_superman]

I found a bunch of weed growing around a condenser once.

[Some Dude]

I found a bunch of weed growing around a condenser once.

Did you have a ................................call back in a few weeks?

[hvac_superman]

Did you have a ................................call back in a few weeks?

I pretty much played dumb but one of the cute flowers fell into my bucket

[options]

Cleaned the ducts in a bar once and found $63 in small bills wrapped around the squirrel cage. The heat exchanger had holes big enough for me to put my hand thru! Gave it all to the new owner figuring it might help ease his pain of having to buy a new furnace. Also found a large cache of money bags once, but called the homeowner in before removing them and never did find out what was inside.

Lots of dead mice, chipmunks, bats, birds, one flying squirrel, several live kittens (the owner lets them play inside) and the legs of one dead one that fell onto the heat exchanger and couldn't get out! Couldn't resist and she turned a dozens of green when I showed them to her!

Porn magazines, cigarettes and ashtrays. Live ammo a few feet away from the heat exchanger and the usual dirt, toys, cards, marbles and coins.

[Some Dude]

What , you guys dont store your ammo in the furnace?

[options]

Prefer the oven!

[spotts]

I remember my dad sellin a dragster. He put 16 grand in a mason jar and hid it in the ashes of his garage woodstove so ma wouldnt find it.

That fall there was a cold night. You havent guessed it all. He came to work the next day with the crap burned outa his hands. Remembered right on time, good thing there was a lack of oxygen in that jar. That x-mas my bonus was in charred bills! [just 10 of the 160]

[garyed]

I was doing a change out on a package unit & repairing some holes in the ductwork under a house when I noticed a whole family of possums in the ductwork. I called animal control but they wouldn't come out so I left the duct open over night & returned in the morning & they appeared to be gone. Finished the job & noticed a few of the little ones hanging around under the house. I never had any more problems so I guess they all got out of the ductwork.

[GREGHVACGUY]

Got call that there was a duck in the furnace got to the house to find it still alive told home owner will not remove it till it was dead call us back when it stops moveing. thay had to go to work so we turned the heat up. the nosie it mad. it stoped moving.
When i was new went on a install and found 4 coffie cans on top of duct work put them to the side home owner cam down 4 times and never said anything about them. me and the other guys wonted to take them.but at the end of the 2nd day we gave them to her. she said that she did not know they where there the house was her mom and dads(thay built home and where the only one to live there)when thay passed she moved in. We should have kept them. two days latter she stopped by the shop and gave 600.00 cash. she would neaver tell us how much.

[options]

Why wouldn't you take a duck out and either release it or put it out of its misery?

[Some Dude]

Duh


http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/duck-phobia-2.html

[specgrade]

I found a mercury head 1949 dime, couple crayons and a sterling silver baby spoon when I helped demo my old gas gravity octopus.

[jayhawker]

> Across the street from the job I was at, there was a dead guy wrapped
around the condensing unit. Police took half the unit as evidence

> Diaper in the intake of a return duct at a movie theater, puffed up to the
size of a duck

> six foot soil pipe cracker on top of a stud wall

> Snapping turtle in a air cooled chiller at a concrete plant

> Six foot black snake up in the wheel well of a work truck

> Possum in a package system at a residential call

> Nothing but the spiral wire of four 10" flex duct runs, rats had chewed the
duct down to the wire at concrete plant in a mobile office trailer on a river
bank