Trailer Borrowing

luv2wrench · Feb 27, 2012

How does everyone feel about letting a buddy borrow a trailer?? How far is too far?

Seems like when ever i borrowed a friends trailer, something stupid beyond my control ALWAYS happened no matter how careful i was.

If by chance everything went smooth, i would was the trailer and fix any wiring or lights that needed attention.

I was always taught to leave things better then you found it.

Ray · Feb 27, 2012

My trailers have to be behind my truck to be insured.You can get into a lot of legal problems if he gets into a wreck.

730d se · Feb 27, 2012

If you lose a "friend" because you turn them down for a request to borrow something like a trailer, you have not lost a true friend.

Two Dogs · Feb 27, 2012

A "friend" borrowed my small trailer to haul some pea gravel. It came back with one tail light lens broke with some of the pea gravel still in it. "It was already broke when I borrowed it". Another time I borrowed my neighbor's trailer to haul my lawnmower to town. "I don't remember that light being broke before". Now it's neither a borrower nor a lender be. TDF

luv2wrench · Feb 27, 2012

Wouldn't his insurance cover the trailer? Assuming he would have full coverage?

Maybe that varies state to state?

I have my 2010 Hillsbro (Which i love) insured from theft or damage not cover while towing. I was very cheap to get actually.

luv2wrench · Feb 27, 2012

That is very very true in many other forms tooooo

luv2wrench · Feb 27, 2012

I tell ya what. I got 3 buddies with 3 different trailers.

#1 buddy. Has a bumper pull 14k that does not track staight from being overloaded and has been sand blasted by gravel from pulling it 60mph on gravel. Fenders are beat up from abuse.

#2 buddy. Has a 12K tilt deck 16ft bumper pull. Not one tire matches the others and are truck tires. I think one even says NO HUNTING on it.
and trailer is beat up. Wiring looks like if a trailer could burn up from wiring it would.

#3 buddy. Has a BRAND NEW 17K over the deck 25ft single double axle goose with 22.5 tires i think. Too new to ask to borrow in my eyes.

i have a 22ft low deck goose with a winch. I wash it when done, check lug nuts at everyuse and try to store it inside when shop isn't a mess with torn down machines.

All three always say i can borrow them at anytime.

I see the care theirs get and don't wish to lend mine or borrow theirs due to something happening on my end.

Plus i like the fact if i want to drag my trailer to Montana i can and not feel bad about the 3000 miles i put on it.

My buddies know i will walk 5 miles outta my way not to trouble them but come running when they need help and they get mad about it. Maybe they should?? Maybe i should grow a pair and just ask for the help or to borrow?

I think the fences make good neighbors rules apply with trailers???

rrlund · Feb 27, 2012

Don't even get me started. I had a couple of guys borrowing mine to haul scrap,and they were doing it for a living. They brought it back with the whole back broke off,then they were stupid enough to ask if I wanted the piece back!!? That was the end of that.
I had a deal with another guy who was trading me straw for manure. He came and got my trailer,said he was going to bring me another load of straw. A week later,without hearing anything from him,I saw him go past the house with it with a load of hay of his own,headed for the hay auction.
I could go on and on. Let's just say my trailer lending days are about over.

thurlow · Feb 27, 2012

My brother and I swap stuff around and I've hauled things for some special friends, but I don't loan ANYTHING (except to brother); took me a long time to develop this attitude.

fixerupper · Feb 27, 2012

A young man I know has a heavy dual tandem trailer that I borrow a couple of times a year but I never pay him in money. He's always too broke to keep it in shape so I throw tires on it and fix the wiring before it goes back. Heck of it is, that stuff is worn out or broke because the last guy he lent it to abused it and brought it home in bad shape! Kind of irks me to fix something someone else broke on a trailer I don't own, knowing that this same person will borrow it again and break something else. And he never pays up! Jim

oldtanker · Feb 27, 2012

2 local guys went in together on a 14K bumper pull trailer and figured that they would rent it out for 25 a day to help pay for it. They rented it out about 6 times total and it got beat on hard. Now they let no one use it. I have access to a 14K trailer that a shirt tail relative owns. I'm the only person he lets use it. I have a 8K tandum trailer that I will pull to help people out but don't ask to borrow it.

Rick

Paul from MI · Feb 27, 2012

I don't loan mine. If a friend is good enough that I'd even consider it, he's good enough for me to haul whatever he wants for him as a favor. Then I have helped a buddy and if I damage my trailer I did it myself. Saves a lot of grief.

37chief · Feb 27, 2012

I am just like you. I never ask for help, I have worked by my self for so long it botheres me when someone comes around and tries to help me. I never try to borrow anything, maybe a tool from my brother. Not like my neighbor he is never shy about using my stuff. Welder,wood splitter, lathe, and leaves it a mess. He stopped borrowing my rototiller, he just kept it. I don't really mind I have another one. I know it's there if I need another. Stan

Bob Huntress · Feb 27, 2012

Pintle eyes! I have a pintle hook and eye hitch. When someone wants to borrow my giant trailer, that usually settles it for them. Who wants to borrow a trailer with a pintle eye. If they thought about it they would just ask to borrow the reciever, also and, someday someone will think of it

806man · Feb 27, 2012

Told a friend once he could use my trailer if he ever needed it. Came through town one afternoon and saw what I thought was my trailer behind his truck setting at a gas station. Went home, looked in the shed and it was gone. Called his house and asked for him. "He's gone to pick up a stranded relative 2 states away" she said. He brought it home 3 days later and said "You told me I could use it if I ever needed it". Funny, I just figured he would ask before going out to my shed and just driving away with it. Needless to say my invitation to him was suddenly recalled. Some people. Go figure....

Ray · Feb 27, 2012

It might if you could trust him to have the right insurance.Most companies are picky about coverage.A borrowed trailer is in a grey area.Even rental companies make you sign an insurance form.

Tom OConnor · Feb 27, 2012

I had a 3 point hitch cement mixer years ago and spent all summer building a grain system because I didn't have enough money to afford redi-mix. A neighbor came over that fall and wanted to borrow my mixer and I said I would loan it to him if he promised to NEVER BRING IT BACK. He kept his promise and I never had to put another shovel of gravel in it. As far as borrowing a trailer, it seems that every time that I have something to haul it requires a different type of trailer and I have this great place that I rent trailers and it is very reasonable. The last time I rented a 53 foot new semi van it was only about $200.00 a week. You can carry five tractors at a time in a fifty three footer if two of them are smaller tractors or at least one has a tricycle front end.

luv2wrench · Feb 27, 2012

very true. thats usually the case with me.

NEKS · Feb 27, 2012

This was in the middle 50's when there was community get togethers at the one room school house. Dad heard the neighbor tell another that he never borrows anything, then he don't have to loan anything. This neighbor had two of dad's 4 wheel hay trailers borrowed at the time.

VicS · Feb 27, 2012

I usted to have a 18ft car hauler, that the whole trailer jacked up and you needed no ramps. My brother-in-law borrowed it more than I used it. One day I told him that, and he should own it. Well he just paid me what it cost new. The other day he said. I wish you would borrow the trailer again. I asked why? He said the lights and the brakes don't work! I told him he was on his own. You guys are right, when someone wants to borrow my trailer, I just go and pull it with my truck, that way if anybody wrecks it, it will be me! Vic

NCWayne · Feb 27, 2012

Until I got my own I often borrowed a buddies tandem axel car trailer. So far I've put a left rear tire on it, a right rear tire on it, and redone the wiring on it several times to make it suitable to move the items I needed moved over the distance I needed to move it. Now that I have a trailer of my own I've let several people 'borrow' it also. Problem is the guys doing the borrowing don't have a vehicle to pull it with so me and my truck always get borrowed at the same time..........

Nathan (SD) · Feb 28, 2012

Wow. Am I the only guy that has good luck. I bought a trailer for $1000, 25 years ago. I have probably made $5000 renting it out and used the heck out of it myself. I could probably still get $1500 out of it. Yes I have fixed light plug ins that got drug down the road and replaced safety chains that got drug down the highway but is is pennies compared to the money I have made. I have had a few non payers too. I consider it the best money I never got. Gave me an excuse to not deal with them ever again for the small price of $20.

dhermesc · Feb 28, 2012

My younger brother had a bumper pull trailer for two years - he got hit to borrow it so many times he traded it for a gooseneck (like he should have bought in the first place). Most people aren't set up to pull a gooseneck.

I rent a trailer from our local ACE. They charge $30 a day. Since I only need one a couple times a year I can't afford to own one for as little as it costs to rent theirs. And it doesn't have flat tires and the trailer lights always work.

DENNIS MIN · Feb 28, 2012

Luv2wench,

I loaned my trailer to a gent from where I work.

I told him it was $1400, if it came back damaged, he'd keep it for that price.

He took the financial risk, not I. That's how I handle it.

He borrowed it, twice.

D.

BigMarv1085 · Feb 28, 2012

Let my brothers preacher borrow one of my 16 footers back in september and he has not returned it yet.

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