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Moonlite37

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It just broke
it was like this when I got it.
Poorest one I ever used
I put what gas I had in it
Didn't know what kind of oil you use

Add o list. I thing I heard them all
 
Neighbor's baler jumped time and blew up just before the end of the season- I loaned them mine. They brought it back in great shape, all greased up, hay removed from chamber and diesel sprayed around, probably in better shape for the winter than I would have left it. And they thanked me very kindly.

Fast forward a couple of months. I had a cow die, and I needed to bury her- they have a backhoe. Went down to borrow the backhoe, they told me "Oh, we don't ever loan out our equipment. Sorry." I opined "Well, you didn't seem to have much trouble borrowing from me." "Well, we didn't think it would hurt to ask. If you didn't loan out your stuff, there would have been no hard feelings." Yeah, I'll bet.
 
Neighbor borrowed several pieces of my equipment over the years, I also helped him set up his combine because he had no idea how. This spring when I asked to use something the answer was "it's old and I don't know how long it will last". Lol. My newest piece is 50 years old.
 
Worst loaning experience, let an acquaintance of a friend use my 16' trailer to move a car.

Trailer didn't come back. Called him.

"Oh it's going to be a while, I don't have a place to unload the car right now".

"Well, I need to use the trailer tomorrow".

"Sorry, I can't help you, it's going to be a few weeks".

"No, that was not part of the deal!"

I called the friend that set this up, told him what was happening. I don't know what he said to him, but I got the trailer back about a week later. Of course the plug was ripped out, wires hanging down...

In the mean time I had to go borrow another trailer to do what I needed to do. No tags, no lights, a tire blew, had to buy him a used tire.
 
(quoted from post at 15:13:15 06/18/19) Neighbor's baler jumped time and blew up just before the end of the season- I loaned them mine. They brought it back in great shape, all greased up, hay removed from chamber and diesel sprayed around, probably in better shape for the winter than I would have left it. And they thanked me very kindly.

Fast forward a couple of months. I had a cow die, and I needed to bury her- they have a backhoe. Went down to borrow the backhoe, they told me "Oh, we don't ever loan out our equipment. Sorry." I opined "Well, you didn't seem to have much trouble borrowing from me." "Well, we didn't think it would hurt to ask. If you didn't loan out your stuff, there would have been no hard feelings." Yeah, I'll bet.
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ome people are not worth the powder it would take to blow them up! :evil:
 
The ones that got me was a BIL and nephew. BIL borrowed a chainsaw. I told hi I had a can of premix and to use that. Heck he wasn't going to be cutting that much anyway. he brings it back and doesn't say a word. Go to use it and runs like garbage. SO I take it in. Gas tank and carb full of junk. So I call my BIL cause I told him to use my gas which was in a new can and not over a month old. "Well I didn't take it cause I had gas here". I made him pay for the service. I don't let him borrow anything anymore. Then my nephew. He barrows the a rototiller. I sent a can of fresh gas with that. He calls me a few days later. He's taking it in cause it isn't running right. His dad wanted to use it. So I call this other BIL. He tells me he had gas so he used that. Well I know him. Can is most likely 50 years old and sat out in the rain with no caps on. So I called the place my nephew took it into. Carb and gas tank full of rust and water. I don't lend that out anymore either.

Rick
 
I quit 'loaning' about 30 years ago - couldn't afford it. Who breaks an almost new shovel and only brings back the pieces ?
 
Moonlite37,

I do loan things...however, it gets photos before it leaves my yard. Also, I put an agreed upon price on the item, if you're not willing to take the financial risk, well, why should I?

Putting a replacement price on items really cuts down on the askers. I could use new replacements anyway. Most want to rent it for a day, well I am not a rental agency.

D.
 
My policy is not to lend out any power tool or equipment unless I go with it. Too many times I got a piece of equipment back damaged, broken, or just inoperable. If I break it, I have nobody to blame. If you break it, I am annoyed. Better I have nobody to blame than to be annoyed. My policy also applies to precision tools and complex tools.
 
I loaned a small trailer to a friend to haul some gravel to his father's grave. It came back with one tail light broke. he says "It was already broke". So i get to buy another light.

I borrowed my neighbor's lawn mower trailer to move one for a friend. " That tail light wasn't broke when you got it". So i get to buy another light. Now I am a charter member of the 'neither a borrower nor a lender be'. TDF
 
I lend stuff to my neighbor and a good friend. They both bring the items back in better shape then when I lent them out.
 
(quoted from post at 14:12:22 06/18/19) I quit 'loaning' about 30 years ago - couldn't afford it. Who breaks an almost new shovel and only brings back the pieces ?
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This made me laugh. The answer is ... only an idiot!

I loaned my brother (and I use that term loosely) my brand spankin' new hammer drill one weekend. He left it sit out in the rain for 2 days. lol
 
I lent a battery charger to a neighbor and he returned it next day and said"this thing dont work. It sparked and smoked etc." It was fairly new so I thought whats up with this??? So I asked him if he had crossed the wires. He said" red to negative and black to positive right" Las time he got anything from me.
 
Just after my daughter got married, I lent my rather new JD4700 utility tractor to my son in law. Before he brought it back he washed and waxed the tractor. But then the gas lid blew off on the way home. So he bought a new OEM lid and put it on. A week or do later I asked my SIL if he wanted to use the tractor again. He asked why, Is it dirty. Lol Over the years, he has borrowed tools, equipment, guns, money, etc. They always comes back as good or better than when it leaves.
PS. He grew up on a dairy farm.
 
Let a relative shoot my new rifle. I was standing there. What could go wrong ? He lays it across a concrete retaining wall and fires it before I can stop him. Tore most of the finish off the bottom of the beavertail fore end. Don?t even let them around your stuff !
 
Back in high school I loaned the corporate cherry picker to a friend, so he could pull his motor out of his show 1968 C10. (Dad bought it off the Snap On truck,and we shared the thing) After 3 months I tracked him down and said bring it back my brother needs it. I loaned it to David,he loaned it to Bob,he loaned someone else(Who did not know who owned it) and I found it in another shop in another county. Dad it gone and my brother have been playing the name game ever since. (Kevin s got it-Doug's got it) Even though I bought my own years ago. BTW it is a 2.5 ton unit. I bought a gear puller with my name on it at Daves dad's sale.
 
I like that story,everyone deserves a chance if they just use us,well it?s time to cut them off but if they?re appreciative and respectful it always feels good helping people out.
 
A bulding contractor had some property beside me where he stored his equipment. I had a retaining wall I need to remove and he had a skid steer jack hammer. Ask him if I could rent it to remove the wall. He told me how much so I used it. A few days later went to pay him and he said you are the the first to pay me. Most borrow and forget to pay when finished.
 
Let neighbor use my va case,returned with grill tore up busted radiator.when confronted his reply its an old used tractor dont hurt it to get scarred up.i went ballistic.
Then a guy asked the wife to use my 36 ft tri axle stock trailer.it came home with spare on ground have no idea where the other wheel went.it had new 10 ply tires.i cleaned it and a guy came by asked how much? He pulled it home.
Not a damm thing is loaned out anymore
 
NO NOT ME: Several years ago my torque wrench was missing. Apparently it was barrowed while I was gone. Asked several friends, family members if they borrowed it. Everyone tells me no not me I did not. Well I had to rent one to finish assembling the engine I was working on. About six months later it was clamped strait up in my bench vise .To this day my shop is locked unless I am home . No one ever fessed up .
 
Neighbor (now dead, but not at my hand, although I would have been justified) called one evening to ask if I had noticed he had borrowed my 4x8 Studebaker-box trailer. I said no, I hadn't noticed. (It had been sitting behind one of my sheds.) I said no problem. He said wait, there's more. He had attached the trailer to his S-10 to haul wet concrete from a you-haul-it place. I said clean it up and bring it back. He said wait, there's more. He had lost control of the truck when the overloaded trailer started to sway, and he went head-on into a semi. The cops said the trailer was illegally loaded so had to be hauled to a storage yard. I said get it back. He said wait, there's more. The wet concrete was no longer wet; it had set up at an angle, filling about half the box plus most of the stake pockets. Also, one rim had been bent and the wiring had been cut in the crash. And he had injured an ankle so couldn't do anything to get the trailer back. I told him to call his insurance company or I would call the cops and report the trailer stolen. So he found some relative to break out the hardened concrete, sort of, and dump the trailer off in my driveway. I had to rewire it and couldn't find a replacement 14-inch rim so had to buy a pair of 15s with tires from a salvage yard. This all happened about 25 years ago, and that trailer still has evidence of the concrete in the box and pockets. Addendum: I sort of got even when he and his wife were getting divorced. I bought their 8N Ford with loader and one-bottom plow from his wife at a bargain price before he had time to sell it to a co-worker. I love that tractor.

FWIW, I never borrow anything. If I need something once, I figure I'll need it again, so I have a good excuse to buy it. And I never loan anything; if someone needs something I have, I'll most likely do the work for them or at least assist so I can keep my eye on things.
 
I gotta watch my wife. She's too handy to tell someone they can borrow something from me.

I mentioned this on this forum at the time. About a month ago, over my objections, my wife insisted on loaning a riding lawn mower to our neighbors. Next time we went to use it, the engine wouldn't turn over. The cylinder was full of gasoline and the crankcase was empty of oil. I blamed the neighbors for trashing the engine, and we had words over it.

Turned out something had failed in the carburetor, causing the cylinder to fill with gas. A new OEM carb fixed it, and the mower is now the same as before. I apologized to my neighbor for blaming him, and we're back on good terms again. BUT-the bottom line is if we hadn't loaned the mower, it would have been simply our problem with the neighbor not even involved.
 
I loaned a now EX buddy a skid steer bucket, and a set of forks, and my trailer. He tore the bucket up and scrapped it. He left my forks on a job and let them get stolen. He broke the frame on my trailer.

He 'borrowed' other items without my knowledge. Found an adjustable wrench lying in his drive way. Found one of my winter coats left hanging outside for several months, on a job 2 hours away. How it wasn't stolen like the forks were I don't know.

Needless to say he is an EX friend....and my loaning days are past for the majority of my stuff.
 
I like tell the neighbors, "you've got a better chance borrowing the wife than you do my tractor/tools/etc." I will, however, go do a little job like plowing or brush hogging for them, for free. I remember several years ago, I loaned my brand new MX-8 John Deere cutter to my (former) neighbor who kept it for 3 days. I asked about it, he says oh, almost done. 3 more days pass and I came home from work and its setting in its spot by the shop. I tell the wife, gonna go mow a while! NOPE! Hoses were broke off, pto shaft bent. I was LIVID! I stormed up to the neighbor's house. He said oh, well, its fine. B.S., I said. Finally made him pay for it after threatening a lawsuit. He moved next spring, after he let some of his cattle starve to death while he was gone on vacation for 2 weeks. Some people...

Mac
 
Only loan to one person. If something happens, it gets replaced with equal or better. My wife wouldn't even loan my things to her dad. Always told him wait until he gets home and he will do it for you. Lost an engine hoist kinda like the story above. Guy at work, he retires, I don't know where he lived or have a phone #. Finally track him down after a year and it's at his son inlaws. Couldn't remember where or who he got it from.
 
Borrowed my BIL,s ladder rack one time. It did not fit my truck so I just left him mine and took his.
Popped a brake line. I spent the day underneath his truck replacing it,bleeding etc.

I took it back, told him what happened, and he had a fit. Went around bad mouthing me until the day he died.

He had also run all the gas out of my truck.
 
I am finding much amusement in this topic. I really don?t have anyone wanting to borrow my stuff. Most of the farmers around me have much larger scale and newer equipment than I do. So most of my equipment would fall into the little junk category, which is just fine with me. I have a complete line of equipment for the crops I grow, and get along fine, adding a new piece when I can. Too small for big guys, too big for little hobby fellas, just right.
 
With only a few exceptions that I refuse to lend based on the safety of the borrower (or at least that's what I tell them), I think there's a cosmic lending karma at work in the universe.

Woe, oh woe be the man who borrows another man's tool or equipment and breaks, bends, busts, or buggers it. For in doing so he calls down the worst of the bad, bad juju upon himself. Maybe it's brings athletes foot, maybe it brings busted knuckles, maybe it brings hordes of insets that crawl up the pants legs but bite only when they reach the gonadular region. You know not the day or the hour, but the Tool LBorrowing Karma shall find revenge.

The pain, brothers, is real and everlasting. I lend without fear because I believe.

Can I get an amen?

Grouse
 
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