Posted by JD Seller on June 04, 2018 at 19:59:17 from (199.120.93.196):
I must just be getting old enough that people think they can walk on me and I will be OK with it!!!!!! An old customer of mine called me earlier this spring. HE had a tractor break down right across the road from a farm we rent. He asked me if I had a tractor there he could borrow to finish drilling his oats. His blew the motor in his and he would have us look at it later to repair. I had my JD 4040 on that farm hooked to MY grain drill. I told him he could use the tractor BUT not to use the drill. He could borrowed the tractor. HE did that.
This afternoon I had my wife take me over to that farm so I could get the tractor and drill. I wanted to clean the drill up and put it away. Plus we rake second crop hay with that tractor and I wanted it ready to go. I started the tractor while my wife waited. It took right off and I sent her on her way, which was to town for several things. As I walked back around the barn the JD 4040 died. I could tell it ran out of fuel but I could not get to it fast enough to shut it off before it ran clear out.
The barn is dark so I had not turned the lights on to check the fuel level. I knew I had filled it right before bring it over to this farm. I only drilled ten acres of water ways, so the tractor should have had plenty of fuel. Then I remembered the neighbor borrowing it. So I check the tank and sure enough BONE dry!!! So here I am on a farm with no fuel and maybe a pair of pliers and a hammer. Got my Cell phone out. No signal. Remembered that this whole road had poor coverage due to being a long valley with limestone bluffs along it. So I thought I would just walk up to the upper field that was high enough that there should be coverage. Guess what NO coverage. So I walk back down to the road and start hiking back toward home. Not a single soil on that road this morning. I had to walk about two miles before I had cell coverage. ARRGGGGG!!!! Finally got ahold of one of my boys.
He took me home. Since we are done with planting I had taken the fuel tank out of the Pickup. So I decided to load it over fooling with cans. By the time I got fuel and got the tractor running, then home it was supper time.
I called the fellow that borrowed the tractor. I asked him how much he used the tractor. Well he told me I told him he could use it to finish his oats. Yes on THAT FARM!!! No he drilled all of the oats he planted all spring, several hundred acres. I went out and checked the tractor. He put 75 hours on it. THEN LEFT it so low on fuel I could not even get it home!!!! I called him an asked him what he was going to do with his tractor??? He said he thought we would be too high on rebuilding it so his son-in-law was going to do it in the evenings over the summer. WHATTTTTTTTT!!!!!!! I about blew a casket!!!! I told him he owed me rent on the tractor and fuel. I told him I would make it easy. I would give him some time as I told him he could borrow it. So I told him he was going to pay for 50 hours use plus the fuel.
He is all bent out of shape about it but I am not going to be walked on like that. Putting that many hours on the tractor and then leaving it with zero fuel just is not right in my opinion. Especially since we did not even get a repair job out of it. If he had put fuel in it and we got some repair work on his tractor then I would have chalked it up to customer service. Since nether happened I feel he "USED" me.
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