Re: Need advice! Bro-in-law has Dad's tractor!

Posted by MF Poor on July 20, 2006 at 14:34:46 from (67.141.9.51):

In Reply to: Need advice! Bro-in-law has Dad's tractor! posted by Brian in NY on July 20, 2006 at 09:57:37:

The story sounds a lot like a simular turn of evens with my FIL's tractor and a couple of my brother-in-laws. (Father/son/son-in-law) Being on the outside looking in, I had a good perspective of what was really happening. The SIL got FIL's old Oliver (1650) It wasn't just happenstance. SIL, with his wife in tow, went to FIL and asked for it. FIL let him have it. Son came along and wanted it too. FIL, not wanting to start a fight, just kept his mouth shut. (Not exactly the right way to handle things, but after all, it is his tractor. He has the right to do whatever he so desires with it.) He told me later, had he known what trouble all this was going to cause, he would have sold the tractor to whom ever offered the most, favoring total strangers over his own family.

"Dad" did what he wanted and son got his feelings hurt. Nothing the old man could have done at that stage would have solved the problem. He was only going to make someone mad. He'd already upset one family member, why make that TWO.

I'm not trying to say this is what happened in your case, just that it's your dads decision and that's that.

I'd start by talking it over with your BIL. Let him know how much you'd like to keep your fathers old tractor. You'd be suprised at how some folks can be understanding when you don't expect that to happen. If that fails, well, talk to dad one more time. Then you just have to except a bitter pill if you don't get what you want. That's the way life is sometimes.

And yes, I do think it's a shame to let a tractor with that much sentimental value go to waste. That's what finally happened to my FIL's Oliver.

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