Posted by Don-WI on August 07, 2009 at 18:36:22 from (72.135.126.248):
In Reply to: Rent on a tractor posted by The Mayor on August 07, 2009 at 16:48:04:
I'm on the same side as the others. Either do it for him at a price, or don't let him rent it. We borrowed our Massey 165 to a neighbor once to rake some hay with. They ended up putting it on their PTO driven generator that they normally used a 100+ HP tractor on. They burnt up the PTO clutch and we still had to go over and get it when we needed it a few days later.
Another time they borrowed our 285 and manure spreader to clean out their bunker silo. They forgot to trip the beater release after hauling a load so the next time around, they drove the load into the beater snapping the shear bolt. They also blew a hose on it (can't really blame them for that) that they replaced with one that was 1' too short to hook onto our other tractor...
We don't really let them borrow any equipment anymore, it's always "in use" when they ask. We do borrow their chopper boxes pretty much every year for chopping our hay, straw, and corn. We pull them up to our shop 1st, check the tires, grease, oil, etc... Then we'll test run them in the driveway before we load them.
Borrowed their disc a few years ago because it's a little heavier than ours. I broke the axel right when I was done with it and coming out of the field. I fixed it with new channel iron that was thicker than factory (to support the 250 gallon water tank used as weight on it) and even changed a flat tire on one of the tandems as good faith. The other tire was shredded and run flat for a long time, obviously not from us.
They don't always return the favor, so we don't let them borrow. We do however fix whatever breaks when we borrow.
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