Loan a Yanmar

[PILOON]

If your neighbor is a friend,, that's a good way to lose a friend.
If your neighbor is not a friend, he has a monsterous set of cajones.

Who pays for break downs ? Borrow or rent ? Presumable, you have the Yanmar's to use them. What will you do without the one he borrows.

Best tell him you have projects for your Yanmar, and cannot accomodate him.

Just too often the guy will say 'it was due', I was just the last user.
AKA, the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Even saw that between 2 brothers.

Lent mine once and only last time!

I had specified that he trailer it which he did to pick it up.
Weeks later I had to pressure him to return it, which he did but I happened to be somewhere on his return route.
I could hear a screaming over revving engine as it went downhill followed by the crashing gears as he tried to downshift a non syncro transmission.
Adding insult to injury, I later needed to use a mini excavator but he refused saying it was his bread and butter machine.
Yep, one way street.

Now I say, sure but with me on it plus $$/hr. and 1 hr travel.

 

[JohnDeereJoey]

Lending, and especially "renting" something like a tractor is an invitation for anything from a new friend to defending yourself in court. I might be able to make a friend another way, but no way am I going to expose myself to a court case.

"No good deed goes unpunished."

 

[Williy]

I don't get visitors until I got my tractor
I told both neighbors that my insurance
don't cover off my property and its
liability that I don't intend to get involved
with.

willy

 

[winston1]

this is what can happen. 2016 Kubota L3901 HST - farm & garden - by owner - sale

 

[EddieWalker]

this is what can happen. 2016 Kubota L3901 HST - farm & garden - by owner - sale

That really sucks

 

[careyo63]

I don't see no reason for that to happen besides being a Bota. Neighbor Knew It?.

 

[California]

this is what can happen. 2016 Kubota L3901 HST - farm & garden - by owner - sale

Threw a rod through the block at 5 years / 1200 hours?

I don't see how the neighbor could have done that unless somebody tinkered with the governor, or the oil level was low when he loaned it out. Lugging it down should just stall it - not destroy it.

That's not steep country, he couldn't have over-revved it running downhill. What else could cause this?

 

[RogerDL]

Threw a rod through the block at 5 years / 1200 hours?

I don't see how the neighbor could have done that unless somebody tinkered with the governor, or the oil level was low when he loaned it out. Lugging it down should just stall it - not destroy it.

That's not steep country, he couldn't have over-revved it running downhill. What else could cause this?

It's possible he put a hole in the oil pan or something. It does say it's a long story!

 

[JohnDeereJoey]

Threw a rod through the block at 5 years / 1200 hours?

I don't see how ...

Yep, fertile ground for disagreement here!

 

[airbiscuit]

Who is ready to pay $11,000 for a 6 year old tractor with a blown engine?