Loaning out stuff...

[Gary_in_Indiana]

I know just what you mean. I actually had one guy want to use one of these to plow snow for profit. He did offer to give me something like $100 a day for each day he used it. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Gee, thanks...

Needless to say, I passed on this opportunity. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

I had a need for some dozer work and looked into renting a D-3 from the local Cat dealer. Since I've had some truck engine work done there the service manager made sure I got a good deal on the rental. I could have it from Friday afternoon to Monday AM for $300. They even cut the delivery and pick up charge in half to $50.

I thought that was one heck of a good price. The problem is, I have never run a dozer and this would a learn on the job situation. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Understand I have enough ego to believe I could do this. Fortunately, I have enough sense not to try to learn how to do it next to my building. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I spoke with a friend of a friend about doing what I wanted done. He looked at it and said his professional, experienced operator could probably do it with his D-4 in "a day... maybe a few hours more depending on just how much (I) want(ed) done once he got there." He offered me $50 an hour for the whole deal (dozer and operator) based on dozer running time only.

He even offered to bring a load of stone for the drive just for the cost of the stone since he would "need to bring the (tri-axle) dump truck out to get the dozer there, anyhow."

Hmmm... Spend $350 and hours in the sun to end up with a job done by a first time amateur or spend $400 to maybe $600 for a professional job by someone insured and bonded and get 15-18 yards of stone delivery thrown in (saving my countless trips with my little F-450's)???

It didn't take me too long to make that choice. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Even if you offered to loan me your dozer for free and deliver it, too, I think I made the right choice. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Taylortractornut]

I have a select few people ill loan stuff to. I once let a friend of mine fix a clutch in my dune buggy for him to use it a week got nearly home and it quit and he left it on the road and told me where it was. THat cured me right then . I think i was 17 at the time. Ive learned that folks dont care what happens to some one elses property. I have a Friend thats in his seventies ill loan any thing to because if its got the least thing wrong with it when he gets it comes back new. Hes a retired diesel mechanic and we trade stuff like that. I go weld something in the field for him or take the portable welder there for him and i use his C65 truck with a 5 ton boom. Right now he has my 500 dollar Ingersol Rand impact wrench. I know if it breaks with him it surely would have broke if i used it. But if it broke and him using it it would be fixed. He needed a load of top soil and had access to a pile and i lent him my F600 and he had a blow out that tore off my mud flap and a light. I told him not to worry i had some replacements. My truck came back with new lights and flaps, and the hydraulic leak was fixed. Now another fella out on the highway has a new trailer, and a backhoe he always comes to borrow my low trailer. I told him to lower his hitch so the other day he comes in with my trailer and his backhoe on it and the front tires off the ground. I sent him packing the otherday when he came to borrow my trailer and his hitch was still up in the air. He called the otherday wanting to borrow my gooesneck to haul his tractor and baler home from a big haying job, the last time he needed to use my trailer i thought it was for personal use moving his tractor but he was going around moving his tractor for his haying busness. When i went to get him to break a peice of sheetmetal he charged me 20 bucks. I went right then and got my trailer. Ive been called alot of things [censored] for one i reply this a hole has a nice trailer though. Dad loans his box blade and spreader to our nieghbors, the other day he loaned a trailer to a fella we lease a tractor from and he didnt block under the rear when unloading and made the the equalizers push down level with the springs a linkages, he pulled it hom and the axle was catty cornered, with a tire rubbing the fender That bothers dad a bit after we went to hook to it and had to fix it.
No real harm done but still bothered him. Its a touchy subject sometimes I hate it when ill tell some one that ill go dio it for them and they say oh i wanted to di it my self. Kinda makes ya wonder.

 

[herbenus]

My wife loaned my 24 foot aluminum ladder to the single lady across the street once. Now you wouldn't think you could hurt a ladder. She helped her cut a limb out of a tree. The limb fell and bent one of the rungs. She now has that story to tell when she tells people my policy: I don't loan any tools out, period.

 

[Mrwurm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( >I'm amazed at how the most casual acquaintance will, upon learning I have something like this, rather assumptively say, "Really? I may want to borrow that sometime" as though it's a foregone conclusion I would loan it to them.
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Yep Steve, it happened to me today. A lady at work asked me if I had a live-catch trap. I said yes. She said, "good, I'm gonna need it." No question either asked or implied. She just assumes she is gonna use it. I don't really mind loaning out this particular item, but the method really irritates me.

 

[Currmudgeon]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Friends don't loan stuff to friends if they want to remain friends ) )</font>

A bunch of years ago, I lost a bunch of tools in a divorce. Some time later, I was bitching at a friend, "If you hadn't returned that wheelbarrow, I'd still have it." /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The things that scare me is stuff like chain saws. My ex used to work in the Emergency Room, and I've heard all the bstories.

With one exception (and he has his own saw) my answer would be, "No, but I'll come out and cut the stuff for you." That is assuming he's not going into the logging business. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[ultrarunner]

I loaned out my log splitter to family... sweet little 22 ton multi-position split many logs.

I was not using much anymore so I let the person keep it over winter.

The wife decided the fluid looked dirty so she drained the 30 weight and refilled with gallons of John Deere Anti Freeze...

She mentioned to her husband the new fluid was Green... he said show me and sure enough...

They flushed it several times..

Time will tell.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I tell friends & neighbors I'll loan anything if I go with it. They want to borrow my tractor, bush hog, auger, backhoe, etc. I tell them I'll be happy doing what they want FOR FREE!
Some say ok, other's get pixxed which I'll never understand.
One neighbor takes advantage of me, which I may have to change that "free" policy!

 

[Yander]

This is a tricky one, I agree on not loaning to people who don't know how to use, I'll add respect, the equipment they are borrowing. There is one very good friend of mine who I have offered to loan my older tractor to but he has never taken me up on it and I'm actually glad. He is not mechanical and I could see him tearing something up but he is a good enough friend I would take that chance.

He loaned me his ZTR one year when mine was out of action. I not only took care of it, I serviced it for him oil, air filter and blades. He doesn't do that stuff himself so he was pretty happy.

I loan about anything to my boys and will just give them instructions that they respect and follow.

I loaned a small toyota pickup truck to a friend years ago who said he wanted to haul some rocks. Should have been a big red flag for me because people who don't understand trucks, payloads and weight limits on things shouldn't be hauling rocks in other people's vehicles. I had no idea he had no idea about those things but when I got my little toyota back it was jacked up, sat slightly at a tilt and was not the same after that. I wasn't happy but I learned an important lesson.

I would probably loan my tractor to some of you before I would loan it to some of my non tractor owning friends/neighbors. I do a little bit of free things for my neighbors but they are pretty good about not overasking.

 

[ultrarunner]

The rocks is a good one...

Let's say a group of high school kids were picking up free dirt with dad's pickup... no I was not one of them but got the call saying the truck wouldn't make it up the hill.

The load was heaped and the trailer ball nut had been dragging on the ground...

I don't know how they steered it!