Garage Borrowed - 6 weeks and counting

[Soundguy]

the bean counter is beholden to the corp exec, who is in turn under the shareholders wanting returns.

mean cycle...

 

[BobRip]

the bean counter is beholden to the corp exec, who is in turn under the shareholders wanting returns.

mean cycle...

This is always a balance. The company who makes too costly a product will loose market and go out of business. Too bad a product and they will still be gone from warranty cost and lost sales. If we did not cost cut we would be paying a million for a car and not $30,000.

 

[grsthegreat]

You've lasted a lot longer than i would have lasted.... id have taken it out alot sooner.

I used to loan my tools out to neighbors and i never got them returned. I had to go get them. My new policy is "Sure you can borrow my 28' extension ladder, but theirs a $100.00 deposit .. cash... if you bring it back within 1 week, you get the cash back. If i have to come hunt it down, i keep the money.

Since doing this, i haven't had any equipment NOT be returned.

 

[BobRip]

I guess I should state my policy.
If the car is not gone off of my property by January 20, there will be a $25 per day fee. If it is not gone by January 27 it will be towed to the owner's home at his expense. A $100 deposit is required the next time he comes to work on the car.

 

[k0ua]

You are so right. Every mechanic should be required to work as an engineer for one year. :laughing:

As an Engineer I would like to state my position. I was a Telecom Technician for about 22 years, Then got a job in engineering. I put together on paper (well actually Excell) Phone, Data and Paging systems that someone else will have to install. A couple weeks ago I was called on to go out on an incomplete installation that the technician could not complete due to having to go in for surgery. I needed to go back 3 times on this install to make programming changes, and "sell" how this system was going to work for the customer, and tailor it for the best results. I will say I not only enjoyed the time, but I would like to think that it was a great learning experience for me to get back to where the "rubber meets the road" instead of just dealing with the facts and figures. So I agree wholeheartedly that yes the engineers need to turn the wrenches once in a while.

James K0UA

 

[Robert_in_NY]

You've lasted a lot longer than i would have lasted.... id have taken it out alot sooner.

I used to loan my tools out to neighbors and i never got them returned. I had to go get them. My new policy is "Sure you can borrow my 28' extension ladder, but theirs a $100.00 deposit .. cash... if you bring it back within 1 week, you get the cash back. If i have to come hunt it down, i keep the money.

Since doing this, i haven't had any equipment NOT be returned.

I had a friend who has a policy, if you need to borrow something more then once then you should buy your own. It worked both ways with us, he had a lot of equipment and I tried some of the items he had to see if they would work for what I needed and if they did I would buy my own. He used some of my implements also that he didn't own and ended up buying his own after.

We quit lending ladders out, back before fiberglass ladders became popular we had a brand new Craftsman 28' aluminum ladder and lent it to a friend of ours and it came back bent. We never used it after that and now with all our fiberglass ladders we don't chance it anymore unless we really trust the friend and even then it still depends on the size ladder since most people can't handle a 28' fiberglass extension ladder by themselves.

That Craftsman is still sitting in the weeds with a nice kink that won't let it extended or retract without using physical force

Of course then there are the friends who borrow and never return the tools and we have so much going on we usually end up forgetting who borrowed what and just end up having to replace our own tools since they never return. Live and learn, if its something we don't care about or isn't worth much then we lend it out but if its something we need to use and/or our safety relies on it then we don't lend it out anymore.

 

[ultrarunner]

Occasionally, the hospital will borrow equipment and I am sent to get it.

I've been very impressed when picking things up the the local Catholic Hospital.

The person in charge and with the key is an older nun and she makes a copy of your drivers license and then writes down the description of the equipment and has you sign for it...

She also looks you right in the eye and says, "This equipment is being loaned to YOU... YOU are responsible for returning it in good working order and I know where you live..."

This is totally different then most facilities that often don't know what is coming in and out the door...

 

[some zilch]

i had a co worker that had moved here from up north.. he had a 26' box truck full of 'mobile machine shop' equipment he wanted to park at my farm.. said I could use some tools.. etc.

for me it would have been a hassle. for one thing..the value of the tools and my insurance.. and since he wanted it in my pasture.. if / when he needed it, i'd have to go round up animals and whatnot. not to mention, he's likely be over at my house all the time..

I just begged out of it for insurance and possible zoning issues..

wow, really? a guy cant park one truck, in your field, on a farm?

i understand taking up your garage endlessly, but saying no to parking a truck in a field...

 

[2458n]

One of the quick lubes would have had you in out of the cold for your oil change . It is very nice of you to allow someone to use your garage. Do not feel taken advantage of. There are much worse things that could have happened a local news story showed a man standing besides his burnt out commercial building. A friend had been welding in the back garage. Be happy this too shall pass and you will get your garage back.

 

[LBrown59]

with 1 finger or all of them?

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