Opinion on broken Kubota; who should pay???

[SteveInMD]

If a neighbor wants help from one of my machines I try to operate it myself for exactly this reason.

 

[Dargo]

Yeah, bummer, I have to go along with the crowd. I have a neighbor who I think used to try to get me to borrow his equipment so I would fix it. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif The problem was in my case, the stuff came to me broken and the deal was that I had to fix it to use it. Since all of his stuff is in such ill repair, I just won't borrow from him at all anymore (last 10 years).

 

[rcrcomputing]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( If a neighbor wants help from one of my machines I try to operate it myself for exactly this reason. )</font>

I go.. where my stuff goes...

BTW, if you borrowed it, you fix it.

 

[kenmac]

I have to agree, you should pay to have repairs made.I use to borrow my dad's old to20, he has never mantained anything,but things always work for him. Every time that I borrowed that tractor something would break.I always paid for repairs, thats why his 40 something year old tractor is like new .I have my own tractor now.

 

[stevenf]

Kevin, I can't believe you have gotten a concensus on this question its like they all live in Texas and absolutely if you borrowed it you fix it. This is the unwritten rule around here as well. Also even though you may not borrow anything else from this person I'd say the way it works around here if you do something to a borrowed tool and don't fix it you'll never borrow anything again and half the town will know about it by morning God I love living in a small town if I break wind neighbors miles away will know it before morning.
Steve

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( God I love living in a small town if I break wind neighbors miles away will know it before morning.
Steve
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Thats because you texans do every thing in a BIG way /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

The bill is yours.

As it is he is already into this deal for the cost of dropping off the machine and now the downtime will cost him because you broke it.

Would it have broke on the job with him running it? Maybe, but the hoe came to you in assumed working condition and was in working condition up until the last day you used it. He wasnt running it, you were.

If it was mine and you were my "friend" and you tried to stick me with a bill after breaking my machine, we would no longer be friends and you would be getting a bill for hoe rental, delivery, and fuel. You can bet that it would be at least as much if not more than the repair.

Machines break, even if it was through no misuse. I bartered a york rake for my yard. Even though goods and services were exchanged, when I broke a tine, the first thing I did was call the owner and ask him how much was a new tine going to cost me?

 

[getut]

I borrowed a 3ph tiller from a co-worker. The PTO shaft was cut fine for his tractor and there was only about 1" difference between his and mine. The shaft itself was cut to where it could handle the 1" difference just fine. I forgot to check the PTO shield. When I lifted the tiller up the first time, the PTO shield seperated and when I lowered it, it boogered the ends all up.

I payed like $100 for shields and bushings to fix that, and my coworker even begged me not to do it. We both agreed that the old one was repairable. That was not the point. Before I borrowed the tiller, the shield didn't HAVE to be repaired. I bring stuff back in as good or better condition than it was when I borrowed it. My blasted moral code again. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[firtol88]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ... I bring stuff back in as good or better condition than it was when I borrowed it... )</font>

All comes down to that... as it should be. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Cactus]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> I bring stuff back in as good or better condition than it was when I borrowed it. </font> )</font>

And with a full tank of fuel regardless of how much was in it when you borrowed it.