When your friend borrows your tractor...

[Hiptfarms]

I've learned the hard way about a young neighbor. Almost everything I have ever loaned him and his wife I have had to go pick back up myself. Pet carriers and cages not cleaned. Tools left outside and being used not for their intended purpose.(using my tamp bar a some makeshift weightlifting bar with concrete blocks hanging off of it. ) I even allowed them to use a garden tiller for 2 years and the guy had the gall to get ticked off when I said I may sell it. He said if I was going to sell it then he was going to remove the parts he replaced on it after he broke the original ones. Some nerve. Needless to say, I won't be loaning anything else to them. I dont want to have enemies as neighbors but I also won't allow them to walk all over me either. I think they feel entitled to use other people's things and seem to have no sense of what it means to take care of somebody else's tools. It's a shame that some people don't know how to be good neighbors anymore.

 

[Jstpssng]

I don't borrow anything that I can't replace, and I don't loan anything unless I don't want it back.

 

[Einthewoods]

Like some of the others, I would much rather go help with something and have a real tough time loaning things out. This morning I took my tractor to a family members house to use it to cut firewood. There is more to do later in the week. Left the tractor there to save dragging it back and forth. The Key came home in my pocket. Even though the house I left it at has a seasoned equipment operator. I just don't want to be in the position of having to not be angry at something getting torn up.

Helping all the time is a pain in the arse, but I'd rather deal with that then broken equipment - no matter the cause.

 

[thepumpguysc]

HIP.. that is some kinda neighbor you got there.. Wow..
E.. I'm the same way..
I have a pretty large piece of property by the lake & extended family members leave their boats here.. instead of dragging them back to the city every weekend..
They leave the keys in them & say, "the tank is full, enjoy"..
NOT this kid.!! I'm not buyin you a new motor..

 

[4get gto]

I had a relative that would borrow a spare car offen. Granted it was a car we didn't use much so they felt they could use it whenever they wanted. We only kept minimum ins. on it.

Eventually got tried of loaning it and told them if something happens to it while they were using it they'd have to pay to have it fixed.

They don't borrow it anymore......Why they thought I'd have to pay is beyond my imagination...

 

[stuckmotor]

I like the way you've laid the barrel on it's side. That would seem to give it a lower center of gravity. BTW That's a nice looking spider in the top of the pipe? on the right. -)

 

[cabinhollow]

My neighbors are all the time asking if I need to borrow their equipment.
They know the first thing I will do is check to see if it needs any repairs. Then if something breaks, it will be fixed right. I am the one that does most of the metal work and welding for them anyway.

 

[pgk]

I have a very good friend that borrows things from time to time, I don't have a problem lending most things out as long as I get them back in the condition they left in and in a timely matter. But everytime he borrows something I have to go back and pick it up a week or two later, WTH! Most of the time it's something he uses for a hour or a day at most, if I borrow something and I'm done with it I take it back right then and there and if I were to break it I replace it with a like quality or better tool.. Oh, I would lend him my car, tractor notta!!

Pete

 

[Doofy]

I have a very good friend that borrows things from time to time, I don't have a problem lending most things out as long as I get them back in the condition they left in and in a timely matter. But everytime he borrows something I have to go back and pick it up a week or two later, WTH! Most of the time it's something he uses for a hour or a day at most, if I borrow something and I'm done with it I take it back right then and there and if I were to break it I replace it with a like quality or better tool.. Oh, I would lend him my car, tractor notta!!

Pete

With friends like that, who needs an enema? Some people are just clueless.

 

[hawkeye08]

Sometimes folks are relentless once they find out you have some things they want to borrow. I choose to help sometimes using my own tools, but have stopped loaning things out (except to my kids).