Lending out my tractor

[steveo3000]

I ll try to keep this short and to the point. A neighbor (who is friends with my wife) asked her about borrowing my tractor to utilize its front loader. She came home thinking I would be OK with it, I m not. It was my dads, it s old, it has its quirksI am absolutely more than willing to do the work for her, but she is very independent. Said she would rent one to do it herself.

Am I wrong???

 

[gears]

No way Steve. If she s not happy with you doing the work with your personal, sentimental, vintage tractor tell her to go rent one.

 

[Steve in IL]

I'm with you on this. I tend to hide behind that the old tractor has issues that only I (with 50 years of driving it experience)
understand, so we will all get this done a lot faster and safer if I do it.

 

[steveo3000]

I appreciate the support! I have seen it in the past (with my dad and his stuff) where people promise this, and fill it with gas, etc etc and I get all that. But then when I go to do WHATEVER with it and something s not right, it will eat me up thinking about that. And I won t be able to go back to them to split the tractor for a new clutch!!

 

[RobCons]

Let her rent one.

 

[petertay]

My wife asked me, Does our neighbor have a Bobcat? Maybe we could borrow it to move all these big rocks into a picnic area.

I replied that if something were to go bad, it would happen while we have it. So, no, we wont borrow it. Renting is better.

 

[Greg NE]

Most of the time the old saying of never a
borrower or lender be is all too true!! No
one ends up being happy in the end and a
lot of bad feelings get started!!

 

[Ultradog MN]

Another vote for not lending it out.

 

[RM-MN]

I'm willing to lend out any of my tractors but only if I go along and am the only operator. I've lent other items that came back broken or missing pieces. I don't want that to happen to my tractor.

However, I did lend my combine to a neighbor because his was broken and he was about to lose 50 acres of beans to the weather. It came back in better condition than it left.

 

[steveo3000]

(quoted from post at 07:41:36 05/22/23)

However, I did lend my combine to a neighbor because his was broken and he was about to lose 50 acres of beans to the weather. It came back in better condition than it left.

Great example of a situation where I would be more inclined. Much more dire consequences, and obviously the operator is more familiar with the equipment.

 

[Michaels Dad]

Neighbor I was working for asked if I'd let his 20 year old son learn to operate a tractor on my 1956 640. Without hesitation the answer was hell no.

 

[Eman85]

It has to be someone I know can be trusted and understands how to use old equipment.
When I first moved to where I live now a neighbor that I was warned about came by when I was at work to ask my wife if he could borrow my 8N. She said no and sent him away. Found out he wanted to use it to move a mobile home around. He never talked to me or her again and we never minded.

 

[RBnSC]

Old farmer told me there was three things he did not lend. His chainsaw, his tractor, and his wife.
Ron

 

[steveo3000]

(quoted from post at 16:51:27 05/22/23) Old farmer told me there was three things he did not lend. His chainsaw, his tractor, and his wife.
Ron

100% this!!

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

If you are good friends with your neighbor, an alternative would be to offer the wife to do the job by yourself. It would keep relations on good terms and you know your
own machine so can keep things in check.


TPD

 

[Sean in PA]

(quoted from post at 07:01:54 05/23/23) If you are good friends with your neighbor, an alternative would be to offer the wife to do the job by yourself. It would keep relations on good terms and you know your
own machine so can keep things in check.


TPD

He said that he offered to do just that, but she was indignant.

 

[mudcreek183]

I vote no , everytime I would loan something out it would come back with a problem.

 

[steveo3000]

(quoted from post at 08:01:54 05/23/23) If you are good friends with your neighbor, an alternative would be to offer the wife to do the job by yourself. It would keep relations on good terms and you know your
own machine so can keep things in check.


TPD

Thanks Tim, this was my first option to offer,(as Sean pointed out) indeed would be best case scenario for everyone except for her to take old blue out and grind some gears (my worst fearlol)

I never ran into someone like this before, so for her to not take up that option was shocking.

 

[Hdonly]

Agree 100%. My nephew lent his backhoe to his cousin. He finally got it back almost two years later with blown hydraulic hoses, dead battery and one busted tire. His cousin got mad at him because he said he wasn't done with it.
I don't borrow and I don't lend.

 

[Texasmark]

I have a real short answer.........NO! If necessary, you take YOUR tractor over and do the job for him......your tractor will love you for
it!