Loaning Equipment

[12251HD]

I've seen several messages lately about the perils of loaning equipment and getting it back in broken condition. In the 50's and 60's my Dad's advice was to never loan out a bush hog or chain saw because of too many opportunities for devastating resuls. I've added back hoe to the list.

 

[joeysmith]

I only loan equipment to those I know will fix it if they break it.
It's a pretty short list

 

[rrlund]

If you want to borrow my equipment, you'd better be somebody who calls me Dad.

 

[flying belgian]

The only way I will loan equipment is if you hire me to operate it.

 

[Wdj]

I will loan implements or trailers to a selected few. The type of folks who return it in better shape than when it left. Loaned a trailer to a guy, it came back with a new deck. Sometimes I've told them it's about wore out so don't worry if it breaks, it just means it would've broke the next time I use it .

 

[38 Sears Roebuck]

I'd probably loan out my wife before just anyone uses any of my tools or equipment..

 

[Hayfarmer]

I worked in the parts department for a tractor dealer years ago who also sold and repaired McClough daws. Seemed like half the guys who brought saw in to be fixed either had borrowed the saw and now had to get it fixed or the original owner got it back in a box.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

I'd probably loan out my wife before just anyone uses any of my tools or equipment..

I wonder what she would have to say about that.

 

[Ray,IN]

I've stopped loaning even had tools. I made a 12# wood-splitting maul, the head is brake-die steel and I made a double-wall steel pipe handle. a neighbor borrowed the maul. I finally got the head back, the handle was broken. Now just how does a man break a heavy steel pipe 36" long??? Thankfully I made this splitting maul so the handle can be replaced.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Ray I thought you were going to say the head was broke.

 

[showcrop]

I've stopped loaning even had tools. I made a 12# wood-splitting maul, the head is brake-die steel and I made a double-wall steel pipe handle. a neighbor borrowed the maul. I finally got the head back, the handle was broken. Now just how does a man break a heavy steel pipe 36" long??? Thankfully I made this splitting maul so the handle can be replaced.

Improper design: 36 inches is two much leverage

 

[Ray,IN]

Improper design: 36 inches is two much leverage

I apologize, I wrote double-wall, when I meant sch80. I corrected that.
Perhaps for a wooden handle, but for sch 80 1½" steel pipe? I had used that splitting maul for approx, 40 years. My neighbor was trying to split an oak tree stump, that 5'D stump is still there, and still has one of my steel wedges in it he drove down below flush.

 

[sleepy1]

A while back a friend's son borrow my neighbor's loader tractor , he used to move 2 logs filled it up with fuel and returned it. About a week later he want a new back tire claims the side wall was ripped . Of course everyday my neighbor's grandsons were running up and down the road on it after school , and finally admitted that they ran over a buster t stake in a friend's field.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

No.

Just.... no.

Mike

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I wonder how many of these loaned equipment horror stories are self-inflicted. If you loan out a piece of junk that you've been nursing along, but the borrower treats it like a new piece of equipment because they don't know any better, it's going to break.

 

[urbancase]

i will some but to a small group, and guys i know will take care of stuff. i have a 4wd ditch witch, 4wd man lift that is browed out from time to time and always come back in good shape. i had a 18 foot bumper trailer that i sold due to having a large gooseneck and got tired of everyone wanting to use it.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

Depends on who. As said, it's a pretty short list.

 

[Dieseltech]

Some guys can wreck an anvil with a rubber mallet...

 

[Wdj]

Some guys can wreck an anvil with a rubber mallet...

That would be the average West Coast logger..

 

[Texasmark]

I don't loan, period!