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Years ago after my father passed away and I was farming by myself I had need for a trailer to hitch behind the pickup so I could haul seed and fertilizer to the field, then drive the truck back home and go back with the tractor and planter and plant, you guys who do things on your own know what I mean. So I go purchase a brand new Fruehauf two axle pintle hitch trailer. Of course all my buddies needed a trailer to haul their junk cars etc and it became a "neigborhood " trailer. Decided ground was getting fit for corn and had to go find (as usual) my trailer so I could load it up. Buddy didnt want to give it up but saw my blood pressure rising and unloaded his clunker and let me have it. Took it home and Ma and I loaded 4 ton of bag fertilizer and seed corn on it. Next day I come home from work swing the barn doors open and my trailer was gone and the fertilizer and seed was neatly stacked back on the floor!. Another so-called buddy had taken the trailer. Went in the house and handed mom a piece of paper with the discription and price and told her to place a for sale add in the paper next time she was in town. Couple day later ole buddy #1 comes to the house and wants to know where the trailer is? Told him I didn"t know, didn"t care because I sold it. He says, well if I woulda known I would have bought it. I told him in the 4 years Id owned it he had it more than me, knocked the lights off, ruined tires and never once offered to pay so why would I have thought he would buy it??? 10 years later I don"t farm anymore get into collecting tractors and buy a gooseneck lowboy. Wife says, why do you want a gooseneck? I tell her because they ride nice and every SOB on the planet cant ask to borrow it because they dont have the hitch. So I get my shiney new trailer, back it in beside the garage and before I ever get to use it guess what? Same Ole buddy stops by and wants to borrow it, AND MY TRUCK! I am sure the whole county heard me tell him NO!!! with referances to hadies in front of the NO

Late, late, late one Saturday evening once a "friend" stopped over to borrow one of my pickups, his hot water heater had gone out, needed to get one the following day. Ok, he had a wife and children, no problem. Next day I was out and about and saw his wife driving down the road with one of her girlfriends in my pickup. Hmm, figured maybe needed fittings or such for the new water heater, sent the wife to the hardware (they both had cars???), but no problem, so long as they filled the tank back up when returned it. Sunday comes and goes, no truck - no problem, will return it Monday after work, I suppose. Monday evening, my buddy tools up about half tanked up with his golf clubs in the back of the bed "Didn't get around to it Sunday (for whatever reason), and the day (Monday) was so nice, went out golfing with some buddies (and drinking in my truck), but would take the following day (Tuesday) off, and go get a hot water heater, so needed my truck another day". I didn't say much, drove him and his clubs across town to his house and tossed them both out on the lawn and took my truck back with almost an empty tank. His wife and kids hadn't showered since at least Saturday night the way I figured it, and that wasn't nice, but wasn't my problem. We're not friends anymore, and the story goes that is "my" fault for screwing him over in a time of need.

Yep, spose we've all been there, done that.

Mark

After we would have reloaded it into my truck he would have been looking for some cotton to stop the nose bleed from a right hook.

Keith

Neighbor came over a couple weeks ago to borrow that car trailer I "have" (thought I kept it locked in a shed). He thought $25.00 was too much for rent so he found another to borrow, then he called and wanted to know if I had an "extra" 15" tire to put on the trailer he borrowed.

steveormary

This summer while we were borrowing the other neighbor's swather, I snapped the drive chain and ruined the clutch disc. Well, the ones who use & abuse happened to have an identical one sitting in their shed for parts. Low and behold, they had it 1/2 ripped out already because they needed the belt. They even helped put it in!!

We also borrow their 2 chopper boxes so we can fill 4 at a time. We grease them up and check them out. We won't even hook on if we notice something while it's still in their yard. They used to be REALLY bad w/ maintnance, but now his son is in his 30's and is running more and more of the stuff, although it's not much of a farm anymore. No cattle, just chunks of land here & there between the soil being stripped and the soil being developed.
Donovan from Wisconsin