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I wish my neighbor had a trailer. Saturday he borrowed mine. This morning he was back, asked if I need it today. I didn't- at the time. He's been gone all day- to the big city 40 miles away. This afternoon I got a call to mow 3 town yards. No way to haul my garden tractor. I feel like I'm missing my right arm. Anyone else have borrowy neighbors?
 
some of the old boys on this site gave me the cure for trailer borrowers- pintle hook hitch and odd-ball plug.
 
yeah that's going be problems.
if they want borrow something, you go WITH IT. if it takes gas, you go with it and he fulls it up.
 
Just gotta keep repeating........."I'm gonna need it"........no explanation, just "I'm gonna need it". Won't work in this situation, but I used to have people every-once-in-awhile who wanted to borrow a chainsaw; kept an old 360 Homelite which I hadn't had cranked in years sitting just inside the supply/toolroom door; they'd bring it back and say, "I couldn't get it to run"........"Hmmmmmmmm, can't understand that; I've never had any trouble with it".
 
I tell people my insurance is only good if my trailer is being towed by my truck,and it's worked so far.I used to let neighbors use it,but it always came back with a flat tire or a bubble gum weld over a place they broke and tried to fix.
 
My neighbor keeps a padlock on his hitch latch.

If he lends a trailer out, he locks it to the borrower's hitch ball. Generally guarantees it's brought back promptly.
 
I have a neighbor that borrows, never brings it back. He always says he doesnt have time. Then, he acts like it is his and will borrow it to others, has even had the gall on occasions to ask that you bring YOUR tool/equipment back when you need it and go get it. He has numerous stuff that he "borrowed" that the owners are now deceased, so it's his. His other habit is when he buys something or something happens in a deal with you, and he will owe you $$ he always has to run, "We'll settle up later" is his favorite conversation ending. When he has something you want, he wants top dollar and wants to "settle up" right then and there, even when he technicaly still owes you money for the "we'll settle up later" dealings.
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Make a dummy pig tail to go over your end and plug into his truck, run all of the posts to ground. this will blow his breakers and his mind.
 

Good gosh - just be honest about it and tell him/her you don't always know in advance when you're going to need it so you don't lend it anymore. Then you offer to keep an eye out for one for sale for him to buy.
 
Your the one who will get sued if he gets into a wreck,then he will expect your insurance to cover things.
 
The easiest way to deal with a borrower is to "just say no!" In time, people will appreciate why you are so adamant about it, or they will go somewhere else. At any rate you only have to buy it once.
 
My neighbor borrows my trailer a lot, but I also borrow his JD compact with a loader. I always replace any fuel I use, and if I get it dirty, or it's pretty dirty already I clean it. My next door neighbor has a newer large barn that he lets me store hay in for free. He only keeps his mower and some patio furniture in it. I keep it clean and I mow the pasture behind it (1 acre) because he has no animals. He may get 3-6 sheep in the future, and I told him I'm provide free hay.
So it really depends on the kind of people you let borrow from you.
 
I had a neighbor who would send people to me ,telling me he said you had so and so I can borrow.
I asked him about this and he denied it. Then later on someone else would would come saying he told them to see me I'd loan them something or another
Later on he got mad about something and quit coming around,or sending his friends to borrow from me..
GEE...I miss him!!!
 
Oh yeah. Got a neighbor that sold his Jubilee and bush hog a year of so ago, has like 11 acres that does nothing with, borrowed my little deere and bush hog last year to knock it down. Mentioned to me a few weeks ago might need to borrow it again to knock it down, but I didn't say anything. Saw him a couple of weeks ago, we talked but he didn't mention it, nor did I. This past weekend my family mentioned to me that they'd talked to him and he brought it up. Heck, the deere guy up the road has a better AC-B than I mow around my house with setting on his lot, and it has a Woods L-59 under it like mine's got, and it can't be going for that much. I aint seen it yet, but I hear my neighbor's got some kind of new deere garden tractor mower, but I'm sure aint gonna do 11 acres. I figure for what he must've paid for that, he could've picked up that B, and then i wouldn't mind letting him use the little deere one last time to knock it down so the B could keep up with it easily. But, would probably tear up and neglect the B like he did that Jubilee. I don't want to make trouble between us, but I aint real happy about that.

Mark
 
I lent a Ford 3600 and a 16' trailer. Both came back damaged. Now I tell some one that wants to borrow if they repair the last borowers damage I will loan. No takers yet.
 
I had that problem a lot around here till i finally got a bigger truck and got around to get a gooseneck.

now my neighbors cant borrow it they got little tundras and 1500s.

when they ask me if i can haul something i say nope got something to do myself but i believe jeff (my real good friend who is also nieghbor) isnt using his trailer and it would be perfect for what your doing.

that way my trailer never leaves unless i do. quite a plan aint it!!! LOL
 
This happened last week.A neighbors neighbor renting a place asked him if he had a cutting torch he could borrow to cut a piece of plate.He said he had one but didn't know how much gas he had.Fellow said he would have the bottles filled.Neighbor asked if he knew how to use one,reply was "oh yeah,welding was my trade".Well the guy brought it back with both regulators saftey plugs blown out and the diaphrams bursted.Neighbor said "thought you knew how to use a torch",guy said he took welding at trade school in 1990 and forgot how to shut the bottles off.Neighbor told him to get them fixed,haven't heard how that turned out yet.My trailer gets loaned once in a while,sometimes it comes back with a light knocked off,and one time the borrowers beagle puppy chewed the wires off it,but most times it comes back about like it left.
 
When I borrow the Father-inlaws trailer I give the Mother-inlaw $50.00. Seems to work out well enough.
Put four new six ply trailer tires on it too as the two ply car tires had a tendency to blow.
Changed the tail lights so they wouldn't snap off if the beaver tail dragged.
Put a jack with a maneuvering wheel on the hitch as well.
Come to think of it....why didn't I just purchase my own trailer?
 
i used to have that problem but not any more i dont "loan" anything i 'rent it' and for redicioulos high prices too, gee i wonder why nobody wants my stuff now, now i get to keep and use all the stuff i worked so hard to buy for me!
 
I like that one- or- "my wife owns half interest in my trailer, she asked me not to lend it". Nah, wouldn't work, he'd go ask her. Same with every thing else.
 
That is your fault, after the very first time. He done you once, shame on him. He done you twice, shame on you. Tom
 
Simple, just tell him that you needed the trailer while he had it borrowed, and that you are not going to loan it out again, ever. Tom
 
My trailer weighs 2,000 pounds empty. When I had a shop in town, people stopped all the time wanting to borrow it. I'd ask them what they had to pull it with, and they'd have an old van with a fishing boat hitch, or similar. I'd tell them to forget it.

I finally made a flat rule that I'd haul something for a price, but I didn't loan the trailer out.
 
Mostly good experiences with mine. A guy whose daughter played softball with mine, used to borrow my trailer twice a year- once to go get his FIL's tractor to use at his place, once to take it back in the fall. About the third year, it came back re-painted! And the bent fender straightened. He said he had just bought a new spray gun to paint his hot rod, and needed something to practice on.
 
I had same trouble with my cousin.He wanted to borrow my dozer.Knowing how hard he is on equipment,and I don't have a trailer. About the third time he talked about useing it.I told him "Some weekend when we are both off from work you move it and I'll run it".He has not mentioned it at all after that.
 
My Dad built a 18' gooseneck trailer in 1969, at that time I bet there whern't 20 gooseneck's in the state of Indiana total. When he made it he put the ball on the trailer and the hitch under the truck bed because he didn't like the ball sticking up in the truck bed catching on everything. Made it impossible for anyone else to pull the trailer without using Dad's truck, plus the security of being able to park the trailer any where and know it would not get stolen. So if some one asked to borrow the trailer Dad just said sure he wasn't using the trailer but sorry he was using the truck......
 
I may borrow somthing ONCE. If I need it again, I will buy. I don't have your problem because my friends know this through our discussions. Beware of who you volunter to loan to!
 

I used to have the same problem till i asked for the full price of a new trailer in advance, plus the guys wife to use while he had my trailer and told him he would half the money back and all the wife once i inspected the trailer for damage..

The wife didn't seem to be a problem, but they never wanted to pay half the price of a new trailer to rent it from me...
 
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