Lads borrowing gear.

kollegeknight

There was a time when we had nothing and dad worked hard to feed the 11 in the family.

He bought a pro cement mixer on hp for £30. A neighbour borrowed it. Told his son to wash it out. Son left a couple of buckets of concrete in the bottom of it with concrete on the gears. Dad had to use a chisel to knock off the concrete and the neighbour saying he’d break the cast iron and it wasn’t the right way to treat a machine. He got some land when dad told him that’s the way he got it from the lads yard.

Another lad borrowed it, loaned it to another neighbour and the neighbour rented it out for £1 knowing the hardship at home and no remorse at all for it. It took days to track it down.

blue5000

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

What amazes me more than anything else is the the fellas that buy a brand new tractor every couple of years and have no implants of their own outside of a bale lifter and a power box. There's a few of them around here. One in particular would be making a lot of bales and would use the contractors tedder to shake it out and broke all the knuckles off the drive shaft going to outside rotor. Had his flail mower gone aswell and came back with a heap of flails missing, rotor off balance and roller bent on it, had his bale trailer for most of the winter and seen him going with another neighbours sprayer last week. It's a bit of a joke like, I'd be the type of fella that hates to see a thing being broken and if it did I would fix it properly straight away and can't understand how people carry on like that. Very rarely borrow anything, would sometimes have the contractors gear if I needed it but I worked for him for a good few years and would give him a couple of days/evenings in return when he's under pressure and even at that I still don't like using his gear in my own place.

kollegeknight wrote: »

There was a time when we had nothing and dad worked hard to feed the 11 in the family.

He bought a pro cement mixer on hp for £30. A neighbour borrowed it. Told his son to wash it out. Son left a couple of buckets of concrete in the bottom of it with concrete on the gears. Dad had to use a chisel to knock off the concrete and the neighbour saying he’d break the cast iron and it wasn’t the right way to treat a machine. He got some land when dad told him that’s the way he got it from the lads yard.

Another lad borrowed it, loaned it to another neighbour and the neighbour rented it out for £1 knowing the hardship at home and no remorse at all for it. It took days to track it down.

My OH is from Clare, I can appreciate what you are both talking about;) But I think it's the same everywhere else too, lots of lads with new tractors and feck all to put behind it.

Keepgrowing

older by the day wrote: »

I'm lucky I have two neighbours who hate each other, fell out over a right away that goes no where, so when one rings asking for something I tell them the other lad has it, its gas, they both gasps when they here each others names

I’ve no bother lending stuff with the exceptions of the sprayer and Fert spreader. We’ve a neighbour neighbouring an out farm who gave the gent we bought it from nothing but hardship. One of these first to the rail on Sunday types.

He has fallout black with my cousin but askes me every year for our bale trailer, I always tell him no bother just pop into my cousins and collect it. Job done

older by the day

I don't really have much worth borrowing unluckually. The problem I have is that I'm the only fellow full time farming in this town land under 70. All the rest are gone at 8am working. It's gone beyond a joke. JackIng cows calving to charlaois, drawing in bales, testing ect. There is an old fellow up the road who rings every day with a problem. As I'm the only one around I hate refusing. I asked his son this year to help me draw some bales, but he said he was busy, "who helps the helper", the father rang two days later a calf with scour, would I take him to the vet, of course I did.

I says

older by the day wrote: »

I don't really have much worth borrowing unluckually. The problem I have is that I'm the only fellow full time farming in this town land under 70. All the rest are gone at 8am working. It's gone beyond a joke. JackIng cows calving to charlaois, drawing in bales, testing ect. There is an old fellow up the road who rings every day with a problem. As I'm the only one around I hate refusing. I asked his son this year to help me draw some bales, but he said he was busy, "who helps the helper", the father rang two days later a calf with scour, would I take him to the vet, of course I did.

A whipper snapper aged 60 are ya?:):):)

Say my name

older by the day wrote: »

I don't really have much worth borrowing unluckually. The problem I have is that I'm the only fellow full time farming in this town land under 70. All the rest are gone at 8am working. It's gone beyond a joke. JackIng cows calving to charlaois, drawing in bales, testing ect. There is an old fellow up the road who rings every day with a problem. As I'm the only one around I hate refusing. I asked his son this year to help me draw some bales, but he said he was busy, "who helps the helper", the father rang two days later a calf with scour, would I take him to the vet, of course I did.

I'd nearly feel like telling the old lad what his son said. :mad: Prick!

By everything right in this world according to what you posted. The old lad would forget about the son and leave you the farm based on your work and kindness.
But then this world is not right..

kerryjack

older by the day wrote: »

I don't really have much worth borrowing unluckually. The problem I have is that I'm the only fellow full time farming in this town land under 70. All the rest are gone at 8am working. It's gone beyond a joke. JackIng cows calving to charlaois, drawing in bales, testing ect. There is an old fellow up the road who rings every day with a problem. As I'm the only one around I hate refusing. I asked his son this year to help me draw some bales, but he said he was busy, "who helps the helper", the father rang two days later a calf with scour, would I take him to the vet, of course I did.

Ya I am in same boat here on top of bit of farming I am allso asked to pick up neighbours kids from school and bring them to matches because semingly I am at home scratching all day and the other parents are running around like headless chickens trying to make a living

Odelay

kerryjack wrote: »

Ya I am in same boat here on top of bit of farming I am allso asked to pick up neighbours kids from school and bring them to matches because semingly I am at home scratching all day and the other parents are running around like headless chickens trying to make a living

Ah now! That's really taking you for a ride. Do they pay you?

ganmo

kerryjack wrote: »

Ya I am in same boat here on top of bit of farming I am allso asked to pick up neighbours kids from school and bring them to matches because semingly I am at home scratching all day and the other parents are running around like headless chickens trying to make a living

Oh ya could start tellin them ghost stories! Bet they’d be dead chuffed with getting woken up in the middle of the night

I says

kerryjack wrote: »

Ya I am in same boat here on top of bit of farming I am allso asked to pick up neighbours kids from school and bring them to matches because semingly I am at home scratching all day and the other parents are running around like headless chickens trying to make a living

Stop that fairly lively if one of them makes an allegation you’re fcuked.

greysides

I says wrote: »

Stop that fairly lively if one of them makes an allegation you’re fcuked.

That's a sad but realistic commentry on modern life. Having done a Basic Awareness course for a sports club I would now be very reluctant to take Transition Year students around with me seeing practice. Whether that's an over-rection or not, I don't know but I don't want to find out. My living is dependent on my reputation, it takes years to build and could disappear overnight. The truth could have little impact on it.

stantheman1979

ganmo wrote: »

kerryjack wrote: »

Ya I am in same boat here on top of bit of farming I am allso asked to pick up neighbours kids from school and bring them to matches because semingly I am at home scratching all day and the other parents are running around like headless chickens trying to make a living

Oh ya could start tellin them ghost stories! Bet they’d be dead chuffed with getting woken up in the middle of the night

Next time you’re asked to pick them up. Collect them but don’t bring them home straight away. Bring them out on the farm with you and land them back covered head to toe in muck and sh1te Just say sorry I couldn’t bring them back earlier I really needed a hand with the cattle and they were the only ones around to help!!!

I says

greysides wrote: »

That's a sad but realistic commentry on modern life. Having done a Basic Awareness course for a sports club I would now be very reluctant to take Transition Year students around with me seeing practice. Whether that's an over-rection or not, I don't know but I don't want to find out. My living is dependent on my reputation, it takes years to build and could disappear overnight. The truth could have little impact on it.

That’s the way it’s gone unfortunately

sea12

I had to ring a neighbour to bring back my hay bob yesterday. He borrowed it last August.

White Clover

sea12 wrote: »

I had to ring a neighbour to bring back my hay bob yesterday. He borrowed it last August.

At least he washed it and replaced any broken springs and tines, and housed it for the winter!

kerryjack

Handy he stored it for the winter for you

Reggie.

White Clover wrote: »

At least he washed it and replaced any broken springs and tines, and housed it for the winter!

Was it you

White Clover

Reggie. wrote: »

Was it you

No, the neighbours one is still here in the nettles I think. I can't really see it .....

Reggie.

White Clover wrote: »

No, the neighbours one is still here in the nettles I think. I can't really see it .....

Maybe he collected it unknown to ya

road_high

lab man wrote: »

What do u think of a neighbour who borrowed my bale lifter 4 days ago I was in a hurry yesterday to get hay in that was an hour trip for 6 trips I rang him yesterday when I was on the last run looking for the bale lifter he said twas in his shed I said shur drop it over as I'm in a hurry he brought it back with no pens, which were on it .an gave out to my dad because me asking for it back ....

I'm taken aback by the way so many posters here allow themselves to be virtual doormats to these scroungers- all because they want to "be friends" it appears! Well what sort of friend worth having that borrows stuff for nothing, breaks it, doesn't bring it back on time and then whines about it. And then wonder wyy they are being treated as doormats? There's a great little word in the English language that covers it all- NO!!

Who2

You dont have to be a doormat, but a bit of decency and helpfullness means a lot to some people. I didnt wake up and find a field of machinery all shiney and new, i borrowed off lads when i had damn all. i appreciated it and wont forget it.

Fat Cant

I very rarely give out my gear unless they are very sound with me . There is a few lads around me that ask to borrow stuff but I always say it's broke , I'm using it or it's down in an uncle's farm and your not insulting them.

sea12

sea12 wrote: »

I had to ring a neighbour to bring back my hay bob yesterday. He borrowed it last August.

Still waiting on my hay Bob. Rang again yesterday. Think he broke it and is trying to get it fixed. He is not a farmer but borrowed it for his big garden last year.

I have nearly 20 acres down. Last time he will get that

Reggie.

sea12 wrote: »

Still waiting on my hay Bob. Rang again yesterday. Think he broke it and is trying to get it fixed. He is not a farmer but borrowed it for his big garden last year.

I have nearly 20 acres down. Last time he will get that

Call in a fella with a tedder for the first turn. Don't waste time waiting on the haybob to return

Who2

Had a lad land in yesterday to help draw home hay as I’m waiting on a new ram for the loader. He drew it all home and stacked it and more in the shed. When I went to pay him he would take nothing off me. He had borrowed a couple of bits me during the year and said it was some way of payment for it. Now for all the horror stories out there it goes a long way for making up for it.

9935452

sea12 wrote: »

sea12 wrote: »

I had to ring a neighbour to bring back my hay bob yesterday. He borrowed it last August.

Still waiting on my hay Bob. Rang again yesterday. Think he broke it and is trying to get it fixed. He is not a farmer but borrowed it for his big garden last year.

I have nearly 20 acres down. Last time he will get that

A friend lent his haybob to a neighbour.
He went up to the local fabricator to get a quick hitch repaired and saw his haybob in pieces on the floor.
Apparently a gear went while his neighbour had it and he was getting it fixed