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last week i bought a 16 gauge bosticts off ebay for $13.00 and it works great. I already had one but my boss borrowed it, so i never see it again so showing to my friend, he say hey let me borrow it, that the key word for give it to me, you never see it again, sure give me $120 and you can borrow it, you never see that again. so think, ever tool that got borrow in my life . never came back. same freind that wanted to borrow my sheet metal brake. hey buddy waht about that brake, sorry i sold it last year for $800, he didnt bother to look up snd see it still hanging on the wall

so I think im going start selling my tools, at least that what my friens are being told
 
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I learned a long time ago don’t loan anything. Don’t get me wrong I’ve got a few close friends I’ll loan to and my dad can borrow anything he wants including trucks and equipment.

The straw that broke the camels back.

I was working at an apartment complex digging a ditch to lay waterline and one of the tenants practically gets in the cab of the excavator with me and asks if I have a 16mm socket on my truck he can borrow. He promises he will bring it back before the end of the day. By 6pm I still hadn’t seen him and I was ready to go home. The next morning I get back to the job and there’s a rusty off brand 19mm wrench laying on the track of the excavator. A few hours later the guy stops by and asks if I found my wrench. I told him I found a rusty piece of junk but it wasn’t the Williams 16mm socket I loaned him and I wanted my tool back. He argued with me for at least 10 minutes that he had borrowed a wrench and had brought back what I loaned him and even added it was a piece of junk. Later that day he comes back over to where I was working and literally throws my socket into the cab of the excavator and yells something about me being an *******. You can’t help some people.
 
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You need better friends. I’ve borrowed/rented/loaned out dozers, scrapers, tractors, trailers, skid steers, graders, tillage equipment and the list goes on. I always return stuff in better shape than I took it and the borrowers do the same.

I don’t borrow or loan many tools though. Most in my circle will buy whatever it is they need and I’m the same. Need something once in 10yrs ? Buy it and have it for next time.
 
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bb29510 said:
last week i bought a 16 gauge bosticts off ebay for $13.00 and it works great. I already had one but my boss borrowed it, so i never see it again so showing to my friend, he say hey let me borrow it, that the key word for give it to me, you never see it again, sure give me $120 and you can borrow it, you never see that again. so think, ever tool that got borrow in my life . never came back. same freind that wanted to borrow my sheet metal brake. hey buddy waht about that brake, sorry i sold it last year for $800, he didnt bother to look up snd see it still hanging on the wall

so I think im going start selling my tools, at least that what my friens are being told
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I say NO!

And sometimes I say F-NO!

My brother once asked me to borrow a Dollar. I told him I needed his Rolex as collateral. Some other fool barrowed him the Dollar.
 
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bb29510 said:
last week i bought a 16 gauge bosticts off ebay for $13.00 and it works great. I already had one but my boss borrowed it, so i never see it again so showing to my friend, he say hey let me borrow it, that the key word for give it to me, you never see it again, sure give me $120 and you can borrow it, you never see that again. so think, ever tool that got borrow in my life . never came back. same freind that wanted to borrow my sheet metal brake. hey buddy waht about that brake, sorry i sold it last year for $800, he didnt bother to look up snd see it still hanging on the wall

so I think im going start selling my tools, at least that what my friens are being told
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Bosses and coworkers are not your friends, people who take things without paying for them are not your friends.

Set your boundaries.. learn to simply say "no" instead of lying...
 
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I let my neighbour use my (corded) hedge cutter, similar to picture.

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Hedge about 20feet long 6feet high, half hour-ish job. Didn't see it for a week then a knock on the door, sound of running footsteps and a new in box hedge trimmer. He'd cut through the cord and felt guilty about it. I fixed it and sent him back to the shop to get his money back.

Us Limey's don't need an M1A1 V8 powered trimmer as our garden hedges do not cross time zones.

I also loaned my mate (Buddy - US) Fire and water, an LP record by the superb 'Free'. That was 45 plus years ago, don't think it's coming back.
 
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Robinson1 said:
I learned a long time ago don’t loan anything. Don’t get me wrong I’ve got a few close friends I’ll loan to and my dad can borrow anything he wants including trucks and equipment.

The straw that broke the camels back.

I was working at an apartment complex digging a ditch to lay waterline and one of the tenants practically gets in the cab of the excavator with me and asks if I have a 16mm socket on my truck he can borrow. He promises he will bring it back before the end of the day. By 6pm I still hadn’t seen him and I was ready to go home. The next morning I get back to the job and there’s a rusty off brand 19mm wrench laying on the track of the excavator. A few hours later the guy stops by and asks if I found my wrench. I told him I found a rusty piece of junk but it wasn’t the Williams 16mm socket I loaned him and I wanted my tool back. He argued with me for at least 10 minutes that he had borrowed a wrench and had brought back what I loaned him and even added it was a piece of junk. Later that day he comes back over to where I was working and literally throws my socket into the cab of the excavator and yells something about me being an *******. You can’t help some people.
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Had a renter come in the shop and ask to borrow hex bit.
I gave him an almost brand new set of socket hexs. Had SAE, Metric, Torx, etc. Decently expensive kit.

"I'll bring it back in a few hours"

I finally got it back 2 MONTHS later, and only after I just about threatened to nail the doors of the building shut and burn it. I had ended up buying a new set as I needed them for working on chainsaws in the shop.

They had the balls to try and borrow something else several months later and got pissed when I told them **** NO!
 
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I have a skid steer out on another property.

Seems like everything it gets used "real quick" something is broken.

I've replaced probably a half dozen door cylinders, which somehow I've never broke myself. Same with wiper arms.

This last time the grapple hoses got run into the tracks and tore that all up... few hundred $$ of hoses.

Somehow manage to bust up in 30 mins what I might break in a few years
 
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Robinson1 said:
I learned a long time ago don’t loan anything. Don’t get me wrong I’ve got a few close friends I’ll loan to and my dad can borrow anything he wants including trucks and equipment.

The straw that broke the camels back.

I was working at an apartment complex digging a ditch to lay waterline and one of the tenants practically gets in the cab of the excavator with me and asks if I have a 16mm socket on my truck he can borrow. He promises he will bring it back before the end of the day. By 6pm I still hadn’t seen him and I was ready to go home. The next morning I get back to the job and there’s a rusty off brand 19mm wrench laying on the track of the excavator. A few hours later the guy stops by and asks if I found my wrench. I told him I found a rusty piece of junk but it wasn’t the Williams 16mm socket I loaned him and I wanted my tool back. He argued with me for at least 10 minutes that he had borrowed a wrench and had brought back what I loaned him and even added it was a piece of junk. Later that day he comes back over to where I was working and literally throws my socket into the cab of the excavator and yells something about me being an *******. You can’t help some people.
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Yeah, ******* off a guy in an excavator....not the brightest of ideas.
 
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I lend tools out.

For a while I'd buy any cheap tool at a garage sale. I keep them in a different box in a different garage and those are the ones that I lend out most of the time. Most of the time they come back.
 
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I have borrowed tools from my local mechanic and returned them in same condition, same day or next. Funny thing, when my car goes to his shop, it often returns with his tools left on floor inside or under the hood. 🤔

They get returned...
 
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I do not borrow from or loan extended family or friends anything. I do let my Sons borrow anything they need but they bring it back promptly and clean.
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My issue is I loose track of it. Our test lab has a whiteboard with all the stuff checked out; I need to do something like that (maybe even for myself :D).
 
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This is why you need decoy tools. The crappiest tools from the discount tool bins at hardware/auto parts stores, discount stores, or the lowest quality junk at harbor freight. Those are the ones to display close to the entrance of the workshop/garage. Keep the good ones locked and out of sight.

If someone borrows them and never returns them (or just steals them), not a big loss.
 
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Friend "A" loaned his very nice gas-powered pressure washer to friend "B" for the weekend to pressure wash his deck.

Nearly two years of pestering and broken promises later, he finally got it back, filthy, oil low and coal-black, pump full of rusty water, nozzles missing, wand bent, hose nicked up etc.

Turns out friend "B" had "sub-loaned" the pressure washer to pretty much everyone in his neighborhood, many of whom "sub-loaned" it to others. Friend "B" genuinely had no idea where the thing was most of that time.

This caused literally lifelong bad blood between the two.
 
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hailwood1965 said:
I lend tools out.

For a while I'd buy any cheap tool at a garage sale. I keep them in a different box in a different garage and those are the ones that I lend out most of the time. Most of the time they come back.
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i had to buy a job box for my shop too keep all my milawkee power tools lock up, because of friend and family, and yes i have a harbor freigt box for freinds
 
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I can honestly say that I feel with any friend I have that I could leave a $100 bill laying randomly in my shop and it would still be there when they left even if I was not in there. All would likely point out that I had left it out. I kept my friends when I moved here 15 years ago, but thinned out acquaintances. I don’t have buddies. Friend or acquaintance only. There is a difference that some people do not seem to understand. It is determined by vetted trust.
 
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I have three real friends. One named Scott another named Dennis and the third named Bob. If you have enough of friends named Benjamin that's all you'll ever need.
 
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