Who do you trust.....

[coljar]

with your tools. I will loan tools to a small select group of friends and I always write down who's got what and I always get them back and in good order. My wife on the other hand, will loan her horse tack or grooming equipment to whoever and is lucky she gets it back in one piece or at all.

Today I needed to use her Oster A2 clippers on one of the dogs so I could put the flea stuff on him. I get them out and notice the housing is busted and the cord is frayed and they are not the ones I was looking for. I asked her about it and she said she bought those used somewhere because such and such borrowed hers and never returned them. I asked her if she knew why I still have all my tools? Because I have friends I can trust.

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Family, friends and neighbors. I don't need to write them down because they aren't loaned out for long.

 

[James-W]

I loan my tools to very few people. Most of my friends have their own tools and they don't need to use mine. If it is a family member who needs a tool for a specific job, most times I will go along with the tool and do the work myself.

 

[ADSR]

No one.

 

[matt_i]

I trust my Dad as he showed me how to use and care for most of them.

 

[Trollaltdelete]

I take a picture of the person with the tool when they take it, and delete it when they return it. That way I don't forget.

 

[Onewolf]

I take a picture of the person with the tool when they take it, and delete it when they return it. That way I don't forget.

Nice...

 

[DIC]

I take a picture of the person with the tool when they take it, and delete it when they return it. That way I don't forget.

The photo should have the tool in one hand and the news paper in the other

 

[Krash Kadillak]

Rarely have to loan anything out, but if it gets beyond the time it was expected back, I now have a 'need to use' such tool, and I go get it.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Very few as the list is short. My step-dad, two good friends, maybe a neighbor or two and finally dependign what it is, two-three at the FD.

 

[James E]

The photo should have the tool in one hand and the news paper in the other

Ha, like a ransom note!

I have a couple of friends that I will loan tools to because I trust them to take care of them. I will loan tools to my Dad because I should, even though I know I have about a 50/50 shot of ever getting it back.

Last tool I loaned to my Dad was a brand new demolition pry bar--the one that's about five feet long and weighs about twenty five pounds. I thought that he'd be hard-pressed to ruin it.

A couple weeks ago I was driving his golf cart around his property and saw it out in the grass, covered in scaly rust, slightly bent and with gauges in the shaft where he'd run over it with the bush hog. Just going to have to write that one off.

 

[Jeff May]

Not many...
Actually, one or two...
One of my co workers....
Maybe, one other.....
Been there, done that....
Hardly any respect left for other people's belongings anymore....

 

[Kaizen]

nope no one. neighbors sometimes but nothing over ten bucks. got sick of being the nice guy walked on. lent a sander and like 30 bucks worth of sandpaper to a neighbor and he brings it back no paper. I say go get me sandpaper. he never did and never got another tool.

 

[MOTODOJO]

Have a sign-out sheet with tools borrowed, signature and date. Those that I trust to use the tools properly are happy to comply. They are lucky I don't require a cash deposit.

 

[Nermal43]

Only my dad.

 

[zmotorsports]

Absolutely no one. They don't leave my shop, PERIOD!!!

Mike.

 

[Bigtee]

Just my son and son-in-law.

 

[maxpower_hd]

I don't loan out my stuff much. There are a couple of close friends that are exceptions but that's it. And they lend me things I don't have. In fact....one of those friends still has my effing lawn mower! DAMN IT! Make that NO ONE from now on....until I need something....Urgg. It's a never ending cycle sort of thing.

 

[macgyver37]

The same 3 people I would loan my trailer to. Otherwise the only way it leaves is if I go with it. Too many of my friends don't take care of their own stuff, let alone mine.

I will say now that I have my own business it is much easier to tell people that I can't or won't as my livelihood depends on it.

 

[Gotcha640]

I long term loaned a table saw, drill press and a bench to my best friends dad when I went to Morocco for work. When I got back, his other son had bolted a lathe to the bench, borrowed the motors off the saw and the press for other tools, and broken a pulley on the press. I went over while they were out, repo'd my stuff, and I'll sell it all before I loan again.

 

[JimR1998]

Key for me is that the loaning goes in both directions. It's mainly family and a few close friends.

I'm not keeping a free tool rental for people who don't feel like keeping/storing/maintaining something just because they don't use it often-- that's probably the case for 1/2 my tools. They can buy it or rent it.

 

[Axis]

At work I rarely have to loan a tool out. The other fabricators have been doing it much, much longer and have anything and everything needed.

That said, if I have to borrow something more than a couple times, I get my own.

At home, I only loan one friend tools. I know he'll take care of them. All my other friends are not handy and have one of us work on their cars or build something for them.

 

[crewchief888]

nobody

if tools need to leave the garage or service truck, my hands are on them...

 

[Jas29]

I only loan out the tools that I don't care about or if it's a backup even than I only loan them out to like 4 people.

I borrow them from my uncle I have to pick them up from his house after work friday and return by 8pm on sunday.

 

[Steevo]

This one is easy.

NOBODY.

 

[canuckian]

most of the people I associate with are well set up with tools and are quite self sufficient and buy a tool when they need it. The others hire everything out and don't have more than a couple screwdrivers and a hammer in their home. On the odd occasion someone might ask for a loan of a tool, they get one chance. If it's not returned on time and in as good or better shape as when they got it, that's the last time.

 

[Throbbin Rods]

One friend who we give each other free access to the garage and tools
My girlfriend, takes better care of my stuff than I do.
Her son, ditto

 

[rburke65]

Only to a handful of people. I hate to borrow and if I have to rent a tool, I had better be a big buck tool or I just as soon buy it.

 

[kaymccampbell]

One friend. If he borrows a tool , it's more of a test drive. And it always comes back in the same condition it left. He never asks to borrow it again,. He figures if he liked it he'll buy his own.
Others get the bum's rush.

 

[Itinerant]

Not many...
Hardly any respect left for other people's belongings anymore....

There never was.

I'll only lend to one friend and one of my brothers because I know they take care of their own stuff as well as I do, will return the tool in a reasonable time, i.e. as soon as the job is done, and if something were to break they'd replace it.

Everyone else can fend for themselves.

 

[brownbagg]

nobody, loan my tools to nobody, serious, they never come back. now for the work truck and tools that do get loan out, I keep a box with nothing but harbor freight. those are my junkyard/friends tools.

my snap on are under lock

 

[Jarhead0408]

No one as a rule, but last week my FIL had a flat tire on both of his vehicles and couldn't get to work. I allowed my wife to take a jack, 7/8 impact socket + 2" extension, 1/2" speeder, and a HF 1/2" breaker bar over there so he could put the spare on.

How do you reach your 50's and not have even one of those tools??!!??!!??

I-Just-Don't-Get-It...

 

[slip knot]

My lists get shorter all the time. I'm waiting on a "friend" to return my crawfish pot, burner and tables he borrowed for his daughters graduation party. He wont be getting another chance.

 

[coljar]

No one as a rule, but last week my FIL had a flat tire on both of his vehicles and couldn't get to work. I allowed my wife to take a jack, 7/8 impact socket + 2" extension, 1/2" speeder, and a HF 1/2" breaker bar over there so he could put the spare on.

How do you reach your 50's and not have even one of those tools??!!??!!??

I-Just-Don't-Get-It...

I know people like that and have asked myself the same question. I think I would go mad if I didn't have tools.

 

[Cyberbear]

"No good deed goes unpunished" especially when it comes to lending anything gratis. No one places the value I do on my tools, or knows how to take proper care of them.
I see no benefit to lending any tools to anybody, people now days are too self centered and too lame to borrow my tools. Experience can be a cruel teacher.

 

[CJM8515]

I hardly loan any tools out and those that I do require a deposit of something of equal value.

 

[Jarhead0408]

I know people like that and have asked myself the same question. I think I would go mad if I didn't have tools.

I agree completely.

 

[NewShockerGuy]

No one.

+2

I had one neighbor one time ask if I had a socket extension, I found a spare 1/2" SO that I had laying around and it has seen it's use... I figured if he doesn't bring it back which he probably would forget then oh well.... sure enough 20 minutes later he brought it back! lol I have NO problem going to a neighbors with my tools if they need help, but my tools never LEAVE me.

My wife doesn't even touch my tools. She was rooting around in my tool chest looking for a screw driver and I had to politely but bluntly say don't do that ever again please...hahaha

-Nigel

 

[rodsnratfinks]

I have a friend who has very few tools and little interest in tinkering, but he knows how I am and trays them with great care and is pretty prompt. I loan him tools now and again, but I prefer to just come over and help him with his project. Another friend is an auto tech. He and I used to work at the same shop. When we did, his tool habits annoyed me and he even lost one of my sets of pliers. He is hard on tools, so while I let him use my tools, we have an understanding that they are to be used as intended, not abused, and returned clean. He still takes a while to return things because be is absent minded, so I have to stay on him. My other two very close friends, and my wife are the only people that I would totally trust with my tools, as they are very respectful people who are hypervigilant about reflecting other people's boundaries and property.

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[rodsnratfinks]

I know people like that and have asked myself the same question. I think I would go mad if I didn't have tools.

Not only that, but I have mild anxiety about not having the right tool when needed.

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