I must be a soft touch...
someone is always wanting to borrow some kind of tool, and forgets to return it. I'm sure that all of us has had this problem...comments please.........BE NICE!!!!!!! LOL

 

I don't mind loaning tools out but what really chaps my butt is when they miss use it or leave out side over night in the rain.

77 F250 Highboy 4X4
"The Money Pit"

"If it wasn't for Chevy's my tools would rust"
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 09-Jan-03 AT 01:45 PM (EST)]Ford
My son must be your neighbor.He leaves everything right where he uses it.....

 

My usual respose is "only if I can borrow your wife".

I don't borrow tools from anyone. If I don't have the right tool I will go and buy it. Thats the nice thing about working for an industrial distributor. We can but tools, and supplies here for cost.

The only person that gets to borrow my tools is my step father because I know that he'll take good care of them and return them in a timely manner.

 

>Ford
>My son must be your neighbor.He leaves everything right
>where he uses it.....

Then I must be you because my son leaves everything right where he use it .....

 

Yep.......Sound just like him! It's not just tools that he leave all over the place, truck parts too, front and rear axles, frames, caps beds and other verious types of junk. Check out the pic's, but there not to good.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/sizeimage.php?&photoid=12345&.jpg

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77 F250 Highboy 4X4
"The Money Pit"

"If it wasn't for Chevy's my tools would rust"
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/displaythumbnail.php?&photoid=10344&.jpg

 

I'm new to the neighborhood where i live...it's like i posted a sign ..."TOOLS TO LOAN"...one guy came up and said hi welcome to the neighborhood can i borrow your pressure washer to clean my drive way.....NOT NO....HELL NO

 

Loaning my tools is like loaning my truck - the only way is if I go with them (the only exceptions to this rule are my Dad and my father-in-law. In both cases, the tools come back in as good a shape, if not better, then when they left).


Gary M.

White 2002 F250 SD, SC, SB, 4x4, 6.8L v10, 3.73LS, 4spd Auto, Reverse Aid Sensor, Class IV Hitch, Offroad Package, Manual Hubs, 40/20/40 Bench Seat, Towing Package, Camper Package, Lariat, Putco Locker Side Rails, Mud Flaps, K&N Filter, Vent Visors, Aluminum in-bed Tool Box (sits in the bed, dosn't hang over the bed rails), Vent Visors, CB radio w/102" SS Whip Antenna, Autolocks programmed off, Seatbelt Minder programmed off, Key in ignition sensor wire dosconnected...

White 2002 Ranger 4x2 3.0L V6 XLT 2 door supercab with the power group, auto, chrome wheels, mud flaps, body side molding, vent visors, Leonard cab high fiberglass camper shell, and the 60/40 bench seat as my daily driver

 

I have a select few friends who I will loan my tools to and I know they're coming back the way I lent them. Sometimes with a new blade if it's a saw.

We pay too much for our tools to be loaning them out *****-nilly!!

Fordzzzz77- Your neighbors must love you!!

zman

 

I have but I won't anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sounds like 66 Ranger has had some bad experiences loaning out his tools..

 

My oldest son must be your son's brother. He not only leaves it out to rust, but you have to go get/find it....and he's 40 years old...like, man, that's what he did with his bicycle at 6 years old. As for neighbors, I engrave all my mechanic/ carpenter tools and hope that they return...which they usually do. Manual labor tools are painted with a red stripe on the handles...but out here in the country I don't have to worry about that much anymore.

 

Tigerman
it's a good idea to mark tools...i have friends come over with their
own tools..it helps when we start sorting them out. I use a cheap electric engraving tool on anything steel.
My son will be 30 this year..he is learning to put stuff back..after he tore up a new mower when he hit a boxed end wrench....but..it all belonged to him.lol

 

Never loan MY tools but I will lend out my beginners sets. I had bought many "kits" over the years from walmart and Cummings (traveling) tool shows. If I don't get it back, I just keep hounding them until I do.