Had a neighbor call me up Sunday evening.
>"Hey buddy!"
(oh god here we go)
>"You don't happen to have a drain snake do you?"
He knows full well I have damn near every single tool known to man kind. Instantly think about him getting his gross feces on my drain snake and say, "Nah man I don't have one of those! Good luck!" Hang up the phone and go back to working in the shop.
I absolutely loathe loaning tools out. On the flip side I also hate borrowing tools, and if I need an item I will buy it before ever asking anyone to borrow theirs.
Yeaaaah, I'm your neighbor. I remember that call.
Frick you. You deserve my shit on your drain snake.
Well guess what buddy... You'll never touch my drain snake!
could be worse. one of my undocumented citizen neighbors borrowed my drain tape and forgot he left it in his yard and ran over it with his lawnmower. I guess the concept of replacing something you destroyed isn't universal.
Modern people almost universally dislike their current neighbours (same race and economic class) yet think that Africans and Hondurans streaming over the border will make excellent citizens and neighbours. Why are people so naive.
I'm not averse to borrowing or lending tools to people I trust. Preferably not ones that are consumable/have finite life spans. Sometimes it's not worth losing the social capital to save $20
Every man should be building his own self reliability, however
Wasn't how I thought that story will end!
That's why Stalin tried to wipe them out, holodomor
>I absolutely loathe loaning tools out. On the flip side I also hate borrowing tools, and if I need an item I will buy it before ever asking anyone to borrow theirs.
To expound on this, I also have a twinge of shame whenever someone asks if I have a tool and I actually don't have it. My uncle needed a 2" pipe tap to clean up some threads on an aluminum transfer tank. I regretfully did not have one to lend him. Had a 2" left handed pipe tap for some reason, but not a regular. So after that I started browsing e-bay and added to my pipe tap collection so now I have at least one in every size up to 2" and many multiples in the smaller sizes. Pic rel.
Another time my cousin needed a gas powered concrete saw. I had been thinking I needed to get one for some time and him needing one and me not having it pushed me over the edge into buying one for myself.
Seriously, you are a nice guy but you are also one flaming cuck. Just kidding. I'm all out of drill bits, do you have some really nice ones I could borrow?
I don't know you, I'm not lending you a damn thing!
Had another uncle ask if he could borrow my trencher. He's a good dude so I agreed. He still hasn't come and got it yet though, so either the job got done another way, or they haven't even gotten around to it yet.
Live in the city, lend my tools all the time to neighbours. Mostly simple stuff like hammer drill, shovel, tree saw, splitting axe, ladder and electric screwdriver when their battery runs out. Wouldn’t lend anyone the hand planes or chisels tho.
But anyway every so often someone comes to bring me their leftover screws, paint cans, old tools, wood, hardwoods, sandpaper etc in return and I can make some new hobby stuff or use it for the New Year’s Eve bonfire.
Sure in money value it maybe saves me only $50 a year but that’s not what life is about is it
I know a few people I don't mind coming over and using something from the shop in my driveway. Everyone I would lend things to already has everything I have, in multiples and of higher quality.
I never talk to my neighbours
once the moron tried to reverse over the snow bank left by the plough and got her car stuck
I just hopped in my car and went to work
damn man you're hardcore. does mommy know what a bad man you've become?
>WWDIYD lending tools
in 29 years I have never had anyone ask to borrow my tools.
>brother brings over Ukrainian war vet who just recovered from 3rd WIA
>been fighting since 2014
>ukies won't take him back because of injuries (skull fracture, shattered pelvis, knee problems)
>kinda fricked in the head but nice guy and obviously wants to get his shit together
>has job lined up but no money or tools
>asks to borrow mine
>say yes
>takes tools, uses them, brings them back, says thank you
>cleans up brush pile on my property as token of gratitude
>get drunk together
>feelsgood.jpg
>leaves two days later for work in another state
>sad.png
Hope you're doing well bro.
Ukrainians are awesome people.
I've met several and about half were bastards
>Ukrainians are awesome people.
Thanks dude, we do our best.
>I've met several and about half were bastards
Sorry to hear that. Were these urban or rural ukies? I live in the sticks and the ones I interact with are productive members of society. There is a subset who live in the city, refuse to assimilate, collect welfare, and haven't learned to speak English even though they've lived here for more than a goddamn decade. Frick them, they suck, feel free to send them back.
I was all prepared for 'I loaned it out and it came back broken'. But instead, it had a positive ending. Feels good man.
I hate lending them out but will do it for certain people I trust, but if it's an expensive or easily frick-uppable tool I usually just offer to bring it over and do the small job they need it for, like hammer drilling a hole or two. It's just easier all around, and most people appreciate the help.
If the answer to that is that its too much to ask because it's not a small job or they're not sure how long it will take, I know they plan on keeping it indefinitely and will probably bring it back thrashed. Then I tell them about rentals, or suggest that I'd rather loan them the money to buy the tool....when they say, " OH but I can't afford/don't want to buy the tool" then I say, " and thats why people don't like to lend out tools".
For stuff that adult people should have and still borrow like tape measures and screwdrivers and utility knives, I hang on to crappy ones I run across in my travels and when someone asks to borrow one I give them one and tell them to keep it so they won't need to go borrowing one in the future...maybe tell them to get a box or bag to keep it in, and whatever you do, don't lend it to anyone because you'll never get it back.
Wise
>yeah sure I'll be right over
>ok let me take a look
>frick his pipes completely, just demolish everything
>jeez buddy your pipes seem pretty fricked, better call a pro in
>never get asked for any lends ever again
I don't lend tools to anyone except two of my bros who are utterly reliable, and then I usually bring over the gear so we can have fun knocking out the work (normally motorcycle or truck wrenching which I find great fun).
No worries about returns as we're at the stage where we give each other vehicles and equipment excess to our needs, help build each others shops and jointly attend auctions to split buys and load them.
The way to put it best if asked by anyone not a bro is "I have an ironclad rule not to loan tools, but I'll advise on what to buy and why".
lol. i made so many friends and got so much free shit by repairing everyones shit with $1 in materials for free. i refused pay because i make $100 an hour and whatever pittance they offered wouldnt come close to making us even.
Take the bigbrain pill and make your neighborhood your b***h with your tinker skills.
I have enough of my own stuff to work on already and people already give me stuff all the time and I dont need/want any more free stuff or materials unless they're giving away shipping containers or large structural steel like I-beams...
Based. I rewired my neighbors 1970something Ford dump truck no one would touch and gorged myself on ~6000lbs of beams and posts from his old building demo biz. We were both happy.
All 3 wires it takes to get a 70's ford to run? Lol.
I know there are many more wires than that to do it properly. I've done a few of those myself. I usually upgrade to a pertronix ignition and a gm style single wire alternator for simplicity. Had to re-do the gauge cluster on my 1978 f-700 manure truck. The white plastic that the gauges mount to was all dry and crumbly and falling apart. Had to make a new gauge mount out of sheet metal and insulate the gauge studs with rubber grommets and then instead of running the original trace contacts, I wired them all with stranded wire and eyelets. I'm fairly certain i have a picture of it on my computer so i will post it up when i get home.
Sheet metal gauge back
You have shitty people around you. Once it came out I make beer at home and it is of acceptable quality, I can borrow tools from anyone.