Posted by JD Seller on June 04, 2018 at 22:52:17 from (199.120.93.196):
One of the reasons I still lend people stuff is I was raised in a very different time. Very few farmers owned a full line of equipment. Each of you owned a tractor maybe even two tractors. Then you might own a square baler but your brother/Uncle/Father might own the hay rake. Both of you more than likely owned a sickle mower to mow hay with. You might have owned a corn planter but your brother/uncle/Father might own the tractor/corn picker. So on and so on.
When I started farming this practice allowed me to start farming without having to own everything you needed to farm with. I would use family/neighbor's equipment and try to buy some thing none of us already had so we all could share it. Since I was good at fixing things I would go over equipment I borrowed. An example was flat bed wagons. I would grease the bearings, tighten the steering up and etc. Maybe put a better used tire on it. This was before or after I used it but defiantly before I returned it. If it had an engine/fuel tank it went back FULL. I do not care if it was empty when I got it. Anything I borrowed went back like it was or better if I could. Being this way allowed me to get a foothold in the business of farming. Fellow farmers actually helped new guys get started.
Not today!!!! Established farmers will try and HOG anything they can get away with. Bid up all the ground in a 50 mile radius just to be able to brag they are "farming" thousands of acres. Might be breaking even on a lot of it or even losing money but they are covering the acres. Most would not even think of helping a neighbor out. Only IF you die or are terminal ill then they will show up just so they do not look bad. The second your cold they will be beating down every single landlord's door you dealt with and calling your widow trying to get her to "rent" the farm to them.
I guess I will just have to be like the rest of them and tell everyone to get their own stuff as mine is no longer available. This includes your own kids too. Do not transfer or sell anything until your dead. Then your kids can try to figure it out when they are in their late 40s/50s and have little of their own as you hogged it all for yourselves.
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!! I will just keep trying to treat my fellow man like I would like to be treated. I will get screwed over at times but I can sleep at night better. I will just be grumpy on YT about it!!! LOL
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