Posted by JD Seller on June 04, 2010 at 01:32:17 from (208.126.196.117):
In Reply to: any thoughts on this? posted by poor farm on June 02, 2010 at 08:09:30:
Thirty years ago when I was starting farming I needed a manure spreader to use. A neighbor bought one at a sale for seventy-five dollars. It had good sides and beater but the floor was bad. He came to me and said if I wanted to fix it we would share ownership. So I replaced the floor and several years later the floor chain. I spent five or six hundred dollars. That I did not mind because at the time neither of us spread twenty loads of manure a year, it worked for us both. Flash foward ten years. I had out grown the spreader. I told the neighbor to just come and get it and it was his totally. So he did, no problem. A couple of years later he came to me and said that the old spreader was broke. He asked to use my two year old one. Again no problem, after all he had helped me get started. This went on for the next six years. He passed away. His "city" kids came to settle the estate. They filed a claim with the probate court judge on my spreader for half!!!! Not the old spreader but the one I bought new. I had to get a lawyer and prove ownership. Two things happened because of that: 1)I WILL NEVER OWN A PIECE of equipment with anyone again, including family. 2) That old line fence that I shared with the new "city kids" owners. I demanded that it be replaced, like it should have been many years before, did not want to put a hardship on the old man. The new fence plus the cleaning out the old one came to just shy of fifteen thousand for their half. That spreader deal cost them.
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