Taylortractornut
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- Joined
- Mar 27, 2002
- Messages
- 2,909
- Location
- Iuka Mississippi USA
- Tractor
- 3550 Fard Backhoe and a 1948 Farmall Cub,
I was wandering if any of yall had any greif from a friend after helping them. My experience this last week has really changed the way Im gonna help certain friends. I have a friend thats never really beenaround tractors alot. He was over here asking me who cleared our land behind the shop and made a park out of it. I told him that when dad bought it we just had the Cub with a blade and one other tractor. It was all hardwood and the pines were cut out. I told him haw dad and I marked off 50 by 50 areas and cleared them in a dy or 2 per section. Then when dad had a backhoe home from work we would dig a few stumps each time it was here till dad bought our own 1975 Ford TLB.
My friend bought about 14 acres and it was flat with a few gullies and a hill. I offered to go and use my excavator ir skidsteers or the old TLB leave at my work. The otherday on the way home I saw he had a culvert delivered and a load of gravel. I had the TLB with me so we stopped and marked off a 50by50 and I started in. I grubbed the trees withthe hoe and got him a parking area and stripped the top soil and toted gravel and installed the culvert.
Stumped the area and piled them and moved some ties and oter things he wanted to start with. Needless to say he wanted a TLB after I turned down his request to borrow my rig. He called and asked about me looking at a few TLBs he was looking at from the paper. So I burnt my fuel running the service truck to various locations looking at hoes the first part of the week. He was hooked on the prices of some like a 3000 dollar IHC hoe and and older MF back hoe. I told him it might be best to move on as IHC didnt carry any of the old OEM hoe parts and that the transmissions were bad on them. I found several problems with the MF machine to. He really wanted the MF as it was similar in size to my tlb. I explained it might be servicable but would require soem wrenching.
He wanted a running rig. We looked at a few other machines and I showed him a few differences and the ups and downs of them. I tried to urge him to an older Ford or Case or Cat machine. He was on CL or another site and found a 190 Dynahoe for sale. I told him they really weiged almost 4 times the weight of my machine and his ground wouldnt hold it up and when it broke it needed a bigger tools to work on it. He then found a large old 2wd Pettibone Mulliken TLB that was in the paper for 2250. I told him it was a large machine to. We metthe owner and he and I talked and he let me know the history of the machine. He cleaned up the land he owned and opened up a gravel pit and landscaping boulder business. THe machine was well taken care of for its age and had a recent rebuild on the 353 Detroit.
HE also told my friend that the machine was too big for what he needed and should also look at a Case or Ford. I showed my friend a a few lines that needed to be replaced and one fuel tank leak and and washer leak on the injector pump that needed changing. I ran it about an hour and it all checked out as a good machine.
I minded him that I couldnt haul it as it wieghed 3 times what mine did. He bought it and then got aggravated when I wouldnt haul it. I gave him a few numbers to lowboy operators that could haul it. He whined about the cost of moving it.
Got it home and He drove it around and tore up alot with it. He was running it and tried to pop a stump out just pulling. He blew a line out first thing. I got a call from him and told him that it would be about 150 to 200 for a replacement. I happened to have one that I took off a fellerbuncher I was repairing. I spend the time changing the line and getting him going. Then I hear him complain about the cost of fluid and the line. He said that he hated he bought that POS on my word. I got a call this morning before church. He got stuck in a place that I told him plainly not to get near. He kinda barked for me to get over there right then. I told him after church I d look at it. Well I got there and he was almost out of fuel and had tried to pull himself out. It took 2 hours to get it out
Then top it off he complained that I charged him for the fuel from my service truck. It really hacked me the more I thought about it. Then he blew another line and a bit ago and called me wanting to have me come change it. I told him I couldnt. He wanted to know if I might have another line but I didnt. Then I heard it again I wished you hadnt talked me into buying that POS> that really POed me right then and there. I laid it down that the owner and I both tried to talk him out of it. He was upset overthe old hose blowing and what it would cost.
Now his wife has called 3 times tonight wanting me to buy it off him or fix it for free including the hose. I blew up right then. Well actually the big one was when she said it was my fault.
My friend bought about 14 acres and it was flat with a few gullies and a hill. I offered to go and use my excavator ir skidsteers or the old TLB leave at my work. The otherday on the way home I saw he had a culvert delivered and a load of gravel. I had the TLB with me so we stopped and marked off a 50by50 and I started in. I grubbed the trees withthe hoe and got him a parking area and stripped the top soil and toted gravel and installed the culvert.
Stumped the area and piled them and moved some ties and oter things he wanted to start with. Needless to say he wanted a TLB after I turned down his request to borrow my rig. He called and asked about me looking at a few TLBs he was looking at from the paper. So I burnt my fuel running the service truck to various locations looking at hoes the first part of the week. He was hooked on the prices of some like a 3000 dollar IHC hoe and and older MF back hoe. I told him it might be best to move on as IHC didnt carry any of the old OEM hoe parts and that the transmissions were bad on them. I found several problems with the MF machine to. He really wanted the MF as it was similar in size to my tlb. I explained it might be servicable but would require soem wrenching.
He wanted a running rig. We looked at a few other machines and I showed him a few differences and the ups and downs of them. I tried to urge him to an older Ford or Case or Cat machine. He was on CL or another site and found a 190 Dynahoe for sale. I told him they really weiged almost 4 times the weight of my machine and his ground wouldnt hold it up and when it broke it needed a bigger tools to work on it. He then found a large old 2wd Pettibone Mulliken TLB that was in the paper for 2250. I told him it was a large machine to. We metthe owner and he and I talked and he let me know the history of the machine. He cleaned up the land he owned and opened up a gravel pit and landscaping boulder business. THe machine was well taken care of for its age and had a recent rebuild on the 353 Detroit.
HE also told my friend that the machine was too big for what he needed and should also look at a Case or Ford. I showed my friend a a few lines that needed to be replaced and one fuel tank leak and and washer leak on the injector pump that needed changing. I ran it about an hour and it all checked out as a good machine.
I minded him that I couldnt haul it as it wieghed 3 times what mine did. He bought it and then got aggravated when I wouldnt haul it. I gave him a few numbers to lowboy operators that could haul it. He whined about the cost of moving it.
Got it home and He drove it around and tore up alot with it. He was running it and tried to pop a stump out just pulling. He blew a line out first thing. I got a call from him and told him that it would be about 150 to 200 for a replacement. I happened to have one that I took off a fellerbuncher I was repairing. I spend the time changing the line and getting him going. Then I hear him complain about the cost of fluid and the line. He said that he hated he bought that POS on my word. I got a call this morning before church. He got stuck in a place that I told him plainly not to get near. He kinda barked for me to get over there right then. I told him after church I d look at it. Well I got there and he was almost out of fuel and had tried to pull himself out. It took 2 hours to get it out
Then top it off he complained that I charged him for the fuel from my service truck. It really hacked me the more I thought about it. Then he blew another line and a bit ago and called me wanting to have me come change it. I told him I couldnt. He wanted to know if I might have another line but I didnt. Then I heard it again I wished you hadnt talked me into buying that POS> that really POed me right then and there. I laid it down that the owner and I both tried to talk him out of it. He was upset overthe old hose blowing and what it would cost.
Now his wife has called 3 times tonight wanting me to buy it off him or fix it for free including the hose. I blew up right then. Well actually the big one was when she said it was my fault.
