Lending tools that come back broke:-(

[Smugley]

Here's the deal. I won't lend you my side cutters, but I will sell them to you for £30 with a guarantee to buy them back for the same price if they are returned in the same condition. Obviously someone intent on looking after them won't have a problem with this, anyone else will probably think I'm a ****

 

[Bromd123]

Here's the deal. I won't lend you my side cutters, but I will sell them to you for £30 with a guarantee to buy them back for the same price if they are returned in the same condition. Obviously someone intent on looking after them won't have a problem with this, anyone else will probably think I'm a ****

that's the best idea I've ever heard, do you have the same £30 rate for all tools cos if youv'e got a Dewalt 24v drill i can have for £30 i'll have your arm off lol (and dont worry about buy back)

 

[rocker]

Just tell him "Jebiesz jeze"

What does that mean, eskimo? I have a group of Polish living next door keeping me awake with their loud music till 2am. The next step will be brake fluid on the paintjob.....

I carry decent stuff which I don't let people use for similar reasons, and a load of rubbish stuff. You can borrow some snips, yes, but they will be the rubbish poundland ones i use for hacking through the crap that I know will damage my knippers.

Had umpteen snips runined in the past, drivers messed up, I had a lovely saw, I don't know what kind I am not a carpenter, it had very long teeth and used to whack through any wood in doubletime. Some plonker tried cutting some plywood with it rested on concrete steps and broke off every single tooth bar one. Never seen another one like it.

Also had a load of stuff half-inched. Has anyone else experienced this on site work where the labourers sweep up your gear 'accidentally' and stick them in the bins, only to turn up on site monday morning having mysteriously turned into a sparks? It's happened to me a couple of times, and I learned quickly - I've had labourers on their hands and knees in old sandwiches and God knows what retrieving my - and other people on site's tools. I won't comment on the language used if you catch me drift.

 

[cside]

i work with two lads, one is like me has all the tools he needs and because i know he will look after it ad i will get it back and vice versa we work out of each others tool bags, are other mate is a total **** with kit, in the past year hes lost my snips which i didnt even lend him, 3 pad saws, a hack saw, conduit threader, and more drill bits and screw drivers i can remember. he never replaces them either, his own terminal has earth sleeving for insulation. bar this problem hes sound to work with!

 

[lockhes]

dont even get me started on this

im not 1 for buying cheap tools or dont begrudge buying tools if it makes my job easier or quicker

were was workmates buy crap and treat my tools like there theres which i dont mind aslong as they come back in the condition they took them in and they actually put them back in my tool box

im forever having togo in mates toolbox for my stuff i wouldnt mind if we had similar tools but nothing is the same so how hard can it be to put it back where it belongs

 

[Phil]

I will only lend to one guy I have worked with in the past never a problem getting back or if they are damaged they come back shiny and the broken ones at the side as it should be.

once left a lead for the metrel tester on a domestic test, went back half an hour later "not seen it mate" "you cant have left it her" ***k all use to anyone but cost me£40 to replace. cousins dog once helped itself to a pair of brand new cks that I had paid a premium one bank holiday weekend for after leaving mine at home.
caught the little fecker in its bed chewing them. felt like extracting its teeth with them horrible little thing