Our neighbor borrowed our NI 290 haybine last week. He's known for being hard on equipment, but being that we borrow his 2 chopper wagons all the time, it's hard to say no once in a while.
Cut to the chase.... He says he'll be over on Sunday to pick up the haybine. Dad and I look at each other like "yeah right" and go on about our day. Turns out he wasn't able to come and get it until Thursday. He cut for one day, and had it the rest of the week. Dad calls and says we need it back to cut a swamp for bedding, so he brings it back the next day which is now Friday. He never narrowed it up to go down the road, and this is a 9' cut machine. He pulls into the driveway and backs it to one side, and before unhooking it asks Dad if he can just leave the head down. "No! Dad says. We always lock it up when done using it, or else it'll stretch the springs out." He said he didn't narrow it up because "It's too hard...." I guess I don't understand how hard it is for him to find a rut to sink the outside wheel in to narrow it up on his farm.
He also said he's gonna need it again because he didn't get everything cut that he wanted to. I guess I just don;t understand how he can have it for a week, and not cut everything he needed. The sun was shining all week, and hardly anything else has moved on his farm the whole time.
This is the same guy who never got his corn in this year, and didn't get his bean in last year because he wasn't finished building his custom planter. Another neighbor even offered to let him use his drill just to get them in, but he claimed that it would waste too much seed. Would have been better to waste some seed than to not get it in at all, but I'm not gonna ponder that one....
On the plus side, there actually was a different color grease on the machine than we use, so he must have actually greased it before running it.
Some guys just make ya wonder - WTF???
Donovan from Wisconsin
Cut to the chase.... He says he'll be over on Sunday to pick up the haybine. Dad and I look at each other like "yeah right" and go on about our day. Turns out he wasn't able to come and get it until Thursday. He cut for one day, and had it the rest of the week. Dad calls and says we need it back to cut a swamp for bedding, so he brings it back the next day which is now Friday. He never narrowed it up to go down the road, and this is a 9' cut machine. He pulls into the driveway and backs it to one side, and before unhooking it asks Dad if he can just leave the head down. "No! Dad says. We always lock it up when done using it, or else it'll stretch the springs out." He said he didn't narrow it up because "It's too hard...." I guess I don't understand how hard it is for him to find a rut to sink the outside wheel in to narrow it up on his farm.
He also said he's gonna need it again because he didn't get everything cut that he wanted to. I guess I just don;t understand how he can have it for a week, and not cut everything he needed. The sun was shining all week, and hardly anything else has moved on his farm the whole time.
This is the same guy who never got his corn in this year, and didn't get his bean in last year because he wasn't finished building his custom planter. Another neighbor even offered to let him use his drill just to get them in, but he claimed that it would waste too much seed. Would have been better to waste some seed than to not get it in at all, but I'm not gonna ponder that one....
On the plus side, there actually was a different color grease on the machine than we use, so he must have actually greased it before running it.
Some guys just make ya wonder - WTF???
Donovan from Wisconsin