If you have a truck you always have friends when they need to move your their guy all of a sudden. It a curse in the cities owning a truck it’s not so bad in the country where everyone has one.

that's funny

and kinda on point

Very spot on as elsmasho said.

Over the years I have gotten a couple of lower grade havahart or tractor supply traps customers have given me. Those are my loaner traps. Of course they want to borrow my pro grade traps instead. A flat NO. Take the lower grade trap or nothing. If I get the lower grade ones back , fine. If not , not a problem too.

Yep , seen that too , where it loaned out from the borrower to someone else and vanishes. I tell the borrower to hunt it down or pay me to replace it. And the lie that they already returned it.


I had an incident years ago , was at a friend's apartment watching TV with him and his friend. The friend asked to borrow $3 towards getting a little ceasar's pizza on the way home. It was very dark in the room. I pulled what I thought was 3 dollar bills out of my wallet and gave it to him. Later on when I was home I realized I had given him 2 dollar bills and a five by mistake. Never heard back about it. I told my friend what had happened and also told him what I thought of his friend. Told him I learned a lot of his friend's character. To me , it was almost worth the $5 I lost because now I knew what kind of person he was. My friend called him out on it , so now 2 people knew who that friend of a friend was. Never saw any money return too.

It's funny that you all mention cage traps. I'm currently on the way to try and steal one back. Last time I loan an $80 trap, and last time I loan anything to my brother-in-law.

Brother in laws aren't real family, just say no...LOL

is he a no good brother in law from Illinois?
is he married to your youngest sister or did you marry his sister?

I don't have any brother in laws , maybe on my next go round , I had a father in law , he was so un mechanical I wouldn't loan him a hammer he would just hurt him self or beat the screw in with it and wonder why it didn't work.
It was much easier to just go do it so I didn't have to try and figure out how he screwed it up

He's from Arizona and he married my youngest sister.

yup youngest sisters find the best ones , it's like their job in a family.

I don't have any sisters but it holds true in so many cases both my moms and dads youngest sisters have had some special ones.

Pete, she's currently on her second special one. She sure knows how to pick them.

GCP, I feel for you with no brother in laws...so heres the deal...you can have mine, please, no need to thank me!

I don't loan anything out except stuff i dont want anymore People spend half a day begging and then forget you exist

well you know I am short a wife , do you have any other sisters that aren't married , then I could marry one of them and I would have a brother in law I could go fishing with.

Sorry, no sisters, my sister in law might be available if she follows through with her threats on her husband....but I wouldn't wish her on anyone...

But it's all good!, stop by and I'll take you on the boat, related or not...lol

He probably won't be asking to borrow it again. I got it stolen back. Now in about a week I'll go ask him when he's going to be done using it. Ought to make him a little nervous when he can't find it.

I tell em to rent a u haul. No risk in damaging my vehicle that way.

$30 Raccoon ave., $80 Coyote average…..

Good job !!!
I like it. Make him sweat it out for a bit , then keep asking now and then where it is.

And if you really dislike him, ask him to pay for a replacement!,

Can you imagine......just for the heck of it......the borrower can't find it , starts panicking a bit then sneaks over to Big Sam's place late at night and steals it back. All along thinking he is stealing another trap that looks like the one he was loaned. Then days later contacts Big Sam to return the trap.

That would be a bit awkward to say the least..........

Got to the point that I just gave it to them.
I built my own for a few years, just sold the business , enough parts for over 100 traps, all the tools , and other machines to build trapping supplies.
Just can't do it anymore.
A good young trapper got a deal, as he also got all my traps.

They are a better trap than Williams made and better than Duke , can't wait to see how he does with them.
Sterling fur used to sell them.