Q Have him help you split 1/2 of a winters wood, now you have him trained, then go over to his house, and you run the splitter, he feeds and tosses, get him set for one winter's worth of wood.
The advantage here is for everyone, you get some work done with a free grunt, he gets his wood done and learns how it should be done, your splitter is safe and back home, you've spent some time teaching an apparently useful skill to your buddy.
Now, he has the experience to rent a splitter, and get his money's worth.
This is how I would handle it. Q
Great idea!
Possessions are blessings we have due to good luck or hard work, but still not to be selfish with what I have. But I have loaned out way too much to people who are idiots, so usually I go with any precision or power tool and work together in the task. I am pretty open to loaning except saws, only one person I would ever let touch them adn I bought my first saw from that guy.
I am stunned how many think they are just the victim of bad luck when some is dulled, chipped, wrecked, or otherwise abused.
Most offer to pay for 'the damage', but never intending to follow through. Or they think the reduciton in value is just a little bit...
1. My neighbor wanted to borrow a saw-to cut out roots in a stump hole! Not. 'Oh, I guess I'll have to use my father in laws saw then, I have that in the garage....'
2. Another neighbor I loaned 4wd truck and 3/4t trailer, against my gut instinct, but he was in a bind. Got call at work at 3pm: 'YOUR trailer is in the shopping mall at xxx with a broken frame. What are YOU going to do about it? " Put 6700 lbs of dirt (I found the weigh tickets) in a trailer made from a 3/4 ton pickup. Blew tire, picked up from the back to change tire. Broke frame in middle, overloaded the picup hitch and broke a main leaf on the pickup.... which was a 76 dodge 3/4t extended, so fairly heavy built.
When I borrow, it goes back in better shape-oiled, welded, washed, or something better. Best way to gaurantee I can borrow again. But apparently that's rare. Generalization, but I do find the people with less stuff and more needs often got that way by not working for, or taking care of, the things they do have.
So I am way willing to help, but usually I go with it, and sometimes 'helping' is not really helping....
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